Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd
2009 Tour will reward consistency, team strengthWhat’s most clear from Wednesday’s announcement of the 2009 Tour de France is that the winner will have to maintain top form from the very first day in Monaco on July 4 to the finish in Paris on July 26.
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd
New ASO boss to unveil ’09 Tour routeDuring last week’s press conference at Interbike in Las Vegas, in revealing details of his comeback to racing, Lance Armstrong blurted out that he was “looking forward to the Mont Ventoux” stage in the 2009 Tour de France.
Posted: Sat, Sep 27th
The Bettini, Freire show on Sunday?If cycling team coaches were like their brethren in American football they would be studying tapes of all the races that have been held on the 17.35km Varese road race circuit this year. What they would find is a pattern that has flowed through the world under-23 men’s and ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 27th
Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson - The audacity of Lance, Part IIIAfter writing two columns about Lance Armstrong’s decision to return to elite-level racing — first looking at questions about his age and long lay-off, and last week examining his
Posted: Thu, Sep 25th
John Wilcockson previews this weekend's world road race championshipsWhen the world road championships last came to Varese, Italy, in 1951, an estimated 1.5 million fans thronged the hilly course north of the city and Swiss rider Ferdi Kubler pulled off a stunning victory. The tifosi came to see their national heroes Fausto Coppi and Gino ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23rd
Previewing the world TT championshipsWith Olympic gold medalist Fabian Cancellara deciding not to defend the world titles he won in Stuttgart and Salzburg, and with the other 2007 TT champs Hanka Kupfernagel and Lars Boom also DNS, this week’s UCI world time trial championships in Varese, Italy, will see the ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 20th
Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson - The audacity of Lance, Part IIIn my last “Inside Cycling” column about Lance Armstrong’s proposed comeback, I showed that his age (37 this past Thursday) and his three years away from the sport need not be a handicap. Then I posed the question: “Will ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12th
The audacity of Lance, Part 1Whatever the reasons for Lance Armstrong deciding to make a comeback to the Tour de France after a three-year absence — whether to raise awareness of a worldwide cancer initiative, to lay to rest the decade-old doping accusations that still hound him or simply for the heck of ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14th
Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson - The pros finally embrace Olympic cyclingWorld Anti Doping Agency president John Fahey said earlier this week that the Olympic movement should consider banishing cycling and weight lifting from the Games because they are sports that have doping problems. UCI president Pat McQuaid immediately shot back that no other ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 1st
Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - Reflections on a break-through TourShortly after the official result sheet of last Saturday’s Tour de France time trial was dropped on my table at the pressroom in St. Amand-Montrond, I made an interesting discovery. All but one of the riders who had just taken the top 15 places in the challenging 53km test ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26th
Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - It all comes down to thisSaturday dawned cool and cloudy in Cérilly, central France, where the podium of the 95th Tour de France is being decided in a 53km time trial. Favorite to come out on top is Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto), who rode the course a few months ago. He says the hills on the zigzagging ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25th
Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - Sastre vs. Evans showdown the talk of the TourThe upcoming time-trial battle between Carlos Sastre and Cadel Evans that will decide this 95th Tour de France is the talk of the race — much more than Thursday’s excellent stage victory for Columbia’s Marcus Burghardt in St. Étienne or Friday’s likely bunch finish in ...
