Showing posts with label Tour de France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour de France. Show all posts
Saturday, July 06, 2019

Pacharán for breakfast as I pay homage to San Fermin and Le Tour.

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Every year is the same, and I feel it again: San Fermin and Le Tour. I understand there'll be numerous rejoinders to both, ranging fr...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Lance Armstrong with Joe Rogan; two hours well spent.

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This interview may be three years old, but I've finally discovered Joe Rogan of late and his chat with Armstrong is informative and...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

Frustrated Europhile, first of two: "Beercycling with or without Le Tour."

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The worldliness of the World Cup aside, it's the pinnacle of trifectas for Europhiles like me, because all at once, there's an all-E...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: Beercycling with or without Le Tour.

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ON THE AVENUES: Beercycling with or without Le Tour. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. (This column was originally published at Potabl...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

As the Tour begins: "Lance Armstrong cheated death, and then he kept on cheating."

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The 2016 Tour de France began today. The documentary film is from 2014. Storyville: The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing   ( BB...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

The Tour de France, bicycling and walking.

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The 102nd Tour de France began today. Last year I wrote about it at Potable Curmudgeon :  The PC: Beercycling with Le Tour. It's ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Guardian video: Tour de France in numbers.

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Better riding through chemistry? With the 100th Tour de France starting from Corsica on Saturday, this short film highlights the di...
Friday, June 28, 2013

It's time for the 100th Tour de France.

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On Saturday, it's the 100th Tour de France, and the first since Lance Armstrong  fessed up. Drugged or not, he was especially ferocious ...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Jenkins: "Would you want to go before that court?"

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Even the most casual of sports fans surely held an opinion about Lance Armstrong, just as they did in baseball with Barry Bonds. I remain fi...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Tour de France begins this weekend.

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I have 1,126 biking kilometers since January 1, powered by craft beer, bile and spittle. Tour de France 2012: an interactive guide , by P...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: Vive le beercyclist!

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ON THE AVENUES: Vive le beercyclist! By ROGER BAYLOR Local Columnist In a perfect and thus unattainable world, Bank Street Brewhouse’s openi...