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Now that Bay Area resident and Lance Armstrong teammate Levi Leiphiemer took Monday's lead in the Tour of California bicycle race, some Snitchophrenics have taken notice of this Big International Sporting Spectacle, and come away confused.Funny clothes, foreign sponsors, misshapen bodies, absurd bikes, and weird nomenclature made the Tour seem more like a rolling production of Borat than a bona-fide sporting event.SF Weekly sets out to clear up confusion with our first installm
Part II of our explainer of California's new favorite bike race. For Part I, click here. Q: What could beat seeing ballerina-thin American demi-gods Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer prance weightlessly up mountain passes in pursuit of victory in a week-long endurance contest?
A: Seeing an actual muscle-bound Norwegian God storm toward the finish line at 40mph, while hacking at his rivals with his elbows, in pursuit of a sprint-finish victory likely to be measured in miliseconds.
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Part III of our explainer of California's new favorite sporting event. Read Part II here, and Part I here. Q. In your installment about Tuesday's stage victor, Norseman Thor Hushovd, you said bike racing's low-impact training meant fewer injuries and greater athleticism. So is cycling a sportsman's Valhalla?A. It's not. Unless you believe Odin rules a place where Einherjar are always on the verge of sickness, walk with great pain, live in constant risk of calamitous trauma, lurch from unhealt
Since he was 12, Steven Cozza has led a crusade against the Scouts' anti-gay policies. What will happen now that he's grown up to discover sports and girls?
As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all.
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Levi LeipheimerLevi Leipheimer, the petite, bald-headed San Rafael resident who until Thursday was considered a possible dark horse to win the Tour de France, dropped out Friday with a wrist fracture suffered in a crash during Wednesday's stage, according to press reports.Though Leipheimer's Astana teammates, Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, were garnering the lion's share of the Tour's media attention, Leipheimer had quietly positioned himself for a possible overall Tour win, sitting in fo
www.lcpstc.orgWhodunnit?The San Francisco Police are quick to note that 61-year-old homeless woman and convicted arsonist Fafa Chan is not a suspect in the series of car fires that plagued the city last month. But SFPD spokeswoman Lyn Tomioka was quick to note to SF Weekly that once Chan was arrested on July 30, the fires mysteriously ceased. It's a point the Chronicle noted yesterday -- as is the notion that this is just about the only "evidence" the cops have against Chan in the car fires.
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Despite your PBR tattoo, pimped-out track bike, and closet full of guayabera shirts and skinny pants, admit it: your life as a hipster was incomplete. You desperately searched for meaning at Kuduro parties, chic art openings, and monster truck rallies. You were halfway through your mashup mix of Brazilian tropicalismo and hair-metal when you realized: if only I had a "Prince vs. Michael Jackson" wristband, my life would be worth m
www.lcpstc.orgOther than disturbingly large swaths of the population of France, not so many people get a kick out of immolating cars. So when automobiles started going up like foreclosed factories in the East Bay, a natural thought was, "I wonder if this has something to do with all those car fires we had here in San Francisco?" San Francisco police had that notion, too -- but Inspector Jeffrey Levin said he's been in close contact with the lead investigator at the Richmond Police Department,
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