First off, I think a particularly rich school like Harvard might go ahead and build up a hefty payroll, just because they can. Harvard’s current endowment is $36 billion (NOTE: Maybe donate your money to other places?), so they can afford to splurge on a team of ringers to blow through the Ivy League and win every…

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This is Team Sky’s approach to dominating the Tour de France and it includes stuff like doing each rider’s laundry in a private washing machine to reduce the chance of one guy with an infection getting the rest of the team sick. They call it “marginal gains” and everyone else calls it “actually you’re kicking our…

Bradley found success late in life when he started a channeling James Brown type of vibe.

I read a story once about how the late Frank Vandenbroucke, perhaps the most doped cyclist of the 90s (which is really saying something), used to lose weight by eating as much as he wanted but only of one food per day. I think oranges were the example.

The overhead shot doesn’t really give a sense of how the track drops out from under you. As you crest the hill and enter the Corkscrew, you can’t even see most of it. And I’ve only ever done it on a bicycle.

“standard caucasian high-five”

Second day in a row this dude’s name has popped up. Baden Cooke called him out as a terrible bike handler during yesterday’s Vuelta broadcast.

to employers, a poor credit score can show a lack of poor judgment.

This regimen sounds like some hippie bullshit. What’s so complicated about EPO micro-dosing?

Moscon and Stuyven did catch w 300m to go and they should have gone straight past on the inside instead of coming up the banking.

“Too much of hunting has turned into the notion of the kill,” he said. “It’s a component, the meat. But so much is experiential, so much is relationships. It is sitting in a duck blind with seven people, cooking breakfast. For me, it’s been a great way to see the world. The least interesting part is the three seconds…

Rodriguez was waffling on whether or not to ride for Bahrain-Merida, but ultimately decided not to.

Even if ads on Medium aren’t bringing in much cash, Medium did pay Simmons Media to bring The Ringer onto the platform in the first place, as part of a campaign to convince other publishers to do the same.

A new POTUS brings in new staff and makes new appointees. A rookie congress member would probably just inherit whatever staff are permanently attached to their gerrymandered district.

Being the most internationally recognized or the most globally marketable cyclist of all time is not the same as being the best. Babe Ruth is probably still the most famous baseball player of all time, but modern Serious Baseball People never really argue for him as the best. Likewise for Anna Kournikova, perhaps the…

When talking about GVA’s career body of work, maybe it’s worth mentioning that he won a mountainous Tour stage and wore the yellow jersey for a few days literally one month ago.

On the contrary, his problem (well, one of his problems) was too much braking. The harder you brake, the more the bike wants to go in a straight line. When you blow a turn as badly as this dude did, the best thing is just to lay the bike down so you hit the wall wheels/feet first instead of headfirst.

WTF are “flagged” and “targeted” supposed to mean? These are positive drug tests, not just USADA saying “hey we’re keeping an eye on you”.

Hushovd and Petacchi weren’t exactly flashes in the pan. Hushovd was never really a pure sprinter anyway, more of a Classics rider, although he did win two green jerseys. And Petacchi never really focused on the Tour as much as the Giro, but his 2003 was probably the best year by any sprinter ever - he rode all three…