Kill your parents; then bawl you’re an orphan

OK, let’s get this straight as reported in Velonews. T-Mobile fields a top tier cycling team for about $12 million (a mentioned figure of the cost for a top tier team, I don’t know the real numbers). They also dump $1 million Euros into sponsoring the Tour de France within Germany.
Now, because of the [...]

Cultural Phenomenon in Progress

There are thousands and thousand of posts, phone calls and whatnot going up everywhere over this Paris Hilton release.
Forget about Paris for a second, observe the cultural phenomenon of a commonly incensed group of people. There is going to be rioting and/or some sort of hell to pay over this decision. People are mad as [...]

Shambles

Professional cycling continues its long, long decline into a powder that doesn’t even contain alcohol.
Reported today in Velonew, Cycling News, Eurosport (essentially the same article) an extensive Belgian raid was conducted on Quickstep. You know, the team that has the current and [penultimate SIC says Zoe] 2005 world champions. According to reports doping products were [...]

“I am not God.” ~The “Z” Particle

“I’m not God,” Zabriskie said at the start of the final stage in Vestone.
David, David, David …. of course you’re not God …. anybody can see your stem is too high.
Classic Case of a Too High Stem

Big News

The UCI is seriously thinking about an amnesty program to send daggers into the black heart of omerta.
Here is a Link.
The substance:
The International Cycling Union is considering an amnesty for riders who admit to doping, hoping to encourage more confessions in an effort to clean up the sport.
Despite a string of recent confessions from prominent [...]

Two Things That Are Intertwined

The key stage that mostly decided the Giro was wednesday’s climb of the Zolcan. What an excellent time to test the riders. So they actually did.
First we have this Link, in which the Italian Olympic Committee focuses not on “any” rider, but the premier riders; Danilo Di Luca, Eddy Mazzoleni, Riccardo Ricco and Gilberto Simoni.
Now [...]

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