Anyone follwing the Tour de France?

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I worked with a guy who was a competitive cyclist and he infected me with the TdF bug in 2003. Now I follow all the action at letour.com where they have these cool displays of the gaps and live commentary.

Man I would love to see him win. Say what you will about the allegations about his personal life, but the man is a true champion and a ruthless competitor. I love it!
 
Indeed he deserves to be noticed and get recognition for what he does. I saw a recent Nike commercial that had him doing a press conference when he was diagnosed with cancer. It was all throughout his body and he said he intended to beat it, and he did :thumbs: And also because of the cancer, it made his body leaner and not as muscular as before the cancer.

Isn't Discovery Channel sponsoring him this year? I saw a funny ass commerical where Paulie and the OCC gang turned Lance's bike into a chopper bike. I was ROFLMAO!!!! :laugh:
 
yes part of the deal with Discovery was that he woudl race at least the first year with the new sponsor (it's pretty much the same team, USPS pulled out and they brought TDC in)
 
Lumberg said:
yes part of the deal with Discovery was that he woudl race at least the first year with the new sponsor (it's pretty much the same team, USPS pulled out and they brought TDC in)
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Ugh!!! I wish USPS would pull out of sponsoring stuff all together and work on lowering stamp/shipping prices. You figure they spend millions on sponsoring that stuff. But that's my view of it anyway.
 
LOL! Good point. It's not like they need to advertise.

Sorta along the lines of why the U.S. government sponsors art. If I want art I'll pay for it. Give me back the money and let me decide for myself. If there is a group of individuals with similar views on art, let them pool their resources and get together a collection.

But I digress.

Lance comes in second in the opening time trial. Go Lance.
 
Yeah but he was only 2 seconds behind the leader and 51 seconds ahead of the guy in 3rd. :thumbs: Only 2423 miles to go!

Lumberg said:
Lance comes in second in the opening time trial. Go Lance.
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Lance always starts slow.

Then the hills and no one has a chance.

I watch the Tour de Lance. :thumbs:
 
Hell ya! I'm a huge fan. Been following the Tour since LeMond's comeback. Now a fanatical follower of all the major road races :rolleyes:
 
Just saw on the local channel that Team Discovery won the TTT with the fastest time in Tour history. (Was in the kitchen listening with one ear so may have misunderstood; but I DID hear that they won it.)

Now I need to watch OLN tonite to see the whole thing. :D
 
They had the fastest speed at 57.31 km/h in the history of TTT. That is a bit deceiving since TTT was started in 2000.

psyktek said:
Just saw on the local channel that Team Discovery won the TTT with the fastest time in Tour history. (Was in the kitchen listening with one ear so may have misunderstood; but I DID hear that they won it.)

Now I need to watch OLN tonite to see the whole thing. :D
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The team time trial has been around for a while, since the early 1990's. They stopped running it for a while and put it back in 2001 it really benifits those teams that actually work as a team. By the way it was the fastest, but let's be honest, the equipment they have now and the aero position compared to the previous record 1995 is night and day. I think Lance is one of the most dedicated cyclist in the world right now, but he is a one tour rider, so he will never be compared to the greats, there will be an asterisk after his name even if he wins a seventh. I think he will and I wish him and the team all the best, this has to be the hardest endurance race out there.
 
Great gesture by Lance today:

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2005/news/story?id=2101411

He decided not to wear the yellow jersey for today's stage because out of respect for Zabriskie; Lance wouldn't have the jersey but for Zabriskie's crash and didn't feel right inheriting it due to another's misfortune.

Apparently he was made to put it on later in the stage by race organizers.
 
crazy finish to todays stage.

The crash was about 900m from the end of the stage and as I understand it if there is a crash in (or near?) the peloton in the last 1km of the stage, everyone in the peloton is scored at the same time.

Lance did not go down.

The crash happened when a hometown favorite took the final turn too fast while leading the stage in slick, rainy conditions.

Anyways no major change in the classifications.
 
Lace just made Jan Ullrich look like a little b1tch in the last kilometer of today's stage.

He also took second, which is an 8 second time bonus, and not only beat Ivan Basso to the line, but put an extra couple of seconds between himself and probably his stiffest competition in the Tour.

I actually came to my mom's and watched the end of the stage on OLN. Pretty cool to see.

Tomorrow's stage is the hardest of the tour and ends with an HC climb.

I'ma say Lance is gonna lay the smack down big time tomorrow. Today was just a b1tch slap.
 
12 second time bonus for 2nd ;)

And I agree. Tomorrow Lance will attack on the last climb and leave everyone behind, including that parasite Basso :D The final time trial will just be for fun and for Lance to put his final signature on Le Tour. I never would have thought he'd only win two stages :0
 
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