Awesome news just published yesterday! VeloNews reports: After two years of speculation, a new eight-day Colorado stage race is set to roll out in August or September 2011. According sources that spoke with VeloNews on the condition of anonymity, the event will debut next year as an eight-day UCI stage race, following a schedule similar to that [...]
The lanterne rouge, or red lantern, is given to the rider who finishes last in the Tour de France. Congratulations to Adriano Malori, Italian rider on Lampre, for finishing the 2010 Tour de France – an accomplishment that 27 of the starters this year failed to achieve. He rode a total of 2,263 miles in [...]
Everyone can attack when it is easy. You win races by attacking when it hurts, you attack when it is hard, when your legs are burning, when everyone else is breathing hard and you are suffering. That is when you attack.
Austrian Felix Baumgartner is planning to skydive from a balloon 121,000 feet (23 miles) above Earth’s surface. Insanity. What is it like to fall from space? According to Kittinger, who’s now working on the Stratos team, it’s surprisingly peaceful. With little air resistance, there’s almost no sensation of falling at high altitudes. “There’s no sound, [...]
