Category Archives: TdF & biking

seventh cycling heaven

well, i guess dear Lance is in the seventh cycling heaven right now after having won the TdF for the seventh time in a row. this was his last race as a pro cyclist and it makes me kind of … Continue reading

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almost there…

tomorrow the TdF ends in Paris and Lance is almost in the “7th heaven”, ie. he is going to win the TdF for the 7th in a row. today was an individual time trial and Lance won it of course. … Continue reading

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the tour is getting hot

today was the 14th stage of the TdF and it was very special since the Austrian rider Georg Totschnig won this stage that again finished on a mountain top. this was the stage win of an Austrian rider since 1931! … Continue reading

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mountain top finish

i meant to post this yesterday but my internet connection refused to work in the evening. yesterday was the first mountaintop finish stage and lance and his team did awesome! his mates pulled him up the last climb but at … Continue reading

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back in yellow

the team time trial in the TdF ’05 put Lance back into his beloved yellow jersey. lance’s new team – discovery channel –rode like hell, putting rivals like t-mobile or team CSC in the runner-up places. great ride! keep it … Continue reading

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and so it begins…

today the Tour de France 2005 was started with the traditional “prologue”, ie. an individual time trial over a course of 19 km. lance did great as always. although he had a slight problem with the right pedal when he … Continue reading

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no more slacking ftw!

these days i am busy riding my road bike and thus i am only online in the evenings. it wasn’t an easy decision to quit WoW since the virtual world the game presents is quite seducing. whereas we are experiencing … Continue reading

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be like lance

well, surely i can’t be like lance but now i do ride the same bike he rode at last year’s Tour de France. it is kind of a present for the graduation and today i took it out for a … Continue reading

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le cyclisme et le dopage

yesterday was a kind of busy day because i had to run some errands in town. so i really meant to blog about this newsitem that caught my attention yesterday but i did not get around doing so for various … Continue reading

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j’ai mal à la tête

i am supposed to give an one hour presentation about my thesis next wednesday. so i really wanted to get down to business today and start working on the powerpoint slides and stuff. unfortunately, i woke up with a splitting … Continue reading

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