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I'm Wrong, Assorted Weekend Recap

Posted on 26 March 2007 by cosmo

Well, looks like I’m 0-for-2 on the season. In my defense, as Chris points out, Oscar Freire was (in hindsight) an easy pick, and I’m not interested in cycling because it’s easy. If I wanted easy, I’d watch Olympic rifle – the event that doesn’t seem to realize it’s biathlon without the wind, cold, time…

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My MSR Preview

Posted on 23 March 2007 by cosmo

Time for the last round of MSR previews. Eurosport gives the most straightforward look, while Velonews calls the race “shy a few participants” while naming only one absenteee (Basso). Pez describes the chances of every bike racer ever, but neglects to pick a favorite. But enough of my incessant badmouthing. Americans like to blather about…

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Weak Coverage, More Previews, The REAL Stories

Posted on 22 March 2007 by cosmo

Jeez, what is up with all the Vino’ press lately? The guy has an interview in L’Equipe and gets coverage like he’d cracked the Zodiac case or something. But sure, it’s newsworthy that TdF contenders have a sparse early season schedule [pause] NOT! It’s about as newsworthy as a story on a TdF contender fine-tuning…

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Bad MSR Previews, More Puerto Fun

Posted on 21 March 2007 by cosmo

Hmm, third week in March…I seem to recall there was some sort of big thing in cycling around this time…OMD! – that’s “OMG” en français – it’s the “just over three months to the Tour de France” mark! Better track down and interview a race favorite! Seriously, though, Reuters was probably better off running a…

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Kloden Wraps Up T-A, The Real Season Begins

Posted on 20 March 2007 by cosmo

Stick a fork in the ’07 pre-season, kids – it’s done. Down-again/up-again Andreas Kloden held on to win Tirreno-Adriatico, perhaps reminding Team Astana’s enemies in The Cartel that the Kazakh squad’s talent more than outweighs Rene Haselbacher’s incessant crashes. Anyway, Het Volk, Paris-Nice and T-A are big, important events, but the season begins in earnest…

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A Bad Weekend, but Good Racing

Posted on 19 March 2007 by cosmo

How all occasions do inform against me! First, snow appears from nowhere and puts the kibosh on the weekend’s racing. Then my internet goes out and robs me of the live action I might have otherwise seen. Oh, and ZeFrank goes off the air, I leave my bike at work, the T breaks down, I…

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A Quick Weekend Recap

Posted on 18 March 2007 by cosmo

I bet you thought I was taking the weekend off. Hardly; what does this look like to you, ProCycling? Ha. Even without a paycheck, Cyclocosm is a 24/7 operation. Anywhoo, on to the results of the previous days’ racing. The Race to the Sun finally arrived at the sun, as Discovery finally cracked race leader…

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Arekeev fools Eisel; Contador Wins at P-N; Silly Law Tricks

Posted on 15 March 2007 by cosmo

Ok, people: this needs to stop happening. I realize these were different races in different countries, but seriously – two times in two days? Boonen and Eisel ride for two huge, well-funded, been-around-forever squads, so you can’t be like “oh, you know, we can’t afford a TV in our team car” or anything. If radios…

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McEwen Wins at T-A, Another Small Name at P-N

Posted on 14 March 2007 by cosmo

And the winner of today’s Paris-Nice crapshoot is…Alexandr Kolobnev. I’ll overlook his inability to spell his own name aside, and instead glumly focus on the fact that he won in a breakaway while using a Carbon Soloist – intolerable train of Cycling.TV Cervelo ads, here we come. Fortunately, there was another ProTour event today at…

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Upsetting the Natural Order of Things

Posted on 13 March 2007 by cosmo

J-P Nazon? Franco Pelizotti? Who are these clowns? Where’s Tom Boonen? Where’s Fabian Cancellara? Where’s Ivan Basso? I demand superstars! Seriously, If I’d just dropped 4k on a Specialized or a Trek or a Cervelo this spring, I’d be really miffed! I thought the peloton ran at two speeds, meaning that my bike was guaranteed…

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About the Author

a headshot of Cosmo Catalano

Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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