Tag Archives: cycling
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French Cyclist Yoann Offredo Crashes Into a Sign During Paris-Roubaix Race (Video)
On Sunday in northern France, pro cyclists competed in the 112th Paris-Roubaix race. This race from the outskirts of Paris to the town of Roubaix, which is near the Belgian border, is one of the so-called “Monuments” of cycling, which are the five oldest and most prestigious one-day races. The particularly interesting thing about the [...]
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Mountain Biker Collides with Antelope in South Africa’s Cape Epic Race (Video)
Don’t you hate it when you’re riding your mountain bike along a dirt path in South Africa and an antelope comes out of nowhere and plows into you? I know I do. And I imagine Austrian cyclist Robert Mennen hates it also. On Monday, during the first stage of South Africa’s Cape Epic race, a [...]
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Before Watching Lance Armstrong’s Confession, Watch this Compilation of All the Times He Denied Doping (Video)
So that big Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah in which he admits to using performance enhancing drugs? Yeah, that’s tonight at 9 p.m. ET on OWN—a.k.a. the Oprah Winfrey Network. Of course, now that this whole Manti Te’o mess has come to light, I’m sure Oprah and her people wish they didn’t wait so long to [...]
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Lance Armstrong’s Confession Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment (Video)
Over the last several years, pretty much every major event in the world of sports has been explained and analyzed in very helpful computer animation form by Next Media Animation. They’ve helped us understand the Penn State sex abuse scandal, the Roger Clemens steroids trial, Linsanity, and even the Boston Red Sox’s epic 2011 late-season [...]
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Lance Armstrong Admits PED Use To Oprah
Apparently Lance Armstrong finally saw the writing on the wall: everyone knows he used performance enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles. Time to stop lying through his teeth and ask for forgiveness. So where does one go in this day and age to ask for such forgiveness? To a church confessional? [...]
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Lance Armstrong Tweeted a Big “F You” to His Critics Over The Weekend
Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping by practically every teammate he had during his unprecedented run of seven straight Tour de France titles. And of course, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has concluded that he doped, and that he bullied his teammates into doping. So they recommended that the International Cycling Union strip him [...]
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Lance Armstrong To Be Stripped Of His 7 Tour De France Titles For Doping
So did Lance Armstrong have to cheat to win all those Tour de France titles? Probably, yes. Though he’s been the subject of speculation and accusation for years, most of those claims seemed to come from angry Frenchman and jealous teammates. However, recently Armstrong has been the subject of a major investigation by the United [...]
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Olympics BMX Crash Wipes Out The Competition (Video)
New Zealand BMX racer Marc Willers will probably never win an easier race in his life. During the opening quarterfinal run in the third heat of yesterday’s men’s cycling BMX race, Willers took a lead heading into the second-last turn of the race, and that small lead payed incredibly large dividends, as he was able [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 23rd) – Floyd Landis
It was on this day in 2006 that the final stage for the Tour de France took place. Floyd Landis was initially declared the winner, but after a failed drug test, he was stripped of the yellow jersey. Oscar Pereiro of Spain was named the 2006 Tour de France champion, as he finished second to [...]
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9 Tragic Tour de France Deaths
Cycling is not a particularly popular pro sport here in North America. Outside the Tour de France, the sport isn’t followed very closely by the media or fans, and even then the only names we know are the guys who win or get caught doping. Hell, not even Lance Armstrong and his 7 consecutive Tour [...]
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Peter Sagan Wins Stage Three Of Tour de France, Does A Forrest Gump Impersonation (Video)
Run Sagan Run!!! Anyone who watched the movie “Forrest Gump” witnessed Forrest’s journey through life as he became a part of several historical events, from the Nixon Watergate Scandal, to the Vietnam War. One place where you wouldn’t have seen Forrest , however, was at the Tour de France… …until Tuesday. Forrest made a surprise [...]
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12 Cyclists to Watch at the 2012 Tour de France
The 2012 Tour de France got underway over the weekend and will culminate four weeks from now, on July 22, when the world’s greatest endurance athletes take one final ride through the streets of Paris. This year, with a number of big-name cyclists sitting this one out thanks to injuries— no Alberto Contador, no Andy [...]
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15 Biggest Doping Scandals In Cycling History
With this being the heart of the cycling season—we’re in between the Giro d’Italia and the Tour France—and with everyone’s favorite one-testicled bracelet salesman (Lance Armstrong) making headlines in sports pages again, I thought this would be the perfect time to do a list of cycling’s biggest doping scandals. But here’s the thing. It turns [...]
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Avis Sondages – Sondages Remuneres
<a href="http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-content/ Avis Sondages – Sondages Remuneres uploads/2012/04/cycling-crash.jpg”>The Rock Lititz Tour doesn’t receive the same level of exposure as the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia or some of cycling’s other elite races, but it could see a giant influx in attention over the next couple of days following this epic crash during the event’s [...]
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9 Sexiest Female Pro Cyclists
I’m not really sure what gave me the idea to do a list of the hottest female pro cyclists out there. Maybe it’s just because hottest female anything always goes over well. Maybe it was something I saw on TV. Or maybe I saw a hot girl riding a bike on my way to work [...]
