Sitting in Cafe Zucchero with Guy today was new for both of us just before our ride up the hills in UBC. Inside this very Italian cafe we were welcome by the barista, a heavy set bald man wearing a huge pendant, as future ... Lance Armstrong's. I could only look at Guy with humorous disbelief, as his quick comeback was, "How about Ivan Basso's?" I smiled ... Getting into the Spirit! ... The burly barista didn't answer perhaps he never even heard of Ivan Basso, but Lance Armstrong? Really. No
{gallery}riders/taylorp{/gallery}You knew this was going to happen sooner or later ... Team RadioShack announced today that Taylor Phinney would be joining the team as a "stagiaire" for the remainder of the season. Next month's Tour of Denmark will be his first race for RadioShack ... So, what's a stagiaire? It's a French word for trainee or intern. In cycling, it's used to describe a young rider who joins an established team but is not yet a full-time racer on the team. It's essentially a
It's safe to say that Lance Armstrong's final Tour de France is not going the way he planned ... For the full story, go to http://www.bikeworldnews.com ...
In today's Tour de France news, vindication for Vino, Cavendish draws closer to green, Lance Armstrong's bad luck continues and more ... For the full story, go to http://www.bikeworldnews.com ...
"The former Soviet state of Kazakhstan is the size of Western Europe, and is not so much of its own country as its own planet, a vast sameness of boreal forests and grasslands, boiling in summer and frozen in winter, a land the Soviets found ideal for growing wheat and testing nuclear bombs - 470 tests between 1949 and 1989, most of them thoughtfully done on Sundays, so as not to disrupt the happy productivity of the proletariat. The ensuing years have only added to its charms : the
"Lance lost this Tour for bad luck. Physically, there’s no reason to believe that he couldn’t have been competitive in this Tour. He came to this Tour in good shape with real ambitions to win. We knew it wouldn’t be easy for him to win this Tour, but we came here with that as a goal. Even today we saw Contador not as strong as he was last year. Today we simply didn’t have the luck.” ... -- Johan Bruyneel, team manager for Radio Shack, talking about Lance Armstrong's crashes at the 2010
{gallery}10tdf/pave:200:260:1{/gallery} ... How bad was it out on the cobblestones that punctuated the Tour de France route today? ... The expression, and the dirt, on Lance Armstrong's face, in this photo by John Pierce, sums up the day ... It was hard ... it was ugly ... and it was a helluva race ... Our hat's off to race winner Thor Hushovd, and overall leader Fabian Cancellara. And hats off to John Pierce for another memorable moment from today at the Tour ...
Are you surprised that Armstrong wears 15,000 dollars on his head these days? Why? History has it that an entire empire is built around the guy to babysit him with products with which that he be marginally faster or psychologically faster. Its an incredible win-win situation for the producer and the user. Is there a better walking salesman that the most famous athlete? The following excerpt from the book ... Lance Armstrong's War , written by two time National Magazine Award finalist Daniel
With the possible exceptions of the Mr. Softee theme and crotchal fungus, there is no surer sign that summer has begun in earnest than the start of the Tour de France ... And there is no surer sign that the cycling media wants to entice laypeople with their Tour de France coverage than when they start rolling out the "crash porn." For the non-cycling sports fan, the idea of following the multiple competitions of which the Tour is comprised over a period of weeks has about as much appeal as