A mere 10 days since the Tour and we’ve already had how many races? My count of top-tier post-Tour Euro cycling events is currently at three; one classic and two fairly extensive stage races: Tour of Denmark (29 July – 2 Aug) Clasica San Sebastian (1 Aug) Tour of Poland (2 Aug – 8 Aug)…
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That's Not What I Call Data.
I don’t want to be a jerk. Both Garmin-Slipstream’s vocal anti-doping stance and Wiggins’ readiness to reveal the intimate details of his oxygen transport system are laudable. But guys, you have to do better than this: First of all, I have no idea when any of these tests occurred. The specified dates on the x-axis…
Revisiting That Whole Astana Thing
On paper, Astana had one of the best Tours in recent memory. First and third is hard to fault, especially when considering that the squad dominated the critical moments of the race, and met every challenge of a resurgent SaxoBank squad. So I should be recanting everything I said about the team back in June…right?…
Oh, I've Got An Otra Pregunta for you, Buddy…
I’ve know you don’t wanna answer those pesky questions about drugs, Alberto, but in all seriousness—are you high right now? You’d have to be stoned out of your skinny Spanish gourd to simply stonewall some very reasonable questions a day after word broke that DiLuca turned up positive for CERA twice during his Giro campaign…
Breaking Down the Voigt Crash
It’s sad to see an otherwise exciting stage have an incident like this, especially when it’s a rider like Jens Voigt, who could drastically affect the overall GC outcome (and is just plain awesome—speedy recovery, Jens!). Still, crashes are a part of the sport, and picking apart how they occur can help you learn their…
"Rest" Day, Eh?
Scattered thoughts following a very busy rest day: Proponents of the notion that the Tour was at long last “clean” pointed to Contador’s relatively pedestrian ascent of Arcalis. They will take less heart in the young Spaniard’s record-setting performance at Verbier. John Wilcockson, with the prerequisite credulity of a man whose latest book is titled…
Oscar Freire Gets Shot All The Time
Oscar Freire, along with Julian Dean, got shot with an air rifle during today’s stage. In this interview (mostly in English) the three-time world champ clarifies that, while nothing new for him, this sort of thing is “not nice”. via @nttawwt, who suspects Alsatian Separatists.
Is It Boring Yet?
Well, I did technically predict that today’s stage would be won from a break, but the way things unfolded on Stage 5 was definitely not what I had in mind. I was thinking something along the lines of break gets clear, gets 10 minutes, pack calls it a day and rests the legs, and one…
Great Minds Think Alike
From my twitter feed today. Literally within seconds of each other: I didn’t see even a second of footage from after today’s stage got interesting, and from what I can tell, neither did anyone watching Versus. My frustration at this is countered only by my anticipation of the awesome spectacle as Astana continues to spin…
Cancellara Makes It Look Easy; Astana Makes It Look Hard
“I took it easy on the climb because I didn’t want to have problems with lactic acid building up in my legs” – Fabian Cancellara Excuse me? Fabian Cancellara buries the entire field by 18 seconds, in a TT that went over a Category 4 climb and he took it easy? Man, forget holding the…