Archive for August, 2005
When is enough, well …. enough? Lance Armstrong “was” possibly the most tested athlete of all time never being tested positive once for using performance enhancing drugs yet the European press simply will not let it go. Again the press have attacked Lance Armstrong for using a drug called “EPO” which increases performance in athetes.
Maybe […]
The American’s continue to amaze this year with Levi Leipheimer 31 seconds ahead of Jan Ullrich in this years Tour of Germany. All hail to wonder kid Bobby Julich as he finishes just 11 seconds slower than Jan Ullrich in yesterdays time trial.
I am sure Jan is a bit dissapointed in his year so far with […]
Ever been to Jan blog? Its great looking and all but dam if I can read it, of course Jan’s blog is written in German. Translation has been a sore spot for me this year, with my cool “official” tour book (French), rider diaries and blogs (like Jan’s) as well as other Euro articles that […]
2005 has been one hell of a year for American cycling star David Zabriskie, Dave found himself in the yellow jersey after stage one of this years TDF (also his FIRST) and then days later Dave found himself on the tarmac as he “touched floor” in the team time trial. Truly Dave experienced the mighty […]
Lance Armstrong wowed cycling fans at a local (Denver) gym as he made an appearance to answer some questions for film crews of ESPN, Entertainment Tonight and other various local crews.
Then lucky fans were treated to a short “meet and greet” where the 7 time Tour de France champ answered questions.
From Rockymountainnews:
The world’s most famous […]
American who can’t get enough pro racing are in store for a treat come September, cycling super stars such as Ivan Basso, George Hincapie and David Zabriskie have all signed on to participate in the Barclays Global Investors Grand Prix, the cycling race formally known as the San Francisco Grand Prix.
Ivan Basso, runner-up in this […]
Two days into the Tour of Germany and word is that the German press is already down on Jan Ullrich. The cycling star is trying to make an impression and win on home soil but has been put in a “spot of bother” due to the fact that his team seams to be less than […]
When American’s are asked about cycling’s great American riders often one or two names are mentioned, of course Lance Armstrong and Greg Lemond. However in the last several years the cycling world has watched as a large amount of Americans have begun to dominate cycling. Bobby Julich is one fine example, Bobby who got started […]
Tough news out of the Illes Balears cycling team, Star Alejando Valverde will not be riding in his home countries tour this year (Vuelta – Tour Of Spain). The Vuelta is much like the Tour de France in that it is raced over thousands of miles and runs for a three week perdiod. It is […]
Sounds to me as If German cycling star Jan Ullrich is hungry for a win in his countries nine day Tour Of Germany. The German tour kicked off today and Jan has souronded himself with a excellent line up of riders including Vinokourov who has plans of his own next year as he will move […]
The San Sebastian Classic is a tough one day event held in the Spanish Basque country, it serves as a primer for tour riders heading into the last “grand tour” of the season the Vuelta which starts usually in the end of August or the beginning of September.
This years addition was just like most other […]
Chalk up another major tour win for American cyclist Bobby Julich who is having one of his best years in cycling in quite a long time, last year saw the return of the American who placed third about 5 years ago in the Tour de France.
The American Julich just won his second major tour this year […]
As summer seams to wind down thought are of the Vuelta and also Hamilton, who about this time last year started to test positive in several doping tests (both in the Olympics and the Vuelta). The recent news story on HBO was quite interesting and what I got from the coverage was that the test […]
Hey cycling fans, Tour Guy back in action after about a 10 day break from the blog (the tour takes it out of blogers just like the riders). I have been working to bring addtional information about the riders here on yellow-jersey.net
And with that here are some great pictures as well as detailed information links […]
American cyclist Christian Vande Velde who rides for team CSC under the direction of Bjarne Riis. Christian has raced for several pro teams in the last 8 years including a stint at US Postal as well as riding for Liberty Seguros. This year the CSC rider is riding well and placed an impressive ninth overall […]
