Archive for March 2007
Contador in Full Flight
If you’re waiting for the Versus Paris-Nice wrap-up on Cyclysm Sunday, then read no further. I wasn’t attempting to be prophetic when I wrote about Alberto Contador’s excellent early season form a couple of days ago, but he certainly confirmed it today. Being only 6 seconds down on the GC to Davide Rebellin, Contador attacked [...]
Scripted
I couldn’t have penned it better. There I was writing about Alberto Contador and Luis Leon Sanchez in the weekly “On Tap…” post, and one, Contador, makes today’s race, while the other powers home and wins the penultimate stage of Paris-Nice, Sanchez (Photo: Graham Watson). On the other end of the spectrum was the usual [...]
On Tap…
With all the madness, March Madness, occurring around me its easy to forget that Paris-Nice concludes this weekend. The Race to the Sun has always been used to officially kick off the cycling season, and with good reason. Although there are plenty of races on the calendar that precede it, the parcours are indicative of [...]
Shop-Boy
In the past couple of months, Oude Granny has turned into quite the mobile blogging fool, a real roving reporter of the blog-o-sphere. So where am I blogging (reporting) from today? Calvin College. In beautifully, cloudy, Grand Rapids, MI. Ah, who picked this assignment??? Well, I’m here for some real-life business, you know the job [...]
Ain’t That a Peach
In what may go down as one of few cycling grassroots (and I use that term facetiously) efforts, the Tour of Georgia Board of Directors (Georgia Partnership of Economic Development), has decided to run this year’s race despite their inability to secure a main sponsor. Normally, a race that still lacked significant financial backing, a [...]
A Time to Heal?
“What is it in us that seeks the truth?Is it our minds or is it our hearts?” – Jake Brigance – A Time to Kill From my “On Tap” post (a new weekly blog occurence, providing some sort of guide to the weekend), I was in attendance for the March 10th Floyd Fairness Fund fundraiser [...]
An Interview With Jonathan Vaughters
Having had the opportunity to ride with Jonathan Vaughters during the first week of the 2004 Tour de France in Belgium, I’m always interested to hear what he has to say about the sport. Alicia Hopkins of CyclingNews interviewed Vaughters, Team Slipstream’s Director Sportif, about the goals of Team Slipstream both before the Tour of [...]
Millar: I’m a Spokesman
I suppose that if you’ve admitted to doping, taken your two-year ban like a man, then returned to the pro tour with some success, you get to be a spokesman against the practice.At least David Millar thinks so.”Last Thursday and Friday, I was in London for a conference about drugs,” said Millar (photo by Graham [...]
Merckx: Riders Aren’t Criminals
Make sure you read the previous item before you read this one.Belgian cycling great Eddy Merckx says riders should not be treated like criminals in the war against doping.”Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human,” Merckx told French sports daily L’Equipe.The International Cycling [...]
Never Mind
News flash: The judge leading the investigation into a cycling doping ring (Operacion Puerto) has closed the case without making any charges after concluding that no offenses were committed under Spanish law. How do you like them apples, Jan? Ivan? In a ruling released on Monday, judge Antonio Serrano said that doping practices had occurred [...]
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