Now, this is our kind of race day: The 15th stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia was held in sporting conditions that prompted organizers to move the finish from the top of Col du Galibier four kilometers lower, to the Marco Pantani memorial. It still made for big fat wet flakes that plastered shades and [...]
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In summer 2011, Zac Davies, at the time a 27-year-old professional road bike racer from Madison, Wisconsin, privateered in Central America instead of racing for his team of record, Fly-V, because his team of record was corrupt and unscrupulous and was in the process of shamefully dissolving, the result of illegal and amoral directorial transgressions. [...]
In the first 13 years of the Iditarod Trail Invitational — a 1,000-mile race on foot, ski, or bike from Knik to Nome, Alaska—no woman had ever completed the race solo on foot. Not until Shawn McTaggart of Anchorage, Alaska, came along. McTaggart recently established the women’s solo record for the grueling race by finishing in [...]
We have been known to poke fun at doping, to be outraged about doping, to be cynically expectant about doping. But the story of Brit Tom Simpson is a reminder that doping on a personal, physical level is a very serious business. Simpson was one of Britain’s most talented mid-century cyclists. In 1956, he took [...]
Oh, cyclocross. You think you have a lock on weird? Think again. The singlespeed worlds are every bit as nonconformist as all those other nonconformist cultural gatherings, only this time they were in South Africa and director James Walsh was there to bring his twisted eye to the event. This short film, called Kunye, is [...]
To win is wonderful, but to win respect is divine. Hero worship is way overrated. But I make an exception with Ted Ligety. When you have the world’s best skier (today, and on many other days) who also runs a successful business, makes fun a priority, takes a stand on issues for the benefit of [...]
On January 28, remarkable photo and video footage appeared that showed 45-year-old Hawaiian Garrett McNamara sliding down a mammoth peak at Nazaré, Portugal. That wave, and the others that crashed into Nazaré that day, was generated by a barocyclonic low that swept across the Atlantic and focused powerful swells into Nazaré’s deep submarine canyon. Within [...]
SNUBBING TREK, AARON GWIN SIGNS WITH SPECIALIZED The most dominant American mountain biker of a generation and back-to-back World Cup overall downhill champion in 2011-12, Aaron Gwin is breaking a “letter of intent” with Trek and has joined Specialized, Trek’s arch rival in the U.S. cycling market. Whether Gwin can legally leave Trek is something [...]
MAVERICKS BIG WAVE COMP IS ON THANKS TO GOPRO The fight over one of the world’s preeminent big wave contest has been a soap opera, but the Mavericks Invitational is back on, after a chase for sponsorship last year fizzled (and shooting the Chasing Mavericks movie made timing more challenging). This year’s comp officially starts [...]
Set your DVR for July 18. That’s the day the 2013 Tour de France could very well be decided, as organizers have added legendary mountain stage Alpe d’Huez to next year’s route — twice. Racers will double back across the monster climb in a 168-kilometer stage expected to attract the tour’s biggest crowds. The route [...]
More than 48,000 photos from 98 countries were submitted to the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition held by the Natural History Museum in London, and the winning entries from amateurs and professionals are incredible, and in some cases downright mesmerizing. “It amazes me to discover new and startling moments that have never [...]
UPDATED The repercussions are still rolling in over the USADAD report outlining how, when, and to what extent Lance Armstrong cheated. Just this morning, we reported that Nike has been accused of paying $500,000 in hush money to UCI chief Hein Verbruggen to cover up a positive blood doping test result for Lance Armstrong, along [...]
If you build something painful, they will come. In the 21st century, it seems the only thing we like better than self-flagellating activities is self-flagellating activities with other folks, competing to see who can, in the words of Dean Karnazes, “survive the fastest.” Fortunately, we have all kinds of outlets when it comes to human-powered [...]
UPDATED, SEE BELOW If Lance Armstrong thought avoiding arbitration with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency would keep its case against him private, he was wrong: The USADA released a 202-page document outlining Armstrong’s alleged cheating, doping, and conspiring, all in order to win the Tour de France. It placed him very much in the center of [...]
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The Daily Bike: Les Granges du Galibier, Giro d’Italia 2013
