News tagged with tour de france
Research reveals new secret weapon for Le Tour
Winning margins in the Tour de France can be tight – last year just 39 seconds separated the top two riders after more than 90 hours in the saddle. When every second counts, riders do everything possible to gain a competitive ...
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Tour de France Stresses Riders' Bodies to the Limit
Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Armstrong announces birth of son on Twitter
This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Taciturn Armstrong sparks Twitter media boycott
Lance Armstrong's refusal to speak directly to the press at the Tour of Italy has sparked a boycott by some sections of the Italian and anglophone media of the American's online messages.
May 22, 2009 |
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US cyclist, energy firm guilty in French hacking scandal
A French court handed disgraced US cyclist Floyd Landis a suspended sentence and fined energy giant EDF on Thursday after ruling that both used a shady corporate espionage operation to hack computers.
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Redefining the SI base units
(PhysOrg.com) -- Metrology is poised to undergo a profound change that will benefit scientists, engineers, industry and commerce – but which almost no one will notice in daily life.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Turning up the heat to kill cancer cells: The 'Lance Armstrong effect'
The "Lance Armstrong effect" could become a powerful new weapon to fight cancer cells that develop resistance to chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, scientists say in a report in the ACS journal ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Men with testicular cancer benefit by writing positively about the experience, study finds
Men who channeled positive thoughts into a five-week writing assignment about their testicular cancer showed signs of improved mental health afterward, in contrast to men who wrote negatively or neutrally about their condition, ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Probing Question: Do we misunderstand French culture?
Reflecting on his 1879 sojourn in France, Mark Twain -- our most quintessentially American writer -- quipped, “In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand ...
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Jun 17, 2011 |
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'Data geek' brings algorithms to online charity auctions
Jon Carson, chief executive of charity auction site BiddingForGood, describes himself as a "data geek with a social bent."
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Fungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind (w/ Video)
Long before geese started flying in chevron formation or cyclists learned the value of drafting, fungi discovered an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Schwarzenegger checks out China's high-speed rail
(AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy.
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Researchers develop improved tool for cycling fitness
For competitive bicyclists with goals - whether competing in the Tour de France or aiming for the podium at a local race - faster cycling comes from training regimens based on various zones of exercise intensity. New research ...
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Study explains science of soccer
With the attention of sports fans worldwide focused on South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, U.S. scientist John Eric Goff has made the aerodynamics of the soccer ball a focus of his research.
Jul 01, 2010 |
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