2009 archive
The Trek ProjectOne Team added this message to Lance Armstrong's back-up time trial bicycle: “Lance — Ride this one like YOU stole it.”
Armstrong posted this TwitPic on Friday morning, the day of the 15-mile Solvang individual time trial that's Stage 6 of the Amgen Tour of California and perhaps the deciding stage for Levi Leipheimer.
Armstrong said Thursday that he'd ride his original time trial bike, the one that was stolen in Sacramento overnight on Saturday and recovered on Wednesday. He said it seems to be in “fine shape.”
Armstrong's Astana teammate Leipheimer …
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A message affixed to Lance Armstrong's “other” time trial bike. The LiveStrong bike was stolen in Sacramento, but later recovered. Picture by Lance Armstrong at TwitPic.
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The University of South Florida dean whose involvement in a bicycle theft was caught on tape will be paid $50,000 in return for his resignation.
The case of the stolen bicycle was solved last week when a surveillance video showing the entire caper was posted on YouTube.com.
The video clearly shows an associate dean in the College of Medicine and another man participating in the theft …
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Leipheimer, Rogers (24 secs) and Zabriskie (28 secs)
Sprint phenom Mark Cavendish racked up another win for the Columbia-High Road pro cycling team at the end of a 135-mile stage from Visalia to Paso Robles on Thursday.
I couldn't watch it on TourTracker, but the post-race reports make it sound a little bit like the previous three stages: Team Astana lets a small breakaway stay out front most of the day. Sprinters' teams reel them in near the finish. Sprinter takes the win.
Team Astana's Levi Leipheimer (above left) remained in firm control of the yellow jersey for a third day. Friday's Stage 6 individual time trial around Solvang, however, will probably tell the tale of whether Leipheimer gets to win his third consecutive Tour of California …
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David Zabriskie Garmin Slipstream pro cycling team
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Australian member of Team Columbia High Road Michael Rogers
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A lot of people are saying that Lance Armstrong's alert to the 145,00 members of his Twitterati helped in the quick recovery of his time trial bicycle.
For the rest of us who don't have that clout, there's a website where we can share our stories. It's called “Someone Stole My Bike.”
The website features video stories of bike theft victims, some who lost their bikes for good and others, like Kristy (shown here), who chased down the thief, grabbed him by the backpack and dragged him to the ground …
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The 2010 Tour Down Under will roll out from Jan. 17 to 24, organizers have announced.
It will be the first race on the UCI calendar.
The week-long stage race around South Australia got a boost in 2009 as Lance Armstrong decided to emerge from 3 1/2 years of retirement for the race. No …
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A Sacramento resident walked into the Sacramento police headquarters this morning with Lance Armstrong's stolen time trial bicycle, solving a case that police had been working on since Sunday.
Although a police spokesman said he would not go into the details about how the person acquired the bicycle, “he is not a suspect at this time.”
The bicycle “appears to be in good condition with the wheels and the frame, however the mechanics for the team will have to review it … to see if there are any flaws or damage to it.” …
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Mark Cavendish put his name in the win column for the first time at the Amgen Tour of California on Wednesday by winning a long sprint in Clovis.
Team Columbia's speedster from the Isle of Man stayed in the peloton with his fellow sprinters as Stage 4 wound through the Sierra foothills on the 115-mile day that boasted 5 King of the Mountain climbs.
In spite of a breakaway led by US National road champ Tyler Hamilton (Rock Racing), the sprinters' teams pulled the race back together in Clovis. Learning from Tuesday's miscues, Team Columbia got Cavendish to the front where he launched a long sprint ….
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