Vingegaard’s wife has a crazy dream.
Imagine you've just won the Tour de France, the biggest, most prestigious event in the cycling world for the second time. You're on top of the world. You arrive home in Denmark, feeling triumphant and ready for some rest and relaxation. Instead, your wife suggests you try to win the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in [...]
Pidcock steals a valuable bronze
A bronze medal will make a man do crazy things. Like crash other people out of the Mountain Bike World Championship short track race. Tom Pidcock took down Luca Schwarzbauer of Germany in the final right hand corner by being too aggressive. Pidock got the bronze and Schwarzbauer got a tumble onto the grass and gravel. The German wasn't too [...]
Lance leaves Stars on Mars. Blast off.
Lance Armstrong, the man who used to own seven Tour de France titles, has left the Stars on Mars reality TV show. The Texan is not going to Mars, he is going home, having decided enough was enough. He explained the exit by saying “Life on Mars is not easy. You can’t put 12 different people together in a room [...]
Hincapie claims Van Aert lost World’s due to Tour fatigue. Nope.
George Hincapie came up with a diagnosis for why Wout van Aert again finished second in the Elite Men's Road Race championship: The Belgian was too tired. Not buying that one. Hincapie was discussing Van Aert on The Move podcast with Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel. According to Big George, there was a huge difference in preparation between Van Aert [...]
Peter Sagan. A showman goes out quietly.
This is not the Peter Sagan we once knew. The flashy, fearless, Fast-vakian with the cool hair and crazed grin and funny accented English. The man who dominated the green jersey competition in the Tour de France, who won on the cobbles of Roubaix and Flanders. The commanding rider who beat Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen in their prime. The [...]
Van der Poel takes solo victory in World’s Road Race
Three men try to chase an angry cheetah. The cheetah is a beast and fast and fearless. Belgian’s Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) and Mads Pedersen (Denmark) watch Mathieu van der Poel (the Netherlands) explode up a climb with 22 kilometers to go. Cheetah gone, rainbow jersey out of reach. The man is an animal. He looks bigger and stronger [...]