I am hilariously frail right now. Yesterday, I bumped my elbow with me knee and it hurt for like, 10 minutes. Most of my wounds have healed/scabbed, but now huge bruises are rising on my forearms and shins. I’m hoping they’re from Monday’s dust-up with the car, but the way I feel right now, they…
Tour de Suisse, Some (Anti-)Doping
So after mountains of insurance paperwork, follow-up medical care, driving all over New England in search of a Cannondale dealer and previewing the first stage at Fitchburg (note to organizers – next year, you need to give the fat kids a reason to show up), I have returned! News – Vlad Gusev isn’t just for…
"The Secret" in Cycling, Armstrong, Disco, and Suisse
So how many of you out there are down with The Secret? Well, I’ve got proof that it works. Wasn’t it just yesterday I questioned CSC’s team anti-doping program in light of Bjarne’s recent confession? And then today – boom – CSC announces that all its riders have been clean thus far. Not too shabby,…
Books, Honchar, UCI, Tour de Suisse
Man, everybody’s got a book these days. Floyd Landis wrote one that was apparently pretty bad (he stole the title, too), and Saul Raisin’s working on one about his comeback, despite not having really come back yet. Used to be only the weirdos and paraiahs of the cycling world wrote books, but with the help…
Crashes Come in Batches
If that’s not a cycling adage, it should be, because they do. Just ask Paolo Bettini. I got hit, hooded, and wind-shielded by a non-yielding left turner yesterday. The police declined to cite her, and I feel like she genuinely didn’t see me (thus the lack of brakes), but this will probably result in weeks…
Dauphine Wrap, Suisse Surprises
Ok, I’m back from what should be my last weekend departure for some time. I missed talking about a “surprise” overall win from Christophe Moreau at the Dauphine – though it’s not all that surprising, since he was right up there last year, too. I suppose I could also talk about the “surprise” performances of…
Short Post On Dauphine TT
Man, how about Astana in those TTs, yeah? 1-2 in arguably the biggest two time trials of the season. I wonder if Dave Zabriskie, the poor little 3rd place finisher in both instances, is remembering that Astana used to be the Liberty Seguros squad at the heart of the whole Operation Puerto thing when it…
VDB's Comeback, Moreau's Win, Men's Journal
You didn’t need a doctor to tell you this one, folks: doing drugs, even just performance enhancers, can really mess you up. Just take a look at poor VDB – attempts suicide, survives, kinda shrugs it off, then says he’s making a comeback. Sometimes I wish all that dope really had been for his dog….
The Pseudo-Season Contiues
You know it’s slow when Nude Bike Day grabs headlines on Cyclingnews. Well, at least it was slow this weekend – now people can pretend they care about the Dauphine Libere. I mean, Brad Wiggins winning the Dauphine prologue – I am Cosmo’s complete lack of surprise. We all know the real action was over…
2007 Great Falls Criterium Report
Ok, so despite the fact that I’m healing extremely well (basically by throwing calories at my wounds), I bet you’re all probably still wondering how I got so beat up this weekend. Well, the story begins in a tent in my teammate Stephanie’s backyard around 8 in the morning, when people were like “Hey, are…