Category: 2006 Tour de France
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Will the Real Floyd Landis Please Stand Up?
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know that I’ve got a lot going on elsewhere in my life if I don’t finish my Tour de France summary article before the G.C. winner is accused of doping and could be stripped of the title. The Floyd Landis Story was great while it lasted. His improbable performance on…
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Wall Street Journal Explains How Americans Came to Dominate The Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today that sums up the impact of American riders on the pro peloton since Greg Lemond. The author, Sam Walker talked to Jonathan Vaughters, Bobby Julich, and Peter Cossins from Procycling.com to get some answers. {Floyd Landis’} miraculous comeback has already revived…
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Landis Rides Away from the Field On the Day After His Disaster
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bob Roll called Stage 17 into Morzine “the most exciting cycling race” he’d ever seen. Who can argue with that? Floyd Landis’ performance today surpassed all of the epic rides I’ve seen in person or on television. The closest thing I can think of to the level of sheer effort…
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Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch.com Video Blogging the Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bambi Francisco, a financial reporter for MarketWatch.com went on a cycling vacation along the route of The Tour de France for the past few weeks, and decided to video blog her trip. She was on a trip organized by Marty Jemison Cycling Tours, which gave her brief access to Team…
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Slate Publishes the Story of a Bay Area Cyclist Who Finished the 2006 L’Etape du Tour
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thanks to my friend Frank Steele at TDFblog.com, I’ve read another account of the experience of riding this year’s L’Etape du Tour that finished at the end of the Road to Nowhere– on Alpe d’Huez. I’ve talked about wanting to participate in L’Etape du Tour previously on Operation Gadget, but…
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Why Floyd Landis May Have Bonked on La Toussuire
Reading Time: 2 minutes ThePaceline.com has what I think is an excellent article from Chris Carmichael offering a possible explanation why Floyd Landis bonked on the lower slopes of La Toussuire at the end of Stage 16 of The Tour de France. Carmichael suggests that the absence of other Team Phonak riders in the lead…
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Is George Hincapie’s Tour de France Performance Being Hampered by Low Body Weight?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I think I was one of the many American viewers of The Tour de France who wondered why George Hincapie lost over 20 minutes to the General Classification leaders in the Pyrenees. I wasn’t convinced that he would be able to stay with Floyd Landis, Denis Menchov, Cadel Evans, and some…
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ThePaceline.com Publishes a Great Interview with Cycling.TV Host
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chris Brewer of ThePaceline.com published a great interview with Anthony McCrossan of Cycling.TV. This is the website that provides streaming video access to many of the smaller road cycling events that don’t make it on to U.S. television. I think it’s great that The Paceline is coming out with articles…
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How Will the European Critics Treat Floyd Landis Now?
Reading Time: < 1 minute When I heard the news about Floyd Landis’ chronic avascular necrosis condition in his right hip, I was shocked. A moment later I thought, “the European nay-sayers claimed that Lance Armstrong had an advantage because he learned how to use EPO in an undetectable manner while he was fighting cancer.…