Posted July 31st, 2007
How many times have we said that over the past decade? I was going to do a post like this but Gizmodo beat me to it. Love the snark.
This weekend, Spaniard Alberto Contador won the Tour De France mounted on a 2008 carbon-fiber Trek Madone bicycle. What is shocking is that the 2008 high end […]
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Posted July 31st, 2007
Cyclingnews.
Iban Mayo tested positive for EPO on the Tour de France’s rest day, July 24, it was announced Monday night. His team Saunier Duval was informed of the positive test by the UCI and immediately suspended the Spanish rider.
Didn’t seem to help much.
technorati tags: cycling, tourdefrance, 2007, doping
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Posted July 30th, 2007
The static cyclist.
A Tasmanian man has battled fatigue, aching limbs and blisters on his bottom to smash the world static cycling record.
Eddy Kontelj passed the previous record of 111 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds at 3.12pm in Burnie yesterday and is expected to keep on cycling until at least today to create a […]
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Posted July 30th, 2007
My final post for the Australian TdF host broadcaster SBS is now online.
Firstly, this was a Spanish Tour because there were six of them in the top ten. Alberto Contador, Carlos Sastre, Haimar Zubeldia, Alejandro Valverde, Mikel Astarloza and Oscar Pereiro, showed that the true heart of cycling lies in Spain, not Italy, France, Germany […]
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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
Note: One year ago today I wrote this. Here it is again. Hopefully I won’t have to bring it up again this time next year.
Simon Barnes gives his analysis of Pro Cycling. Sure he lashes out at the sport, but underneath the anger you sense a feeling of loss.
For the followers of the sport, three […]
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Posted July 28th, 2007
Via Cyclingpost.
ANGOULĂME, 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 27th, 2007
Chris Tunnock and Thomas Hunter wrote in todays Crikey (for non Australians Crikey is a highly influential political publication - the piece is behind a paywall but I’m ripping it anyway) about the Tour and in particular the way the sport is commented on by the television personalities fronting the nightly broadcasts . Here is […]
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Posted July 27th, 2007
Alan Durning at Grist has posted a terrific piece on cycling simultaneously being framed as something shameful to do in our car dominated world or something for elite inner inner city types.
To be a successful adult, apparently, you have to drive. Cycling is for children; cycling is for losers. In this view, it’s fitting […]
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Posted July 27th, 2007
Today, WADA and the IOC have both issued statements with regard to the latest edition of Tour de France crazy.
We do need everyone involved, but I’m not so sure WADA or the IOC will make a bit of difference to what is clearly a deeply embedded cultural problem in cycling. It’s an attitudinal not […]
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