Stage 19 - Bourgoin-Jallieu > Aubenas SPOILER

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  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    Does anyone know what the song was they played over the TT highlights at the start of tonights programme on ITV4? Cheers!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    iainf72 wrote:
    Thor and Cav chums again. He's quite candid and thinks Thor is the deserving winner of the green

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 168151.stm

    Good on Mark, I was reading something he said recently - the cameras always pick up his outbursts, but are never there when he goes to apologise.

    And if Hushovd can accept the apology, I hope that cycling fans will as well.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,873
    iainf72 wrote:
    Thor and Cav chums again. He's quite candid and thinks Thor is the deserving winner of the green

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 168151.stm



    lesson...
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    johnfinch wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Thor and Cav chums again. He's quite candid and thinks Thor is the deserving winner of the green

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 168151.stm

    Good on Mark, I was reading something he said recently - the cameras always pick up his outbursts, but are never there when he goes to apologise.

    And if Hushovd can accept the apology, I hope that cycling fans will as well.

    Except for today :wink: They showed him saying sorry to Thor on the ITV programme tonight. Thor seemed to take it in good spirit.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    GroupOfOne MkII wrote:
    Does anyone know what the song was they played over the TT highlights at the start of tonights programme on ITV4? Cheers!

    ITV list all the music they use here

    http://www.itv.com/sport/tourdefrance/c ... fault.html

    They haven't put week three's music up yet
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • jackhammer111 - banned
    jackhammer111 - banned Posts: 245
    iainf72 wrote:
    Thor and Cav chums again. He's quite candid and thinks Thor is the deserving winner of the green

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 168151.stm

    Great stuff. The kid is 24 years old. I think we've just seen him grow up in this tour.

    Nothing wrong with him having attitude and swagger, but it's also cool to see he knows how to be occatiojnally humble.
    Him admitting that he understood Thor went out and humiliated him the other day is classic and shows he understands that he's just been shown how to make a statement.

    And as a rider he may not have even peaked yet.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Hats off to Mark and Thor for the way they've handles the past few days.

    I think sometimes we can forget just how much scrutiny and pressure these riders are under.

    SO far in this Tour we've seen apologies from:

    - LA, for this comments on last year's race
    - Satsre for his rest day outburst
    - Cav of course

    The Tour is such as hard race; it really would mess with riders minds. The daily monotonous, grueling routine must drive them temporarily insane (maybe even permanently - see Cadel).

    I wonder if sometimes we don't cut the riders enough slack?

    But great to see Cav maturing on this Tour. It's only going to make him a better rider - and that is a scary thought!



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  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    RichN95 wrote:
    GroupOfOne MkII wrote:
    Does anyone know what the song was they played over the TT highlights at the start of tonights programme on ITV4? Cheers!

    ITV list all the music they use here

    http://www.itv.com/sport/tourdefrance/c ... fault.html

    They haven't put week three's music up yet

    Cheers, guess it'll just be a case of plowing through all of week three until I find it. Never know, might find something else good too!
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    afx237vi wrote:
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Alan Perez and Amets Txurruka both missed the time cut today. Dunno what happened, but it's a shame for Txurruka. He'd been having a good Tour.

    I think that Txurruka fell off on the big stage a few days ago? About the same time as Menchov?

    Yeah, just checked the Euskaltel website and he hurt his hip.

    Full story here

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/amets-t ... n-stage-19

    They got dropped after just 6km on a 4th category climb of 2.6km at 5.6% and werent able to get back on. That made it a hard day and they finished 30 minutes back. Probably a bit unlucky that the peloton decided to chase the big breakaway. Txurruka was suffering from his earlier crash while Perez had tendonitis.

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