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2009 Tour de France

Tour 2009 wrap: Winners and losers

Ross Tucker · 27 Jul 2009 ·

In attempt to alleviate my own withdrawal symptoms now that the Tour is over, I thought I’d do a somewhat tongue in cheek review of the Tour, styled as the Tour Oscars – the winners and losers from France. The first Oscar – The Contribution award It’s been an epic Tour, at least in as […]

Tour 2009 rolls to an end

Ross Tucker · 26 Jul 2009 ·

The 2009 Tour de France sprinted its way to an end today, and as was expected from about a week and a half ago, it was Alberto Contador who ended on top of the cycling world, winning his second Tour title. The finish of the race, up and down the Champs Elysees is a great […]

Tour de France 2009: Contador VO2max

Ross Tucker · 24 Jul 2009 ·

I came across this interesting piece on Cyclingnews this morning. It caught my eye because it’s an extension of a . In the article, Antoine Vayer calculates that given Contador’s power output on that climb (which he calculates as 490W for a 78kg “normalized” rider – more on that later), and with one or two assumptions to turn […]

Tour de France 2009: Time-trial analysis

Ross Tucker · 23 Jul 2009 ·

Alberto Contador showed in the Alps that he is the best climber in the Tour (regardless of what the polka dot jersey says), and today, he underlined his status as the number 1 rider in the 2009 Tour by winning the 40.5km individual time-trial in Annecy. For the Tour’s best climber to do so well in […]

Tour 2009: Alps recap

Ross Tucker · 23 Jul 2009 ·

I must apologize for the absence of posts in the last few days – work has simply demanded too much time squeeze out anything other than a short summary of the stages, and you can get plenty of those elsewhere, so I haven’t been writing. I am planning to be “back on the bike” for […]

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