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We bolted from the campground without breakfast, and coasted all the way down to the town of Vesuvius. For westbound riders, this is one of the hardest climbs on the TransAmerica Route.
The guidebook says 200 people live here, but we didn’t see a soul. Vesuvius is bisected by the Norfolk Western RR, and it looks like both halves were …
Norwegian cyclist Kurt-Asle Arvesen slipped past Italian Paolo Bettini in front of a 21-man breakaway to win Stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.
Discovery Channel’s George Hincapie found himself in the break that escaped from the peloton in the Apennines early in the day. Although he and teammate Jose Luis Rubiera couldn’t turn that good luck into a …
Floyd Landis finally got to the witness stand on Saturday to testify — I assume to no one’s surprise — that he did not take performance-enhancing agents to win the 2006 Tour de France.
The surprise is that Landis was present, but unaware, when his business manager made that infamous call to Greg LeMond threatening to make public the story that LeMond had been sexually abused as a child.
Apparently they were sitting apart at dinner on Wednesday night, and Landis saw Will Geoghegan make a short phone call. Soon thereafter he got a call back but didn’t answer it. Later, Geoghegan appears shaken up and tells Landis what he did. …
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