Category: 2004 Tour de France
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Lance Armstrong Announces His Retirement
Reading Time: < 1 minute Saying that he’s “100 percent committed to retiring” after 14 years of pro cycling, Lance Armstrong announced that he will retire on July 24, at the conclusion of the 2005 Tour de France. He said that his children are the motivating factor and he has gotten a lot of advice…
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“Doping to Win” Discusses Recent Doping Cases and USADA
Reading Time: 3 minutes This morning, I watched an interesting new documentary called Doping to Win on the Discovery Times Channel. The documentary debuted on August 10 and I recorded it on my TiVo. This was an interesting program, explaining who the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is and how they operate. It tells the…
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Picked Up a “Jaune, Tete de Course” T-Shirt at Niketown in New York
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was in New York City yesterday for some meetings. After they were over, I swung by Niketown on East 57th Street to look for Tour de France-related souvenirs. This is always a good place to find fairly unique T-shirts and hats that people in the suburbs rarely get a…
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“The Lance Chronicles” Finale: Good Summary, But Disappointing to Regular Viewers
Reading Time: < 1 minute I tuned into the two hour finale of The Lance Chronicles last night on the Outdoor Life Network and I have to admit that I was disappointed. This was a very good condensation of the entire series for people who had not followed it from the beginning, but a problematic…
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What Kind of Training is Required to Succeed in L’Etape de Tour?
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the questions that I am most disappointed that I was not able to ask Chris Carmichael when Kathleen and I met him in Freehold on Saturday is, what kind of training effort would be required in order to successfully complete L’Etape de Tour? For those of you who have…
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Sixth Tour de France Victory by Lance Armstrong Speaks for Itself
Reading Time: 2 minutes I feel that an article summarizing Lance Armstrong’s victory in the 2004 Tour de France is overdue on Operation Gadget. My explanation for not publishing it sooner is as follows: Armstrong’s victory became so decisive as the Pyrenees gave way to the Alps that I felt like I was repeating myself.…
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Alex Trautwig, Son of OLN Commentator, Captures Key Tour Moments
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alex Trautwig, son of Outdoor Life Network anchor Al Trautwig, had a front row seat at many of the critical stage finishes of the 2004 Tour de France. Alex published a number of extremely well-composed, high resolution digital photos of the Tour de France Heads of State on the Carmichael…
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Armstrong is Right: Time Trial to Alpe d’Huez Was Too Dangerous
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday, Lance Armstrong again demonstrated his mastery of the competition in the 2004 Tour de France by winning the Stage 16 mountain time trial to Alpe d’Huez. It was not surprising that Armstrong considered the stage dangerous because of the sheer number of fans on the sections of the course that…
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Watching the Tour de France at Alpe d’Huez
Reading Time: 3 minutes On July 17, 2001, my wife and I saw Stage 10 of the Tour de France from a vantage point on the lower slope of Alpe d’Huez. We drove to Bourg d’Oisans, the nearest town to Alpe d’Huez, from our hotel in Voreppe which is just north of Grenoble. We got…