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// October 31st, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, Video
This is interesting piece that aired during the 1994 Tour de France, when American Lance Armstrong really wasn’t known in America.
It took a lot of interviewing of Texas’ locals before someone correctly identified the young cyclist as a young cyclist.
Look at how young Lance was BTW.
// May 20th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Hamilton says he saw Armstrong use EPO
Then the Armstrong camp retort:
// July 12th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
The Versus Tour de France commentary was sprinkled over and over with the fact that Sunday’s stage 8 — the first with any sizable climbing would not necessarily win the 2010 Tour for any rider, but it certainly could lose it for any given rider. I just would have never thought it was Lance Armstrong.
I didn’t get to see the entire stage yesterday, but it sounds like after being tangled up in three crashes on the first stage (and narrowly missing one just a few km into the beginning of the stage) in the Alps, Armstrong was a beaten man. In a way, it is sort of refreshing. Despite the fact that the guy possesses physical traits to make him the perfect candidate for a professional cycling career (which he’s shown 7 times over), such as lungs that are more efficient at higher altitudes and a body that processes lactic acid with ease, he’s still human. Like every other human being, age and life take its toll on the body, mind and soul.
While I, like so many else out there were really really pulling for the guy to have an epic battle with former teammate Alberto Contador, but looks like it’s time to focus on a much younger rider to do battle for the rest of the tour — Mr. Andy Schleck of Team Saxo Bank. Regardless, hope Armstrong is able to complete and enjoy the rest of the Tour, including a few stage wins.
// May 27th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
I didn’t even think about the repercussions of Lance crashing out around the midway point of the 2010 Amegen Tour of California. No one was expecting him to complete the Tour of California victorious, but for him, it was a big training tool for the 2010 Tour de France — nothing trains you for the next race like the current. Bicycling.com points out that Lance missed out on a few big stages of climbing that would help him in his conditioning. If anyone can fasttrack the training (without the over-training), it’s super human Lance Armstrong. But, even Lance isn’t impervious to aging. We shall see in July how he fares.
// March 23rd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Cycling
After Tony Kornheiser’s whole tirade about running cyclists off the road deal last week, Lance Armstrong appeared on Kornheiser’s radio show late last week. It’s nice to have such a well-spoken cycling advocate in Lance Armstrong.
// August 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
It’d be great to see another pro cycling stage race happening in the United States in 2011 as a and Lance Armstrong is the right guy to get some of these races to happen. For me personally, it be even better if races like this would help show promotors cycling has a growing domestic fan base and the something closer to home would pop back up (read: Tour of Georgia).
It looks like Lance is also on the fence for the 2010 Tour of California (at its later date for the first time) or the Giro d’Italia. I’d put my money on Armstrong going for the domestic race, especially with Radio Shack as his 2010 sponsor. Hmm, maybe I can convince Amanda for a 2010 California trip.
// August 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
Here’s a twitter-like post tonight before crashing for the evening. (Up early for the 2009 Tri-Cyclists Criterium)
Congrats to Lance Armstrong winning the 2009 Leadville 100 — a record winning time on a flat rear tire!
// July 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
So I’ll be behind any Lance Armstrong / Johan Bruyneel professional squad, but Radio Shack as the main sponsor? Really? I really hope this turns out to be false. They should go the Columbia HTC route and get backed by Nike and Apple. But that’s just my wishful thinking.
Regardless, it’s great to see another American team possibly in the pro peloton and while Radio Shack isn’t a company I frequent or like at all, it’s great to have a big American company back a pro team. I’ll be interested to see who else sponsors the team. I think it’s a given that Nike, Trek and Livestrong will be in the mix.
Whatever the mix of sponsors ends up (please not Radio Shack!), the Keefer family will be pulling for them in 2010 and beyond!
// July 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
Man, what a surprisingly interesting (and windy) third day of the Tour de France this morning! Columbia HTC’s whole-team break was quite the site. It was also immediately apparent of the combination of good fortune and good positioning that Lance Armstrong and a fellow Astana teammate were able to go with the Columbia squad in the windy late race breakaway.
Three stages in and some Americans are already making things interesting, including two great Tour veterans in George Hincapie and Lance Armstrong. Can’t wait for the team time trial in the am. I’ll be streaming that whole stage, just like I did this morning.
// June 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Cycling, Sports Stuff
Man, it almost seems like things would have gone better, or at least gotten that much more interesting for the team and the pro peloton had Astana’s Kazakh sponsors not come through with their financial backing in the eleventh hour.
Instead of the Astana squad, we would have seen team Livestrong-Nike in the 2009 Tour de France, with 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, Benjamin Noval, Sergio Paulinho, and Contador’s preferred mechanic and soigneur from Astana all moving to Garmin-Slipstream had Astana defaulted on their contractual obligations.
Will/has all this been distracting for the Astana squad, not to mention the number of high-level riders on the squad. It should be an interesting Tour de France this year!
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