Posted by Zach Bigalke on July 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Every year, the Tour de France draws even casual sports fans to pay at least a passing glance at the sport of cycling. People who wouldn’t know their peloton from their pedal are bombarded on sports pages with at least a passing glance at the day’s events for three weeks every July. Here in the United States the phenomenon is largely thanks to the twin titans of American cycling, Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong, who over a twenty-year... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on June 30, 2011 · 1 Comment
Cycling is unique in that the climax of its season comes not at the end of the season but dead center in the heart of the calendar. It isn’t the Tour Down Under in January or the Giro di Lombardia in October that the top riders of the road dream about. No, it is the sunflowers dotting French countryside in July that captivates the imagination, the high Alpine and Pyrenean passes that separate the contenders from the pretenders.
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on July 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In just the past decade we have witnessed an explosion in the range and depth of sports-viewing opportunities for fans here in the United States. The growth of multimedia technology coupled with the increase and variety of its availability and subsequent decrease in price has democratized the options available; no longer is the American sports fan shackled to whatever the networks and a limited range of sports networks are willing to broadcast. Read... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
97th Tour de France
Stage 15 – Pamiers to Bagneres-de-Luchon – 187.0 km (115.9 mi)
19 July 2010
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