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Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium
[media-credit id=2 align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit]The ninth annual Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium in downtown Charlotte brought out the heavy hitters. The women were racing for 25 miles and for a $25,000 total purse while the men were racing for 50 miles and $75,000. In addition the prime bell was going to clang all night long with cash. On the start line was defending champion Theresa Clif-Ryan but just few feet away in a Stars and Stripes jersey was national road race champion Robin Farina. With the prime bell...
read moreParis-Roubaix scenarios with Levi Leipheimer
With Levi Leiphimer back in the States nursing his injury from his recent accident I interviewed him for Cyclingnews.com. The main focus of the interview was of course his injury, how serious it was and what affect would it have on the season – meaning the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour de France and the Olympics. However, as you talk other topics come up that don’t fit with the article. And sometimes, like in any conversation, you make small talk to broach a subject. With the obligatory Amgen Tour of California question answered I...
read moreIs this the new pro cycling meme?
Remember the Dirk Hofman Motorhome banners we’d see in the final 100 meters of all the classics. So far this year I haven’t seen them. However, this guy seems to have taken his spot. With about 17 kilometers remaining in the Tour of Flanders and then again at the finish this guy was waving his huge “Tornado Tom Frites” banner. You might remember that Boonen also has a training book, which I suspect doesn’t mention frities as part of any training plan. For those who may not know – frites are primary known as...
read moreBelgian spectators at Flanders
Check out the spectator that gets spun around by Sebastian Langeveld. He steps away from the crash like he wasn’t involved. He starts to approach Langeveld, but then turns around and returns to his group. That’s a dick move in my book not to even check how serious Sebastian hurt! According to Cyclingnews Langeveld was going between 70 to 80 kilometers an hour when they collided. The result was a broken collarbone for the GreenEdge rider and I’m guessing a sore calf for the lucky spectator to go along with a lifetime of story...
read moreHappy Flanders Day!
Some holidays we share worldwide – just perhaps not on the same day. Other holidays are exclusive to certain regions. This is why I don’t expect you to know that this is national cleavage day. For others this is the day before arguably the best one-day race of the season – the Tour of Flanders, AKA De Ronde. I won’t go into the controversy of the how the Muur and the Bosberg were eliminated from the course as I’m going to hold judgment until after the race. But wow, it stirred up as much controversy as a magazine sex investigation....
read moreMy Danny Pate interview and fate of the US Pro
I was walking down Main Street from the finish line of the US Pro road race to the post-race press conference. It was 2008 and Tyler Hamilton had just won the national championships in Greenville, South Carolina in a photo finish sprint with Blake Caldwell of Garmin-Chipotle (now Garmin-Barracuda). Teammate of Caldwell, Danny Pate, finished in third. Pate passed me on his bike talking to a fellow racer as he rolled over to the press conference. I don’t remember verbatim what he said but I swear Pate said he wanted to throw his third...
read moreGiordana Velodrome opens
In the planning stages since 2002, the Giordana Velodrome is opening to the public Saturday in Rock Hill, South Carolina at the Riverwalk community. Local attorney Spencer Lueders, the city’s Economic Development Department, and Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates were the driving force behind the velodrome project, which initially was just going to be a track. Instead it became part of a sporting complex – a 250 acre park which will include a cyclo-cross course, mountain bike trails, 1 to 1 1/2 mile road course for criterium...
read moreFrankie returns to the Tour de France
I interviewed Frankie Andreu, director of the Kenda/5 Hour Energy presented by Geargrinder team the other week for CyclingNews. The site wanted an interview about the team, what was going on at the training camp and who were the new guys. There’s some information that I get that just doesn’t make it onto Cyclingnews.com, so I thought I’d post it here. I spoke to Frankie during the camp and as expected he was keeping busy getting the squad organized with the new equipment and the general organization that needs to happen when you get 20...
read moreAsheville wins bid for 2016 national cyclo-cross national championships
USA Cycling officially announced that Asheville, North Carolina submitted the winning bid to host the 2016 national cyclo-cross national championships. The other candidates: Boulder, Colorado and Austin, Texas, were awarded the 2014 and 2015 championships respectively. Due to the high quality of bids, Asheville will be hosting the national championships for just one year instead of two. In a press release USA Cycling’s Managing Director of National Events Micah Rice explained why it was for just one year. “The decision to award...
read moreThe Lance Armstrong decision – a done deal or more to come?
Honestly I can’t say I’m totally surprised that the federal investigation into Lance Armstrong has been dropped. The reason for my lack of surprise? The investigation seemed to be dragging on and on. The burden of proof is much higher in these types of cases and while it was rumored that some of Armstrong’s teammates gave it up apparently there was no concrete evidence. The Boulder Report’s Joe Lindsey reported that Armstrong’s ex-teammate Yaroslav Popyvych just replied “nyet” during his two-hour grand juror testimony. Another...
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