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  The Winners! Overlord’s Awards of Mass Distinction are Announced!

  After many, many, many brown envelopes opened and counted, it is time to announce the victors in my year-end awards for the illustrious sport of cycling. I’d like ...

  On November 11, 2011 / By admin
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  The Trifecta That Shaped U.S. Cycling in the Armstrong Era

  The evolution of funding in cycling from the traditional trade-team format that was prevalent in the sport prior to the mid 1980s to its current sponsor-style format (brought ...

  On November 7, 2011 / By admin
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  The UCI Overlord’s Cycling Tweeters Index of Suspicion – November, 2011

  New faces and new places mark our suspiciousyness list for November. We have concerns that the Lance Armstrong twitter account may actually be a spambot, based upon the ...

  On November 4, 2011 / By admin
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  Pour Some Sugar On Me

  So after all the wailing and gnashing of Slipstream Sport’s collective teeth, bon-vivant and sartorial dandy, Jonathan Vaughters, believes the best way to plug the $5 million hole ...

  On November 3, 2011 / By admin
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  The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 29

  It’s been one hellish day after another for the past three weeks here in Aigle. Depositions, lawyers, end-of-the-season events, Pan Am Games, holiday in the Caribbean, and back ...

  On October 28, 2011 / By admin
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  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Aigle

  The year was 1992. A 51-year-old Hein Verbruggen was president of the UCI and only four years away from joining the hallowed institution that is the International Olympic ...

  On October 27, 2011 / By admin
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  Sporting Crusaders – Beauty and the Beast

  This is part 3 of a series written by Martin Hardie which originally appeared in Spain’s el Pais covering the 2011 Play the Game conference held in Cologne, Germany ...

  On October 27, 2011 / By admin
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  UCI_Overlord’s 2011 Awards of Mass Distinction

  After being trumped by the 2011 Cyclingnews people’s choice awards hosted by William Fotheringham, I’ve had to rush my own poll for year-end awards in the following categories. ...

  On October 26, 2011 / By admin
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  Who is Mauro Gianetti?

  I read @inrng’s blog post about the sponsorship woes of Geox today. That got me thinking about the manager of this team, who has a very special history ...

  On October 20, 2011 / By admin
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  Paris (The end of a series)

  In this sixteenth and concluding part of our series looking at aspects of the revenue-sharing debate, we close where we began, with the Amaurys. And in so doing ...

  On October 20, 2011 / By fmk