Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher

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Published July 16, 2009 at 11:07 a.m.
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Pedal Pusher is a play that follows three cyclists — Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong — in the most dramatic recent era of professional cycle sport: from the young prodigy Jan Ullrich winning the Tour in 1997, the doping scandals of 1998, Armstrong’s conquest of cancer and ending with Pantani’s exile from the [ ... ] ...

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Levi Wins at Leadville - "That Was So Damn Hard!"

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 3:55 p.m.

{gallery}riders/levileadville{/gallery}This should settle the old "which is better ... the road rider or the mountain biker?" argument ... Levi Leipheimer, in his first competitive off-road race and only two weeks after finishing the Tour de France, blew away the field in the annual Leadville 100 on Saturday, beating runner-up Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski by nine full minutes ... Todd Wells finished third with six-time winner Dave Wiens in fourth in the grueling Colorado mountain race ... How good was

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The life of a Toronto bike thief

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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

Journalist Richard Poplak worked with illustrator Nick Marinkovich and create a graphic novelization of the life of Igor Kenk. Kenk is the notorious Toronto bike peddler who was found with thousands of stolen bikes when police raided his shop, garages and warehouses in 2008. According to this reviewer and Toronto cyclist, everybody knew that Igor [ ... ]Related posts: Lance Armstrong bike thief arrested Bike messengers chase down bike thief Bike directions Toronto, Ontario ...

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Leapin' Levi! Leipheimer wins 'torturous' Leadville 100

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 5:58 p.m.
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Leave it to the guy who's never competed on a mountain bike before to win one of the premier off-road bike races in the U.S ... Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Saturday, setting a new course record in the process. His RadioShack teammate and defending champion, Lance Armstrong, didn't race due to injuries sufferd in the Tour de France ... Listening to his comments after the race, it sounds like the 36-year-old left it all out on the 100-mile Rocky Mountain route that

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Leadville Trail 100 MTB Preview

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 8:34 a.m.

photo courtesy Race Across the Sky.The Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race is happening this weekend so we thought we’d give you a preview of this year’s event. One of the most obvious changes to the race this year is the name, officially “The Life Time Fitness Leadville Trail 100.” Yep, race organizers were able [ ... ]Related posts: Lance Armstrong Wins Leadville Trail 100 Lance Using The Tour to Prep for Leadville MTB 100 Lance Armstrong places second at Leadville 100 ...

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Levi Leipheimer, Rebecca Rusch Win Leadville Trail 100, Set New Course Records

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Published Aug. 15, 2010 at 1:23 p.m.
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With Lance Armstrong dropping out of contention earlier in the week, Levi Leipheimer left the competition in the dust to set a new course record at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race. He finished in 6h 16m 37s, besting Armstrong’s time last year by 12 minutes. Photo above by TrekBen of Leipheimer rolling up [ ... ] ...

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Lance withdraws from Leadville 100, Trek sees record number of attempted returns

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.
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LP - In what will be forever known as "Black Tuesday" in the cycling world, Lance Armstrong announced that he will not be riding this year's Leadville 100 on Saturday, August 14th. Lance pulling out of the Leadville 100, or "bailing" on it if you speak mountain biker, came as quite a surprise and its effects have been widespread. Nowhere has the effect been felt as strongly as at Trek retailers though, where many would be Leadville 100 riders are attempting to bring back the mountain bikes they

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8-day 'Tour of Colorado' to replace Tour of Missouri, starting 2011

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Published July 30, 2010 at 1:52 p.m.

According to a story in VeloNews, an 8-day stage race in Colorado will take the spot on the pro race calendar previously held by the Tour of Missouri: ... After two years of speculation, a new eight-day Colorado stage race is set to roll out in August or September 2011 ... According sources that spoke with  VeloNews  on the condition of anonymity, the event will debut next year as an eight-day UCI stage race, following a schedule similar to that of the now-defunct Tour of Missouri ... Lance

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Today at the Tour - Lance and the Livestrong Chalk Bot

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Published July 23, 2010 at 7:23 p.m.

{gallery}10tdf/livestrong:300:155:1{/gallery} ... Take a good, long look ... you won't see this again after Sunday ... If you've watched any of the Tour de France coverage on Versus, you've no doubt noticed the work of the Nike Chalk Bot ... the machine that inscribes messages in yellow chalk along the daily route of the Tour, ... This is one of the best. Lead by teammate Chris Horner, Lance Armstrong rides in fourth place across the word LIVESTRONG emblazoned on the roadway. This Sunday will be

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Lance Armstrong-riding into the sunset?

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Published July 21, 2010 at 2:34 p.m.
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Well I called it wrong the other day. I looked into my Magic 8-Ball and asked, “Will Lance attack on stage 13?” The answer was in the affirmative but I guess even Magic 8-Balls have an off day. Then Armstrong, in what later was described as a planned attack, joined a break that actually stayed [ ... ] ...

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