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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Turd Ferguson] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tomorrow I have the day off of work. So my plan is to train early. And watch the tour.

Why do I point that out? Because I plan on drinking everytime Phil Liggett makes a mistake! The rules are simple:

Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?

If you include every time he calls Contador a "former winner", you are going to be one drunk monkey!!!!
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Turd Ferguson] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tomorrow I have the day off of work. So my plan is to train early. And watch the tour.

Why do I point that out? Because I plan on drinking everytime Phil Liggett makes a mistake! The rules are simple:

Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?


As much as Liggett is the voice of cycling for me, I'm almost at the point of being unable to listen to him and his increasingly frequent mistakes.

Oh, and drink when he mentions any rider's superior handling skills resulting from their days as a professional mountain biker.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Turd Ferguson] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tomorrow I have the day off of work. So my plan is to train early. And watch the tour.

Why do I point that out? Because I plan on drinking everytime Phil Liggett makes a mistake! The rules are simple:

Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?

If you make it to 40K to go without an ambulance ride, I'll be impressed.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [jackmott] [ In reply to ]
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"Maybe it will be shades of 2006 and super exciting.

Guys you have short memories!"




2006 is like the gift that keeps on giving, Jack.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [TriBriGuy] [ In reply to ]
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Oh he has lost the race!
oh he has got it back again!
and then after the tour was over... IT STILL WASN'T OVER!

haha

TriBriGuy wrote:
"Maybe it will be shades of 2006 and super exciting.

Guys you have short memories!"




2006 is like the gift that keeps on giving, Jack.



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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [jackmott] [ In reply to ]
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If you think about it, the repercussions of the events of that race are STILL ringing through the pro cycling ranks...

The only thing left is to finally decide to award all the TdFs to Lemond.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [TriBriGuy] [ In reply to ]
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [jackmott] [ In reply to ]
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2006 over again isn't possible, because they are all clean now...

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [WelshinPhilly] [ In reply to ]
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WelshinPhilly wrote:

Oh, and drink when he mentions any rider's superior handling skills resulting from their days as a professional mountain biker.

Ohhh, thats a good addition!

Also, anytime he mentions the renaissance of Colombian cycling

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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Tryin'] [ In reply to ]
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Man this tour is boring. I wish Lance was in it...

He is....he showed up as a white Kenyan and Brunyeel passed all his secrets to David Brailsford. (pink font optional)
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [WelshinPhilly] [ In reply to ]
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Bazinga!

FTW!

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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [jackmott] [ In reply to ]
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jackmott wrote:
Oh he has lost the race!
oh he has got it back again!
and then after the tour was over... IT STILL WASN'T OVER!

haha

TriBriGuy wrote:
"Maybe it will be shades of 2006 and super exciting.

Guys you have short memories!"




2006 is like the gift that keeps on giving, Jack.

It's not over till the fat lady sings and lately the fat lady is singing years or decades later :-). Charlie Gaul better watch out!
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [TriBriGuy] [ In reply to ]
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I know I should not find that joke still funny, but I do. LeMond, despite being correct, was still his own worst enemy sometimes.
Chad
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [WelshinPhilly] [ In reply to ]
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Well played.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Turd Ferguson] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?

Not as shitfaced as you would be if you took a drink everytime they use the graphic showing Peter Sagan's location in the peloton.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Turd Ferguson] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tomorrow I have the day off of work. So my plan is to train early. And watch the tour.

Why do I point that out? Because I plan on drinking everytime Phil Liggett makes a mistake! The rules are simple:

Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?

I love the bits in the TT when you have a rider about 1 minute out from a time check point, and showing 15 seconds below the fastest time. And Phil get all excited about how well the rider has suddenly started riding and all the places he has made up..... and then a minute later he crosses the time check, still 45s adrift and still in 18th place. Understand if that catches you out once... but not 182 times in the same day.

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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Gandalf] [ In reply to ]
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Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tomorrow I have the day off of work. So my plan is to train early. And watch the tour.

Why do I point that out? Because I plan on drinking everytime Phil Liggett makes a mistake! The rules are simple:

Drink when Phil screws up. Drink when he refers to the wrong rider. Drink when he calls someone the wrong name. Drink when he calls the wrong order of finishers, or the wrong order of intermediate sprints/KOM points.

I am gonna be shitfaced. Anybody else in?


I love the bits in the TT when you have a rider about 1 minute out from a time check point, and showing 15 seconds below the fastest time. And Phil get all excited about how well the rider has suddenly started riding and all the places he has made up..... and then a minute later he crosses the time check, still 45s adrift and still in 18th place. Understand if that catches you out once... but not 182 times in the same day.

Multiply that by three for two other TT's per TdF and multiply that by the last 30 years....so around 16,000 times...well, he's not that bad, and his role is to make us excited (which he does), but I remember the exact observation around the Arc de Triomphe 1989....only that time, he was right about Lemond-Fignon....the other 16,000 times, pretty well what you said!
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Gandalf] [ In reply to ]
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glad I kept reading the thread..................that is exactly what I was thinking. Turned it on just as cadel was hitting a time check and thought WTF......then again and again and
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [threefire] [ In reply to ]
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threefire wrote:
The crash was caused by:

Veelers drifting right slightly -- 10%
Veelers being spent and not alert enough to handle any body contact-- 20%;
Cav having to steer left to chase Greipel's wheel and over confident he could pass Veelers in one swing -- 30%
Sh*t just happens in a sprint -- 40%

Cav leaning into Veelers with his shoulder- 100%
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [squid] [ In reply to ]
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squid wrote:
threefire wrote:
The crash was caused by:

Veelers drifting right slightly -- 10%
Veelers being spent and not alert enough to handle any body contact-- 20%;
Cav having to steer left to chase Greipel's wheel and over confident he could pass Veelers in one swing -- 30%
Sh*t just happens in a sprint -- 40%


Cav leaning into Veelers with his shoulder- 100%

Veelers was leading out and had just completed his work. He was exactly on the center white line of the road. He then choses to look behind him, over his right shoulder and that causes him to veer to the left. He sees that his team mate, behind Cavendish, is going to pass him on the left, so he veers back, overcorrects and goes a bicycle width to the right of the white line. Just as Cav was passing him and was moving left in order to stay on Greipel's wheel.

Cavendish was in the sprint and was entitled to go for the free space. Veelers was a lead out man and had completed his work. His error was weaving left and then right. He is required to hold completely straight line to let the sprinters come past him.

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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Gandalf] [ In reply to ]
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After hearing all the debates about Cavs moves....I now have a better understanding on how the jury acquitted OJ.
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [Bigringonly] [ In reply to ]
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Boys, TdF is a business so without Cav they would lose a substantial viewership/end of any real competition for the Green Jersey. Veelers was just a collateral damage. Cav had to stay in the race. End of story...
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Re: 2013 TdF thread (spoiler alert) [haole] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah, they would have had to re-do all the promo's that he is in. Plus not use that dumb a$$ commercial where he is watching motorcycles as a boy.

At least he didn't crash anyone out on the intermediate.
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14 riders from Tour of 2005 in the peloton today

The last time that a stage of the Tour de France finished in Tours was in 2005. LeTour.fr has just compared the peloton from eight years ago with that of today and only 14 riders from that stage, won by Tom Boonen, are still racing the Tour today. Third place in 2005 was Stuart O'Grady who is riding his 17th successive Tour this year.

The others who were present in 2005 and today are:

Quinziato (who was 16th in Tours in 2005), Flecha (17th), Kloden (33rd), Voigt (49th), Gilbert (55th), Valverde (67th), Rogers (90th), Chavanel (102nd), Contador (113rd), Evans (117th), Voeckler (141st), Gerrans (142nd) and Albasini (188th).

Interesting

or not

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