Posted: Fri, Jul 4th
A Tour with many questions, but few answersWhen Lance Armstrong was winning the Tour every year, the only real question before the race was not “Who will win?” but “Can anyone get close to him?” Now, after two totally unpredictable Tours, both of them ruined by doping controversies, it looks like we’re about to ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 4th
Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson - Kashechkin's year in limbo - Part 2Editor’s Note: After team leader Alexander Vinokourov tested positive for homologous blood doping during last year’s Tour de France, the entire Astana team left the race under a cloud. Vinokourov’s top lieutenant Andrey Kashechkin tried to relax by spending time ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 3rd
Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson - Kashechkin's year in limboEditor’s Note: After team leader Alexander Vinokourov tested positive for homologous blood doping during last year’s Tour de France, the entire Astana team left the race under a cloud. Vinokourov’s top lieutenant Andrey Kashechkin tried to relax by spending time ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 2nd
The race for the green jerseyThe positive out-of-competition test for cocaine that put defending points champion Tom Boonen out of the Tour de France, and the absence of the top Italian sprinters Alessandro Petacchi and Daniele Bennati, has opened up ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19th
Inside Cycling: Will pro cycling split into two leagues?While High Road Sports boss Bob Stapleton was excited earlier this week to announce that Columbia Sportswear has signed on as the new title sponsor of his UCI ProTour team, the California team manager also expressed concern over the political environment in which the top ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th
A revealing interview with UCI president Pat McQuaid Just when it looked as though healing was coming to the scarred relationship between the grand tour organizers and the Union Cycliste Internationale, the wounds just opened again. After the recent Giro d’Italia and April’s Paris-Roubaix were successfully run under UCI ...
Posted: Fri, May 30th
Hampsten and the 1988 Pink Jersey: Part 4Andy Hampsten and his 7-Eleven-Hoonved team appeared to have everything under control before the 1988 Giro d’Italia’s final stage, a long time trial on a rolling circuit at Vittorio Veneto. The American climber, 26, enjoyed a spaghetti lunch after a short morning stage and ...
Posted: Wed, May 28th
Inside Cycling: Andy Hampsten and the 1988 pink jersey, part 3If there were any doubts that Andy Hampsten was entitled to the 1988 Giro’s pink jersey, they would be exposed on the crucial stage 18, an individual 18km mountain time trial from Levico Terme up to the ski station of Vetriolo Terme. With Frenchman Jean-François Bernard out ...
Posted: Mon, May 26th
Andy Hampsten and the 1988 Pink Jersey: Part 2When Andy Hampsten survived the snowstorm over the Passo di Gavia at the 1988 Giro d’Italia and took over the maglia rosa (see Hampsten and the 1988 Pink Jersey: Part 1) the battle to become the first ...
Posted: Sat, May 24th
Andy Hampsten and the 1988 Pink Jersey: Part 1How do you define an epic? It’s a noun grossly over-used by sportswriters, particularly those who write about cycling. Through the years, European journalists have described heroic deeds by brave athletes on bicycles with gushing prose that was rarely deserved. They even ...
Posted: Fri, May 16th
Like Savoldelli at this Giro, Astana director Yates still likes going fastIn every generation, it seems, there is someone in the peloton that all the other riders point to when asked: Who’s the fastest descender? Who’s the man who can race down mountain roads seemingly effortlessly and leave the rest behind?
Posted: Tue, May 13th
Celebrating with Lance“Ten laps to go,” Lance Armstrong joked as he led off a string of two dozen invited guests on a ride around the 5-mile mountain-bike loop that circles his 444-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country.
It was Mother’s Day morning, and the seven-time Tour de France champion ...
