Message by Richard Pestes Its time to start planning that Fall trip to Italy and at least one place you gotta see is Lake Como, where the riding, scenery, food & drink guarantee a most memorable trip. A stay at the hotel Il Perlo Panorama just above Bellagio provides the perfect base
Message by Alastair Hamilton Race Report: A sprinters' day with a climb near the start, the usual break went up the road, but they were only allowed a maximum lead of 3 minutes and were just out there for the show. In the end Mark Cavendish made it look sooo easy!
Message by Alastair Hamilton The Vuelta might be the big race of the moment but there is loads of Trash to be trawling through. More transfer news, big races coming up in Canada and the U.S. and then there are the Worlds and the end of season races in Italy, but the Tour of Lombardy and Piemonte have not invited some top teams! Read all about it!
Message by Jered Gruber Today's 208 kilometer stage from the coastal Catalonian city of Vilanova i la Geltru to the majestic heights of the Andorran ski town of Pal at 1900 meters was always set to be the first major test of this year's Vuelta. There have been a number of quizzes so far, but the beyond category final climb to Pal proved the perfect battleground to begin the whittling process of the favorites.
Message by Edmond Hood Johnnie Walker, unless you were a Footon-Servetto fan, up until stage two of this years Vuelta, you probably thought it was the name of a whisky? But last Sunday the 23 year-old from Sale, Gippsland, Australia was in the limelight of world cycling as moto 1 which covers the break, focussed on his Footon- Servetto jersey for much of the stage. We interrupted Johnnies rest day peace to ask him a few questions.
Message by Dave Aldersebaes Race Report: A long day on some deceivingly tough roads met the peloton at the Vuelta after the first rest day at 175.7km stage from Tarragona to Vilanova i la Geltrú. Imanol Erviti attacked his breakaway mates and stayed away for a fine, hard earned win on hot Spanish roads today.
Message by Edmond Hood August 1st - that can only mean one thing. It's stagiaire time. Almost 100 young men got the chance to realise their dream of riding for a pro team at the beginning of last month. Some have stepped up with big results and a precious contract for 2011, others have not. PEZ spoke to a man we've been keeping an eye on and who's already racing as a stagiaire with a team that punches above it's weight - AN Post. He's 19 years-old, from Dublin - Mr. Philip Lavery.
Message by Dr. Stephen Cheung, Ph.D. For many of us, a highlight of the cycling year is a multi-day cycling event. For some, its a stage race. For others, its a bike tour. As we know, one of the keys to making such events tolerable, let alone enjoyable, is good food. Eating well and properly is not only good for the morale, but its critical in ensuring adequate recovery for another day of hard effort. What do elite cyclists do in terms of eating and energy output over the course of a hard stage race?
Message by Alastair Hamilton Roadside Pez St. 9: Sun, sand, mountains and a bike race, it cant get much better than this! Well it could I guess, if it had been possible to see all of the seven classified climbs and the finish then that would have been tops! Good news for next year; La Vuelta 2011 will start in Benidorm; I could walk there, if I wanted too!
Message by Chris Selden The Vuelta rolls into a rest day today but there's no rest for the EuroTrash which has been steadily piling up since last Thursday's edition. We have transfers, returns, sadness, joy, investigations and retirements plus much more in yet another EuroTrash Monday!
Message by Edmond Hood Race Report: Aggressive and opportunistic Caisse dEpargne domestique David Lopez was the man who grabbed the stage win glory at the top of the punishing drag into Alcoi at the end of another long hot day in the saddle with Euskaltels Igor Anton doggedly hanging on to the leaders jersey despite Joaquin Rodriguez trying to wrest that single but vital second from him in the finale.
Message by Alastair Hamilton Roadside Pez St. 8: Everyone said that the real La Vuelta started today and they were not wrong. Three climbs close together near the end would sort a few things out, but it was an early break that made the news with Mountain Man Moncoutie leading the charge.
Message by Gordan Cameron Race Report: Its a sad start to the first big mountain stage of this years Vuelta. Team Skys masseur Txema González passed away yesterday and the distraught team and staff have all left the race. Theres a minutes silence to remember a universally popular personality in the cycling world, and PezCyclingNews sends our condolences, too.
Message by Edmond Hood Fairy tales are rare in pro cycling, but 25 year old Matthew Busches story is about as a close as they come. At the beginning of the 2009 season, he was riding as an amateur in the US, then Kelly Benefits snapped him up, he rode a mere four races for them before Johan Bruyneel signed him for Team Radioshack. Busche's first year in the pro ranks has been a whirlwind tour capped off recently be a stellar finish at the Tour of Denmark.
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