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Cyclist Takes Nosedive Into A Ravine, Films The Whole Thing
Road cycling season started this week with the Tour Down Under (it’s in Australia, which, duh), and it began without Spanish superstar Joaquim Rodriguez for the first time in 16 years. Rodriguez was waffling on whether or not to ride for Bahrain-Merida, but ultimately decided not to....
You Can't Fight The Mud Slip N' Slide And Win
The USA Cyclocross National Championships are this week and weekend in Hartford, CT. Hartford is a perfect place to host such an event, since cyclocross races are best when they’re muddy, chaotic messes. The temperature is not supposed to rise much above freezing while this week’s racing is going on...
CEO Of Airline Involved In Chapecoense Plane Crash Arrested
It is appearing increasingly likely that the plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 of its 77 passengers, including most of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, happened because of an act of negligence. Supporting this growing realization is the fact that the CEO of the airline was arrested last n...
Brazilian Soccer Clubs Offer Extensive Support To Chapecoense After Tragic Plane Crash
Brazilian first division club Chapecoense was flying to Medellin last night when their plane went down outside the city, killing 71 of the 77 passengers. The club was flying to Medellin to play Atletico Nacional in the Copa Sudamericana final....
Plane Carrying Brazilian Soccer Team Chapecoense Crashes, Killing 71 Of 77 Passengers (Update)
An airplane on which the Brazilian first-division soccer team Chapecoense was flying crashed near the end of its flight from Bolivia to Colombia last night, reportedly killing nearly everyone onboard in one of the worst air disasters in sports history....
Suicidal Squirrel Takes Down Squirrel-Hating Chicago Politician
Howard Brookins can’t stand squirrels....
Doofus Cyclist Eats It
Cyclocross is a sport that fuses road bike racing with mountain biking, creating a hybrid sport that is essentially road racing on a muddy obstacle course. As such, people crash all the time into the mud while trying to bunny hop over barriers, navigate slippery corners, or descend sandy inclines. I...
Only A Month After Breaking Her Back In A Horrific Crash, Annemiek Van Vleuten Won A Bike Race
After Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten crashed while leading the Olympic road race, I thought she was dead. She fell headfirst into a ditch and appeared to wrench her neck in the process, then remained motionless as her pursuers passed her. No official update was offered for about ten minutes, and g...
Evil Spectator Gets Revenge On Bike Race By Causing High-Speed Crash
The Tour Cycliste Antenne Reunion is about as far on the fringes of the cycling world as you can get. While the top of the pro peloton is touring across either Spain or Britain right now and the second division is busy finishing up their seasons in lesser European races, the remote Indian Ocean isla...
Dutch Cyclist Rides Fully Horizontal On Wall To Avoid Crash
Keirin is a track cycling event where racers start behind a motorized pace vehicle, then more or less sprint it out for two kilometers. During the final lap of heat two at the women’s keirin this morning, French rider Virginie Cueff tried to budge her way into the outside lane so she could try and s...
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Road Race Leader Crashes Just Miles From Finish [Updates]
Dutch rider Annemiek Van Vleuten crashed on the descent with less than seven miles remaining in the 85-mile road race. While the course was different from the one we illustrated as being difficult-to-dangerous, much of it did follow the men’s course. ...
Iranian Cyclist Takes A Header Into Concrete Wall During Olympic Road Race
Where most tough bike races are defined by one particularly cruel feature (for example, the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix), the Olympics road race course has everything. The course is packed with cobbles, crosswinds, technical descents, and Grand Tour-length climbs. This is not to mention that Olympic te...
Wet Roads Had Everyone Falling At The Tour De France
The last summit finish of the 2016 Tour de France came and went, with the general classification race shaken up by a series of crashes more than anything. Chris Froome’s overall lead looked unassailable even before he won yesterday’s time trial, but the rest of the top ten has been a jumbled mess. T...
Tour De France Descends Into Chaos, Leader Forced To Run Up A Damn Mountain
Chris Froome appeared to have the Tour de France by the balls through most of this afternoon’s mountain stage up to Mount Ventoux, parrying away Nairo Quintana’s first attack and dropping everyone who posed a threat to his Tour on the final climb. While distancing Quintana and the rest of the genera...
You Shall Not Pass
Adam Yates was leading a big charge at the end of yesterday’s Tour de France stage before the course decided he wasn’t worthy of passage to the finish line at Lac de Payolle. Tour organizers later decided to retroactively count his position from two kilometers ahead, which put the 23-year-old Briton...
On The First Day, The Tour De France Featured These Two Crashes<em></em>
The opening stage of the Tour de France was a wild one. The feared crosswinds of northern France did not split up the race and produce time gaps between general classification contenders like they did last year. Heavy winds can make it impossible for riders that come unmoored from the peloton to fig...
Just How In The Hell Did This Guy Not Crash?
For some reason, the Tour de Suisse decided that a good place to stick a finish line was 100 meters after a 90-degree corner. When Danny van Poppel tried to squeeze past Peter Sagan on the inside corner, he clipped wheels and was on course to eat shit into the barrier until he made a miraculous save...
Pro Cyclist Reportedly In Coma After Getting Run Over By Motorcycle During Race Again
All season long, professional cyclists have been run getting over by motorcycles during races. 25-year-old Belgian Antoine Demoitié died after getting run over during Gent Wevelgem, a stalled out motorbike caused a harrowing pile-up in Brooklyn last month, and Stig Broeckx was hospitalized after a m...
Pro Cyclist Crashes Spectacularly Into Snowbank, Costs Himself Biggest Race Of His Life
Steven Kruijswijk took a three minute lead into the the final weekend of the Giro d’Italia—the second-biggest stage race in the world after the Tour de France—which looked like a fairly safe lead over Colombian sparkplug Esteban Chaves and mopey Sicilian Vincenzo Nibali (another minute and a half be...
Cyclist Eats It Into The Barriers At Worst Possible Time
Marianne Vos is one of the most accomplished women in the professional peloton. The Dutch rider has won 12 World Championships and two gold medals across every discipline of cycling save mountain biking, and she’s only 28. She was in position to win a nine-up sprint at Dwars door Westhoek yesterday ...