The Tour de France

Cycling SI really want to clean is to act, would not grant amnesty to those who confess to cheating?

It's crazy that Riis has the balls to admit to doping, and has its Tour de France entitled stripped from him. Meanwhile, drug spineless as Ullrich, Armstrong, Indurain, Pantani and stay with their titles. I guess the Tour wants to send the message that you need to cheat, and do not have the integrity to win.

Amnesty would only allow confessed drug addicts to continue to compete without penalty (no suspension), but rightly, IMO must rescind their victories. LeMond has been dating? Pantani is the only on your list that was ever proven to be a junkie. Ullrich – the jury is still as far as doping, there is no real proof, however, and no evidence or even argument that was doped when he won the TDF. Indurain, no argument, no suspicion (except the LeMond), no positive evidence. Armstrong – simply by French vendatta and Canadian Dick Pound. The only indication of something bad were the experimental study carried out by the hacks LNDD eat cheese. Newsflash – the test is used to implicate Armstrong '99 tour was not accepted. Why? because the test kept giving too many false positives. The cast for proof of age, which showed armstrong clean. Cycling towarding go a long way to clean up your image if you want to get rid of that loudmouth wit and a half pounds and revoke the license LNDDs. There are plenty of other IOC qualified laboratories that do not have a cycling program against a tabloid media outlet (Le'Equippe) quidproquo obviously in agreement.

Stone the Dopers!

Tour De France Italy

The Giro d'Italia has a good history behind it, like the Tour de France began to publicize a newspaper, as the Tour de France organizers made the leaders jersey the same color as the paper, yellow French newspaper L'Auto and pink in Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport. The first Giro was in 1909 and 2448 was miles long (shorter), divided into 8 stages and was won by Italian driver Luigi Ganna, 127 riders started in Milan, but towards the end, also in Milan, there were only 49 left, this was not the worst issue, in 1914 only 8 of the 81 owners did the distance complete.

The winners.

Like the Tour de France and Tour of Spain, the Tour of Italy always have a deserving winner, three drivers have won five times, Alfredo Binda and Fausto Coppi of Italy and the great Belgian Eddy Merckx, Merckx, of course, also won the Tour de France five times and the Vuelta a time. There many other "stars" who won the Giro in recent years, the Frenchman Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault heroes and Miguel Indurain of Spain have All May 1 Tours of France and the Giro more than once. The pilots of the houses have obviously been the big winners, Felice Gimondi, Gino Bartoli, Ivan Gotti, Gilberto Simoni Paolo Savoldelli and have all ways shown not win, but the battles between Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser in the 80's are epic. The strangest rider have taken part in the Giro d'Italia would be Alfonsina Morini Strada, which is the only woman to have ridden the race and finish!

The race itself.

The Giro d'Italia started off eight times, being the farthest either Belgium, Greece and possibly the Dutch city of Groningen, which hosted the opening individual time trial in 2002. When the race is on Italian soil, the main difficulties are often the Alps, Dolomites and Apennines, the Giro is in May so you can get large increases in terrible weather, snow, rain and cold temperatures can shape the race and determine the winner.

The future of the Giro d'Italia.

The future of the Giro d'Italia looks good, as the UCI (International Cycling Union's governing body) brought on the Pro Tour all 20 teams riding the race, before only receive all Italian teams and some teams sponsor foreign interests in Italy, now the race is also shown on free television, while that before could only be seen in a private station. The 2005 edition was one of the best years, the best equipment, the best drivers and the race course brought to life lasts for years had become a procession to the Giro last hour, then took charge of the sprinters. The climbers had some stages really hard and the team leaders would not work for all the hills or in the time trial, and that was, is now one of the most exciting races staged there from begging to end.

History of the Tour De France P3

What does SWABO mean?

It was painted on the road for the tour de france. What does it mean? SWABO?

I believe it is a cycling team from the Netherlands.

Road painting for Wiggins, 2009 TdF