January 25, 2010
Cobblestone school
Since this year’s Tour de France will be contested on the narrow, wind-swept, and cobblestone streets of Belgium during its first week, many of the top GC contenders have started making some noise about spending some time in that country to brush up on their cobblestone riding skills. Lance Armstrong, for one, is set to ride the race most consider the most difficult of the “flat” classics, the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Alberto Contador, has also indicated that he’ll be spending some time on the Belgian stones, in order to acclimate to the feel, so to speak. Other GC men will surely follow suit, since a rookie mistake on the cobbles during the fast first week of the Tour could take a rider out of contention in a heartbeat.Continue Reading »
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Scott Carmichael - Sparta, Tennessee
During this year’s Tour de France, my daily ritual started with some live text reporting of the race, along with a bit of Twitter viewing because I like to see how people besides the journalists are seeing things. As the news of Lance’s new Radio Shack team became public -- I love it how the Team Radio Shack website sneaked its way into the news, by the way -- people started commenting as to how Radio Shack seemed an unlikely sponsor for a cycling team. Yeah okay, for me Radio Shack does conjure up a bit of an image of a grown man building a robot bride in his mom’s basement but I would imagine that is exactly the reason the company would want to climb into bed with something like professional cycling. In order to change its image and reach out to a more international audience, Radio Shack is venturing outside of the basement.
