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The politics of the personalPeriodically, one hears the refrain that sports and politics should be kept separate. Such calls are often made when the participation in or holding of certain sporting events is controversial – not for sporting but for political reasons. One might fairly trace this debate in modern times back to the 1936 Olympics to be held [...]
The art of travel
Thunderstorms. Great banks of rain-heavy clouds rolling in over the hills and through the valleys in the early evening. Erasing the blue skies and the heat of the afternoon. A welcome reprieve; crackling lightning; echoing thunder. Tired legs from a morning ride, resting up as the weather unfolds. Like clockwork. Right on time. Memories. Gasping [...]
Le parcours de Virenque
Vancouver’s inaugural gran fondo promises to be an, er, epic affair with 4,000 riders and a suitably challenging course that features 2,400 metres of climbing (although this is not immediately apparent from the route map) over 120 kilometres. One concern, however, is whether this route is actually hard enough. For the last four years here, [...]
Chapeau! Charteau
“Je ne prétends pas être le meilleur grimpeur du monde, mais je peux me considérer comme tel sur ce Tour.” – Andy Schleck (L’Equipe) Lucien Van Impe won the mountains classification, le maillot à pois rouge, six times at the Tour de France (and the Tour itself in 1976), equalling the record set by Federico [...]
Assassins!
As we all know, the 2010 Tour de France will pay homage to the mountains, following their introduction into the Tour route – and Tour lore – one-hundred years ago in 1910. Indeed, the Tourmalet will feature on two stages: 16 and 17 (split by a rest day), July 20 and 22 respectively. Stage 16 [...]
Bikes, books, and?
Having just watched the highlights of Ivan Basso’s win on the Zoncolan at the Giro on Gazetta TV, eschewing the early start that full coverage of the stage would have required, it is hard to remember a time when pro cycling coverage was not immediately accessible in all its live action, full-colour glory. The expectations [...]
La grande porte
It was Roger Legeay, Greg LeMond’s directeur sportif who made the comment to journalist Sam Abt: “What we really want for Greg is for him to leave cycling.. like the great champion his is, with some good victories. We want him to leave by la grande porte.” Yes, what all cyclists presumably dream of, to [...]
Défaillance, part 4: the final chapter
Thus a day in the life of Gregory James LeMond. He’s 23 and the reigning world pro champion, the toast of the Continent, where bike racers are a form of royalty. And, of all things, he’s an American. No, no, more than that: the quintessential American, a true Innocent Abroad, open-faced and still full of [...]
The grimpeur in decline?
A recent debate hosted by Cosmo Catalano on climbers in cycling raised two important questions: firstly, is there such a thing as a pure climber, a grimpeur; secondly, are pure climbers – assuming that there are such riders – becoming rare, due to better training by non-climbers and doping. To address the first question, your [...]
Cooling off with le blaireau
A cold and rainy day in Vancouver might have been a good day for your author to complete his series of posts on Greg LeMond (see part 1, part 2, and part 3) , or to perhaps do some further research on an upcoming feature on the 1983 Tour de France and the arrival of [...]
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