Monthly Archives: February 2007

Simoni’s gamble: Colle delle Fenestre – Giro d’Italia 2005

As the old cycling adage goes, the Tour plus mountains equals the Giro. Which is not always the case, of course (although the 2007 route of Le Tour is less than adventurous in the mountains), but the Giro d’Italia has two factors in its favour as the race of choice for seeing exciting climbing action.

February 20, 2007 – 5:24 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Stages | Comments (0)

Doping and climbing: an introduction

The implications of doping in the pro peloton for climbing and climbers have been profound and le grimpeur will be covering this theme in a series of posts. But for now, a brief history of doping as an introduction. The recent past as prologue Operacion Puerto in Spain last year was another chapter to the …

February 19, 2007 – 4:51 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Doping | Tagged , | Comments (3)