Posted by Zach Bigalke on February 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
What gets lost most in the shuffle when a doping case is ruled upon is not a sense of guilt or innocence, but a better understanding of why athletes have been compelled for over a century to co-opt the best medical technology of the time to improve their performance. The truth, whether fans want to face it or not, is that there is really no “clean” era in any sport. Despite the façade of fair play and gentlemanly amateurism that has... Read More
Filed under Cycling, Daily, Featured · Tagged with Alberto Contador, CAS, Cycling, doping, Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong, Operacion Puerto, Tour de France, UCI, WADA
Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 21, 2011 · 1 Comment
Ding, dong, the streak is dead, and there’s a new king of the clock after today’s elite men’s time trial concluded at the UCI World Championships being held this year in Copenhagen, Denmark. For the past five years, no other athlete has dominated the world’s biggest time-trial settings than Fabian Cancellara. From Salzburg to Stuttgart, Mendrisio to Melbourne, with a stop in Beijing in between, he is effectively the five-time... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on May 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
94th Giro d’Italia/07-29 May 2011
Throughout the course of the Giro d’Italia, Sports Nickel’s resident Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America will offer his news and notes on the action from the first grand tour of the 2011 cycling season… Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on March 31, 2011 · 1 Comment
We’re already at the quarter pole for 2011?! Wow… this year just keeps sneaking past me, days turning into weeks and barreling through the months before I even realize it. At least some semblance of normalcy is on the horizon for me now, as spring arrives with my residential situation in focus and the ability to really hunker down to some work. Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on February 17, 2011 · 1 Comment
So I just finished reading Pete Rose’s memoir/confessional, My Prison Without Bars, and it got my mind spinning in a couple different directions. We’ll discuss the obvious one — gambling and sports — soon enough this week. First, though, I would like to go over the concept of sports retirements from a different angle. Ol’ Charlie Hustle, of course, was doomed to retirement from baseball in any meaningful capacity when he received... Read More
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