TDF crash pics

Sewinman

Some brutal injuries, but WTF is picture 12 about!!! :shock:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery ... 1&index=11

Wrath Rob

Dunno, but Brad's right leg in pic 13 is a bit scary too

Gazzaputt

George Hincapie's varicose veins.

MonkeyMonster

varicose veins... on a new level. looks like mostly the valves that stop the backflow of blood get inflamed or just increase in size plus no body fat what so ever and tight skin.

not pretty

cjcp

Would the pansies who play football at the highest level, and dive as if shot, please take a leaf out of Hoogerland's book.

spen666

Is this year's tour themost accident / injury prone?

mcj78

Gazzaputt wrote:

George Hincapie's varicose veins.

...make me want to vomit? :shock:

Zav

Would the pansies who play football at the highest level, and dive as if shot, please take a leaf out of Hoogerland's book.

hair transplants can be painful too

EKE_38BPM

Footballers have a mindset where everything must revolve around them and if anything stops them doing whatever they want (even a 'foul' that didn't happen) they over-react. Just about all other sportsmen try to prove themselves and prove that they can overcome any obstacle.

Footballers go down if you give them a dirty look, rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field, cyclists ride on with broken bones, boxers try to convince the referee and doctors that they are OK to carry on fighting etc.
Footballers = pansies.

joelsim

cjcp wrote:

Would the pansies who play football at the highest level, and dive as if shot, please take a leaf out of Hoogerland's book.

They have had plenty of practise with the town bike already.

DonDaddyD

Those veins look wrong, I can't see how that's considered healthy.

Edit: - What really bothers me is that you cannot actually see his calf muscle

kieranb

looks like images off a medical website for some disease!

greg66_tri_v2.0

EKE_38BPM wrote:

rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field,

This is the truth.

Google "wayne shelford testicle".

rick_chasey

Greg66 wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field,

This is the truth.

Google "wayne shelford testicle".

They get taken off the field for having fake blood on their face, and the spend their evenings in town, dressed as women, shouting loudly.

Doesn't sound very hard to me.

mcj78

Rick Chasey wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field,

This is the truth.

Google "wayne shelford testicle".

They get taken off the field for having fake blood on their face, and the spend their evenings in town, dressed as women, shouting loudly.

Doesn't sound very hard to me.

I remember that one - not the cross dressing, the ruptured ball-bag which was stitched up on the field & he carried on... both his balls later fell off during a 27-pint night out dressed like Vera Duckworth, which only added to the authenticity of the costume I imagine...

motopatter

Rick Chasey wrote:

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They get taken off the field for having fake blood on their face, and the spend their evenings in town, dressed as women, shouting loudly.

Doesn't sound very hard to me.

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sounds like stinky bait...... here fishy fishy

rick_chasey

motopatter wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

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They get taken off the field for having fake blood on their face, and the spend their evenings in town, dressed as women, shouting loudly.

Doesn't sound very hard to me.

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sounds like stinky bait...... here fishy fishy

Ah I get enough chat from big ugly people with stupid ears in my office about rugby.

As far as I am concerned, if you want to spend your weekend and evenings grabbing big men's thighs whilst rolling around in mud, grabbing their legs, hoping for your head to land on their arse, and generally lying in a bundle of the floor with other men, that's fine.

Doesn't mean I can't call it a very homoerotic sport.

motopatter

Rick Chasey wrote:

motopatter wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

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They get taken off the field for having fake blood on their face, and the spend their evenings in town, dressed as women, shouting loudly.

Doesn't sound very hard to me.

^
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sounds like stinky bait...... here fishy fishy

Ah I get enough chat from big ugly people with stupid ears in my office about rugby.

As far as I am concerned, if you want to spend your weekend and evenings grabbing big men's thighs whilst rolling around in mud, grabbing their legs, hoping for your head to land on their ars*, and generally lying in a bundle of the floor with other men, that's fine.

Doesn't mean I can't call it a very homoerotic sport.

yeah, play rugby...... feel a man

hmbadger

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Footballers have a mindset where everything must revolve around them and if anything stops them doing whatever they want (even a 'foul' that didn't happen) they over-react. Just about all other sportsmen try to prove themselves and prove that they can overcome any obstacle.

Footballers go down if you give them a dirty look, rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field, cyclists ride on with broken bones, boxers try to convince the referee and doctors that they are OK to carry on fighting etc.
Footballers = pansies.

CiB

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Footballers have a mindset where everything must revolve around them and if anything stops them doing whatever they want (even a 'foul' that didn't happen) they over-react. Just about all other sportsmen try to prove themselves and prove that they can overcome any obstacle.

Footballers go down if you give them a dirty look, rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field, cyclists ride on with broken bones, boxers try to convince the referee and doctors that they are OK to carry on fighting etc.
Footballers = pansies.

I fully agree and have posted similar objections to these overpaid nancy boys myself on here, but the reality is that for a footballer, rolling around on the floor pretending to be nearly dead is beneficial in all respects - it stops the game, team mates get a breather, instruction can be passed on via the trainer, you may even successfully con the match officials into awarding a free-kick or better still a penalty.

If a cyclist plays dead in the road, all that is certain is that the opposition will be a couple of miles up the road in the blink of an eye. It's the incentive - footballers have a huge incentive to pretend to be hurt; most other sports it's the right way round and any injuries that can be run off ("run it off man. Is the bone sticking out of the flesh? Gerron with it yer big jessy") usually are. Except for poncey lilly-livered footballers.

Whilst I'm at it - the term 'footballers brain'. What does it mean? Only that the brain in question is of no use whatsoever for anything except football.

tailwindhome

DonDaddyD wrote:

Those veins look wrong, I can't see how that's considered healthy.

Edit: - What really bothers me is that you cannot actually see his calf muscle

Those aren't legs

These are legs....

El Diego

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Footballers have a mindset where everything must revolve around them and if anything stops them doing whatever they want (even a 'foul' that didn't happen) they over-react. Just about all other sportsmen try to prove themselves and prove that they can overcome any obstacle.

Footballers go down if you give them a dirty look, rugby players get stiched up and go back onto the field, cyclists ride on with broken bones, boxers try to convince the referee and doctors that they are OK to carry on fighting etc.
Footballers = pansies.

I don't think it's got anything to do with being a pansy or any less tough than other sportsmen. I think the main reason footballers roll around like they've been shot is to gain a competitive advantage by getting people sent off, winning penalties etc. Unfortunately this tactic has proven to quite effective and the sanctions for being caught aren't tough enough to deter them from trying it on in future. It's cheating and its despicable, just like drug taking in cycling or cutting yourself in rugby, but I really don't think footballers are inherently soft.

DonDaddyD

CiB wrote:

Whilst I'm at it - the term 'footballers brain'. What does it mean? Only that the brain in question is of no use whatsoever for anything except football.

I like this term and liken it to something akin to human evolution. Stay with me here I'm not saying that people with a "footballers brain are more evolved".

OK so human beings evolved to think in abstracts. Think of a road 10 miles away, you can't see it but you know its there and you know cars are driving along that road, people shops etc. Lesser beings cannot do this, they can only really perceive things that are happening in front of them. Not only that but you can actually think about your route there and factor in time of day, journey and change that route so that you have the quickest, easiest possible journey to that road 10miles away.

Football, if you watch very young kids play football they all swarm towards the ball. As they get older the more thoughtful ones start to resist the need to head towards the ball. They drift off into space making opportunities for themselves. The kid with the footballing brain can not only "see" the play that is happening around him he is (third eye, abstract or whatever you want to call it) also aware of the others players around him but can also perceive the outcome, possible outcomes or even create an outcome that could happen by him taking an particular action. I.e. A footballers pass into an empty space knowing that his teammate is going to be there before the opposition.

Players without a footballing brain only live in the now and react to what is in front them. They are the one that can only pass directly to a player.

Well, that's what I understand the term "footballing brain" to be.

I suppose great tacticians (snooker, chess players as well) have it as well: the ability to not only see the task in front of them but to predict or create a desired outcome. And in the case of snooker and chess players - work several shots/moves ahead of the one they are actually taking, so their immediate actions are constantly shaping the future.

cloggsy

mcj78 wrote:

Gazzaputt wrote:

George Hincapie's varicose veins.

...make me want to vomit? :shock:

+1 :shock:

Ben6899

Wrath Rob wrote:

Dunno, but Brad's right leg in pic 13 is a bit scary too

Brad's leg is just symptomatic of a well tuned/toned athlete at the top of his powers. Looks fine to me.

DonDaddyD

Ben6899 wrote:

Wrath Rob wrote:

Dunno, but Brad's right leg in pic 13 is a bit scary too

Brad's leg is just symptomatic of a well tuned/toned athlete at the top of his powers. Looks fine to me.

I've always thought he looks unhealthy/too skinny and his leg in that photo looks 'nasty' too.

mcj78

TailWindHome wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Those veins look wrong, I can't see how that's considered healthy.

Edit: - What really bothers me is that you cannot actually see his calf muscle

Those aren't legs

These are legs....

Iggy Pop has nothing to do with this

walkingbootweather

Video of crash here

Ben6899

DonDaddyD wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Wrath Rob wrote:

Dunno, but Brad's right leg in pic 13 is a bit scary too

Brad's leg is just symptomatic of a well tuned/toned athlete at the top of his powers. Looks fine to me.

I've always thought he looks unhealthy/too skinny and his leg in that photo looks 'nasty' too.

He'll be the first to admit he was too light last year and had a poor season. Followed by a rollicking from the DS as most of us will know! Currently, IMO, he looks like the next stage of evolution (ignoring the broken collarbone): a true athlete in perfect condition.

mcj78

DonDaddyD wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Wrath Rob wrote:

Dunno, but Brad's right leg in pic 13 is a bit scary too

Brad's leg is just symptomatic of a well tuned/toned athlete at the top of his powers. Looks fine to me.

I've always thought he looks unhealthy/too skinny and his leg in that photo looks 'nasty' too.

I reckon he's probably fine, does look pretty thin admittedly but with all the backroom support the teams have i'm sure his weight is well controlled, heard comments from Cavendish amongst others that he was in the form of his life - shame he didn't get a chance to show what he could do this year!

rick_chasey

Post Paris Roubaix, the season he finished 4th in the Tour.