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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Tour de France’

  • Rehashing the Contador-Astana Feud

    In researching my last post, I reread a bunch of articles on why Contador left Astana. Although there were issues when Armstrong was riding with them regarding pay and of course, the team almost lost its license at one point, it looks like mens sports equipment was the big issue or the straw that broke […]

  • Contador crosses the line in Stage 20 of the 2010 Tour de France

    Congratulations Contador and Golubev!

    As everyone knows by now, Alberto Contador won the Tour de France! It was a great race between him and Andy Schleck. And teammate Alexandre Vinokourov won the 13th stage, so it was a great Tour de France for Kazakhstan! Also, for all the talk about how Armstrong was 38 years old and therefore we […]