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The Things We Did Last Week
Last week, we did some things. We received absolution. We laughed at The Onion. We retired again. We started over. We had scorching romance at the Tour de France. We heard a press conference. We hit 50%. We went to a magic single track island with Sue Butler. We made...
Sports Illustrated: Lance Armstrong Doping Story Time
Rumors about this story have swirled about the internet for weeks. Sports Illustrated is writing about Armstrong and doping, whispered anonymous writers in the know. It's coming out this week. No, it's next week. Really, everything Armstrong-related leads to endless rumoring. Now Sports...
ESPN Uncovers Details of USPS Sponsorship
Over the past few weeks, rumors have swirled about the imminence of a big Sports Illustrated exposé on the Armstrong case. That story has not yet dropped, but today, ESPN published a report detailing the money paid by the United States Postal Service for its sponsorship of Lance Armstrong's team in...
Quiznos Pro Challenge: "Why does Lance hate women's racing?"
The Quiznos Pro Challenge announced their start and finished cities yesterday. As expected, the new stage race race does not include a race for women. Mr. Katie Compton is a bit... perturbed by this development. From the Twit: Apparently you need balls or a ball to race the Quiznos race Why...
Interview: Bill Strickland
Bill Strickland is editor-at-large at Bicycling Magazine and the author of the recently published Tour de Lance. Now I wasn't paying close attention when I read Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People but I'm pretty sure that calling someone a fanboy and suggesting they'd look cute...
We Might As Well Win, by Johan Bruyneel
Books are weird. An author thinks he's written a book about X. The espresso-slurping marketing droids hawking the book write a cover blurb that says it's about Y. And when the reader reads it she discovers it's actually about Z. The reviewer? He thinks it's about time he went and got some fresh...
Interview: Graeme Fife
Known to cycling fans for books like Tour De France: The History, The Legend, The Riders and Inside The Peloton Graeme Fife has also had plays, stories and features broadcast on BBC radio. We caught up with him recently and got his opinion on things like Lance Armstrong's legacy and Team Sky's...
Team On The Run: The Inside Story Of The Linda McCartney Pro Cycling Team, by John Deering
Ten years ago, a British team ventured forth from the safety of the provincial racing scene and tackled a Grand Tour. They even won a stage. By the start of the following season, the future looked bright. They were backed by a US-based multinational conglomerate. Jaguar were on board. Bradley...
Lance Armstrong - Tour de Force, by Daniel Coyle
If you like fairy-tales, you’ll love Daniel Coyle’s Lance Armstrong – Tour de Force (aka Lance Armstrong’s War), now revised and updated on the back of the Come Back. It’s like Walt Disney, only with more rounded characters. In Coyle’s hands, Prince Charming is...
Yellow jersey Power Poll: Down To Two
Pre-Race Poll here Post-Stage 4 Poll here See? I told ya the Alps would be decisive! But why were they? Compare this race to last year's where the peloton went through the Pyrenees with barely a ripple-why is this year different? And why did so many riders fall off in the Alps? I see three...
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