2009 Tour of Ireland

emadden

Sean Kelly mentioned on Europsort today that this year's Tour of Ireland will only be 3 days/stages... the route isnt up yet. Anybody have any news on this?

doddy178

Yeah, just 3 stages this year. No routes etc.
But Cavendish and Armstrong are riding

http://www.tourofireland.ie/

They closed the website today for the new one for this year.

emadden

Thanks...

Seems as though stage 1 will be a big loop from Powerscourt in Co Wicklow to Waterford city....

I wonder if stage 2 will be waterford to Cork

off the back

i hear stage 3 finish in Dun laoighre

ednwireland

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

ednwireland

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

Le Commentateur

Maybe they shortened it to help the old-timer.

all show no go

Le Commentateur wrote:

Maybe they shortened it to help the old-timer.

I'm surprised he's racing there at all, what with it being known that it rains in Ireland on occasion

timoid.

I think its pretty cool that Armstrong and Cavendish are going to be racing on my old training ground.

Unless either gets busted between then and now of course

emadden

ednwireland wrote:

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

If its true i will push the twat off his bike as he passes me on the Ventoux next week

Echo et les Boniments

emadden wrote:

If its true i will push the fool off his bike as he passes me on the Ventoux next week

That's OK, Lance will blame the French anyway.

paulcuthbert

ednwireland wrote:

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

Don't know where you heard that rubbish from..

rockmount

paulcuthbert wrote:

ednwireland wrote:

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

Don't know where you heard that rubbish from..

Just makes it up ... Like most of the BS here.

SpaceJunk

rockmount wrote:

paulcuthbert wrote:

ednwireland wrote:

rumours are lance's appearance fee cost 2 days of the race :roll: really hope thats not true

Don't know where you heard that rubbish from..

Just makes it up ... Like most of the BS here.

Well I heard that LA has asked for 2 million euros in unmarked bills.

paulcuthbert

Lance is on no salary. And he's doing the Tour of Ireland because he is doing his Livestrong Cancer Summit in Dublin at the same time.

Makes sense to me

And yes, I have noticed a lot of BS on this forum

iainf72

paulcuthbert wrote:

Lance is on no salary. And he's doing the Tour of Ireland because he is doing his Livestrong Cancer Summit in Dublin at the same time.

Yes, he's taking no salary but he did get paid $1m for appearing in Oz and €2m for the Giro.

That's why people are mentioning fee's.

rockmount

iainf72 wrote:

paulcuthbert wrote:

Lance is on no salary. And he's doing the Tour of Ireland because he is doing his Livestrong Cancer Summit in Dublin at the same time.

Yes, he's taking no salary but he did get paid $1m for appearing in Oz and €2m for the Giro.

That's why people are mentioning fee's.

FFS - take a day off, you deserve it, really, you do :roll: :roll:

iainf72

rockmount wrote:

FFS - take a day off, you deserve it, really, you do :roll: :roll:

Do you ever post anything which isn't a dig at me or someone who says something about Lance?

rockmount

iainf72 wrote:

rockmount wrote:

FFS - take a day off, you deserve it, really, you do :roll: :roll:

Do you ever post anything which isn't a dig at me or someone who says something about Lance?

Have you ever tried looking at any posts other than those about doping, or LA ??? I doubt it ... you should get out more ..

lucybears

Stages:-
21-08 Enniskerry - Waterford 196 km
22-08 Clonmel - Killarney 196 km
23-08 Bantry - Cork City 184 km

paulcuthbert

I'm so excited- this might be my first pro race to watch "live". Might even see, or even meet, Lance Armstrong! Wow

iainf72

Todays question : Has LA left Astana now? If so, how is he taking part?

cswebbo

Thats a good point, who is Lance riding for?
I thought Bruynel and LA were history at Astana from end of July?

Is Vino/Kash riding for Astana?

GroupOfOne MkII

You'd be a bit miffed if you forked out to get Lance and Astana along, and ended up with Vino instead

Wonder if the contract with Astana stipulates that Armstrong has to be a member of the team. Perhaps Mellow Johnny's will be getting another outing.

mwo

rockmount wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

rockmount wrote:

FFS - take a day off, you deserve it, really, you do :roll: :roll:

Do you ever post anything which isn't a dig at me or someone who says something about Lance?

Have you ever tried looking at any posts other than those about doping, or LA ??? I doubt it ... you should get out more ..

Do you actually read this forum? Iain posts on a wider range of topics than anybody else on here. Just on the first page he has started threads on the Vuelta, the Tour of Poland and possible Radio Shack Riders. Only one of those has any connection to LA or doping.

frenchfighter

Cavendish if he is competing will win all the three stages!

mididoctors

I hope cav can be bothered to ride st patricks hill this time round...

now he is has lost his baby fat?

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

Cavendish if he is competing will win all the three stages!

He'll get nowhere near winning stage 3.

frenchfighter

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Cavendish if he is competing will win all the three stages!

He'll get nowhere near winning stage 3.

Why not? They look like lumps to me rather than mountains, and he isn't that bad at getting over those either.

He won stage 1, 2 and 3 in 2008.

RichN95.

It's a rather steep lump - three times

Stuey01

Fuck me, that is proper steep!