Word: biking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from a few tame youth cafes and sedate "Western-style" ballrooms from out of the 1930s or so, there is nothing resembling a nightclub in Moscow or elsewhere in the U.S.S.R. More interesting places to go in the evening: the Moscow Circus (bike-riding bears, acrobats on horseback) and the Bolshoi Ballet (6:30 p.m. sharp...
...time bike racing may well be the world's most agonizing sport, and the pressure reaches a peak in the Tour de France-2,990 miles across the plains and mountains under a midsummer sun. Understandably, competitors often take a little something to boost their strength and spirit. Sometimes that little something is a little illegal...
Last week, as the Tour set out from Marseille for the climb up 6,273-ft. Mont Ventoux, Tom Simpson, 29, who in 1965 became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings...
...Spences' bicycle-built-for-two was ineligible for the first prize -- a sleek Allegro touring bike donated by the Bicycle Exchange. The only other tandem entered in the special cycle category puffed acriss the line a half hour later, in last place...
...racing bike class, freshman Rob Kirshner won in 38:44. Dan Hooper, a junior, was second...