JULY 25 - It was the day that everyone knew was coming for some time now. But the sight of American Lance Armstrong finally standing atop the podium as the first rider to win the Tour de France six times, gave everyone a chance to take in the history that he had now made real.
Obviously, one of the first t...
JULY 24 - Victory for Lance Armstrong in Saturday's stage 19 time trial at Besançon was a fait accompli. So much so, that at his press conference afterward, the man behind what has been dubbed by at least one media outlet as the “Texas Chainring Massacre” was not asked one question about his terrific r...
JULY 24 - Saturday night. The mini-bar is out of beer, I'm hungry, kinda buzzed and ready to go home.
Lance smashed everyone today. Jeez, men and boys … well, a few big boys and then the rest of us pre-pubescent kids.
Impressive. First the Postal team. The dogs were all let out of their respect...
JULY 23 - Dear Lennard,
Here’s a question. There was some hype about Lance’s specially
developed skinsuit (Project 1 as seen on OLN) with wind tunnel testing
and so forth. Special light jerseys for climbing and so on.
How does that factor in when he’s in the yellow jersey? Does Nike
have to submit s...
JULY 25 - Lance Armstrong never stops learning, and the 2003 Tour de France taught him what it’s like to struggle. He’d battled back from cancer and adversity before, but hadn’t struggled like that during any of his four prior Tour wins.
Last year, Armstrong never really had full control of the race, was ...
JULY 16 - Photographer Casey Gibson was one of our eyes in the sky as the Tour de France raced toward its first mountaintop finish. Here's a sampling of what he saw.
JULY 04 - Danilo Di Luca has won the Trofeo Matteotti race in central Italy on Sunday, beating Oskar Camenzind and Paolo Bossoni.
It was personal revenge for Di Luca back in Italy after his undeserved exclusion from the Tour de France and after just missing out in the Italian national championships.
Th...
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