Stephen Skory

Found while cleaning my computer, above is a short movie I made a long time ago showing me on TV at the 2002 Tour de France. I’m near the top of the Col du Galibier, which is one of the highest passes in Europe and is used by the Tour de France nearly every year. In the above still image I’m on the left of the frame in a Cal Cycling kit with my yellow Cal hat on. You can hear me yelling ‘¡venga! ¡venga!’ as Santiago Botero (who is Columbian) sprints by for maximum mountain points. Here are one and two and three different views showing how I looked that day. Oh, and here is me and Laurant Jalabert, a two-time Polka-dot jersey winner. I’m pretty happy with how that photo came out.

Above is a video I put together documenting the 2007 Collegiate Track Nationals. I put this race together over the last 10 months (along with a great deal of help from others, especially Chris Nekarda). Held at the San Diego Velodrome, over 100 collegiate cyclists from around the country competed over three days. My team, UCSD, did quite well, and at least one UCSD rider was on every podium.

You can watch the video by clicking on the image above, or if that’s giving you problems, right click here and select ’save link as…’ (or something similar depending on your browser). Then you will play the movie off your hard drive. You’ll also need the most recent version of Quicktime on your computer for either method. If you have a reasonably fast connection, clicking on the image above will start playing the video right away.

Some notes: If I had planned my video a bit more before the event, I could have had done a better job (imagine that!). In particular, a few of my teammates are under-represented in the video, which was purely accidental. I would have liked to have a more even coverage of everyone.

I hope you enjoy the movie. Thanks to Chris Schroeder for letting me borrow his DV video camera, and Chris Nekarda for a few still photographs in the movie.