2010 Tour de France – Stage 19 Wrap-Up

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 12:10 p.m.

I’m certain to have missed the time cut by now, but here’s my two cents anyway: 1. Is Fabian Cancellara to Tony Martin and time trials what Alberto Contador is to Andy Schleck and the Tour de France?  Discuss. 2. Seriously though, I thought I learned my lesson the first 3 times I bet against [ ... ] ...

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Sweetest Ta-glue: Putting the "Sade" in "Crusade"

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 7:05 a.m.
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As I mentioned yesterday, a cyclist in "full racing gear" recently hit a 73 year-old woman in Central Park and then rode away ... To date, this cyclist has not been apprehended ... However, thanks to the popular Twitter social networking site, it seems as though the perpetrator may have inadvertently surrendered himself: ... He doesn't mention that he also knocked out at least one grandmother (that we know about), but he was probably constrained by Twitter's draconian 140 character limit ...

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They’re having a blast

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Published July 29, 2010 at 6:02 a.m.

Jens Voigt, Andy Schleck, Stuart O’Grady all look like friends. I agree with the boys at Ritte. Saxo, minus Bjarne, might be the team of 2010 ...

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Fignon: A Coq Crowing!

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Published July 27, 2010 at 12:31 a.m.
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As my birthday is fast approaching, Laurent Fignon's much awaited book, 'We We're Young and Carefree' has arrived in the mail. He's unspoken, brash and tells it like it is without holding back. His two Tour victories (1983 & 1984) still bode well as epic and caused the French fans to open their hearts to a new, young hero. The eight second loss from Greg LeMond was his fall from grace yet he survived it all, somehow.  That's what I aim to find out in this much anticipated expose on le

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Tour TT Statistics & Contador's Climbing Abilities Reviewed

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Published July 25, 2010 at 1:44 a.m.
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The 2010 Tour de France, the last one of this decade, draws to a close. Alberto Contador, the consummate cyclist of our times, has nearly clinched his third Tour de France title as he and his team roll into Paris today. This will be his 5th Grand Tour win in a row, and he has everything under the sun from the Giro d'Italia to the Vuelta a España. He is at the level of Lemond, Bobet and Thys. Meanwhile, Andy Schleck made slow but steady improvements in his time trialing to give El Pistolero a

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Can't believe it's almost over.

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Published July 23, 2010 at 6:19 p.m.

Watching the Tour throughout most of the month of July leaves little time for such unimportant things as sleeping, working, and eating, but they must be done ... I am already dreading Monday morning, when I will inevitably turn on the TV and find that the voices of Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen no longer fill my living room as I shuffle over to the kitchen for my first cup of coffee shortly before sunrise ... I suppose I should prepare myself now ... This Tour has been full of bad luck for some

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Col du Tourmalet Climb Analysis From 2010 TdF Stage 17

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Published July 22, 2010 at 9:37 p.m.
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Today's mountain top finish involved the climbing of 18.4 km of the western side of Tourmalet (see detailed 3D terrain here ), from Luz-Saint-Sauvier onwards. The Tourmalet is the queen of all climbs in the Tour de France and the roads here are some of the highest in France. The Henri Degranges prime was won on the summit by none other than the lanky, steely looking Luxembourgian Andy Schleck, but he did not manage to gain any time advantage on the Spanish climber Contador as the latter

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commentary and news

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Published July 22, 2010 at 12:54 a.m.

I don't actually care who wins the Not-At-All-a-Tour de France, and I'm proud to say I can't name more than 5 riders in it (Contador, Schleck, Zsa Zsa Zabriskie, Armstrong, and---well, I bet there's a Lopez in there somewhere, or maybe a Stein or LaPierre). I watch it a little, a half an hour or so every fourth day, and if YOU follow it you know that a few stages ago on a climb, Contador---the favorite and last year's winner---didn't wait for his arch rival Schleck when Schleck hit a little bump

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2010 Tour de France – Stage 12 Wrap-Up

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Published July 21, 2010 at 2:47 a.m.

Here’s the question of the day: was it worth it Alberto? In my humble opinion, yes and no.  Yes, because Contador’s attack in the middle of the Cote de la Croix-Neuve, gapped Andy Schleck, earning Contador ten seconds, but more importantly sending a message to the Luxembourger wearing yellow: “I’m faster than you are.” On [ ... ] ...

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stain on the yellow jersey?

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Published July 19, 2010 at 8:22 p.m.
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I'll admit I was pulling for Lance to win one more Tour de France this year. Score one for the old guy? But I kind of expected Alberto Contador to win again, because he's so good, and so young. I like watching him climb, the way he dances on his pedals to keep his speed up. But after today I'm finding it hard to root for him ... I was watching live, even though I was recording the stage, as Andy Schleck started to accelerate up the last few kilometers of the climb. His chain came off and it took

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