Articles by Dan Empfield

Any circa-1984 cyclist who saw the original Look pedal, and who was a snow skier, recognized the genius, and the simplicity, of the design. Twenty-five years later, Look has not squandered its first-to-market advantage.

I read Cyclingnews.com with vigor. I do so every morning. A cup of coffee, a muffin, and that site starts things off right for me. It was during one of my forays over to Cyclingnews, reading Tour coverage, that I saw an ad for Cenegenics.

This shoe snuck up on me. I didn’t see it coming. It doesn’t only look good, it has a great fit and that’s not the end of it. Tim DeBoom inspired this shoe, and the result is solid.

In timed racing, SRAM’s Force has been the forgotten gruppo. Sandwiched between Shimano’s Ultegra and SRAM’s own well received Red group, Force is the homecoming queen that nobody thought to ask to the prom.

ITU racing is compelling, the athletes are superb, it’s good, hard, clinical, scrubbed, white bread, racing. Until this past weekend, when it finally, happily, developed an edge.

Even on his next-to-last day, none of us would have been surprised to see him swing his feet out over the side of his hospital bed, stand up, shake out the kinks and stride off down the hall, with his bare ass hanging out of his gown, trailing tubes and wires and shedding cancer cells like fleas.

Andy Potts continues to win, Rebeccah Wassner ascends to the podium’s top step, each against strong fields at the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon. Potts and Alicia Kaye will sit atop the Toyota Cup standings.

Leading sports nutritionist and top AG triathlete Asker Jeukendrup was just named Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. We slowed him up a little, to ask him a few questions.

Imagine the Titanic, everyone queuing up to discover find half the number of requisite lifeboats. When I find half the number of necessary port-o-johns, this is when I don the mantle of Port-o-Nazi.

Jimmy Riccitello, who heads up WTC’s officials program, and Charlie Crawford, longtime head of officiating at USA Triathlon, spoke to Slowtwitch about this past weekend’s rules questions.

The Amgen Tour of California was the dreamchild of Andrew Messick, who ran massive AEG’s sports division. He’ll try to leverage that success as Ironman’s new CEO

AS AEG’s Andrew Messick moves across to WTC, what is Providence Equity Partners’ strategy, and what does this mean for Ben Fertic? Here’s what Slowtwitch thinks of the recent hire.