TdF Stage 8 *spoiler*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Doobz wrote:
    Maybe thats just his climbing face tho :roll:

    As witnessed by the Dauphine, his climbing face is the one that doesn't betray any emotion or effort and even has his mouth closed most of the time....

    I agree he looked odd, maybe he was thinking where would I be if I didn't have to pilot Lance, although he had already lost contact.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    iainf72 wrote:
    Basso saying he was bricking it about this stage but feels the form is going to be tip top for week 3.

    http://www.feltet.dk/index.php?id_paren ... yhed=26934

    Good as I would like him, along with Cadel and Andy to top 5.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    BikingBernie wrote:
    What an excellent day, rode to Morzine and up to Avoriaz, went for a beer and something to eat, found a spot with a couple of hundred metres to go right opposite the big screen, laid on the grass and for the first time in years actually enjoyed watching the Tour.



    r!

    So when you said you never watched the Tour either on TV or by the roadside and werent interested in it you were really talking p ish then ?
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    Now that he's out of the race, will you be going away again and leaving this section in peace?
    Nah, baiting deluded Pharmstrong fanboys is just too much fun. :wink:




    As to never having anything interesting to say about cycling, I think I was the only one on here arguing that today's stage would see a major sorting out of the classification, largely because of the difficulty of the Ramaz. Lance and I obviously see some things the same way.

    But you are not interested in professional cycling or the Tour or were you talking p ish when you said that ?
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    dennisn wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Prophetic words from Armstrong... :wink:

    The Tour de France classification will be re-shaped in today's stage to Morzine-Avoriaz, according to seven-time winner Lance Armstrong.

    "The key is La Ramaz, which is the climb before Morzine. It is very difficult, there are patches with eight, nine, 10 per cent," explained Armstrong. "There will be selection, it won't be like today

    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... trong.html


    AMazing how you just like to come out to twist the knife. Never anything interesting to say about cycling or riders - just this constant hatred of Armstrong.

    Now that he's out of the race, will you be going away again and leaving this section in peace?


    +1..... Got to agree with you on this one. 30 years(I hope) from now when I'm on my deathbed and my last request is to log on to BR Forum one last time, I'm betting that I'll still see BB ranting about LA, along with his, now famous, chart. Or was it a graph?

    Nah it was Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    Moray Gub wrote:
    So when you said you never watched the Tour either on TV or by the roadside and werent interested in it you were really talking p ish then ?
    I haven't bothered to see the Tour since 2006, when I rode up the Joux Plane and was rewarded with Landis' dope-fueled 'exploit'. Until yesterday I have done little more than just glance at the results. Oh, and read up on the doping scandals of course.
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    Moray Gub wrote:
    Nah it was Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef...
    It must be a hard time to be a Lance fanboy. I feel your pain. :lol::lol::lol:
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    Nah it was Greg/stef Greg/stef Greg/stef...
    It must be a hard time to be a Lance fanboy. I feel your pain. :lol::lol::lol:

    Pain ? over a cyclist losing 10 mins on a mountain stage.........is your life so shallow that something like that would cause you pain ?
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The one crash Armstrong did have. Not the despondency in the voice and remarks of the French videoer!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBftK8okyA
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    edited July 2010
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The one crash Armstrong did have. Not the despondency in the voice and remarks of the French videoer!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBftK8okyA
    They did sound rather over-excited, even before the crash. And they did send him off with a few shouts of encouragement and a round of applause. I was sat in the crowd in front of big screen at Avioriaz and most people seemed rather non-plussed about the whole thing.

    By the way, how do you know that they guy with the camera was French and not Swiss, or Belgian?
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The one crash Armstrong did have. Not the despondency in the voice and remarks of the French videoer!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBftK8okyA

    By the way, how do you know that they guy with the camera was French and not Swiss, or Belgian?

    Too excitable to be Swiss or Belgian. :wink:
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    johnfinch wrote:
    Too excitable to be Swiss or Belgian. :wink:
    You have clearly never stood by the side of the road at the Tour of Flanders. :wink:
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    The accent too, is French. Come on BB you should be able to spot these things! ;)
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Bernie,

    I thought you hadn't been to watch the Tour since 2006 and only kept up with results and doping scandals. So what were you doing in front of a big screen at the finish? :wink:
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    My bad I've just seen your "until yesterday" qualifier!
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Disappointed with Contador in that stage, a true champion would have gone all out to get the yellow jersey and then used the next two weeks to really rub salt into the wounds of his rivals :wink:
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    The accent too, is French. Come on BB you should be able to spot these things! ;)
    To be honest, I couldn't place the accent at all, and instead of saying 'oui' the cameraman says 'ci' which sounds more like a native Spaniard speaking French. My Swiss colleagues certainly sound a lot more 'French' than that guy. Whatever, and where ever they are from, I don't think their excitement necessarily shows joy at Armstrong's predicament. In the first few seconds it sounds as though his mate is being strangled!
  • FransJacques
    FransJacques Posts: 2,148
    With no GC leader Garmin is letting Hesjedal show his stuff. So far, after cobbles and 2 mtn stages he's sitting prettier than Wiggo. G-T will probably allow him and Van Summeren to ride for GC and see by the Pyrenees who's looking best. I'd bet £10, not more, that Hesjedal will finish better than Wiggo in Paris.

    But, he'll probably be this year's Wiggins, the VDV of the year before that, and the Bobby Julich of '98 etc. i.e. will have 1 big year, get tipped as the next big thing, then not live up to expectations. Watching every tour since '83 yields predictable patterns...
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    donrhummy wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    BikingBernie wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    life closing in from all sides as far as LA is concerned...

    surprised he has managed to hold it together at all.. the pressure he is under...
    He keeps telling everyone that it is such pressure that motivates him...

    Having done a bit of racing in my time I think it is no coincidence that he managed to get involved in two crashes today. In the past he tended to keep kept near to the front and so avoided all the problems that happen further down the field - it's the first rule of racing. Today it looked like he was trying to hide in the wheels, and paid the price.

    +1 IME physical and mental pressure = crash prone

    Nope. It's that he's older. One of the biggest losses as you get older? Reaction time. And he's not training that. So even though his fitness is great (possibly as good as '05), his reaction times are much slower and that's why he's crashed a lot the past two years.

    yeah but its the same thing really

    old man on the rivet taken outside his comfort zone.. I know the feeling myself

    he low sided his bike going round a roundabout taking the wrong line
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Horner's long take:
    http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/2010/ ... ris_h.html

    Small reactions from various riders:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/reactio ... ghth-stage
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  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Crikey, Horner's been around Lance too long - talk about "I'm not paranoid, they really are out to get us"

    ....as if everything the peloton did was to have a go at Armstrong! They have their own races to ride too, you know guys, and the world no longer revolves around Big Tex despite what the media think.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Horner's long take:
    http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/2010/ ... ris_h.html

    Sky had their WHOLE team on the front according to Horner. Funny, I saw 2 guys. The others were larging it in the autobus.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I quite liked Horner til I saw this interview

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituh5z6P6TU
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    From CyclingNews - its all Euskaltel's fault....

    Matthew Lloyd from Davitamon-Lotto was in Armstrong's group and witnessed that last crash. "Unfortunately, Lance crashed, there were again lots of crashes today," he said post-race. "Euskaltel really needs to learn how to ride bikes. It's just shocking. I don't know whether that's controversial or not, but I don't care. They've probably caused every crash in this race...
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  • psiturbo
    psiturbo Posts: 64
    The LA ranting makes me take a shyt.

    Wrothless thread!

    Not that I play devil's advocate or whatever, but c'mmon everyone can make up hatred comments for years to come. Please talk about the stage and lets rephrain from the same, the same, and the same LA rants...!

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited September 2015
    The way he didn't jump back on his ride here and stood looking made me laugh! Also I didn't see Contador or Cadel grimacing but I did see Andy.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    A couple of funny ones in here

    http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... d-hot.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • psiturbo
    psiturbo Posts: 64
    edited July 2010
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    It seems he is trying to let go a nice stealth fart, and could not fake it, LOL!

    Oh, shyt here it comes...

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  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    psiturbo wrote:
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    It seems he is trying to let go a nice stealth fart, and could not fake it, LOL!

    Oh, shyt here it comes...

    I'll buy that explanation. :wink::wink:
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    frenchfighter wrote:
    The way he didn't jump back on his ride here and stood looking made me laugh!
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    Also I didn't see Contador or Cadel grimacing but I did see Andy:
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    Now this road rash must have hurt
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    Just how old are you FF??

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