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Cross Worlds Power Poll!
Happy Cross Worlds Week! I am taking a break between trips to the pharmacy to celebrate the coming Cross-Pocalypse on Sunday, as the world's best come to Koksijde to beat their heads against a wall of Belgian favorites for Rainbow Supremacy. Who will it be? How can we figure this out? What...
Amber Neben Replaces Kristin Armstrong in World Championship Time Trial
In a surprising piece of news, Kristin Armstrong of PB & Co. will not ride the World Championship time trial in Copenhagen. Armstrong told the Associated Press that she is on her way back to the United States after Amber Neben of HTC-Highroad appealed Armstrong's selection. Armstrong is...
Bits: One More Year of Mustaches and Mohawks, Gillies Re-signed
If you've not been told your favorite hockey team is a disgrace to the NHL in the last 24 hours, then you probably aren't aware that the Isles have re-signed Trevor Gillies to a one year, two-way contract yesterday. [Fanshot discussion here] [Team release here] The merits of the move will be...
Annemiek van Vleuten Interview part 2: "If you don’t have fun then you can’t be good"
Last week, in the first part of my interview, Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten described how it felt to win the Ronde van Vlaanderen, the operation in 2009 that enabled her spectacular 2010 season, how much she enjoys racing with Nederland Bloeit, especially giving rivals an impossible choice...
Sunday Links and IIHF Supplemental Discipline For Hit On Radek Martinek
[Updated with IIHF rules and video support of headshot policy @10:40 AM EDT ] For those who missed yesterday's news from the world championships, Radek Martinek suffered a concussion and hematoma and will most likely miss the remainder of the world championships in Austria. [Fanshot Here]...
Sunday Links: 'Because these kids are hopped up on sugar' edition.
A news item many of us missed this week was NHL disciplinarian Colin Cambell's *appearance* on The Best of Cybulski & Compa on TSN Radio 1050. Lighthouse Hockey will have more on the podcast tomorrow and we have plans for a roundtable (translated: we don't have it scheduled yet, but we're getting...
"Who is the chosen one, who will be the best today?" WC Cyclocross, Sankt-Wendel, part 2 - the riders!
Part two of a gsgirl-pigeons double act! Yesterday we talked about the course for the CX Worlds - today we've looking at who'll be riding, and what we think about them. Join us below the jump for who we rate as riders, how to spot them, and most importantly, their Patrick Safety Jogger Rating! De...
U.S. Crosser Sue Butler Raising Money for Worlds Trip
And you can help! Sue Butler received selection from USA Cycling to compete at cyclocross Worlds in Germany this year. There's just one problem. She needs to get there, and she needs to cover the $1000 fee that USA Cycling requires of riders going to Worlds. And no, I don't actually know what that...
Freddy Maertens - Take Two
Just before the Vuelta a España, I took a look at Freddy Maertens' autobiography, Fall From Grace. Given Maertens' record-breaking haul of thirteen stages in the 1977 Vuelta, it seemed like a good choice at the time, even if Maertens himself dismissed those Vuelta victories in barely a...
Fall From Grace, by Freddy Maertens
Thirty-three-and-a-third years ago (which, I think, is some kind of record) Belgium's Freddy Maertens won the Vuelta a España. Although ‘winning' hardly describes his achievement. As well as taking home the leader's jersey and the points' jersey, Maertens bagged thirteen of the...
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