Last week I posted an article on this blog about the problems that Astana Team was facing. In case you have just arrived from a 3-month long trip to Mars, Astana had 5 riders returning positive tests. Valentin and Maxim Iglinsky, Ilya Davidenok, Victor Okishev and Artur Fedosseyev. Alexandr Vinokourov suspended the Astana Continetnal Team…
I like cycling. No, I love cycling. I spent five years of my life doing cycling as a teenager back home. I did the Nationals, I did track, I did cyclo-cross, time-trial, I did everything. Those days, in that age, in Greece, we were doing everything. I even did a triathlon, once. So, if you haven’t…
On Monday, the Rouleur came through the post. Nothing unusual, there. I remembered that I was looking forward to it, but I couldn’t remember why. So, I took it out of its wrapping (if you don’t know the subscriber’s edition of the Rouleur magazine comes in a non-transparent nylon wrapping) and the first thing I…
I am watching the Tour of Flanders as I type this post and I can see that things don’t seem to be going well for Trek Factory Racing team. First Stijn Devolder, Gregory Rast and Yaroslav Popovych crash. Then, Devolder crashes again and we hear that Popo is out. Then Gregory Rast is out, too….