Posted August 7th, 2007
Cadel Evans was interviewed on Enough Rope last night, but unfortunately the segment (video or transcript) isn’t online yet so here is a small grab. You can also read a bit about it in the Cyclingnews daily news wrap (third item).
The interview was done via Satellite so it was strangely disjointed. And while Denton is […]
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Posted August 5th, 2007
Velo News has done a rough analysis of the very positive numbers coming out of this years Tour de France - fortunately not the positives we usually think about - it was all crowd numbers, television audiences and print media, all of which appear to have experienced solid increases, and in the case of bike […]
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Posted July 29th, 2007
Thirty one seconds is all the separates the top three riders in this years Tour de France. Cadel Evans sandwiched between the Discos of Levi Leipheimer and Alberto Contador. The stage and race became completely engrossing once the one hundred and thirty eight riders ahead of the first three were off. Then it was nail […]
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Posted July 28th, 2007
Via Cyclingpost.
ANGOULÊME, Jul 27 (CP) - Colombian Juan Mauricio Soler may be the next rider involved in a doping scandal. Danish media report that the Barloworld rider tested positive after stage fourteen.
Soler, currently the leader in the mountains classification, finished third in that stage. Alberto Contador and Michael Rasmussen came in first and second respectively.
Danish […]
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Posted July 26th, 2007
Breaking news! Cyclingnews and Velo News are reporting that Michael Rasmussen has been removed from the Tour de France and fired by his team, Rabobank.
However the team has learnt that Rasmussen lied to them over where and what he was up to during the month of June when he was in fact in Italy and […]
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Posted July 24th, 2007
Journalist David Walsh has an interesting piece in the Times Online that while not adding anything new to what we’ve learned about the past actions of Michael Rasmussen, does strip bare the ethics involved.
Lars Werge, cycling correspondent for the Copenhagen-based daily Extra Bladet, recounted for Rasmussen the sport’s recent doping controversies, especially the confession […]
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Posted July 21st, 2007
Yesterday, Christian Prudhomme, the Tour’s director wondered “why now?” about the decision of the Danish cycling federation to drop it’s bomb regarding Michael Rasmussen and his missed doping inspections, well he has an answer. Never say “trust me” when you know there might be people out there who have information suggesting that you may not […]
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Posted July 19th, 2007
SBS Television has given us another way to get our Tour de France fix with video podcasts of the previous days action now available for download.
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Posted July 17th, 2007
MichaelRasmussen.
This yellow jersey feels like doping to me…
Don’t these guys think before they speak?
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Posted July 14th, 2007
The first week of the 2007 Tour de France ended with a win for Tom Boonen, neatly bookending this sprinters festival with the first stage win of Robbie McEwen. While there were surprises in how the wins came, the reality was that the crème de la crème of the sport still took them and those […]
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