Remember the 2003 Tour? When an IMAX film crew (search “Hamilton”) followed Tyler Hamilton around? Well, Cyclingnews finally got a review of the finished product out. Though I wouldn’t put too much stock in their evaluation of the piece (they’re running ads for the feature on their homepage – though they did have the good…
Rants Archive
The Rants category was added in the early days of Cyclocosm to differentiate opinion pieces from the daily news recaps.
Rage Against the UCI Machine – Rant
It’s been a bad week for the UCI: the Swiss courts went over their heads to let Danilo Hondo off the hook, former convicted doper Filip Meirhaeghe won a race, and Roberto Heras, who is currently appealing his own drug suspension, successfully blocked the revised Vuelta awards presentation. Now, this series of events would make…
UCI, USCF Hate Tyler Hamilton, Charity – Rant
For the rest of today’s post, I’d like to go over an interesting little story that’s been brewing stateside this past week. It seems that one Tyler Hamilton was out racing this past weekend at a local, unsanctioned criterium in Boulder, Colorado. Yeah, he’s supposed to be suspended, but the UCI has no power over…
50% Limit is 100% Stupid – Rant
Drug testing is a relatively simple proposition. You identify a doping agent, develop a test that detects it, then apply that test to blood or urine taken from a given athlete. Now, I know, I’m skipping several steps, here, and years of research, but what I’m trying to say is that fairly determining whether or…
VeloNews – Rant
Today’s EuroFile report on VeloNews really got me angry. The article in question is here, ostensibly just a little blurb about Valverde wanting to win the ’06 Tour. But by the phrase “pumping excitement back into Spanish racing”, I was already upset. 2004 Milan-San Remo Winner? Spanish. 2004 World Champ? Spanish. 2003 World Champ? Spanish….
No Radio – Rant
It’s not that I’m an unsentimental guy. I love wool jerseys, lugged steel, and wild, untamed sideburns flowing down from scraggly, unhelmeted mats of hair. These things are all great images of what was a golden age for cycling, between the true professionalization of the sport in the late 60’s, and doping specter of the…
Cycling News Plagiarism – Rant
So, on my update from this past Wednesday, I made a fairly serious accusation of plagiarism against VeloNews. Now, because I tend to assail that publication with all manner of polemic, and because I dealt with it only in passing (just by linking), it may not have received the close examination it deserved. Because this…
Pound, Don't Be A Dick – Rant
What is your deal, Dick Pound? The very first time I heard your name, I was like “what sort of douchebag named ‘Richard Pound’ would go by ‘Dick?’” Little did I know, I was soon to find out. Pretty much from your first day as WADA chair, you went on steaming tirades about how cycling…
Dopers Suck? – Rant
Bike racing draws in stupidity like a vacuum. And, even though Laurent Fignon became le professeur simply because he had spent some time in college and wore funny glasses, I’m not talking about the intellectual quality of the riders, here. I’m talking about things like BioPace and performance-enhancing coffee . Or Cyclo-Zen, which suggested that…
Hamilton wins Mount Washington – Rant
Man, how do I miss something like this? Tyler Hamilton, currently not doing any racing because it looks pretty convincing that he cheated by means of blood doping during last year’s Vuelta, won the Mount Washington Hillclimb this past Saturday. The race, which is independent of any cycling governing body, involves little of the traditional…