“Pinch yourself for a second, in what other sport in the post-game interview is the athlete asked to explain what happened to a clueless audience? Now, now, continue running with this idea. No TV cameras. Only race official reports, what can be seen from the cars, and what can be gleaned from rider interviews at the finish. Yes, yes, inevitably there were gaps in the stories. Did the journalists admit or simply omit the holes in the story as they came up? Of course not! They took many grand and imaginative liberties.”
Tag Archives: Brutal Conditions
2021 TDR: A Proper Hardmen’s War (Written)
And it had been threatening all week, but finally the torrential rains really started to pour on Stage 3—all the bounteous green beauty of Switzerland must come from somewhere.
Tour de Romandie (Written Thoughts)
But that is not what makes this a last brutal preparation race. What does you ask? How often does a non-skier plan vacations to a mountain range in Spring? Never? And why is that? Because the weather is O! so terrible.
Paris-Nice Musings WRITTEN
It sports one of the best nicknames in cycling “The Race to the Sun,” even if it does not always live up to such a name. And its general itinerary is always the same: perhaps it is tightly bound by its title, or perhaps it knows it has found a winning formula.
THE GOD OF THUNDER TRAVELS SOUTH FOR THE GRAND DEPART
Well played, Thunder god. A brutal stage, with a fitting winner.
Cycling Odysseys 