Recent content by cymbop

The boy, by the way, is doing fine. He went on to win the junior national criterium championship three years after this photo was taken, and is riding professionally for the Hincapie Development squad.

Oh, no. Anybody else think that Andy's post-stage eyes showed a little bit of guilt? I just went from literally weeping at Voeckler's defense -- to pure cynicism, in a moment.

I had a teammate who rode with Julich on the 7-Eleven junior team in the 80s. He said that Bobby was simply biggest *** on two wheels. .02.

In the 90s, before THC was on the banned list, I knew more US-based pros who smoked reef than did not. Plenty used it while training, plenty used it before racing.

I've coached at the USA Cycling Junior Regional Development Camp for ten years, and I give an evening lecture every year on this very topic. There are coaches (even within the USAC system) who care about this issue and want to raise awareness of it. I'd say that 10% of the riders I knew from...

While we're on the topic... We've heard lots of talk about the 1994 Fleche Walloon in which the Gewiss-Ballan team went 1-2-3 and it marked the advent of the EPO era in pro cycling. What I want to call some attention to is the 2005 Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under, in particular stage 5. You...