Tour de France!
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26 Jul 2008, 17:00
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hi couchpotatoes
The (almost) final results of the Tour de France
Carlos Sastre - Team CSC-Saxo Bank
Cadel Evans - Team Silence-Lotto
Bernhard Kohl - Team Gerolsteiner \o/
The first Austrian since more than 50 years who finished the TdF on the podium and the first Austrian ever to win the mountain jersey!!!!!!
Tomorrow is the last stage, but if none of these three will crash there won't be any changes in the general classification, because the code de honour says there are no attacks on the last stage.
The (almost) final results of the Tour de France
Carlos Sastre - Team CSC-Saxo Bank Cadel Evans - Team Silence-Lotto Bernhard Kohl - Team Gerolsteiner \o/The first Austrian since more than 50 years who finished the TdF on the podium and the first Austrian ever to win the mountain jersey!!!!!!
Tomorrow is the last stage, but if none of these three will crash there won't be any changes in the general classification, because the code de honour says there are no attacks on the last stage.
they would already be busted if they would have found anything
sad but true =(
Evans failed
same as with Ullrich for several years, I never saw him attacking succesfully..He only followed or had to let them go in the mountains.. and in the time races he never could take enough time back @ Armstrong
Like u say, a lot of people did control-damage in this edition.. they just couldn't do better in the mountains
it's Sastre, the one with the most succesful combination of climbing + time racing who made it in the end
It's always dangerous to rely on the last timetrial, especially if you're not a killer and/or your opponent sucks at it. Evans fucked up on Alpe d'Huez imo. Instead of just keeping a steady pace he just reacted on some attacks and then the speed dropped horribly. I didn't really understand why Evans was confident to take it back in the time trial. I mean if Marco Pantani can stay within 2 minutes of Jan Ullrich in a time trial wearing the yellow jersey. It was kinda clear to me that Evans would have a really hard time beating a guy like Sastre by 1,5 minutes.
that just ruins the sport imho, it's more fun to see some people cycling ike crazy fucks to become first.
But ending in the top 10 without even winning a course just sucks.
But thats my opinion because I don't like cycling because it is so fucking boring, if there are some random nonames with a 10 min lead nobody will smth about that. Because they will never win the tour from the calculating fags.
any team could have defauted armstrong by just ruining his or his teammates powers, well maybe they would needed 2 teams to defeat the former team of armstrong. But nobody is realy working together I guess, and everybody is always waiting for somebody else to go first. For me it seemed like "Look srong, act strong, win without power". Ofc armstrong was a great sportsman and won alot, but without his team with maybe even better cyclers as him he would be nothing at all.
And I never see teamwork in the tour, unless somebody realy important needs te get caught back. Best would be block the whole road with 8 of the team and let the other 2 escape, ezbash. Never seen a team try it though xD
place:23
name: Maxime MONFORT
country: BEL
team: COF
time after number one: 00:35:48
not that bad, imo
Who got the best Doc - Sport !
cycling = dead
And keep in mind that there are prolly more people playing EC then people cycling the tour, and not that many get busted on the highest level of ET then on the highest level of cycling.
We allready bust them before they get to such high level. Maybe dope tests for juniors in cycling also? I actualy know a somebody whos cycling and he used dope from his 12th to his 16th to get better training without being able to get caught.
yeah ur right, tour has more players.
And the highlevel anti-cheat controls in the tour aint highlevel because only a small amount of people get tested (first 3 and top 10 + some randoms + yellow/green/etc jersey) while in ET every player get tested. And in ET it's not ur body may containt such amount of these drugs, but ur PC can't contain any cheat files at all.
In cycling (and other sports) anti-doping was far behind for a long time, but the last 10 years they're catching up really fast. Nowadays it's really hard to use doping without getting caught. You're wrong about the control system. It was a long time ago that only winners and stuff needed to get to the doping control. Teams and riders are tested a lot nowadays, also outside of competition. Further there's a new thing called a blood-passport which basically keeps track of loads of values in your blood. Even the slightest changes will trigger them to be suspicious.
What bugs me is that cycling is attacked so hard and other sports are doing a "good" job staying out of sight.
If you look at ET, lately cheatbusters are doing okay. But it's still very easy to use an undetectable private cheat.
wow, first time you watch the tour??? no attacks on the last stage??? roflmao
watch tomorrow and you'll see it rains attacks
They replay the final ten times (from different angle) to make it interesting, come on
i would attack
its everything or nothing tommorow and the finish is at paris
But still nice work CSC.