Tour de Georgia: An epic prologue
That would be for moi, who just arrived in Savannah after an epic travel day to get here.
Ol’ 10 Speed drove from STL, 900-some miles, 13-some hours. Pretty much a straight shot. Put the PD team car on cruise…
That would be for moi, who just arrived in Savannah after an epic travel day to get here.
Ol’ 10 Speed drove from STL, 900-some miles, 13-some hours. Pretty much a straight shot. Put the PD team car on cruise…
With apologies to American teams High Road and Slipstream-Chipotle and the boys from U.S.-sponsored CSC, ol’ 10 Speed is thinking that a rider from either Astana or Rock Racing will stand atop the podium at the end of the Tour de…
I asked what the team’s inclusion in the Tour de Georgia would mean for Rock re: the Tour of Missouri.
“It really helps us in our bid to go into anything that Medalist Sports is doing. I think what happened in the Tour of…
I asked him about UCI President Pat McQuaid saying Rock was good for the sport, but that he maybe shouldn’t have signed guys implicated in Puerto (Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla, Santiago Botero) and that he should have worked within the…
First question was based on Rock Racing suing to get into the Tour de Georgia, then reaching a settlement to get in the race after Saunier Duval withdrew. This on top of three riders being banned from the Tour of California…
Colorful Michael Ball, the owner of Rock Racing, is set to be on a teleconference momentarily, and 10 Speed is on the call.
Gonna attempt to disseminate parts of the call as it unfolds. Ain’t the Internet great?
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Just got this release from happenin’ Rock Racing, touting its inclusion in the Tour de Georgia as a result of Saunier Duval’s withdrawal and an out-of-court settlement with Medalist Sports. (Rock had sued the TdG organizer for inclusion into the…
Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero were barred from the Tour of California because their names have been implicated in the two-year-old Opercion Puerto scandal, tho none have been charged with a doping violation relating to Puerto.
Yet,…
Yes, the Pat McQuaid, the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale.
McQuaid took time out his schedule Tuesday to speak with 10 Speed in what we hope is the first of many conversations with some of the major players in cycling.…
Big day for American teams at Criterium International: Big Jens Voight of U.S.-sponsored CSC won the Criterium International for the fourth time, building a big enough lead in the second stage Sunday to be able to coast defending it in the time trial…