Mayo
Not much lost in the translation: Le coureur espagnol Iban Mayo a été contrôlé positif à l’EPO sur le Tour de France durant la journée de repos du 24 juillet.
Archive of posts filed under the cycling category.
Wim!
From Sam Abt: In a battle with no prize and slight prestige, Wim Vansevenant, a Belgian with Predictor, finished as the lanterne rouge, or last man in the pack, for the second successive year. He thrashed his nearest rival, Geraint Thomas, a Briton with Barloworld, by six minutes with a sterling 134th place in the …
Why Not Just Let ‘Em All Dope?
If you’re in anyway following Le Tour, you’ve almost certainly had a conversation over the last week about whether it would make sense to just let ’em all dope. Joe Lindsey from Bicycling magazine has a thoughtful guest post over on the Freakonomics blog making a pretty persuasive case that it’s a bad idea. A …
Axel
What Dave said. It’s just sport, just a game, completely meaningless as compared to the plague of development on Albuquerque’s west side or that Darfur thing. But there it is, unfolding like a gut-gripping soap opera that you know is playing out in real time with no safety net. So Vinokourov must be dead to …
Dopage
Romance and bike racing scandals both just sound better in French: Tour de France – Dopage RASMUSSEN QUITTE LE TOUR !
Hibiscus
hibiscus Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. There are several different ways I ride my bike. One is all spandex and zooming fast, which I love. But the best way is to wander, making a series of random decisions that take me all over the place. Riding with friends Saturday on one of those rides, we ended …
More Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Using the bike racks on Albuquerque’s buses
Paseo del Nordeste Bike Trail
It’s not exactly Albuquerque’s most scenic bike trail, but I’d have to say this is really my favorite.
Sam Abt
It’s that time of year: So it was a holiday. Festivities included houses decorated with red, white and yellow paper flowers, balloons and pennants, like many other villages en route. There was even a giant bicycle built by schoolchildren out of beaverboard and flowers displayed outside the town hall on Place François Mitterrand. Best was …
L’Affaire Festina
Big Toe, The Wrench Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I knew Big Toe had some historic interest in bike racing, so I asked him this morning if he wanted to go over with us to Mom and Dad’s to watch the prologue of Le Tour. He said “No,” in a way that puzzled me. When we …