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Amstel Curaçao. Everybody talks about the beaches, the beer, and the nail-biting excitement of the race itself. But did it ever occur to anyone to discuss the very real dangers of the Caribbean? In an effort to increase the safety of our beloved pro peloton, we offer the following ...
Cycling
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Wednesday Session. Now, with pictures! We have reached the deep abyss of winter, when the news slows to a trickle. It’s remarkably difficult to be funny when there’s nothing much going on.
But fear not, my friends, for it is now December which makes ...
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UCI Professional Continental Teams for 2010
Acqua & Sapone (ITA)
Andalucia Cajasur (ESP)
Bbox Bouygues Telecom (FRA)
BMC Racing Team (USA)
Carmiooro - NGC (GBR)
CCC Polsat Polkowice (POL)
Ceramica Flaminia (IRL)
Cervélo Test Team (SUI)
Cofidis (FRA)
Colnago - CSF Inox ...
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BBox Bouygues Telecom
Skil - Shimano
The 15th stage of the 2009 Tour de France will be remembered as the day where Alberto Contador finally took the yellow jersey and with it, control of the race. He danced away from his rivals on the summit finish up to Verbier and having previously been within a couple of seconds of Armstrong on ...
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Alberto Contador
Training videos come in a lot of shapes and sizes. There are videos of coaches barking at you from their indoor studio. There are videos of coaches outside on the bike, explaining how to do a climbing interval. There are country vistas inviting you to pretend you are someplace else. Like ...
Cycling
Closest thing to news in Sporza today... After losing out to neighboring Limburg province (Netherlands) on the 2012 festivities, organizers in West Flanders are gearing up for another run at either the 2013 or 2014 UCI World Road Cycling Championships. Apparently their last effort centered ...
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Photo by Robert Laberge, Getty Images Sport
Looking at various news reports regarding next year's racing for the boys in green, it looks like some polemica might be hitting the Leaky Gas bus. Ivan Basso has declared that he is going to race the Giro/Tour double this coming year while ...
Cycling
Liquigas
The local newspaper in Padova reported last week that the procura in Padova has opened a preliminary investigation into the possibility that Danilo Di Luca committed sporting fraud during the 2009 Giro d'Italia. Di Luca, who finished second overall, tested positive for the banned substance CERA ...
Cycling
After Krtek’s offering, here is my humble little report!
On Saturday morning I got up at 4.30. Cyclingdiva and CycleGirl can attest to this in case you don’t believe me. Why, you ask, would anybody do such a thing? One word: CROSS. I have a friend who takes pictures of cyclists ...
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First of all, thanks once again to tedvdw for all the generous help with directions and so forth. The drinks are on me anytime you’re in my neck of the woods or vice versa.
I arrived in Flanders with a miserable virus courtesy of Germany, so with a head full of snot and around 30% of my ...
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Yeah, Leenoooos-- so were we . Cyclingnews very helpfully sums up the Milram rider's année sans , and tells us what he plans to do different in 2010:
This coming year I will try to provide more focus in my training, especially for the Tour. I will also change a few things having to ...
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Linus Gerdemann
For the last decade this team has been sponsored by German insurance company Nürnberger Versicherung who were also a major sponsor of the Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt. Now they have moved on and Skyter Shipping, a Luxembourg yacht charterer has taken over. So the next time you are ...
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So much for paradigm busting . Can someone please serve Bernard Hinault a few beers and ask him what he thinks of this news?
[Serious for a moment: I get it, it's dangerous, and timing wise it never quite fit the Ardennes-Tour stud's calendar. My real disagreement is with the concept ...
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Super Prestige (Cross) Live!
Or else here
Don't know if they work outside Belgium/Netherlands.. And they are wondering why the cross is only 'famous' arround here.. Sigh..
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Hi there. You might remember me from such posts as RadioShack and J-Rod to Katusha . In this post I'll try to figure out the significance of Daniel Moreno transferring to *Lotto. Good? Bad? Boring? Let's get to the bottom of this.
On the surface, this is one odd transfer. Moreno says he ...
Cycling
Adios Team Slipstream... Vaughters and co have replaced their original identity completely today, with the addition of Transitions Eyewear as the secondary sponsor of Team Garmin-Transitions. Transitions makes rather clever sounding lenses which change tint with the weather. Does it sound sorta ...
Cycling
Today's double winner is Lionel Birnie, author of one of the English cycling media's more invaluable columns, Cycling Weekly's Wednesday Comment (known to actually appear on Wednesday, unfathomable as that may seem). Not sure what's in his coffee today:
In the ten years I've been using the ...
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Radio ban 2010
Click on the pdf icon for a letter from the UCI.
"The ban will be gradually introduced in accordance with a timetable, the first stage of which will be:
• 2010 season: ban for Men Elite and Women Elite Class 2 events of the UCI international calendar,
events of the ...
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Alexandr Kolobnev will leave Saxo Bank for an as-yet undisclosed Pro Tour team. Saxo Bank announced the news today on the team's official website . Though Kolobnev had one year remaining on his contract, the Danish team released him. The Russian will take on a leadership role at his new ...
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Team Saxo Bank
...pretty much the way this quasi-non-story was always going to end. With Astana fully licensed and Contador's contract as binding as ever. I fully don't understand the mystique surrounding their payment history; maybe instead of blood values they can post their bank transactions on line so ...
