Good news for sprinters: the ProTour is revising (scroll down) it’s scoring system. Robbie McEwen was no doubt down there like “WTF, Mate?” when he first read that a TdF stage win was worth a mere three ProTour points, making it so that winning 9 stages of the TdF (that’d be the most anyone has…
Pro Cycling News – Devolder v. Gilbert, Transfers, Doping Woes
Why do you even need the rest of the internet? I mean, yesterday, mere seconds after reading the Paris-Tours live reports I told you why Devolder wouldn’t pull through. Oh, sure, there were lots of theories floating around, but then, up comes the interview with Stijn himself, and over the radio, it’s his DS Dirk…
Pro Cycling News – For Whom Zabel Tolls at Paris-Tours
Perhaps the only thing louder than the creaking in Erik Zabel’s knees at the conclusion of today’s Paris-Tours was the whinging of FdJ’s Philippe Gilbert, recent winner of the season-long Coupe de France competition at Paris-Bourges. Gilbert had slipped away with Disco’s Stijn Devolder late in the race, and the duo of youngsters had a…
Pro Cycling News – Simoni Wins Giro dell'Emilia, Dope Doctor Recants
Gibo Simoni is an interesting case. On the one hand, he constanly whines about, well, about everything, yet on the other, he seems to excel in crappy weather. No change at today’s Giro dell’Emilia, where Il Ragno (does anyone even call him that anymore?) stepped away from the rest with a k to go. Mirko…
BCA Cyclocross – Report
So now that it’s been a week since, I figure I’ll throw up a report on the BCA Cyclocross. Some of you may be wondering “Cosmo, why are you doing a ‘cross race? Didn’t you finish your season? Aren’t you resting up?” Fools. One of the many exceptionally nice things about ‘cross (especially C-level ‘cross)…
Pro Cycling News – A Few Changes
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton. Google has no problem violating their own stated principles in search of profit, yet refuses to let me so much as mention the plainly obvious changes I made to this web page on 8 October 2005, because they might result in “unearned” monitary gain…
Pro Cycling News – Tributes to Zabel, Bak Wins Again
It’s not like the guy is retiring or anything, but geez, you might think so, given the rapid proliferation of stories on Erik Zabel’s deaprture (scroll down) from T-Mobile following this weekend’s Paris-Tours race. Of course, if the careers of Santiago Botero and Cadel Evans are any indication, we can expect a banner year from…
Pro Cycling News – Paris-Tours, Impotence, Dopage
Today’s post is late and short. I apologize, but was riding the spectacular Kingdom Trails in Northern VT today. It would have been indescribably spectacular had someone not jacked my mountain bike last night. The old gray Scott, set up for single-speed is the only mountain bike I’ve ever really enjoyed riding, and this upsets…
Pro Cycling News – It's Really Slowing Down
Yes, the end-of-the-season drop off is on in full force, despite that fact that, thanks to the ProTour, the 2005 season is still very much alive. Interbike Stories are now very sparse indeed. I’ll have to go to Competitive Cyclist to get you a new Interbike report. Just keep in mind that, unlike cycling news…
Pro Cycling News – Is It Paris-Tours Yet?
Seriously. Mid-week in the late season is the worst time for news. All the rider transfers for next year have already been announced, there’s no high-level racing because most of the big names (like Voigt and Basso) have called it a season, and even the flood of Interbike highlights is dying slightly. (You may notice…