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All the Sleaze and Glory of the Peloton

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Shakespeare in Love

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Catfight!: Having left T-Mobile for Astana on the dubious premise of eagerly playing second banana/superdomestique to Alexander Vinokorouv a...

Can It *Get* Any Better?

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Bettini's already taken a stage, Sastre's won the maillot oro, Thor Hushovd's still in gold (after some controversy over whether...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

La Vuelta, Baby! And How Do I Not Love UCI, Dos

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Woo-hoo for new maillot d'oro we love Thor Hushovd, who took second in today's bunch sprint over Robbie "We're Still Annoye...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Heat Is On

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We Love Sastre!: In the Vuelta's prologue, a short sharp tt, CSC obliterates the rest of the field after a slightly slower start to put ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Pain in the Peloton

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Fandemonium: in a truly sucky (though sadly fair) win for Gerolsteiner's fine Stefan Schumacher, imminent Eneco tour winner/unfortunate ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Ick Factor

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So more revelations about Tyler Hamilton's alleged doping practices are out, and they ain't pretty. In 2003, he's alleged to ha...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Astanadrama

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So Astana, via Marc Biver,'s formed a new management company to run the show untainted, if there still is a show after the UCI and ProTo...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

How Do I Not Love UCI? Let Me Count...

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So the UCI president reassures us that there have been no systemic problems at Phonak, and it's all a case of approximately eight hundre...
Friday, August 18, 2006

How Do I Love the Vuelta? Let Me Count the Ways...

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Before I go into everything that's ticking me off about the UCI today, I thought I'd reflect, for those unfamiliar with the upcoming...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

Yap, Yap, Yap

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Give Me a Break: So the ProTour teams (sans AG2R, Astana & Phonak) have mostly unanimously asked UCI to suspend Phonak and Astana from t...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Drugs, Drugs Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink

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Yep, It's Official: Phonak's out, and it's the fault of their skanky cheating riders and the filthy cheating sport but not the s...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

(Almost) All About Spain

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Phonak Eats Its Young: So the rumor mill's a-swirling that Andy Rihs is going to announce the official end of team Phonak, and that iSha...
Friday, August 11, 2006

The Riding Wounded, and Ego Trouble

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In great news, Credit Agricole's fine young climber/US cycling's next-generation hope Saul Raisin, who almost died after a crash ear...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

How Many Times Can I Say It?

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So Jens Voigt absolutely smoked the rest of the field during the Tour of Germany time trial, including Levi by well over a minute, and now b...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Legal Strategy 101

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A Humble Suggestion: Now, I don't know how it works in Europe, but first, Floyd, Americans freakin' *hate* lawyers, particularly agg...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

We Love Jens! (Due)

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And Erik and Levi and Fabian, for that matter. CSC continues its post-Tour tear with dog-reliable strongman Jens Voigt grabbing the Tour of...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

I'm Not Talking About It

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Except for Pereiro's comments in El Pais that he feels 99% like the champion of the Tour. I can't blame him, but it's still dev...
Friday, August 04, 2006

This'n'That from the Peloton

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Invincible: Fabian Cancellara, an exceedingly engaging rider to watch who was such a good sport (at least publicly) about being dropped from...

We Love Jens!

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So perpetual happy attack dog Jens Voigt took Stage 2 of the Tour of Germany, which is most dandy, and Levi Leipheimer, who either tanked or...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Not About Him

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A Failure to Communicate: So I see that Ivan Basso, who just the other day was waxing poetic about his amiable relationship with Bjarne Riis...
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