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Pro Cyclist Apologizes For Lame Jokes About Fucking The Podium Girls
Jan Bakelants, most famous for winning the first stage of the 2013 Tour de France and wearing the yellow jersey for a spell, is going to this year’s Tour for AG2R La Mondiale, and he wants everyone to know he’s really horny....
The Skeptic's Guide To The Tour De France
For the 104th time in history, a horde of bird-shaped dudes will climb onto their bikes, ride circles around France, and finish in Paris even more bird-shaped than when they started. Yes, the Tour de France starts this weekend in Germany (we’ll get to that) and will track a 3,540-kilometer course so...
Here Are Some Strong And Gross Cycling Legs
Canadian rider Antoine Duchesne was one of the last cuts from Direct Energie’s Tour de France team. The team decided not to bring sprinter Brian Coquard, which made Duchesne’s role on the team somewhat unnecessary. All that training for nothing is a huge bummer, especially because Duchesne turned h...
The Next Big Thing In Cycling Could Be Poop Doping
Read one particular way, the history of cycling is a history of riders doing all they can to stretch past the natural limits of the human body. Cheating has been at the very heart of cycling since its inception and riders have tried, at various points throughout the sport’s history, strychnine, EPO,...
The Deadspin Guide To Riding Your Damn Bike<em></em>
Out on the street where you live, it’s finally summer. Maybe this means that the world outside your door is as hot as the surface of the sun or the trees have conspired to drown you in allergens, but regardless, winter has finally gone and died and guess what; it’s time to ride your bicycle....
Tom Dumoulin Defied Everyone And Became A Champion
Tom Dumoulin was not supposed to be here. The 2017 Giro d’Italia was supposed to host a fierce battle between the world’s best climbers, a large group of whom chose not to target the Tour de France this year in order to give perennial winner Chris Froome a wide berth. Previous champions Nairo Quinta...
Cycling Race Leader Stops In Middle Of Stage To Take A Crap
Tom Dumoulin abruptly pulled over during stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia today. The reason wasn’t clear, until he took off his gear and squatted to take a roadside crap....
Fernando Gaviria Is Cycling's Next Superstar Sprinter
The best Colombian cyclists have long hewed to a single archetype, specializing in climbing high mountains and winning on the harshest and steepest slopes. There have been Colombian rouleurs and sprinters before, but the most successful riders have almost all been pure climbers. Lucho “El Jardinerit...
Cyclist Eventually Pulled From Tour Of California After Injuring Himself In Nasty Crash
Latvian pro cyclist Toms Skujiņš was in a breakaway during stage two of the Tour of California today when he crashed and appeared to hit his head. Clearly dazed and wobbly, he struggled to get back to get up and mount his bike. Skujiņš also narrowly missed getting hit by the cyclists behind him flyi...
Everything Terrible And Exhilarating About Cycling Was On Display At The Giro d'Italia Today
This afternoon, the Giro d’Italia truly started....
Lance Armstrong Denies That Lance Armstrong Is Dead
Is Lance Armstrong dead? According to fox-news24.com, he is. According to Lance Armstrong, he is not....
Where's A Bad Place To Crash Your Drone?
Right in the middle of a bike race!...
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21-Year-Old Pro Cyclist Chad Young Not Expected To Recover From Head Injury Sustained In Crash [Update]
Chad Young was racing the Tour of the Gila with Axeon Hagens Berman last Sunday when he fell on a descent while chasing back onto a breakaway. Young was airlifted out to a hospital in Tucson, Ariz., and his team announced that he had suffered a severe head injury. As of Tuesday, Young was in critica...
Pro Cyclist On A Training Ride<em></em> Beaten Up By Baseball Bat And Knife-Wielding Maniac
Yoann Offredo is an experienced French cyclist, who has raced in the professional peloton since 2006. He spent a decade with FDJ, where he finished in the top ten of a handful of classics and served as a domestique for the team’s stars. He’s racing for Belgian team Wanty Groupe-Gobert and he wrapped...
Pro Cyclist Michele Scarponi Killed By Car Driver At Age 37
Michele Scarponi was perhaps the most seasoned rider in the professional peloton. The Italian had been racing as an amateur or a professional for almost 20 years, beginning as a domestique on some very good teams, working his way up to Grand Tour heavyweight, and then sacrificing his waning individu...
Greg Van Avermaet Tames The Hell Of The North
Until eight months ago, Belgian cyclist Greg Van Avermaet’s legacy was that of a nice guy who rode the cobbles well, figured in the finales of most major races, and was pathologically incapable of winning races. All Van Avermaet had to show for a decade of contesting cycling’s one-day monument class...
Endurance Cycling Legend Mike Hall Killed By Car Driver At Age 35<em></em>
This morning, Mike Hall was setting out for the last leg of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, an unsupported race across Australia, when he was struck and killed by a car outside Canberra. Police say he died at the scene, and organizers called off the race shortly after. He was 35 years old....
Cycling's Doping Rules Don't Help Anyone<em></em>
Team Sky is struggling. The Murdoch-funded cycling behemoth has won three of the past four Tours de France and will probably win this year’s edition of the race as well. The team has started this season well, with Colombian pipsqueak Sergio Henao winning an all-time Paris Nice by two seconds and do-...
Where's A Bad Place To Walk Your Dog?
Right in the middle of a dang bike race!...
Let's Watch A Terrifying Wind Blow These Cyclists Off Their Bikes
This morning’s Cape Town Cycle Tour was canceled due to high wind, which sounds pretty innocuous until you see these videos of cyclists literally being blown off their bikes:...