The outrage over the Academy erupted from the $10,500 per semester (what in the hell is a semester in cycling one might logically ask) participation cost, which gave rise to fears that National Team spots, like Ambassadorships, were for sale.
Read MoreThe World Champion now looked to be coming into form with his second place on Stage One of the Tour de France. He then faded from view. Pedersen looked heavy to me, perhaps one of the many riders who didn’t deal well with the Corona virus restrictions, which obviously handicapped him given the explosive nature of the climbing-heavy Tour.
Read MoreIt was seven days later that the enormous talents of Marc Hirschi were truly unveiled to the media and public, after his 90-kilometer solo raid in the Pyrenees Mountains, where he was caught in the last kilometer and just beaten by the strongest two men in the world, Primoz Roglič and Tadej Pogačar.
Read MoreThe French team was on fire at the Pro Worlds. The Swiss and Danes had controlled the race up until 70-kilometers to go, when two Frenchmen who’d been prominent at the recent Tour de France, the unsung Quentin Pacher and “I’m just a hard-working guy” Nan Peters, hit the front and crushed it up the Cima Gallisterna climb, igniting the race and splitting the field.
Read MoreI’ve got questions about that crash. If it is true, which I can’t seem to find in the rules, that race radios (radio comms between the racers and their director) are banned from the Worlds, then why, in the case of the Time Trial, are car-mounted loud speakers not used to replace the radios?
Read MoreI am so happy to eat my words about Mikel Landa and his Bahrain-McLaren team strategy
Read MoreIt was on that Col du Loz that Richard Carapaz showed just why he is a Grand Tour winner.
Read MoreHis is a modern position, small frame, forward saddle with the long, low stem pushing narrow handlebars out over the front of the bicycle.
Read MoreAlaphilippe was all over the breakaway on Thursday’s Stage 12 into Sarran, attacking left and right, riding the front like a maniac.
Read MoreI don’t know what goes on in the EF1 team car, probably I’m missing something, but they don’t seem to know quite what to do with their talented Native American.
Read MoreIf a Swiss wants to do something good in life, the country will provide plenty of support and structure for success as shown by Marc Hirschi’s path to the top.
Read MoreCaleb Ewan is an acrobatic sprinter who always waits for the very last possible moment to come out of the slipstream of the riders ahead, “off the wheels” as we say in cycling, slipping through holes that no one else can, treating the riders in front as flags in a slalom ski race.
Read MoreBennett’s career has been plagued by insecurity, by a shaky belief in his own abilities. He’s also endured strings of bad luck, from being hit by a car while amateur, to his two failed attempts at the Tour de France.
Read MoreRoglič didn’t win any great races as an amateur, learning the sport inch by painful inch. By 2013 the Radenska club was ready to bring him into their elite squad, but Primoz Roglič had other ideas.
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