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Floyd Landis — What is hip?
The news reports that Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis had a deteriorated hip joint that would require hip replacement surgery intially drew a reaction of shock and awe.
Now comes the question: If it's been a problem for a year or more, why mention it now? Discovery manager Johan Bruyneel says if you're a favorite, you hide your weaknesses, not publicize them. …
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Floyd Landis
Tour de France Live, 2006
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Freire beats McEwen by inches in Tour de France sprint
As expected, the sprinters' teams put their guys at the front on this completely flat Tour de France stage between Bordeaux and Dax in southern France.
The picture perfect mass sprint resulted in a photo finish showing Oscar Freire taking his second win of this year's Tour from Australian speedster Robbie McEwen. Tom Boonen, boasting 17 wins this year before the Tour, ended in 4th place, just behind Erik Zabel. …
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Dates announced for Armstrong's RAGBRAI ride
Lance Armstrong is keeping RAGBRAI in his schedule, although he's only riding “all or part” of one day — July 27.
On his arrival day, July 26, he'll speak at a celebration in the town square of Newton, the host city for RAGBRAI that night. The Des Moines Register says up to 30,000 people are expected.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same for bicycles
Bicyclists riding en masse through a city. Bicycle advocates demanding safer streets. Bike messengers racing around with documents. Cheap imports. Is it the 2000s or the 1890s?
An interesting story printed Monday in the Akron Beacon Journal about the bicycle craze in that city in the late 1800s reads like it could have been written about the bicycle issues of today.
Cyclists were the first to seek better roads, according to author Mark Price.
Cyclists were early promoters of street improvements. They argued that bad weather made Akron roads nearly impassable for six months a year. …
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Old bike
President of the Los Angeles Athletic Club with his bicycle
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How interested are you in the Tour de France this year?
Now that the first week of the 2006 Tour de France is behind us, I'm curious about your level of interest compared to last year. The blog poll is posted at right; feel free to explain your answers below this article in a comment if you wish.
This is certainly a Tour in turmoil.
The vacuum left by Lance Armstrong's retirement has sucked away a lot of US fans. OLN reports the viewership of its first four live Tour reports is down nearly 50%. …
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Chronic hip pain for Floyd Landis
A troubling secret about Floyd Landis' health is coming out just the day after he climbed into 2nd place overall in the 2006 Tour de France.
The highest placed American cyclist in the Tour, and a favorite to win the race, suffers from a degenerative bone disease that gives him chronic pain and will require hip replacement surgery a few weeks after the Tour. He adopted his unusual time trial position on the bike to reduce the pain. …
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LA Times examines Lance Armstrong doping allegations
It looks like the Los Angeles Times is another one of the media outlets that received private arbitration testimony given by Betsy and Frank Andreu in the Lance Armstrong vs. SCA Promotions lawsuit.
Instead of pulling a couple of quotes and running with it two weeks ago, the Times story in today's editions examined all the doping charges that arose in the arbitration hearing. It's the most complete report I've seen on the issue. It settles nothing, however. …
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