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Tour de France

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    The Sieben Greatest Kraftwerk Samples

    Kraftwerk fever might have ruffled many of you the prickly way, what with the Great Unobtainable Online Tickets Ruse blighting the band's series of eight chronological album-by-album shows at MoMA this week. But let's look on the bright side! Over the years the Dusseldorf dance merchants have churne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2011

    Lance Armstrong Invites You To Go On a Run With Him Today

    ​What are you up to this afternoon? If you're anything like us, you'll be watching an illegally downloaded copy of The Smurfs 3D while eating the party sub you've been saving since Bastille Day. If you're feeling a little more active, Lance Armstrong has cordially asked you to run through New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2011

    American Drones Carry Out Strikes in Somalia; Maria Shriver Files for Divorce

    ​The United States has stepped up efforts against Islamic extremist groups in Somalia, the New York Times reports. Unmanned drone attacks late last month marked the first American military action in the nation since 2009. Shabab members were targeted after reports that the group was carrying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Vegan Tour de France Cyclist Probably Thinks He's Better Than Us

    Keep pedalling, we're almost at Whole Foods!​Don't you hate it when your vegan buddies hold their dietary practices over you? And don't you despise that guy who completes the Tour de France and acts like he's the man just because he successfully finished the single most grueling test of human ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Lance Armstrong and His Accusers: Processing the Unthinkable

    Lance Armstrong, flanked by two guys accusing him of nothing. Yet.​During Lance Armstrong's recent comeback, the Voice kept a fairly close eye on him. Despite what some commenters seemed to believe, we actually have admired the man and his incredible cycling exploits. For years, of course, Ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Eat Some Funky Funk Before the Stinky Cheese Festival Ends

    recipetips.comEpoisses = smells like butt, tastes good​The Stinky Cheese Festival is ending this Friday, which means there're only two days left to indulge in funky-smelling dairy products. Created by Tour de France, the company that owns Francophilic restaurants like Café d'Alsace, French R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Lance Armstrong in 39 Quotes

    ​To celebrate Lance Armstrong's 39th birthday, Cyclingnews writer Peter Cossins has put together 39 of the cyclist's best quotes that span his long winning career. The collection of utterances neatly describes the highs and lows of Armstrong's storied career, from his first Tour de France sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Lance Armstrong and Nicolas Sarkozy: Two Old Dudes on Bikes

    The king of cycling meets the president of France​At home, we get to watch the Tour de France on a giant TV in glorious HD. But at work, we're forced to find pirated live streams on our desktop from all kinds of sources. For this morning's epic showdown on the Tourmalet between Andy Schleck an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Shows Class as Tour de France Becomes 2-Man Race

    Cyclingnews.com/Roberto BettiniAnother Frenchman wins a stage​Nursing a saddle sore and aches and pains left over from too many crashes to count, it would have been all too easy for Lance Armstrong, now that he's no longer in the hunt for the overall lead, to pack up his bike and go home with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Faces a Crucial Day in the Alps (UPDATE: Lance is Cooked)

    Cyclingnews.com/Fotoreporter SirottiLance stuck close to Contador yesterday​With a mountain-top finish in the Alps this morning, Lance Armstrong has an opportunity to make up some time he lost to his main rival, Alberto Contador. Or, he can simply stick with Contador and look for a later oppor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2010

    Lance Armstrong in the Mountains: The Real Race Begins

    ​What to look for in today's first mountain stage of the Tour de France... We'll see a mad dash for the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey, currently worn by French rider Jérôme Pineau. But the real race to watch involves just a few men who will be testing each other over the six substa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Facing Hecklers and a Doubting Press

    Cyclingnews.com/Roberto Bettini​As the Tour de France settles into a more normal first-week routine of long breakaway attempts and nervy sprint finishes, the cycling press has time to wonder: did a flat tire on Tuesday's chaotic cobblestoned stage doom Lance Armstrong's chance to win his final ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Survives Another Day of Crashes; French Rider Now in Yellow

    Cyclingnews.com/Roberto Bettini​Everyone in the Tour de France fell down and broke their necks yesterday. After choking down giant plates of pasta, enduring some massages, and managing a few hours of sleep, they will all be back on their bikes today for even more wipeouts and compound fracture ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Avoids Pile-Ups To Stay In Strong Contention

    Cyclingnews.com/Fotoreporter SirottiIt was Eddy Merckx day at the Tour​It was old-timer's day at the Tour de France yesterday, in more ways than one. Not only is Lance Armstrong, at 38, trying to become the oldest winner ever in his final Tour, but on a day meant to be an homage to the greates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Starts Tour de France Strong, Calls 1-2 Finish, Too

    Cyclingweekly.com​Thanks to the New York Times, we all know it was the small electric motor hidden in his downtube which allowed Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara to power his way to a win in yesterday's Tour de France prologue. The world time-trial champion blew away the rest of the field on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Slimed on Eve of Tour by French Journalists Rupert Murdoch

    ​Ah, the classic French assault on Lance Armstrong as he's walking to the starting gate of the Tour de France! It seemed to happen every year when the Texan was ripping up the record book at the hallowed French race. On the eve of the event, Le Monde would publish some explosive new allegatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Will Not Win the Tour de France (Tomorrow's Stage, That Is)

    Lance on a funny bike in the good old days​The Tour de France begins tomorrow with a short race of 8 kilometers -- called a prologue -- through the streets of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (No one in the Netherlands cares the slightest bit about this as, right at this moment, the country's team ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Former Dopers Looking for Glory in This Year's Tour de France

    ​Most of the Lance Armstrong news today is about his Twitter announcement yesterday that this year's Tour de France will be his last. (A typical write-up, from the BBC.) But with just a few days to the start of this year's three-week epic, there were some other items of interest...

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2010

    Lance Armstrong's Duel with Former Teammate Looming, Signs Are Iffy

    ​We'll be keeping an eye on what journalists and cycling pundits around the world are saying as 2010's much-anticipated Tour de France nears. This year's edition starts Saturday, July 3 with a prologue, a short spin of 8 kilometers, around Rotterdam in the Netherlands. For Americans, the most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Floyd Landis Admits Doping, Accuses Lance Armstrong and Other Top US Cyclists

    Junkie​Cyclist Floyd Landis has finally admitted to doping, four years after he was caught red-handed and was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France championship. But that news is quickly being overshadowed by Landis's reported accusations against his former teammates, Levi Leipheimer, George Hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Lance Armstrong Mildly Zinged by Andy Samberg in I Love You, Man DVD

    ​Professional cycling goes on even after the Tour de France, but you'd never know if if all you did was follow Lance Armstrong. Even before his comeback, he rarely took part in late-season events after the Tour was finished. So there's little news to report about what Armstrong is up to these days ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    No Admiration for Armstrong? Thank You, Alberto Contador!

    ​You've probably already heard the news that Alberto Contador, the 2009 Tour de France champion, returned to his home country of Spain yesterday and promptly trashed Lance Armstrong, the teammate who helped him win his second Tour championship.What a pendejo, our friend Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2009

    Live-Blogging the Armstrong Comeback: Ventoux!

    ​Well, this is what we've all been waiting for.For the first time ever, the final Saturday in a Tour de France features a high mountain climb, and what a climb! Mont Ventoux is about to begin, and we're ready: we have our coffee and the race playing on Versus.When this course was announced last fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Jockbeat: French Liking Lance Armstrong More This Time

     Are the French finally softening towards Lance Armstrong? Our correspondent in Paris, Bill Strickland, editor-at-large of Bicycling Magazine and co-author  of We Might as Well Win (which chronicles Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories), told us from France just thirty minutes ago th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2009

    Live-Blogging the Armstrong Comeback: Verbier!

    Sipping coffee this morning with Versus on the telly. The Tour de France should become a brutal slugfest in another hour or so, and we figured we'd tap out a few notes as it happens...For some background, take a look at our recent posts on the great French race, or look at our full archives of the A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2009

    Lance Armstrong: Don't Blame Me, George!

    The Tour de France got a lot more interesting today, one day ahead of schedule.We already knew that tomorrow's stage into the Swiss Alps would turn up the fireworks in what has been a "slightly boring" race (according to Armstrong himself).The surprise today was that Lance's old teammate George Hinc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Lance Armstrong is Bored

    We've been thinking it, but Lance went ahead and said it.At the end of today's stage of the Tour de France, which is now nearing the end of its second of three weeks, the seven-time winner used his Twitter account to sum up his feelings about today's leg of the legendary race:"Wet and cold. And slig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    Lance Armstrong Unleashed: A Brief Guide to the Tour de France

    Tomorrow, Lance Armstrong begins cultural learnings of the Tour de France for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan.The 7-time champion is making his return to the Tour as part of a rocky comeback that has included a broken collarbone, some flashes of brilliance, and steadily improving results. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Lance Armstrong On Trial In Italy (UPDATED)

    As we noted several months ago, this year's Giro d'Italia -- Italy's answer to the Tour de France -- was given a very strange layout to celebrate the race's centenary.That layout was designed before race organizers knew that Lance Armstrong was going to make a comeback and race in the Giro for the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Lance Armstrong in Italy: Remembering Cycling's 'Omerta'

    After an unplanned collarbone fracture, Lance Armstrong's comeback gets back on track this weekend with one of his big goals: Italy's three-week grand tour, the Giro d'Italia.For most casual Americans fans, cycling means the Tour de France, and Lance will race in that spectacle in July. But the Giro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Vecsey Gives Lance Armstrong a Nice Trim

    UPDATE: Armstrong responds to the controversy. See end of post.George Vecsey has an interesting column today about something that apparently has the French press in a tizzy: when Lance Armstrong was surprised last month by a French cycling official who showed up and asked for samples for a drug test ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Lance Armstrong's Comeback Fractures in Spain

    The Times crossed its fingers earlier today, hoping against hope that news of Lance Armstrong's crash and injury in Spain didn't result in a fracture. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Cyclingnews.com is now reporting that Armstrong's collarbone was fractured after a spill today on the first da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    The Absurdly Low Price of Lance's Recovered Bike

    The New York Post this morning -- and others, including the Associated Press -- are reporting that Lance Armstrong's time trial bike, which was stolen after the Tour of California prologue in Sacramento, was recovered when a man, not the thief, turned it in to Sacto cops.The bike, the story says, wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Lance Armstrong: The Straight Dope

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    The Armstrong Comeback: Lance's Twitter

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    The Lance Armstrong Comeback: A Programming Note

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    The Lance Armstrong Comeback: 2009's Bizarro Race Routes

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    More CGI: Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Music

    May 31, 2005

    Be Stiff

    German robo-pop legends stand still like mean machines

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    July 22, 2003

    Gilt Trip

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    July 17, 2001

    Sports

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    January 2, 2001

    2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

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    December 5, 2000

    Pump Up Your Clit

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    August 1, 2000

    Cat and Mouse

    Philly Anarchists Stay a Step Ahead of Cops

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    September 14, 1999

    Ex Machina

    Confessions of a Former Gamer

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Competing With Cancer

    Confessions of a Former Gamer

  • News

    July 20, 1999

    Scare Yourself Shiftless

    In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.

  • News

    July 20, 1999

    Pinstriped Perfection

    In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.

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    September 29, 1998

    Betting the Pharmacy

    Rx gains in the race against drugs in sports

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