The Tour de France is considered by many to be the greatest sporting event in the world. A bicycle race spread out over 20 days, the Tour is roughly the equivalent of running a marathon, every day, for nearly a month. RideLust recently published a list of things you probably didn't know about...
The Eiffel Tower is named after the very man who designed and built it: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. He is considered one of France’s design, engineering and architectural geniuses. He attained the distinction of Legion d’Honneur in France for his work. Born on the 15th of December 1832 in Côte d’Or,...
Albert Contador this years Tour De France Winner apparently doesnt like Lance Armstrong, nor does he have any respect for him. Which is kind of ironic because without Lance and his teammates I doubt Albert Contador would have advance as far as he did in the Tour De France. "Away from the spotlight...
Political Correctness: the Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the avoidance... of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people." Okay, we can get behind that. But what does it actually mean in reality?
France's Dominque Cottrez infanticide case worst in history of the country. The forty five year old mother of two living daughter's has been convicted of "systematically killing her babies since 1988." Cottrez hid 8 pregnancies and the bodies of her babies from her husband, Pierre Marie....
American Cyclist and former Wall Street Worker Evelyn Stevens nabbed her first stage victory by pulling past Kim Anderson to win stage 4 of the La Route de France on Thursday. "Evelyn Stevens (New York, N.Y.) pulled off her first major European road stage race victory with a win in stage four...
Courtney Love, widow of the late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain, has caused her daughter, Frances, (and late husband) a tremendous amount of embarrassment. The already troubled mother-daughter relations between Cobain and Love's only child may have sunk past the point of no return and the folks at...
Officials from Italy, France, and Switzerland are searching for missing twin girls after their father Matthias Kaspar Schepp commits suicide. The six year old Swiss twins, named Alessia and Livia, went missing on January 30, 2011. Schepp's body was found near a railway station in Bari, Italy,...
Acclaimed French actress Marie-France Pisier was found dead in a swimming pool on Sunday, April 24, 2011. The sixty six year old star of 1978's The Other Side Of Midnight was discovered at the Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer villa she shared with her husband, Thierry funk Bretano during the early hours of...
I wonder if the french can do anything right when it comes to bicycling's greatest event. After winning the tour and taking the podium with his team mate Lance Armstrong the french decided to play the Danish National Anthem instead of the Spanish National Anthem. I thought this tour was a big hit...
