I now think Lance Armstrong has a good chance of winning this year’s Tour de France. I was not so sure. The machine no longer looked invincible last year. He looked good, but it did not look like fun. This year? If there’s a moment, a clue, it perhaps is the third stage of the …
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Bobby Julich gives it one more shot: “It’s not about winning races or being on the podium of the Tour, winning the money or becoming famous,” Julich said. “For me it was one thing: For those three weeks in 1998, I was in the zone. That was the most amazing feeling. If there’s anything I …
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In my other blog I linked yesterday to an account written by Nat Cobb of his cross country Tour of Hope adventure. I promised Dano I’d run down the story I wrote last fall about Nat. Here it is.
“This thing is freakin’ sick!” Seems like there’s only one way to stop that boy:
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Talking to a friend earlier this week whose wife is a dancer. I was pointing out that I get a bit crazy if I don’t exercise, and he said the same thing happens to her – that he has to make her get some exercise sometimes just so she’s not unpleasant to be around. It’s …
I don’t wanna belabor this Pantani thing, because there’s something a little bit unseemly about a 45-year-old man even having sports heroes, let alone one as questionable as Pantani became. But back in 1998, when I was first learning seriously about cycling, it was Pantani I admired. And in particular, it was this day, the …