Taylor Phinney was once the future of American bike racing. Now that he’s out of the sport, he could well be pointing to what the future of elite bike racing could be. Hint: it includes […]
It was announced today that Lance Armstrong settled the federal fraud case that arose out of Floyd Landis’ whistleblower lawsuit back in 2010. Armstrong has agreed to pay $5 million. Landis gets $1 million of […]
Gianni Bugno is joining up with the Change Cycling Now committee in his role as the president of the Association of Professional Cyclists. Part of his day job is flying helicopters. His thoughts should be […]
Paul Kimmage spoke at New York City’s Bicycle Habitat last night. The subject was doping. It was filmed by a documentary crew, other journos were taking notes as well, so when that comes up, I’ll […]
For all the criticism that has been heaped on Travis Tygart for being tough, the guy has a tremendous soft side. Levi Leipheimer, of all people, brought it out in him. Leipheimer, who seems to […]
It has to be one of the oldest excuses in the book of severing work relationships. It means “we’re not going to talk about it,” but since the excuse was played out when John Mitchell […]
As of this moment, Amaury Sport Organization, parent company of the Tour de France, has scrubbed the years 1999-2005 from their “history” pages of the Tour de France. I guess it’s the easiest course of […]
Just about every weird-seeming theory floated by friends and acquaintances in reference to Lance Armstrong and doping in Euro’ bike racing have been proven true. Two have yet to make the jump from being nuts […]
Mea culpa. I was certainly trying to capitalize on Lance Armstrong’s popularity when I pitched a book idea on the Tour de France to major publishers in the early aughts. I wanted to do a […]
(this story originally appeared on Red Kite Prayer on September 27, 2011. As RKP appears to be shutting down, I’m re-posting the article in this space. For reasons unknown, this past Sunday, The New York […]
