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Apparently, an active shooter and perhaps a truck attack going on NOW in lower Manhattan....

There were only a few miles left... In cycling, one is often a condemned number. A racer on his or her own is usually no match for a group of riders working together, who can share the effort, take hiding from the wind and gasp of breath of relief. .. Media attention is scant. Abbott has won the Giro Rosa two times, in 2010 and 2013—the Giro Rosa, the freakin’ premier women’s stage race in the world. But unless you’re a bike lunatic, you probably didn’t know any of that. Now Abbott had audiences back in the United States—people who...

Do pictures of John Kerry in his Lycra cycling suit make you wonder if he's running for the right reasons? WHEN JOHN KERRY took a spill from his bike this past weekend, it triggered thoughts of Jimmy Carter's collapse in a road race, Gerald Ford's much-mocked stumbles, and of Kerry's own misadventures on the ski slopes earlier this year. But it wasn't until the pictures of Kerry on his bike appeared that the real damage was done. The electric-lemon Lycra look probably won't play well outside the metrosexual caucus, and it can't be particularly inspiring to the troops living in...