Lombardia06: Bettini The Champion!
Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:28:59 AM PT
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Yesterday, Paolo Bettini admitted to entertaining thoughts of quitting bike racing following the death of his brother, Sauro. He continued only because he felt that Sauro would want him to do his jersey justice and win, and today, there was nothing stopping little Paolo Bettini. It seems that most days that Bettini wants to win, Bettini wins, but when Bettini has a true mission with help on his shoulders - it's a done deal.
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Lombardia06 Preview: Friday On La Corsa
Friday, October 13, 2006 12:30:12 PM PT
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Friday the 13th unlucky for some, but not so much for PEZ-Man Bob Cullinan who spent the day riding over the Giro di Lombardia corsa around Lake Como in northern Italy. He also sent us some photos of the day… thanks a lot Bob… lucky s.o.b.
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PEZ Italia: Giro Dell'Emilia
Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:36:41 AM PT
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PEZ-Man In Italia, Alessandro Federico, was on the spot at the Giro dell'Emilia last week for one of the great Italian Fall Classics. He brings us a fantastic report on the race, the people, the food, everything that makes a great race...well, great.
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PEZ Preview: Giro Di Lombardia 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:18:03 PM PT
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The curtain rises in March on the Italian Riviera with La Primavera, Milan - San Remo, and it slides back down with the leaves in October at the Tour of Lombardy. The Giro di Lombardia is a "Monument", one of five historic races which form the very soul of the sport. La Primavera and Lombardia plus Paris - Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and Liege - Bastogne - Liege are the holy quintet. PEZ takes a historical march through the long history of the Race of the Falling Leaves.
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Emilia & Lombardia: The Italian Fall's Jewels
Monday, October 09, 2006 7:39:40 PM PT
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Just as Milan-San Remo provides a glorious opening to Italy’s pro cycling season in spring, the Giro dell’Emilia and Giro di Lombardia serve as bitter sweet season finales, the last chances for some riders to redeem an unsuccessful campaign, or for others to apply their permanent stamp of authority before the long winter begins. PEZ’s Alessandro Federico presents his usual atmospheric, impressionistic preview of the upcoming fall classics.
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ParisTours06: Guesdon's Triumph!
Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:25:25 PM PT
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35-year-old Frederic Guesdon took a hugely popular French victory today on the Avenue de Grammont, after an incredibly aggressive day of racing that saw half the field out of the race before the race had even really hit the business end. Guesdon managed to outlast a strong Kurt-Asle Arvesen for his biggest win by far since his astounding victory at Paris-Roubaix 9 years ago.
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PEZ Preview: Paris-Tours '06
Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:39:49 PM PT
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Paris - Tours, the sprinters' classic, made for Mario Cipollini. The trouble was that he had been on the beach for three months by the time it came round so he never even saw the podium. The podium is also that rare thing - a Merckx-free zone. This is the only one of the 'old' classics in which Eddy did not make the stats. PEZ takes a look at this weekend's Classic.
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Scotland's Tour Of The Trossachs
Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:16:04 AM PT
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Scotland - lochs, heather, mountains and Mel Gibson with his face painted, right? Yeah, yeah, but we have produced the odd good bike rider too guys, and there's no other race in Scotland that has served as a better beacon for success than the Tour of the Trossachs.
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Zuri-Metzgete: The Historical Look
Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:55:39 PM PT
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The Rainbow Jersey has been won by Bettini and lost by everybody else, but there's still work to do. There are three classics to fight for, The Championship of Zurich, Paris-Tours and the final Monument of the year - the Giro di Lombardia. First up is Zurich and PEZ gives a little history of those 240 kilometeres around the hills close to the city of gnomes and bank vaults.
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ZURICH Preview: PEZ Rides The Course
Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:29:24 PM PT
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The Championship of Zurich, or the Zuri-Metzgete, will be an entertaining race as always - with a number of heavy hitters coming to Switzerland on great form. But really, how tough can a race beside the beautiful Swiss lake be? We rode a couple laps to see for ourselves…
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Worlds06: It's All About The Fans
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:11:14 PM PT
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Fans make a race special. They add the colour, the spice. They make you laugh, shake your head and sometimes their dedication amazes you. It's not fair to grade them, travelling down from Finland deserves as much of a mention as nicking life-size Tom Boonen cut-outs from your local supermarket in Gent then taking them to Austria.
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Worlds06: Bettini’s Breathless Finish!
Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:29:24 AM PT
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‘Il Grillo’ himself, Paolo Bettini, has completed his set of one-day honours with a brilliant victory at the Worlds in Salzburg. After a couple of attacks to get away, Bettini was in the right place at the right time, profiting from Spain’s attempt to set up Alejandro Valverde.
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Worlds06: Mr. Hood's Blow By Blow Account
Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:22:05 AM PT
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It has been a long week already for PEZ-Man in the trenches, Edmond Hood, but it's all been a mere prep for the big day: the Elite Road World Championship. After a refreshing night's rest, it was on to the big business of the biggest one-day bike race around.
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Worlds06: Double Gold Surprise In The Women!
Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:31:31 AM PT
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A lady that loved the World Champ’s stripes so much she just had to have two candy striped jerseys this year took home the gold in the Women’s Road Race. Marianne Vos, this year’s World Cyclocross Champion and only 19 years old added another jersey to her wardrobe in a strong display in Austria today.
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Worlds06: Mr. Hood's Inspection Of 'Die Runde'
Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:28:29 AM PT
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Once again PEZ spares no expense and takes you on a guided tour of the circuit in and around beautiful Salzburg, Austria for the 2006 World Elite Road Race Championship.
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Worlds06 U23 RR: Ciolek The Next Zabel?
Saturday, September 23, 2006 7:32:50 AM PT
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Today we will find out what the road course is really like, the under 23 men’s race usually starts fast to split things up and then slows down, the Pros/Elite race starts slow then gets faster, but looking at the hills there will be a big group sprint tomorrow.
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Worlds Mens TT: Fabulous Cancellara!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:16:22 AM PT
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No need for anything else in our headline today. Fabian Cancellara produced a scintillating ride to destroy the rest of the elite mens’ TT field. The CSC man, resplendent in his classic red and white national kit, put 90 immaculately precise Swiss seconds into the best of the rest.
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Worlds06: Elite TT History And Preview
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:33:12 PM PT
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It almost seems commonplace now, the World Time Trial Championship, but it was only a little over a decade ago when the first Worlds TT took place with a certain Boardman coming out on top. PEZ's Ed Hood is in Salburg and takes a look at the brief history of the Worlds Chrono and previews what's coming tomorrow.
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Worlds06 TT: Armstrong & Cornu On Top
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:47:53 PM PT
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The first races of the World Championship races are done and dusted and it’s rainbow glory going to an American and a Belgian after impressive rides in the Women’s Elite and U23 Men's time trials in sunny Austria today.
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Chrono Champenois Previews Women's World TT
Friday, September 15, 2006 10:43:43 AM PT
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Pascal Orsini packed a bottle of cold champagne and a collection of his hand-painted cycling miniatures when he headed to the 17th Chrono-Champenois
time trial this week in France. He reports that he found the full-sized competitors at the women’s 1.1 UCI event nearly as impressive as the mini-me’s, and the race might offer a preview of the upcoming World’s Time Trial Championships.
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Racing: Carrera de San Rafael
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:25:11 PM PT
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Sitting in the comfort of our cubicles, watching the pros duke it out on European soil via internet broadcast is all well and good - but nothing compares to the ‘reality show’ of getting out there and doin’ it yourself. Last weekend’s Carrera de San Rafael served up some sunny local racing – NorCal style…
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USPRO'06 RR: Easy As Pie For Hincapie
Sunday, September 03, 2006 8:03:57 PM PT
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It all seemed scripted from the very beginning - George Hincapie racing in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina for the stars and stripes over the climb he does in training over and over and over - he was supposed to win, and he did. The racing was wildly aggressive from the first minute onward with nary a let-up - PEZ was there for each roundhouse, upper-cut, and kidney shot.
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BRITTour06: A Little Controversy
Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:28:57 PM PT
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Tom Boonen, Belgium and Quick Step, world elite champion - he’s the polite, smiling handsome ‘boy-next-door’ isn’t he? Even the ‘boy-next-door’ ‘loses-it’ sometimes though - take Saturday’s penultimate stage of the Tour of Britain for example. But let’s have Pez-diarist Michael Morkov (Denmark) tell the story.
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USPRO TT'06 - Don't Fall Down
Friday, September 01, 2006 2:43:03 PM PT
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On paper it might have seemed a done deal, but if it weren't for Chris Baldwin's dumping it in the final corner, the result could have been different...but it wasn't, Baldwin fell down, and David Zabriskie, he of the new beard, took the US TT Title. PEZ was there for all the fun...and walking.
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BRITTour06 St.2: Scrapbook
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:51:05 PM PT
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Today’s stage of the tour of Britain ran under typically British skies – clouds, a spot of rain, and even some sun…! PEZ photog Richard O’Brien rode the stage with Alan Peiper in the Davitamon Lotto team car – not too shabby - Here’s a look…
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