Give `Em An Inch …

by Rant January 25, 2008

Looks like USADA is up to the same tricks they used in the Floyd Landis case. Only this time all we officially know about their victim is that he’s “John Doe.” No further details about who the cyclist in USADA’s gun sights happens to be. Correction: Eddie Pells of the Associated Press is reporting that […]

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Catching Up Again

by Rant January 24, 2008

Lots going on these days in the cycling world. Lots to catch up on. So tonight’s post is going to be some short observations on a few of the stories hitting the news since last I wrote. Tour of California To Do More Testing There’s a certain irony in the fact that the title sponsor […]

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Trying A New Approach

by Rant January 20, 2008

The Bonnie D. Ford/Jonathan Vaughters interview that I wrote about yesterday is part of a bigger work at ESPN.com. The main article, here, was published the same day as the Vaughters interview, but it sheds more light on Vaughters, the team, and what his emphasis appears to be. In reading the article, the Slipstream/Chipotle team […]

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Damn, It’s Cold!

by Rant January 19, 2008

I was just telling an honorary member of the Rant Editorial board just how cold it is in our neck of the woods (-2F/-19C). And just a couple hours north of here tomorrow, a bunch of intrepid souls (or fools, take your pick) are going to sit in the bitter cold to watch the Green […]

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Can You Say … Oops!

by Rant January 17, 2008

When your business is journalism and you’re reporting a story, it’s good to know that your reporters have solid information backing up what they’ve written. Sometimes that’s not the case, and usually what happens is a correction printed somewhere on the inside of a paper or magazine. Often in a place not nearly as prominent […]

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Puerto Redux or Puerto Lite?

by Rant January 16, 2008

Seems that another blood doping scandal is brewing over in Europe. This time in Austria, and this time featuring mainly biathletes and cross-country skiers. But even so, a few cyclists’ names are linked to Humanplasma, an Austrian chain of blood labs and medical clinics. The three cyclists mentioned in connection with this new scandal are […]

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