Recent content by Azdak6

On the other hand, the loss of weight should help him become a better climber.

I suspect a lot of Kabuki theater. I don't know how they thought anyone would take the "extension" notices seriously. The RS team has been mostly an embarrassment at the international level.

Obi LeBron has taught them well.

Me, I'm all in favor of professional athletes making the best deals they can--and if they have the leverage to exercise control over their destiny, so much the better. Especially in a sport like cycling where careers can be cut short in a instant and traditionally team management has been able...

Here, I've got just the group for you to hang out with: http://www.sarahpac.com

Yay! It's the Virtual Tour Wins game again. We all know that LeMond won at least 6 or 7 V-TdFs: 1985, when he was held back by "politics"; 1986; 1987 and 1988 when he would have been the best had he not been shot; 1989 and 1990, of course; and perhaps even 1991-- since he was the only person...

Gotta think they're used to it.

Sorry-- sounds too much like a tricked up miniature golf course to me. The race should reveal the strongest overall rider, IMO--which it almost always does--and that includes the ability to time trial (again IMO). As much as I enjoy competition, I don't want to see a lot of gimmicks designed...

You're right--REAL MEN whine about the obvious in anonymous internet forums. Woohoo, the Tour d'Ironie is off to a fine start.

Texans have enough to be embarrassed about, just being from Texas.

You mean the days before people started blowing themselves up in subways?

Ya think? Geeesh.

Well said--we really don't know any of these people.

Kudos to Bob Roll Bobke takes a lot of (well-deserved) crap for his Armstrong/Radio Shack cheerleading, but he gets a big thumbs up for this one: http://www.versus.com/cycling/videos/bobs-beef-with-espns-tony-kornheiser/in-stream/sports/cycling/sort/most-recent/i/1/

Logic and reason have no place in a Virtual Tour. The best thing about Virtual Tours is that you can make them turn out exactly the way you want.