Pro Tour/ Euro/Whatever road thread

the only bit of it I saw was the last 10k or so of the women's race and it was awesome. I really good tactical battle with an excellent result at the end of it.

She's a total freak

she is a pro cyclist so of course she is a freak, it is in the job description.

Armstrong looks fit

http://i35.tinypic.com/dwe7fc.jpg

Schumacher pops. Like, one of the least surprising positives of the year.

Piepoli was pretty much a given as well.

Is Frank Schleck going to be next?

i already had piepoli as positive

lol

I didn't pick Schleck to be positive

O_o

Drug Testing Laws bent to allow for Armstrong's Return:

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=3632327&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

I didn't pick Schleck to be positive

well, not that particular schleck.

when they stopped schleck pere in july i figured that there had been a tip-off from the vampires regarding abnormal values of some kind.

of course no schleck has tested positive yet anyway. unless im behind in the news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7668224.stm

Now Old King (of the Mountains) Kohl has been caught too.

wheeeeeee! lets kick cycling out of the olympics.

yeah that tt LOHL pulled was ridiculous in retrospect.

US National Team member Taylor Phinney shattered the American national record in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit on Friday at the UCI Track World Cup in Denmark. Phinney, clocked a time of 4:15.223 in the qualifying round, surpassing the previous mark of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996.

Currently, the Olympic record stands at 4:15.031, set by Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins last year in Beijing, while the world record is 4:11.114 – a mark set by Great Britain's Chris Boardman in 1996 using an aerodynamic position now banned by the UCI.

how good will he be

A year ago, the kid didn't know the individual pursuit from Trivial Pursuit. But Connie explained it to him -- she's a former world champion in the discipline -- and he decided to give it a whirl. He won the U.S. national championship. In his first race. His fourth race was a World Cup event in Carson, Calif. He won. He qualified for the Olympics, then set a junior world record in the 3,000-meter pursuit.

^^^^^^ O_O

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/02/019590.html

lance's TT bike got stolen:

http://twitpic.com/1i8t1

http://www.velonews.com/article/87850/lance-armstrong-trek-staffers-report-that-astana-time-trial

looked pretty grim out there today

some more cool photos: http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/02/019642.html

^^^

HI IT'S ME LEVI... LATER BRO!

Kimmage vs Lance

cav again, apparently!

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/tourracesm/tourrace16.jpg

15 mile TT today through Solvang which is like this "Little Copenhagen" of the Central Coast of California.

basso = out (knee into bar)
lance is ready to go atm

http://blog.trainingpeaks.com/2009/02/

Aw no, poor Dave (from Twitter):

dzabriskie My house was broken into while at TOC. They took everything, a lot of bikes,cars, and you name it they got it.

dzabriskie If anyone out there sees anything you think might be mine, let me know. Thanks...DZ

http://www.velonews.com/article/89159/vande-velde-wins-stage-4-chavanel-retains-overall-lead

well its the first week of march, but thats a beautiful win

any win where you are alone in the picture is beautiful

It was fantastic following that stage live on cyclingnews.com! And since I follow VDV's Twitter too it felt like a friend was winning :)

ive been waiting for a win from farrar like forever. a guy i knew who raced with farrar coming up always said he was the best he ever saw. for whatever thats worth.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/mar09/tirreno09/index.php?id=/photos/2009/mar09/tirreno09/tirreno093/PIC10831673

hah *corna*

http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube/?title=ta-09-st3-last-km&id=NYZ15iIdnKM

that scream after the finish is great.

A double whammy from Eurosports: Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico. Contador was amazingly destroyed today on the final climb - dropped from the break and then caught and dropped by the bunch.

;_; (that this yank has no eurosport)

good on Contador for attacking on the last stage. he must have been ruined.

http://www.steephill.tv/2009/tirreno-adriatico/photos/stage-07/315-PIC11468696.jpg

revenge.

Cavendish has won the Milan-San Remo!

That was so exciting. I didn't think he'd have a chance. I started watching it live on Eurosport as they approached the Cipressa and was surprised to find he was still there. Then it all got a bit split up and he was still in the front bunch of about 60 with Hincapie for company. Then it stayed together on the Poggio despite a couple of little digs and he was nicely placed in about 10th spot as they came into the town. Haussler shot off the front in the sprint and looked to have it sewn up but Cavendish put in a phenomenal burst and took him right on the line (both well clear of the pack). I was jumping up and down shouting 'yes!', while the idiot Eurosport commentators were calling it for Haussler (even though Cavendish was celebrating and Haussler was lying abject on the ground).

"haaaaaaaahhhh fotofinish.....fotofinish!" loooooooooooolz

http://images.gazzetta.it/Media/Foto/2009/03/21/100-Milano-Sanremo-arrivo--346x212.jpg

Is it just me, or does Haussler appear to be twice the size of Cavendish in this photo?

"Kohl also admitted to having been a customer of Humanplasma, a Vienna blood bank."

wasnt humanplasma was a band on those 1981 comps?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/apr09/apr01news2

http://www.humanplasma.at/