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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...
Mark Cavendish Is Back To Kicking Everyone's Ass At The Tour De France
Sprinters don’t tend to have long peaks in cycling. For every Erik Zabel or Robbie McEwen who dominates the Tour de France for half a decade, you have bushels of Thor Hushovds and Alessandro Petacchis—who win one points competition and a decent amount of stages, but never hold onto the crown of “Wor...
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...
Cyclists Headbutt Each Other A Bunch In The Middle Of A Race
The Critérium du Dauphiné started yesterday, and it’s the first time most Tour de France contenders will get to gauge each other’s forms after a long spring spent either training in secret Canary Islands training camps or scattered about lesser early-season stage races. Sunday’s prologue was a time ...
Glory Boy Hot Dog Celebrates Too Early, Gets Bodied By Jason Kipnis
If you’re in a hot dog race, there are no rules. You have to look out for your safety at all times, and not, say, turn around to celebrate only for a passing ballplayer to own you with a vicious shoulder check....
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...
That Time Two Cyclists Tried To Fix A Tour de France Stage And Royally Screwed Up
It’s the final climb of Stage 15 of the 2005 Tour de France, the queen stage of the last Tour Lance Armstrong will win before retiring. A small group featuring the General Classification contenders and a few hangers on is grinding up the Pla d’Adet, when Oscar Sevilla makes the first attack five kil...
Can Tom Dumoulin Become The Most Unlikely Giro d'Italia Winner Of His Generation?
Cycling’s three-week Grand Tours are a sort of long, slowly unfolding lesson in the truth of Mike Tyson’s prophecy about how everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Every nine-man team charts out how they want their race to go, but 21-stage races are so chaotic that most get dashed ...
Why Didn't Eli Gold Host His Radio Show This Week?
Eli Gold, the legendary stock car racing announcer and Alabama football play-by-play guy, didn’t show up for Tuesday night’s broadcast of NASCAR Live, his weekly syndicated radio show....
Professional Cyclist Gets Six-Year Ban For Using An Illegal Motor In Her Bike
Three months ago, in a muddy field in Belgium, cycling’s newest boogeyman first showed its face when 19-year-old Belgian cyclocross racer Femke Van den Driessche got caught using an illegal motor inside her bike. Since then, there have been a variety of murky reports on electromagnetic wheels, a tru...
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 ...
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Makes a Good Brain Pun
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is donating his brain to science, in a generous move, and says it’s a literal “no-brainer” decision. Nice....
Report: IndyCar Driver Was Skewered In Practice Wreck
Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe will probably not race again this year after a brutal single-car crash during Indy 500 practice yesterday. It turns out this was the best-case scenario: according to a day-after report, Hinchcliffe came frighteningly close to bleeding out there on the track....
Report: Kurt Busch Smashed Ex-Girlfriend's Head Into Wall Three Times
Kurt Busch's ex-girlfriend says the NASCAR driver lashed out at her after his poor performance in qualifying at Dover, accusing her of having spies and smashing her head against a wall three times, according to court records obtained by the Associated Press. ...
Investigators Have A Second Video Of Tony Stewart Hitting Kevin Ward Jr.
The obvious question is whether criminal charges should or will be brought against Tony Stewart for his role in the death of Kevin Ward Jr during a sprint car race on Saturday. We won't know that for a while, but we do now know that police have video from a second angle of Stewart's car fatally stri...
Sheep Smokes Cyclist In Head-To-Head Race
I have no idea why this sheep was just hanging out on this road, or why it decided to race this cyclist, but I am going to imagine that it simply stands in that spot all day every day, just waiting for some dummy on a bike who needs a lesson in what real speed looks like....
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Ironman Winner Nearly Loses At Finish Line On Account Of Gloating
Ironman contestants: in the future, please make sure to cross the finish line before celebrating and pretending to be an airplane. No one will feel bad if you lose in the final stretch because of this, and the person in second place won't always be as forgiving as this guy....