This post is an annual favorite -- not only because I get to use "hegemony" and a Rembrandt painting [Podium Cafe: cycling's classiest fanblog], but because I get to exercise my inner optimist and predict something that would make cycling even better: a wave of killer Dutch talent washing over the sport. As cycling nations go, the Netherlands is a big deal: plenty of history, decent-sized...
Top sprinter Theo Bos has recently signed a new contract with the Cervelo test team for 2010. This move will see him join hands with another (former) Dutch sprinter, Jean Paul van Poppel, who is one of the team managers. Van Poppel won a total of 10 Tour de France stages in the late eighties and early nineties and has so far proven to be a very good team manager. If this turns out well, Bos is going...
Theo Bos will ride for Cervélo TestTeam through 2011, the Swiss Professional Continental team announced Friday. He is leaving the Rabobank development team after only one year. The 26-year-old made his name in track cycling, winning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics and with five World titles to his credit. He is the most successful Dutch track cyclist of all time, but this season...
Rabobank sprinter Theo Bos has signed a two-year contract with the Cervélo TestTeam. The 26-year-old Dutchman and the team made the announcement at the world road championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Bos originally made his mark as a track racer, earning five world titles and a silver medal in the matched sprint at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Bos made the move to road racing in 2009, winning...
Former track sprint star Theo Bos will leave the Rabobank programme after a his successful transition from the boards to the road. Bos was supported by Rabobank during his track career, where he earned five world championship titles and a silver in the 2004 Olympic Games. Since his transition to the road, the 26-year-old won six races for the team - four stages of the Olympias Tour, the Omloop der...
Most expensive bicycle $1million This unique bike was created by Koga Miyata bicycles for Dutch cyclist Theo Bos and the creator hopes that he can bring an athlete a gold medal at the upcoming Olympic Games. This bike is designed in such a way that ensures the lowest compared with all existing bikes air resistance, but has [...]
With all due respect to the action in Poland and Burgos, the best action over the weekend will probably be a classics-style dogfight on the Tuscan coast, home to the 60th GP Citta di Camaiore. The race is 188km of a figure-eight circuit starting with a parade to/along the Lido in Alessandro Petacchi's hometown, but after this the race engages its distinguishing feature, a 26km loop east of the beach...
South African Daryl Impey will make his return to the professional peloton this week in Italy, after recovering from a serious crash at the Tour of Turkey in April. Team Barloworld scheduled Impey to race in two one-day races this week, GP Carnago on Thursday and the GP Camaiore on Saturday. Impey had facial injuries, broken teeth and two broken vertebrae from the crash on the final stage of the Tour...
Daryl Impey (Barloworld) has returned to Italy to prepare for his return to racing on August 6 in the GP Carnago. The South African was seriously injured after crashing in the final metres of this spring's Tour of Turkey, which he won. "It will be good to be back in the peloton in August and I hope to get onto the podium in one of my remaining races, doing well for the team and the sponsors,"...
Frenchman Kevin Sireau set a new cycling world record at the 200m flying start distance at the Moscow Grand Prix on Friday. Sireau clocked 9.650 seconds, beating the previous record time of 9.772 seconds, which Theo Bos of the Netherlands set on December 16, 2006 at the UCI World Cup likewise at the same Moscow track. Another Frenchman, Gregory Bauge, also beat Bos' old result with a 9.654 second performance...
According to L'Equipe , the UCI has decided to take action against Theo Bos for taking down Daryl Impey in the Tour of Turkey some ten days ago. The period of suspension is expected to be between one and six months.
With so many points of view on the Theo Bos vs Daryl Impey incident I figured that someone had to settle it once and for all. It certainly looked intentional, but too many things didn't add up. Why would Theo throw Impey right in front of himself? Is Theo that much of a nutbar to do something that ridiculously dangerous? Would it even be possible to manhandle someone like that while going 50-60km/hr...
On his blog at rabosport.nl , Theo Bos (NED) writes in Dutch about the aftermath of his crash in the Tour of Turkey where he also took down race leader Daryl Impey (RSA). My translation on the flip. This is really making me sick Theo Bos, 20 Apr 2009 (transl.: tedvdw) The reactions to the crash in the Tour of Turkey are no laughing matter. On Youtube you can see how I seem to intentionally cause a...
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