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Mediocre “Scumbag” Tyler Hamilton keen to dig up cycling’s bad apples

This article first appeared on Eurosport.Yahoo.com on Saddleblaze’s weekly Blazin’ Saddles blog page. “We would have wanted to invite Tyler Hamilton for other reasons. But he has done ...
On March 28, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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Leaked: Sky’s plans for total podium domination in Tour

It was a sickening move. He was clearly under team orders to hold back and yet he acted on his own impulse, threw caution to the wind and ...
On March 26, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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‘First it was comical, then it was only hell’

The Hell of the (Italian) North came a few weeks early in Sunday’s snow-spattered Milan-San Remo, which reduced a peloton of grown men to frozen tears and ...
On March 18, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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Is there a doctor in the house?

Updated 14 March 2013 A few days ago, Irish journalist Paul Kimmage congratulated Daniel Benson of Cyclingnews for being the only journalist to ask Sky rider Mat Hayman ...
On March 13, 2013 / By dimspace
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Portly Richie sparks the scaremongers into a frenzy

In his latest column for Cyclismas, Blazin’ Saddles drops the wise-cracking facade and has a go at actually writing something vaguely serious… Saddleblaze has a confession to make: ...
On March 11, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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Stud Pippo denied by angelic Kadri in Rome

If ever there was an argument in favour of race radio it came on Sunday when Filippo Pozzato celebrated what he thought was a hard-earned victory in the ...
On March 4, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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Current attitudes do not absolve past sins

Increasingly of late, we’re seeing just how high the skeletons of cycling have been stacked underwater as the tide rolls back to reveal the carnage. The scramble to ...
On February 27, 2013 / By admin
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Wangtastic: The heat is on – just not in Europe

In any other circumstances, this would have been a karaoke night from hell: Tina Turner’s ‘Simply the Best’ on repeat and a colourful, alternating dress code that left ...
On February 25, 2013 / By admin
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REVEALED: 30% of peloton tests positive for horsemeat

Professional cycling is not immune from the lurid horsemeat scandal that has engulfed the UK. This is the view of Dr. Dickmachen die Blutsverwandtschaft, a Germany-based nutriment hygienist ...
On February 18, 2013 / By admin
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Pointing the Finger – Who are the organised criminals?

By Martin Hardie As Spain’s Operacion Puerto trial neared the end of its second week, the Australian Crime Commission has released a report that exposes what it calls ...
On February 12, 2013 / By admin

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