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2010 PdC World Team Rankings At The Two-Thirds Poll
Time to take a minute to see how our favorite teams are doing this year. And what better way to do this than with numbers! The table below has two columns: 1) The left hand column is where the teams ranked after the first third of the season-after the Frankfurt race. At that point the spring's one...
Au Revoir, Caisse d'Epargne
Caisse d'Epargne, a French bank and title-sponsor of the Caisse d'Epargne team, will end its involvement in cycling at the end of the 2010 season. The team will compete throughout the season, François Pérol, the president of Caisse d'Epargne (BPCE), told L'Equipe.fr today. "There will be a...
Adiós Periero?
Oscar Pereiro confided to the press this week that his contract dispute with Astana may mean the end of his cycling career. The dispute arose when the team tried to change the terms of his contract, a change which meant lowering the Spanish Tour winner's salary by a third. Pereiro said he had...
Power Poll #2- Pre-MSR/Cobbles Edition!
Not only that but this is the annual drink your kool-aid here! edition. So okay, since the last time we met, we've seen the 1st weekend in Belgium (and Switzerland), Eroica, and the 1st three week-long stage races. What tends to happen now is that certain Story Lines get set. You know: a certain...
Joaquim Rodriguez' Big Chance
[Joaquim? Joaquin? I'll go with his homepage, joaquimrodriguez.com. Or, just J-Rod.] Second week of March and we're already tearing up the season script. First Alberto Contador wheezes home two minutes in arrears, blowing his Paris-Nice hopes. Half an hour later we have another developing story:...
Its VDS Eve! Start Shopping!
First, read Chris' post right below mine. Done that? Follow along... Can you feel it? The magic in the air? With the deadline for entering the VDS competition only four three days away, can't you feel the frantic last minute fretting in the air? The hand-wringing, the second guessing? Maybe you're...
Back Pocket Previews '09: Caisse d'Epargne
There are few traditions in cycling more proud than the institution of Caisse d'Epargne. Eusebio Unzue's team traces its roots back to 1980 -- a relative eternity by the sport's current standards -- and the Reynolds team of Pedro Delgado. Ten years and two grand tour wins later, the team morphed...
Vainqueur du Jour!
Get to know Luis Leon Sánchez Gil! Luis Leon Sánchez Gil celebrated his first ever Tour stage win today, attacking on the descent some nine kilometers from the finish. His descending speed gave him a gap he held all the way to the line, despite the effort of Filippo Pozzato to...
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