Back in January, following developments in baseball’s doping saga, Dave McKenna asked (what I think is) an interesting question: Why not go after the Biggest Kahuna of all the alleged drug cheats: Lance Armstrong? Unlike Tejada, Armstrong has represented America and been named to various White House panels. By the evidential standard used in the [...]
Doping is as doping does
Missouri… the place to be this summer.
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Trail Redux: how to quiet dissent
Gnome’s post sure got a lot of Flagstaff attention lately, especially from people not usually associated with Drunkcyclist. It was clear from the moment i read it that it was going to get some panties in bunches, because he went right at a few topics all at once. and he didn’t flinch, blanch, or mince [...]
More LeMond
If nothing else, the man is not afraid of a microphone. VN: Can you be confident in a winner of this Tour? GL: Yes, because they’re finally making changes. Look at Taylor Phinney, he only just started racing and two years later he won the junior world championship. I recently read an interview with Davis [...]
So, this thing called the “Tour” started…
Valverde won the opening stage in fine form. On one of the ugliest bicycles I have ever seen in my life. But, he’ll still look damn good in yellow. I mean, who doesn’t look good in yellow? In case you require a quick brush up on just what the hell Phil and Paul are talking [...]
Feel good hit of the summer
Cycling: The sport where Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol became Cortisones, Albutamol, EPO, Testosterone, and Amphetamines. The July 2008 issue of Men’s Journal has a good piece on Greg LeMond. The author may or may not read drunkcyclist (he does) and you can view article here: www.mensjournal.com/feature/johnson/lemond.html. Here’s a taste: …In 1990 he [...]
Happy weekend…?
Make your own and post it maybe. —bp
When Wednesday feels like Sunday
Mid week hump for my first week with no job. And I ain’t complaining. From where I’m sitting, shit is tight. The Tour kicks off in three days I and don’t give a fuck. I don’t even know what the money is saying this year. Can I bet on who gets yarded the day before? [...]
Bikers Down
It just keeps coming. It was a daring dream by an exceptional man. Daniel Hurtubise had spent two years organizing a bicycling trip across Canada with his two teen children that would raise money and increase awareness of Type 1 diabetes, the condition he lived with from age 15. They left Vancouver in mid-June, joined [...]
I believe the Chicken
I believe the Chicken… was doped to the gills. From: cyclingnews.com Nearly one year after he was forced to leave the Tour de France while wearing the race leader’s maillot jaune, Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen has been suspended for two years for missing out-of-competition doping controls prior to the race. The Monaco cycling federation, with [...]
Bikers down
Oh Christ… SUV jumps sidewalk and strikes the girl, almost 2, and her family on a bike ride. Her mother, father and younger brother sustain broken bones and internal injuries. Suspect faces murder charge. Unreal. They guy was running from the scene of a different accident he got into earlier. A toddler was killed and [...]
Ich bin ein Mexican
Next time you hear someone in Arizona bitching about “those damn Mexicans” or whatever other colorful phrase is in vogue, remind them that not more than 160 years ago, all of this was Mexico. They call it the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It was signed on February 2, 1848. The rest of it went to [...]