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Doping: The Acceptability of a Method

by frank / Aug 12 2010 / 60 posts

Performance-enhancing methods. This is a term we hear so often in cycling; it refers to the practice of using products or processes that elevate your performance beyond what you could naturally do. It is a terribly complicated matter for the fans, and I can only speculate as to how complicated it is for the professionals who do or do not participat...

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Franco Vona

by brett / Aug 7 2010 / 22 posts

One of the most enduring images in my mind of the Tour in the early 90s is of the monumental Stage 13 of the 1992 edition. Riders covered 255km over some of the most brutal and iconic mountain passes the race had ever witnessed, finishing at the Italian ski resort of Sestriere.  The tifosi were out in force that day, with numbers estimated in the...

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Piotr Ugrumov

by brett / Jun 22 2010 / 12 posts

To describe Piotr Ugrumov’s professional career as fleeting may be a tad on the unfair side. While he enjoyed a good deal of success in his early years, he also seemed to burst onto the bigger stage of the Giro and Tour from relative obscurity, at least to this observer. Looking back through his results though, reveals a talented climber and...

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Zenon Jaskula

by brett / May 22 2010 / 29 posts

While the talk of the week has been on the Fraud Landis Chronicles, whether he cheated (of course he did), whether or not he’s telling the truth (he is, this time) and whether or not Pharmstrong is a doping, fraudulent COTHO (he always has been), my head has exploded trying to make sense of the naivety of those still duped by the belief that...
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