Of Bergs and Cotes...
[ed] This is the companion to my Breton post earlier about how the Tour parcours is actually kind of cool. Basically, this is a Giro percorso vs. Tour parcours series. Which ends in about 15 more colu...
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré: Practice, Practice, Practice
Sunday one of the sport's more colorful events kicks off as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré starts on its annual journey in and around the French Alps. The usual question ...
Tour Favorites Ratings... Opening Salvo
Each year it becomes more of a challenge to find an original way to talk about who might win the Tour de France. After racking my brain, I'd decided on a tale-of-the-tape scoring system. Of course, ev...
The Kids Race: White Jersey Preview
The white jersey is the surprise package of the Tour. It's never easy to predict how the U25 riders are going to do with a race like the Tour de France. Some will be riding their first grand tour, o...
Speed Demons: Green Jersey Preview
This year's course offers fewer stages for the pure sprinters than usual. Expect a hot contest for each of those stages, as they carry not only the prestige of a stage win, but also a big prize in ...
Le Tour '08: Talking Teams
Ranking the riders in every category seems like about as good a way to kill time here in the Cyclo-Blogo-Sphere as any, but when it comes to teams, it doesn't quite work, at least not in one long list...
Le Tour... Team Rankings
The list-style companion to yesterday's post... To be clear, this isn't a ranking of who's going to win, just which teams are relatively better equipped. Challenger Teams CSC -- Frickin loaded, a...
Le Tour: Business Time!
At long last, by Monday morning we'll be in the thick of another Tour de France Alpine campaign. Outside of Flanders-Roubaix week and an occasional stretch of the Giro, this is hands-down my highlig...
You Call This a Chrono?
[As cool as this logo is, it's not exactly ideal time trial form. The head should be lower and the back a bit flatter. But that's nitpicking...] Nothing about Beijing and the games has been especia...
Viva La Vuelta! GC Preview
A bit of trivia to get us started. If a Spanish rider wins the Vuelta this September, Spain will sweep the grand tours for this season. The last time that one country won all three grand tou...
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