Tag Archives: tour de france
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Lance Armstrong’s Interview With Oprah Went Pretty Much as Expected (Video)
Last night was part one of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. Of course, you probably didn’t watch it, having lost interest in the spectacle once you heard about that whole “Manti Te’o fake dead girlfriend” scandal over at Notre Dame. So we’ve gone through and selected just the most interesting parts. We’ll start with a [...]
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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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This Day In Sports History (July 25th) — Lance Armstrong
It was on this day in 2004 that Lance Armstrong won his sixth straight Tour de France title. With the win, he became the first rider to ever win six Yellow Jerseys. Riding for the US Postal Service team, Armstrong finished six minutes 19 seconds ahead of Germany’s Andreas Kloden. He would win a personal [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 24th) — Lance Armstrong
It was on this day in 2005 that Lance Armstrong retired from the sport of cycling. He would call it a career after winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France. After leaving the Tour so that he could focus on his fight against cancer, Armstrong returned in 1999 to win his first Tour de France [...]
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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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9 Sports Cheaters Who Said No To Drugs
A lot of people like to talk about how the rampant use of steroids in baseball during the 1990s and early 2000s tarnished records and ruined the sanctity of “America’s pastime.” But of course, the reality is that baseball players—and all athletes, actually—have been cheating since…um, forever. It’s not like Jose Canseco was the first [...]
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Alberto Contador Punched A Fan In The Face Today At The Tour de France (Video)
Alberto Contador has enjoyed a very successful cycling career, wining three Tour de France titles and two Giro d’Italia titles. However, some have questioned the validity of those wins due to doping allegations, which have haunted the Spanish rider on three separate occasions during his career. Although it has never been proven that Contador took [...]
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Laurens Ten Dam Faceplants Off His Bike At The Tour de France (Pic + Video)
Crashes have become a common theme during the 2011 Tour de France. Johnny Hoogerland’s run-in with a barbed wire fence appeared to be the most grueling, until stage 14 on Saturday, which saw Team Rabobank rider Laurens ten Dam veer off the road before flipping over the front of his bike and landing face first [...]
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Picture Of The Day: The Tour de Barbed Wire Fencing
Crashes have headlined this year’s Tour de France, with the worst coming on Sunday as Vacansoleil-DCM rider Johnny Hoogerland was sent crashing into a roadside barbed wire fence by a French television station’s car. Hoogerland lost more than 16 minutes as a result of the crash and required 33 stitched to close up the wounds [...]
