Potholes and Road Apples

For those of you who follow the Tour de France via online live coverage on the Velonews or Cyclingnews websites, you have to rely on the descriptions of the race in the text to get a visual image.
Now, those tech-savy folks at Google maps have put online a way to see the towns the race […]

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The international Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld Lancaster County native Floyd Landis’ suspension on charges that he doped to win the 2006 Tour de France.
Landis, of Farmersville, is the first winner to be stripped of his title in the 105-year-history of the race.
The ruling ends a two-year legal saga that began three days […]

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The ruling on whether Lancaster County native Floyd Landis can reclaim his 2006 Tour de France title is expected to be handled down from the Court of Arbitration for Sport early Monday, the Associated Press reported this afternoon.
Landis was stripped of his title last year after a U.S. arbitration panel ruled there was evidence Landis […]

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The Trek bicycle company, the nation’s best-selling bike company, has asked a court to intervene to allow it to sever its ties to three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, the Associated Press reported today.
Trek President John Burke said Tuesday that LeMond had a “troubling pattern of inconsistent business dealings” and that his outspokenness about […]

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Cyclingnews, which always has a few interesting and inventive articles on April 1, today posted a piece in which the organizers of the Tour de France are taking a cue from Indiana University’s annual Little 500 bicycle race - of the movie “Breaking Away” fame - to spice up the three week race.
ASO will look at […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will have to wait more than two months for a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis, of Farmersville, now living in California, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of the title last year after arbiters concluded there was evidence of artificial testosterone in a urine […]

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Homeboy Floyd Landis will be back in the hearing room next week with his appeal of last year’s arbitration decision that stripped him of the 2006 Tour de France title.
The appeal before the international Court of Arbitration for Sport is Landis’ last effort to have the results of the stage 17 urinalysis test voided. A […]

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With area temperatures in single-digits this morning and wind chill making it feel like 15 below, I will be forcing myself into the gym, taking a spin class and pining for warmer weather today.

Local race organizer Red Rose Races has provided a visual to help racers keep their focus on these cold days. Red Rose has posted a […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis has committed to a series of endurance mountain bike races this year while his doping appeal is being decided.
 
Landis accepted an invitation to compete in the 2008 National Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike Series. The eight, 100-mile races will be held at different locations across the country. The closest will be the […]

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Farmersville native Floyd Landis this week filed his promised appeal to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis is appealing the ruling of an arbitration panel that found in late September that Landis had used artificial testosterone during stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. Landis subsequently won the three week race. After the […]

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