A new weekly summary thing that we'll probably never do again
Published by Halverde on 7/05/2007 at 09:19.
Here's a fun list of things we've learned in the not-quite-a-week since we last updated. We really love lists.
CONI are so wacky.
"Oil for Drugs" is such a stupid name that we actually thought that somebody was having us on. But no, it really is a genuine investigation (you can tell because it's been going since 2004 and it's still not even close to reaching any kind of resolution). It's all so haphazard that we're not entirely sure who's implicated and who isn't, something that's further confounded everyone with CONI's decision to ban Petacchi for a year and seemingly ignore Piepoli's non-negative test at the same time. Hooray, we said a bad thing about an anti-doping body -- this is bound to get us a mention on Trust But Verify.
CyclingNews.com is a million times more valuable than this site.
According to our last stock market valuation, DerailedUK was worth £2.20 provided we threw in the keyring we got at the top of Mont Ventoux and the Che Guevara hat we bought in Amsterdam. We were generally pleased by this. But now that CyclingNews has sold for £2,200,000, we're starting to feel a little insignificant. Hopefully this will kickstart a series of cycling website buyouts as major publishers scramble to get in on the action, and we'll be able to sell this site for £50,000 and retire to a small studio flat in a rougher part of Hull.
"Tip Top Girls" is a geniune contest.
At least, it is according to a badly-translated press release we've received. Luckily, said press release includes such words as "stiff", "members", "ease" and "cheek", so we're planning on turning this into a full update at some point this week. We like it when ASO makes it easier for us to keep this site updated (with smut).
Cycling.TV's prologue preview is the best in the world. Ever.
Us being nice about things is happening increasingly often, but that's just payola and most of you have learned to just scroll past it and get to the next bit where we go all "scathing". However, Cycling.TV's prologue preview is actually really good. At least ten times better than all the hyperbole of the print media and the helmet-cam nonsense of the rest of the internet, in fact. Rumour has it that they actually got arrested filming it, which means they've overtaken us in the "piss off lots of authority figures in the name of cycling journalism" stakes.
CONI are so wacky.
"Oil for Drugs" is such a stupid name that we actually thought that somebody was having us on. But no, it really is a genuine investigation (you can tell because it's been going since 2004 and it's still not even close to reaching any kind of resolution). It's all so haphazard that we're not entirely sure who's implicated and who isn't, something that's further confounded everyone with CONI's decision to ban Petacchi for a year and seemingly ignore Piepoli's non-negative test at the same time. Hooray, we said a bad thing about an anti-doping body -- this is bound to get us a mention on Trust But Verify.
CyclingNews.com is a million times more valuable than this site.
According to our last stock market valuation, DerailedUK was worth £2.20 provided we threw in the keyring we got at the top of Mont Ventoux and the Che Guevara hat we bought in Amsterdam. We were generally pleased by this. But now that CyclingNews has sold for £2,200,000, we're starting to feel a little insignificant. Hopefully this will kickstart a series of cycling website buyouts as major publishers scramble to get in on the action, and we'll be able to sell this site for £50,000 and retire to a small studio flat in a rougher part of Hull.
"Tip Top Girls" is a geniune contest.
At least, it is according to a badly-translated press release we've received. Luckily, said press release includes such words as "stiff", "members", "ease" and "cheek", so we're planning on turning this into a full update at some point this week. We like it when ASO makes it easier for us to keep this site updated (with smut).
Cycling.TV's prologue preview is the best in the world. Ever.
Us being nice about things is happening increasingly often, but that's just payola and most of you have learned to just scroll past it and get to the next bit where we go all "scathing". However, Cycling.TV's prologue preview is actually really good. At least ten times better than all the hyperbole of the print media and the helmet-cam nonsense of the rest of the internet, in fact. Rumour has it that they actually got arrested filming it, which means they've overtaken us in the "piss off lots of authority figures in the name of cycling journalism" stakes.
