By littlered 14 July 2006
Lance and Matthew McC took a day off from the bikes in LA to do a little cross-training. While other gossip columnists speculate about this hunky duo, I’d wager that Matthew is getting ready for a triathlon? In any event, here our poor heroes can’t out run the papparazzi. […]
By littlered 14 July 2006
I can’t really bring myself to make fun of Lance Armstrong (okay, I’ll try a little), but if you haven’t seen the photos and video of this threesome hammering the Malibu Hills then you’re missing some good laughs from the Autobus. The thing is, as Fausto said to me earlier today, Lance is a celebrity […]
By fausto 13 July 2006
i hate to have every post be about doping, or have a subtext about doping, but frank is correct: there was something subdued about today’s stage that, to be quite honest, i rather enjoyed. good riders who were not ready for six hours of relentless climbing got dropped (hincapie, mayo, horner, zabriskie). riders who rely […]
By frank booth 13 July 2006
Yesterday’s stage confirmed my suspicion that this year’s tour will be reminiscent of 1998. Scared straight by Operation Puerto, the Peloton flushed their drugs down the toilet the night before the race…and now everyone suddenly seems human. There won’t be any solo breakaways across the pyranees by a cyclist with a broken shoulder riding on […]
By fausto 11 July 2006
the first mountain stage is always a hard one to call. nobody going for the c.g. ever holds back in an individual time trial, but that’s not the case when the roads start to point upwards. the fact that the whole peloton is on the road means that group-think can take hold. how many times […]
By lee 10 July 2006
Zinedine Zidane has been universally lambasted for his head butt of Italy’s Marco Materazzi during the waning minutes of overtime in yesterday’s World Cup final. Most pundits seem to have chosen “vicious” as their adjective of choice in describing the hit. However, Zizou’s actions were justified, surely from a theoretical perspective and perhaps , although […]
By fausto 8 July 2006
well, you can’t do better than being right. velorant picked gonchar (phil and paul did not), gonchar won, and did the coup double. a great day for ukraine. but gonchar is not a threat for the overall, so let’s review how the actual contenders did.
velorant said the real contenders would be within a minute of […]
By fausto 7 July 2006
i’ll make this entry short and sweet, because this race is wide open and there are many contenders for tomorrow’s itt. first prediction: i don’t think much more than a minute is going to separate the top contenders for the overall who can time trial. my pick to win is serguei gonchar. also in the […]
By lee 4 July 2006
You gotta say, Marcelo Balboa really is the poorest announcer I ever have had to endure.
But you know, he did have that nice bicycle kick from the top of the 18–I think it was 10 or 12 years ago.
But still, is there anything worse than his play-by-play-type statements made 10 seconds after the play happens?
Oh […]
By fausto 4 July 2006
i didn’t get a chance to say it before the tour started, but i’m excited about this tour. i love lance armstrong, but enough is enough. when lance won stages 15-17 in 2004, i started losing interest in “le tour de lance.” who am i to say, but how can anyone really claim that lance […]
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