The Tour - Is anyone excited?
I'm not.
I bought a guide and can't be bothered looking at it.
I realised yesterday it starts this week. Everything which has happened has worn me down and I've lost interest.
Hope it changes when it starts.
And I hope it's not a snooze fest!
I bought a guide and can't be bothered looking at it.
I realised yesterday it starts this week. Everything which has happened has worn me down and I've lost interest.
Hope it changes when it starts.
And I hope it's not a snooze fest!
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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So I'm not that excited yet. But it is only Monday.
The lack of a prologue doesn't bother me, but how are they going to figure out who's the yellow jersey when the first four stages end in bunch sprints and there are no bonus seconds? Could be a bit confusing...
It's a soap opera with many plots. Just as last year I found the GC to be meaningless, you can ignore the pharmaceutical contest where different haemtalogists put their guinea pigs to the test and look at the other stories in the race. Maybe this time we'll see some teams come out and publish their data. Does Rasmus Daamsgard actually do anything?
Instead, I want to know if Philip Gilbert can win the opening stage, will Mark Cavendish get a win? Can the reputedly clean teams compete on an equal footing? It's still a drama, there are moments of sport.
It's like the walk around the paddock at the Grand National
Must admit, I'm not getting the old tingles of expectation myself. For the first time in many years, I booked a 2 week holiday in July, not even occured to me that I might be missing something!
Hoping I muster up some interest for the final week when I'm back.
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
Blog (incl. bikes)
Advantage: Reading page after page of what's going on in L'Equipe
Disadvantage: Commentry is in French!
Anyway, I prefer the High mountain stages, so bring on Sunday 13 July.
This year will probably be the cleanest tour for quite a while, of course there's always the risk that our heroes are taking us for chumps, but its something I've had to get used to after Operation Puerto, (wasn't in the sport when Millar got caught).
I'll probably watch just a couple of stages, TT's, some mountains stages and the first stage.
What a charade the Tour is this year....
Just waiting for the UCI to drop a doping bomb before or during the Tour. :shock:
It was incredible. I think it was a separately published guide rather than a magazine supplement.
PS Yes, I'm excited, July's my favourite month.[/url]
VeloNews' guide is also a separate guide -- about 3 times as many pages as the regular magazine.
Well i for one am looking forward to it as i am going across to France and will be possibly watching Stage 4 and definately gonna be on the slopes to Hautacam watching stage 10 . But then its a professional cycle race and i always find them enjoyable to watch. Despite its troubles IMO the TDF is the greatest annual sporting event in the world that may be a naive viewpoint but thats my view.
cheers
MG
Otherwise, Valverde, Cunego and the Schlecks will disappoint and Cadel will probably bore his way to a win. Can Sanchez save the tour? I doubt it.
That said, I think stage 1 will be better than expected. Maybe not for the sprinters.
.... and my first Etape on Sunday.
http://2008etape.blogspot.com/
by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
And I get to watch cycling every night for three weeks!
Sure, last year was a doping farce, but it was still an exciting race, even though the true winner got the boot,
I have to be honest, there have been some mind numbingly boring Tours in the past two decades, but it's alaways a great spectacle and the one race that gets tv justice.
Personally, I much prefer the Giro, as a race, but it's often poorly covered in the UK.
Plus, it's always nice to see the French enjoying a months holiday, before they go on their August month holiday! :shock:
Not only that its promising to be the most open tour yet. You all sound like you'd rather watch the good ol'pumped EPO tours. remember there were exciting tours before the armstrong years too.
Any cycling for us to watch is great. And if you don't wanna watch don't, but i bet ya do!
I don't buy the tour special guides. Same s**t different year, i see them as a bit of money making exercise. But I am really excited about it.
I would like to see a prologue though, doesn't seem right not having one t launch the tour off.
This is the month that makes November bearable. Cheer up.
Ta
It has all the ingredients for a classic edition.
I shall dispatch her to Smith's asap...
Well, think of it this way:
Last year we watched some incredible cycling. Amazing attacks by Rasmussen and Contador and some inspired time trialing by Rasmussen (the ride of his life) and then the political characters decided the race instead of the cyclists on the road. They kicked out (Rabobank was basically forced by ASO to dump Rasmussen) the leader on the road despite the fact that he didn't fail a doping test and yes, even though he'd lied on the sheet, I've never seen a rule that states he was thus not allowed to race in the TDF. In other words, we were told everything we'd just watched was censored and didn't count. That sucks.