Saturday Night Specials

by Rant March 21, 2009

Cavendish Takes Sprint at Milan-San Remo Young British sprinting sensation Mark Cavendish took the victory at Milan-San Remo today, barely edging out Germany’s Heinrich Hausler. Thor Hushovd, Hausler’s compatriot on the Cervelo Test Team, took third. Cavendish, who races for the Team Columbia-High Road professional cycling team is only the second Briton to win the […]

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Floyd at the 2010 TdF?

by Rant March 16, 2009

Could Floyd Landis contest the 2010 Tour de France? Up to now, I would not have predicted that this would be in the realm of the possible. But then again, I just saw an article by Larry Fine of Reuters (hat tip to strbuk for pointing it out to me) that quotes Landis as saying […]

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Fit For Purpose? Or Not?

by Rant March 11, 2009

I was gearing up to write a post on the politics site, when I saw this comment by strbuk on a social networking site that I frequent: ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! http://tinyurl.com/amobuh. OK, I thought, what’s up with that? So I clicked the link and it took me to a story on the USA Today web site with […]

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Not So Fast

by Rant March 10, 2009

T.T.T. (a Grook by Piet Hein) Jeg har skrevet et sted, hvor jeg daglig maa se, det manende tankesprog: T.T.T. Naar man foler hvor lidet man nar med sin flid, er det nyttigt at mindes, at Ting Tar Tid Put up in a place where it’s easy to see The cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you […]

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Schumi Out for 2 and Other Stories

by Rant March 6, 2009

A few brief items tonight. One related to Stefan Schumacher and the other two, Paris-Nice. UCI Accepts AFLD’s 2-Year Ban on Stefan Schumacher According to a brief report on the CyclingNews.com web site, the International Cycling Union has accepted the tw0-year ban imposed on German cyclist Stefan Schumacher by France’s national anti-doping agency, AFLD. The […]

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Passport, Please? Redux

by Rant February 28, 2009

While reading the newspaper this morning at breakfast, I happened upon an article by Juliet Macur that appears above the fold on the front page of today’s New York Times (online version here). “Cycling Ready to Use Blood Profiles in Doping Case,” reads the headline. “Whoa! This must be important,” I thought. The Times doesn’t […]

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