January 2011
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Cycling: 'It's been three weeks of suffering and... →
This is an article from last year’s TdF, in which Nicolas Roche describes the incident with Gadret, but moreover his writing describes the the nature of race fatigue and how accumulating stress and exhaustion can quickly turn to resentment.
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dmgorton asked: The Giro di Lombardia is a one day race, and the 5th and final monument of the year. Paolo didnt win the 'stage' he won the race!
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What's in your pocket? →
Looks like one of my favourite cycling blogs—Bianchista—just wrote about pocket protectors as well. Check it out.
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crocket asked: time to write Bjarne our "I'm sorry" card.
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I know cyclists like to complain a lot about how hard their lives are, but I am...
– A Big Boy Schedule For 2011 | Cyclingnews.com
Tejay Van Garderen on the proposed radio ban.
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Alberto Contador given one-year ban by Spanish... →
So here it is. It’s official. There are so many things that bother me about this incident, the biggest of which is this insistent ignorance from laypersons and cycling fans with regards to what clenbuterol actually is, the amount found in Contador’s system which offers absolutely no performance benefit whatsoever, Contador’s inexplicable folly of errors regarding this case and...
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Landis Retires From Cycling, Effective Immediately... →
“I’m relatively sure this sport cannot be fixed, but that’s not my job, that’s not my fight,” Landis said.
Geez Floyd, don’t go out like that… Sports and spurious proto-existential claims (some people… give them a bit of time for little speech at an anti-doping conference and they get all morally imperitive on your ass and retire.)
*shrug*
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AIGCP Rejects UCI Radio Ban | Cyclingnews.com →
The UCI is probably the only sports association which unequivocally and needlessly antagonizes its own athletes and participants. This whole radio ban is kind of senseless; Jonathan Vaughters (Garmin-Cervélo) had this to say about some of the trial races without radios: The impact of having no radios was not changing the tactics of the race at all, but it was reducing many “luck-founded” factors...
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Kit.
Is it just me or did nearly every team with a bit of money to throw about on kit design collectively agree on retro styling? What’s up with that; Radioshack, LEOPARD TREK, HTC-Highroad, Garmin-Cervélo, etc..
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crocket asked: Do pro cyclists go to school for cycling? Is there a program, and if so, how many electives are they allowed?
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New tumblr URL
Baltimore Horses Cycling.
New tumblr URL for the new year.
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crocket asked: Just going to leave this picture of jens here:
http://ticker.live-radsport.ch/images/08052157-hochzeit-stephanie--und-jens-voigt--tochter-adriana-soehne-julian--marc--julian-archvifoto-adriano-coco.jpg
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