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Not Enough Hours in the Day.
Hey folks
This is a hard post to write. I’ve been trying to come up with carefully crafted phrases to try to sum up my feelings but none are coming. So I guess I’ll just dive in with my usual subtlety and panache.
Deep breath.
I’m stopping Velocasting.
There, I said it and the world didn’t end.
I’d decided [...]
La Gazetta Dello VeloCast Mini League
The results for the tour de france mini-league. Sorry it took so long to get this done.
If you finished in the Top 10, get in touch via our contact form or on Twitter (@velocast) and we can send you a prize!
Please look out for our upcoming prize winners list even if you were rubbish [...]
Cycling Science Conference
Conferences are an odd thing. More often than not they are held in the sterile, stuffy confines of a reasonably large hotel. The conference areas are usually squirreled away behind a labyrinth of corridors so that the laminated badges of the delegates can be safely segregated from the comings and goings of bemused, suitcase-hauling tourists. Did I miss that part [...]
Gods, Cowboys & Pat McQuaid
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
I really don’t know where to begin. For those of us trying to knit any sense out of the numerous, fraying threads of Landis, Armstrong, doping, Bordry, bribery, corruption, $25,000, $30,000, $100,000 or all the way to the Sylvia Schenk giddy heights of $500,000 it’s starting to become all a [...]
Bordry v McQuaid: Grow The F*%K Up
Pierre Bordry awoke early this morning and delivered himself from the womb-like envelope of an opulent bed. Delicately sliding pedicured toes into monogramed slippers he rose to his full height and stretched a creaking spine, his folded elbows pointing skyward and his head titled by a contorted yawn.
“What am I doing today?”; he thought, his narrow eyes [...]
Lemond Says Armstrong Admitted EPO Use
I noticed a message on Twitter this morning from the wonderfully irascible Simon Lamb pointing to an interview on the USA Today website. The interview was with three-time Tour De france winner, Greg Lemond who, as the title of the article put it; feels “vindicated” over the recent Floyd Landis doping accusations.
There were two parts [...]
Is Pat McQuaid Defending Doping?
I seem to have hit a worrying vein of titling my posts with a question. It’s a habit I need to get out of – or should I?! – but with this post I do genuinely need to pose a question.
Cycling News ran a piece yesterday on saying that the AFLD (the French anti-doping agency) [...]
Valverde Banned: Will He Race Again?
So the Court for Arbitration in Sport finally handed down a 2 year ban to Alejandro Valverde. The ban is effective from 1st January 2010 and will end December 31, 2011, meaning he would be able to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The statement issued by CAS said that they;
“considered that there [...]
Who Guards The Guardians?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I read Plato’s The Republic during the Spring of 1990. The world spinning round my teenage life was a worryingly unsettled place; the Berlin Wall had just come down and the anger first felt in Scotland over the introduction of the Poll Tax a year earlier was spreading south to England [...]
What Was Vinokourov Thinking?
It comes as somewhat of a welcome relief to be writing about actual cycling again rather that the litigious shenanigans that have dominated the headlines over the past week.
Stage 19 of this years’ Giro was no less enthralling than the vast majority of stages that preceded it. Michele Scarponi took the win in the end thanks, one [...]
