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di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO © SAPPADA - Rainbow Sports Books © in esclusiva per Panache magazine © Un negozietto di bici. È lì che tutto è cominciato. Oltre sessant’anni fa. Una piccola bottega a Dundrum, ai piedi delle colline – che in Irlanda considerano montagne – dublinesi.  Orwell Wheelers, dal nome della via – Orwell Road – e giocando a più livelli sulle parole: wheeler è un mezzo con le ruote, wheeler-dealer sta sì per rivenditore ma è anche un termine colloquiale per trafficone, maneggione, affarista; wheelie sta per moto o ciclo ed è anche l’impennata. Nata da un gruppo di amatori nell’inverno nel 1948, Joe Daly – come la sua bottega “Joe Daly Cycles” – l’ha gestita per mezzo secolo.  Oltre ai figli – David, Paul e Francis – ci han corso Stephen Roche e, prima ancora, i primi mentori del futuro campione, Noel O’Neill e Paddy Doran .  O’Neill, nel 1965, da campione nazionale su strada, aveva corso, ahilui «senza gamba», il mondiale basco di La...

https://www.orwellwheelers.org/members/profiles/432-5-decades-with-noel-oneill Written by Dave Mc Published: 30 October 2012  FIVE+ DECADES WITH... Noel O'Neill In interview with Aideen Collard Our long running series of rider profiles makes a return this week after a lengthy break, starting off this week with an interview with our longest serving member, Noel O'Neill. A former National Champion at Road, Track and Time Trial, and having spent almost 60 years with the club through both the good years and the bad, Noel most definitely fits the description of club legend. Years with Orwell? I joined Orwell in 1955 so 55 years give or take a few years with Bray Wheelers . I had three cycling careers as such, firstly before I got married, secondly when I returned to racing at International level and thirdly, after years of working as an official and coaching , I came back to cycling but never raced as a vet preferring training with the Club and touring in...

The Dutch PDM team were trendsetters in the 1980s, and came close to winning the Tour on several occasions, but always just came up short. Procycling looks at their short but influential time in sport Writer William Fotheringham Team Association should be a game all cycling fans play. Name a team. Then say whatever first comes into mind. La Vie Claire: kit. Festina: doping. US Postal Service: Lance Armstrong . ONCE:  Alex Zülle 's spectacles. Molten: Merckx . Sky: the line (and where you draw it). And... PSM: bus. Nowadays, every team has a bus, even outside the World Tour. The vehicle is integral to professional cycling, so much so that when Team Sky were in the pre-launch phase, the design of the bus was a real topic of conversations. The 'Death Star', as David Millar once dubbed it, was an integral part of the iconography and ethos of the team and how they wanted to project themselves. But team buses haven't been around for that long. The team bus as we know it bega...

https://cyclingseen.com/2020/04/21/tdf-1991-cyclings-unknown-scandal-pdm-are-out-of-the-tour/ APRIL 21, 2020  ~ VELORICK The 15 July 1991 was a watershed moment in 90s cycling. If the truth of the eras dark underbelly didn’t reveal itself until the 1998 Tour , then the first warning signs reared its head that day in Brittany . As the riders began to gather in Rennes ahead of a 207.5km ride west to Quimper , the big story according to Phil Liggett was that overnight the PDM team had contracted a virus that was spreading throughout the team. Uwe Raab and Nico Verhoven failed to take the start and during the stage both Martin Earley and Jean-Paul van Poppel abandoned , before Falk Boden fell behind and came in 37 minutes down and outside the time-limit. In one day, the PDM team had lost five of nine riders . In commentary, Paul Sherwen reckoned it was something in the food given how fast it hit them , and being seven years shy of the Festina affair , we had to assume that was...

Due partite in fila non vinte: è "LA" Notizia del Bayern gestione-FLick. Non ingannino il 3-3 col piccolo Arminia Bielefeld; il 2-1 per l'Eintracht in formissima; e lo scivolone al secondo turno in Coppa di germania, ai rigori contro l'Holstein Kiel (co-capolista in Zweite). Fresco campione del mondo (sei-trofei-sei, Das Triple 2020, poi Supercoppe - contro Siviglia e Dortmund - e Mondiale per club in Qatar col Tigres), lo squadrone bavarese fa più clamore quando NON vince: partite, campionati, trofei. L'unico a non risentire di cali, flessioni o appagamenti da pancia piena sembra - anzi, è - Robert Lewandowski: più gol che partite, 31 in 30 sin qui in tutte le competizioni, più 8 assist stagionali per il Giocatore FIFA dell'anno 2020.  Pallone d'oro obbligato se non ci fosse stato il covid. Alle sue spalle, nel 4231 costruito su e per lui, i tre top assistman della Bundesliga: Kimmich e Mueller in doppia cifra ciascuno e a quota 9 Coman, l'ex Juve mat...

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/a-history-on-blood-transfusions-in-cycling-part-3/ The recent revelations by the Dutch newspaper De Volksrant concerning the PDM team's doping regime at the 1988 Tour de France raise more questions than they answer, particularly with regard to the use of blood transfusions in 1980s cycling. Here we consider what is known about the use of transfusions in general and some of the questions these latest PDM revelations raise in relation to the history of blood doping in cycling.  By Feargal Mc Kay   cyclingnews.com - March 07, 2013 The possible sporting benefits of blood transfusions have been public knowledge since the 1940s . Through the 1950s little seems to have occurred on this front but by the 1960s more and more people were interested in ways to manipulate athletes' blood. As we saw in the first part of this series, the 1970s are thought to have seen transfusions come to the fore, though few names have been definitively linked to the...

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/a-history-on-blood-transfusions-in-cycling-part-2/ The recent revelations by the Dutch newspaper De Volksrant concerning the PDM team's doping regime at the 1988 Tour de France raise more questions than they answer, particularly with regard to the use of blood transfusions in 1980s cycling. Here we consider what is known about the use of transfusions in general and some of the questions these latest PDM revelations raise in relation to the history of blood doping in cycling. By Feargal Mc Kay March 02, 2013 In the first part of this series looking at the history of blood transfusions in cycling we've taken the story up to the end of the 1970s. In this part we look directly at the 1980s. After the 1977 confession from Joop Zoetemelk transfusions don't appear again in the known history of cycling until 1984 when, in January of that year, Francesco Moser beat Eddy Merckx's 1972 Hour Record, twice in the space of five days. Everything ...