Tour de France 2007 thread (4 Viewers)

[IFF]

ouch, $465,000 to Dr. Ferrari
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/armstrong-reportedly-made-dollar-465000-payment-to-ferrari-in-2006

 

[oh shit]

Yaaa, BANG HIM UP! Fucking dope cheat cunt.

Here lads, who do I bet on to win the Tour this year? Evans?

i'd say hold your nose and bet on wiggins.

 

[pete]

Lance Armstrong charged by US Anti-Doping Agency

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has been formally charged with using performance-enhancing drugs by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
The case will now be heard by an arbitration panel, who will decide the outcome of the hearing.
Armstrong, whose seven wins came consecutively between 1999 to 2005, could be stripped of his titles and banned from cycling if found guilty.
However, the 40-year-old denies doping, noting he has never failed a drug test.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/18655970

 

[rettucs]

yes, yes, all good news. Anyway I went to Germany yesterday. Now I have to go get a train to Liege to stand watching this for a few hours. See youse all on the telly!

 

[oh shit]

Cavendish proving again he can do it with or without a leadout

 

[Cormcolash]

Give it a few years to see if he can prove he can do it with or without the drugs, eh?

 

[oh shit]

which drugs would those be?

 

[rettucs]

Give it a few years to see if he can prove he can do it with or without the drugs, eh?

He ain't on drugs. Hes far too ordinary, sprints aside. He continuously struggles to make the time cut in any non-sprint stage. Hes just a freak of nature over 200 meters. Get him to that spot and he'll do the rest. Getting him to that spot is easier said than done.

 

[rettucs]

Sagan on the other hand ..... ... cough ...

 

[Cormcolash]

Na, we'll just have to wait 10 years to find out which pills they're all on these days

 

[rettucs]

Na, we'll just have to wait 10 years to find out which pills they're all on these days

its a really dirty race though. And just when you start getting your hopes up too...

I hadn't studied the start list in too much detail but when I was in Liege on saturday for the prologue and saw fuckers like Astarloza, Valverde, Vinokourov, Kascheskin..... Dirty, dirty doping shower of fucks.

Then you see Rui Costa cycling by with his Bike Pure wristband on him. He cuts a lonely figure for sure.

It was great seeing Valverde almost going into that roundabout yesterday. Prick.

 

[rettucs]

Tour de Carnage

 

[IFF]

summary of some riders time losses from todays crash

schleck, scaroni, brajkovic, rolland, mollema, jc peraud, valverde at 2:09
cobo at 2:21
gesink, kruswijk at 3:31
voeckleur at 6:02
westra, karpets, dan martin, hesjedal, Vandevelde at 13:24

dan to attack tomorrow after this time loss?

 

[rettucs]

dan to attack tomorrow after this time loss?

he was saying he'd do something. I have a feeling a break will be let go to the end tomorrow. He needs to be in it.

 

[IFF]

dissapointing, he's not in the break today. best climber i think would be chris anker sorenson but michael albasini and christophe riblon is also in.

 

[IFF]

froome beats evans and nibali to take the stage win (well wiggins was 3rd but he was letting froome win)

 

[rettucs]

dying to see if Sky are still dominating like that in week 3. I've always thought Froome doped to the gills. If they do a USPS on it and show themselves (basically) to have the best 7 or 8 riders in the race, then they're all doped, apart from Cavendish who doesn't need to.

 

[rettucs]

remember too that they're down a man and that Cavendish won't be there to help in the hill. So Bradley has 6 riders for support (6 more than Evans mind you!)

 

[CinnamonBoy]

dying to see if Sky are still dominating like that in week 3. I've always thought Froome doped to the gills. If they do a USPS on it and show themselves (basically) to have the best 7 or 8 riders in the race, then they're all doped, apart from Cavendish who doesn't need to.

I don't quite watch cycling as closely as I used to but my intuition would be to think the same as this.

Froome's palmarés is Michelle Smith-esque.

 

[rettucs]

I'm going for Pierrick Fedrigo for today's stage. Total long shot but hes a breakaway specialist and it seems that kind of day to me. Also, a big KOM day. If Dan Martin has designs on that jersey he'll need to get himself up there. Morkov will definitely be there seeing Froomedope will have to look after Wiggins.