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One in ten: The story of a Giro d’Italia breakaway
Bingen Fernandez’s radio calls are more urgent now. His driving is sharper. The 43-year-old Cannondale director sportif has his left hand on the top of the steering wheel, his right wrapped around the...
View ArticleWinds tamper down aggression as Etna looms
TORTOLI, Italy (VN) — Buffeting headwinds and a growing anxiety about the smoldering steeps of Mount Etna tamped down Saturday’s potentially explosive second stage at the Giro d’Italia. The rollicking...
View ArticleGiro flexes organizational muscle with Sardinian start
CAGLIARI, Italy (VN) — Mauro Vegni looks over the Sardinian shore and blue see beyond and laughs. The Giro d’Italia is jumping a logistical hurdle with start in Sardinia and transfer to Sicily. The...
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Ellen Noble is not the next Katie Compton
“Are you the next Katie Compton?” It’s an asinine question, really. But just because the question is asinine doesn’t mean the answer will be. “What is that, though? What does that mean?” Ellen Noble...
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Our five favorite women’s cycling stories
International Women’s Day, March 8, got us thinking of our favorite stories about female cyclists from the past year (or so). In no particular order, here are five great reads that are worth...
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The Shot: Climbing a volcano to capture the Giro
2017 100th Giro d’Italia: Stage 4 For the Centennial Giro d’Italia, the race started on the island of Sardinia before hopping to Sicily. Since it was a landmark edition, every stage appeared to be...
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The Shot: The art of the scrum
2017 Giro d’Italia: Stage 17, Tirano-Canazei 219km — The art of the scrum In a typical grand tour, you have 21 race days to get it right. And you have 21 race days to get it wrong. The riders have good...
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The Shot: Dumoulin’s delight at the Duomo
2017 100th edition Giro, stage 21, 29.3km time trial The 100th Giro d’Italia finale was an individual time trial starting on the auto racing track in Monza. It navigated Milan’s outer environs, before...
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The cycling world remembers Sean Weide
Sean Weide worked off-camera, behind the scenes, writing without a byline. You may not know his name. Yet he was key to the telling of cycling’s great stories, more so than most cycling fans will ever...
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Tom Boonen’s fairytale
Tommeke entered his final week as a professional cyclist with seismic pressure on his shoulders. There would be no final victory, yet Boonen will forever be a cycling champion who transcended his...
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How the Tour’s leader gets a yellow bike (or not)
AFTER SYLVAIN CHAVANEL WON stage 3 of the 2010 Tour de France and took over the race’s maillot jaune, his Quick-Step team placed a call to its bike sponsor, Eddy Merckx Cycles. Team officials asked...
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The Shot: Tour de France goes Formula 1
Tour de France, stage 3, Verviers – Longwy, 212.5km The morning of stage 3 started off like any other — a hurried discussion in the car on the way to the start about what kind of stage it was, what...
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Will ‘Rigo’ win South America’s first yellow jersey?
A rowdy band of Colombian journalists pressed in around the Cannondale-Drapac team bus after another stinking-hot, nail-biter of a stage. A forest of radio antennae, microphones, iPhones, and TV...
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The Shot: Racing up the Tour’s lonely Mur de Péguère
2017 Tour de France, stage 13 Saint Girons – Foix, 101km: Bastille Day on the Mur de Péguère I can’t count how many times we have been on the race course along a mountain ridge and said, “Wouldn’t this...
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The Shot: Time to focus
2017 Vuelta a España: Time trials With the rest day behind us and the individual time trial kicking off the last week of the 2017 Vuelta a España, it’s a good time for “The Shot” to reflect on the joys...
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The Shot: Contador’s longest goodbye
2017 Vuelta a España, stage 20 The 2017 Vuelta a España was expected to be epic. The route was brutally mountainous. The climbs were steep. The foreign start in Nîmes was unique, and even the long...
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The Shot: Worlds individual time trial
2017 UCI Road World Championships: Elite men’s time trial The elite men’s time trial at the road world championships is arguably the most important time trial of the year. The winner, of course, gets...
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Rusch rides Ho Chi Minh Trail to find fallen father
Forty-three years after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War, Stephen A. Rusch met his daughter. She came searching and found him beneath a curious-looking tree in a thick Laotian jungle, far...
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Inside Slipstream’s brush with death
THE PHONE CALL CAME IN ON AUGUST 25, early in the morning. Jonathan Vaughters picked it up, listened for a few minutes, and was sure his team was dead. Vaughters and Slipstream Sports, the management...
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Travel: Taiwan KOM Challenge
THE PERSISTENCE OF THE EFFORT is what gets to you. The repetition, too. Pedal strokes on pedal strokes, meter after meter, without a moment to let off. The pressure in your legs inflates like a...
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