Le Tour

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:41 am

pretty sad to see the top 3 from last year-absent.

Le Boring, no?

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:32 am

No, Lance will walk away with it this year, too.

EIGHT IN A ROW, BABY!!!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:48 am

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:03 am

What?

winston · Post by **winston** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:20 am

Lance retired as far as I recall.

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:00 am

No, he's just hiding in the back. If you watch the live coverage in the mornings with Phil and Paul and not the editted and compressed evening coverage with Bobke and The Idiot on OLN then you'd see him. Every time he crosses the line he rings his little bell on his handlebars.

He's so cute when he does that.

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:10 am

Did you see him today? He was on Alpe D'Huez!

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:37 am

Alan: Is that Lance on the pink girls' bike with the cards in the spokes?

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:56 am

And the streams coming out the handlebar ends! Oh, Lance! Ring that handlebar bell, you wacky crazy one-balled Texan!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:13 pm

Viva le Landis!

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:21 pm

Or more precisely, Viva le EPO....

wints · Post by **wints** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:07 am

Or even more precisely, viva la Test...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:56 am

Now for the Landis B sample......

This is a real blow for cycling if it's confirmed and Le Tour in particular. It's already considered a suspicious and heavily drug-tainted sport. Especially here in Oz, I'm ashamed to say.

wints · Post by **wints** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:14 am

No real surprise Howard.

His winning performance on stage 17 after tanking big time the day before was completely against the nature of the human body.

Cycling is a sport dominated by doping and like certain other sporting governing bodies, they really don't want to be accountable. Think baseball and Barry Bonds...

Dick Pound head of WADA has been on the case for years about cycling and it's good to see him proved right.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:46 am

Yes, he was interviewed on the radio this morning and if the B sample is positive he'll be watching the cycling federation like a hawk!