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Small world, Who did Chris Horner famously give a ride to a stage finish at the 2008 Cascade Classic

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Bill Demong who just recently won Gold and Silver at the Vancouver Olympics rode the Ride2Recover event at the Battenkill last weekend. He is also a cat 1 cyclist and answer to a trivia question.

Operation Puerto Initial Police Report

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This looks to be the first report by the Spanish investigators into Operation Puerto. I don't know how widely it has previously been circulated - a quick skim with my non-existent Spanish doesn't seem to give anything I've not heard elsewhere before - but I've never seen the actual thing before, just news reports based on it. Beware - 52 pages in Spanish.

The Jens! shirt

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The new shirt from Cosmo, a sequel to the stop lance shirt. In other cyclocosm news there is a How the Race Was Won video on youtube for AGR

Women's event: Tour of the Battenkill (and with the guys race too)

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The womens Tour of the Battenkill took place last weekend. This is a series of excellent photographs from that event. Sunday the mens race is scheduled to start at 11:00 am eastern. There may be some live coverage, I'll be keeping my eyes open for that.

The most amazing save ever.

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The most amazing save ever.

Rujano is a desperate man, trying to ride for Footon-Serveto

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In what can only be see as an act of desperation, Jose Rujano is attempting to switch from the ISD-Neri team to the ProTour Footon-Serveto-Fuji team in spite of that team's awful kit. You'll recall that ISD-Neri missed out on the invitations to the Giro Italia.

Today was a good day for a recovery ride which gave me time to take some pictures. I thought the...

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Today was a good day for a recovery ride which gave me time to take some pictures. I thought the international audience might be interested in seeing this collection of road signs, nine of them, all for cyclists! The map shows where you are on the provincial grid of touristy cycling routes ("Knooppuntennetwerk"). More pics of the ride on Flickr.

The Volcano vs Amstel Gold Race

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nature vs man ooh, this will be fun. who makes it to the race? who misses it? what about the riders at cyl or ptot getting to the ardennes on time for fleche on wednesday? (i'm looking at you, contador).