Category: Racing
The 27 remaining solo cyclists in the Race Across America are all going strong, although they're spread out over 1,000 miles of blacktop.
The men's leader and former champion, Jure Robic, was the first to pass through Marthasville, Missouri, while female cyclist Patty Riddle just passed through Durango, Colorado, earlier on Friday.
In spite of the distance separating them, they all share a desire to overcome rain, wind, heat, terrain, sleep deprivation and just plain exhaustion so they can ride into Atlantic City, 3,000 miles from the start. …
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Tour de France contender Alexander Vinokourov played domestique to Antonio Colom on Friday, helping his Kazakhstan-based Astana teammate over a steep climb and the finish line in Digne-les-Bains.
Another Astana cyclist, Andrey Kashechkin, finished in the main group to retain his overall lead in the 8-day Dauphiné Libéré, considered a prep for next month's Tour de France.
Colom didn't get a free ride to the finish line. The Spanish cyclist worked as part of a breakaway that led during most of the 120-mile Stage 5 that began in Nyons. …
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I've loved the Race Across America ever since I first stumbled upon some network TV coverage during one of the bike races in the 1980s.
The excellent coverage offered this year on the RAAM website reminds me why I like it so much; the cross-country solo cyclists basically put it all on the line in a single-minded attempt to ride more than 3,000 miles in less than 10 days.
Twenty-five male and five female solo cyclists set out from Oceanside, California, at noon Sunday for the race to Atlantic City. Here's a brief look at some of personalities and what they've been through. …
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More than 220 bicyclists are setting off from Oceanside, California, to endure the best approach to winning the 3,043-mile Race Across America — keep your seat in the saddle.
Over the next 8 to 14 days, the cyclists will cross hot deserts, cold mountain passes and windy prairies on their way to Atlantic City. In addition to extremes of weather and cycling conditions, they'll also face their own conditioning and suffer the bizarre side-effects of sleep deprivation.
Actually, just 24 men and 5 women are competing in the solo divisions this year. The remaining cyclists are competing in …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/10/race-across-america-raam-begins-butt-numbing-contest/
Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins won the prologue in the 8-day Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré on Sunday, finishing slightly faster than Americans Levi Leipheimer (2nd) and David Zabriskie (4th).
Leipheimer, the overall winner in 2006, was the last to start the 2.6-mile time trial in Grenoble and finished less than 2 seconds behind Wiggins, who rides for Cofidis.
The Dauphiné Libéré is considered one of the best warm-ups for the Tour de France, which starts in London on July 7 this year. …
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Even though Bjarne Riis admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the 1996 Tour de France, he won't lose the title because of the pro cycling's 8-year statute of limitations.
At least the Union Cycliste Internationale should adopt using an “*” after his name and other cheaters as in:
“* — Admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs after the statute of limitations had expired, therefore the title remains on the books but means nothing.”
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Former Danish cyclist Bjarne Riis said he's willing to give up his 1996 Tour de France title after admitting on Friday to taking a medicine chest full of performance-enhancing drugs.
So who would be worthy to receive it? We might have to go pretty far down the list of finishers to find someone.
No. 2 that year was Jan Ullrich. No way. With 7 Telekom teammates already admitting to taking banned performance boosters, and doctors saying they readily dispensed them, is anyone serious about giving Ullrich the title? …
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Racing for Germany's Team Telekom in the mid-1990s must have been something like: “Fill up your water bottle, take your EPO injection, and get back on the bike.”
Bjarne Riis, winner of the 1996 Tour de France, is the latest former Telekom team member to admit to doping; he confessed publically Friday to taking EPO, human growth hormone and steriods from 1993 to 1998.
Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag, two long-time T-Mobile (Telekom) cycling roommates, are disclosing that they doped with the banned blood-boosting agent EPO in the mid 1990s. They're among 7 Telekom cyclists who admitted to doping this week. …
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American cyclist Tyler Hamilton has been suspended from the Tinkoff Credit Systems team until his involvement with Operacion Puerto is “sorted out.”
Hamilton and teammate Jorg Jaksche already had been dropped from the starting roster of the Giro d'Italia, which begins Saturday, because their names had been associated with Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor targeted in the Spanish blood-doping probe. …
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Italian cycling star Ivan Basso has told prosecutors that he was involved in the Operacion Puerto blood doping scandal.
Update: May 8, 2007 — At a press conference, Basso said the blood was his but he never used it. “It was only attempted blood doping.” See more at CyclingNews.
Basso, until last week a member of the Discovery Channel cycling team, met with Italian anti-doping investigator Ettore Torri and agreed …
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