Recent content by Maneblusser25

Chavanel's comment I just heard that Chavanel considered it ridiculous that it was decided by one or some to stop racing. It takes the gloss off his victory and he added that if they start neutralizing this kind of stages for the reasons given, they can as well skip all mountain stages that...

One man's band... I am not so sure Armstrong and Contador had any say in it. They merely benefited form one man's initiative, who happened to wear the YJ. Astana kept very low profile while everything was happening. Radio Shack was happy Cance had imposed his will on the first peleton and...

Fair Play? I am sure that Cancellarar's move was a well thought out long term tactical move disguised as fair play. It's completely unacceptable that one individual, regardless of his name and fame or the colour of his jersey, dictates the rest of the bunch, also because some decisions (green...

He is whatever suits him best at that particular moment. He reminds me of that Yogi Berra: "When he came to a fork in the road, he took it"!:)

Hi everyone, I have read L.A. Confidentiel (softcover) some years ago. I also purchased From Lance To Landis. Now I must say the latter doesn't come close to being the firstmentioned in a translated version. It is however a fact that Walsh/Ballestre quite often use parts of their books in...

Frankly I have no doubt to go for the first option. That conclusion has only been confirmed by recent, extremely interesting and eye-popping books such as Jeremy Whittle's BAD BLOOD and Walsh/Ballestre's LE SALE TOUR - Le Système Armstrong (As far as I am aware of not yet in English? - I just...

...with hindsight... Hindsight is a great thing, but at the same time everyone could feel how the tension within the Astana team got bigger and bigger by the hour. The only thing Bruyneel and C° were trying to do was isolating Contador within his own team, using quite subtle but extremely...

dangerous and unreasonable Whatever the Flying Dutchman's intentions, his behaviour was totally out of line and unacceptable. Riders have been punished for far lesser offences than this. He shows a total lack of knowledge about the conduct during road sprinting, and still applies the...