Tour de France predictions today?
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16 Jul 2011, 11:06
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Something special has to happen today
Contador lost a lot of time
Schlecks will need to win some time vs Evans (knowing Evans is way better in the timetrial)
Maybe Basso can surprise us
What are you thinking/hoping??
inb4 omg 2 journals
Contador lost a lot of time
Schlecks will need to win some time vs Evans (knowing Evans is way better in the timetrial)
Maybe Basso can surprise us
What are you thinking/hoping??
inb4 omg 2 journals
You probably went mad when Hushovd rolled Roy and Montcoutie yesterday
btw, why not Voeckler :D?
btw @ Chavanel, i heard that he wanted to do smthg today so that's why i posted this :)))
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Stop reading, only french could do that
was amazing when it was armstrong vs ullrich... but nowadays? WTF!
what kind of stage is today?
also
http://nos.nl/dossier/247789-tour-de-france-2011/tab/168/klassementen/algemeen/
like from 90s to 2005 or smth
stages with the hills <3 tourmalet, alpe d'huez etc, so freaking exciting.. but nowadays, i dno. lost attraction to me :(
but i will watch it today i guess :)
on german tv they start casting @ 16 CET....
atm they show some shit with horses, WTF!
dunno if this stream works but try it
http://nos.nl/dossier/247789-tour-de-france-2011/tab/172/live/
Remember the team.. Hincapie, Popovych, Landis (even if he's a moron), Heras, Azevedo, Ekimov..
It was a great time..
I will always remember the "Blue Train" setting the pace and decimating one by one the others outsiders.
i prefer the one vs one fights in the mountains, 40 degrees, lots of people etc
i dont know remember this, true gentlemen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kzm-Y4XaIc
A.Schleck is the best
Miss the times of ullrich vs armstrong
my guess will be one of the schleck brothers,especially frank looks in good shape
and ofc expect team europcar to carry voeckler and the platoon and not let anyone get ahead if they are a threat for the yellowh shirt
still expect contador to make a move and do something
also i think gilbert will try to get more points for the green shirt
will be fun to watch :)
oh wait.
Basso will deliver
(fu Robert Gesink)
He is pumping atm
The group of favorites really annoyed me today. It's just bullshit to make a fast jump and then stand still. I liked how Basso just ignored most jumps and just kept going at his own pace. Fränk Schleck was having a bad day, Andy should've kept going after one of his attacks, to finish off at least most of the group. Now they are giving Contador a big chance to recover and strike in the Alps and the time trial.
a "sport" thats mainly about stamina when every1 knows all of these worthless scums are doped rofl
and even if they would, then its not really sport anymore :s
It's a bit cheap to always talk down on cycling while other sports are at least as bad. Look at all the bribery and even doping in football.
If you let that get into your way of watching and enjoying sports, you will have no other choice than not watch any sports at all.
Do you still watch sports? If yes, which one(s)?
i watch football and tennis mainly where it would matter less if it would actually happen there
but at sports that are mainly about stamina and condition its just a total joke and also the fact that everyone knows it since its proven makes it even worse ;D
In football there have been several cases of doping where the national association or even the UEFA or FIFA cleared the players eventhough the evidence was inevitable. e.g. the nandrolon affair with Dutch players from Barcelona or even the recent clenbuterol cases of several Mexican players. Apart from doping we've seen some serious cases of referee's that got bribed or matches that got sold, like in Italy or now in Turkey. Also on the field fair play hardly exists anymore, they do everything to win.
Tennis is also far from a clean sport. It's a badly kept secret that the association protected players when they got busted in a doping control. Or take the Williams sisters who conveniently didn't open the door when doping control showed up on their doorstep. In cyling that's enough for a suspension. Also in tennis there are reasonable indications that matches or part of matches are being sold for money, involving bookmakers etc.
So, superficially it looks like cycling is the black sheep amongst sports, but personally I still prefer the hard work cyclists put in, above all the shameless cheating and lazy players in football for example.
and in football i think it doesnt happen that often, i mean what should they take? its not really needed either since 90 minutes of playing doesnt really require anything
referees being bought is true tho, but at least u will see that ingame then
But as long as the controls in other sports aren't as strict as in cycling, it's hard to say if they are clean. Tennis and football aren't as demanding as cycling of course, but that doesn't mean they don't use anything. Those sports are getting athletic more and more, so the temptation to use something is pretty big. There have already been cases of use of steroids and clenbuterol for example. And if you look at all the people in baseball who used doping to calm down, it would fit into tennis as well.
That hardly anyone got/gets busted is not weird. Look at Agassi, if he didn't write it in his biography it never would've come out that they ignored his positive doping tests. Same goes for Jennifer Capriati at the Olympics in Barcelona. The IOC wanted to hang her, but the WTA made sure it didn't come out.
but tbh even if they wouldnt be doped id find it totally boring to watch them =d