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Tour day France
« on: July 06, 2008, 01:33:17 PM »
American team Slipstream officially renamed Team Garmin-Chipotle.

Despite being nervous and windy, today’s short 164.5 km stage delivered few surprises. The final was a fast uphill mass sprint and most of the Garmin-Chipotle crew finished in on the same time as stage winner Thor Hushovd. Young Martijn Maaskant was the highest finisher at 14th and David Millar’s finish moved him up to 7th in the overall standings.

Tour debutant Danny Pate kicked the day off in style by being the first rider to attack. Going off from the gun, he was quickly joined by a handful of others. But the break was short lived as Bouygues Telecom was having none of it.

Team Garmin-Chipotle as a group is ranked fourth in the overall team classification.

Columbia Sportswear's sponsored Team Columbia including George Hincapie had a fifth place finish day 1 with Kim Kirchen.

Two US sponsored teams in the Tour amid all the doping chaos, who would have thunk it.

US riders

George Hincapie, Team Columbia
Christian Vande Velde, Garmin-Chipotle
Will Frischkorn, Garmin-Chipotle
Danny Pate, Garmin-Chipotle

This is the least in years, with Freddie Rodriguez riding in the U.S., Bobby Julich not selected, Chris Horner and Levi Leipheimer barred with Astana, Rob Smythe concentrating on time trials and David Zabriskie nursing a back injury.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 09:36:38 AM »
I can't find a link to watch live on-line......heeeeeeeellllllppp
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 09:39:13 AM »
http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html  is as good as you can get online. 8*pm tonight on Versus channel. Dave
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 11:41:01 PM »
How about that break away in stage 3.  Its very cool to see them hold off the pelaton once in a while.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 07:05:13 AM »
Take some of the drugs out and it actually turns into a race.... 
It does make it more interesting to watch.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 07:36:40 AM »
Quote from: slowpoke on July 07, 2008, 09:36:38 AM
I can't find a link to watch live on-line......heeeeeeeellllllppp

or you can try: http://www.versus.com/tdf
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 12:37:39 PM »
verses on line is great you can follow the race live and watch the charts as to who is doing what. there is tons of info going on during the race. And there 8:00 coverage on tv with Bobb R. is the best.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 01:32:51 PM »
Quote from: Greg on July 08, 2008, 07:05:13 AM
Take some of the drugs out and it actually turns into a race.... 
It does make it more interesting to watch.


Who said the drugs are out?  Oh yeah... you did say "some"....


Here's a nice piece on what it takes to win a grand tour like TDF... http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=winning-the-tour-de-france


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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 02:30:30 PM »
Quote from: knobster on July 08, 2008, 01:32:51 PM



Who said the drugs are out?  Oh yeah... you did say "some"....


Here's a nice piece on what it takes to win a grand tour like TDF... http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=winning-the-tour-de-france




Yeah, the 'some' was very intentional.   

Looks like there are some 'clean' riders out there.  But I read an article not long ago where they sent 70 samples to the same testing labs in france they use for the tour.  All 70 were from people taking EPO in different doses.  only about 15% of the samples came back 'positive' from the labs.
And they will never be able to detect the guys who just add an extra pint of their own blood. 
Garmin/slipstream  seems to be ahead of the curve with the profiling strategy, but it's really sad when you have to wonder every time you watch a race.  But at least there's something on tv every day now.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 03:14:05 PM »
I hear there is a Viagria abuse problem....does pitching a tent make you more aerodynamic????   :evil:
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2008, 03:09:09 PM »
ive been enjoying the race so far!  :afro:
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2008, 11:43:07 AM »
Check ot this video from last years tour. Sick!! He only busted a couple of ribs too.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC26ZCxwQDs
And a 3000.00 Euro fine.
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Re: Tour day France
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2008, 12:22:48 PM »
Quote from: Carlos G. on July 11, 2008, 11:43:07 AM
And a 3000.00 Euro fine.

WoW that's like 3 million U.S.

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Busted!
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2008, 09:01:30 PM »

Manuel Beltran of team liquigas arrested at his hotel after testing positive for EPO. Whos next ?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380923,00.html

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Re: Busted!
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2008, 08:22:53 PM »
Quote from: blueblur on July 12, 2008, 09:01:30 PM

Manuel Beltran of team liquigas arrested at his hotel after testing positive for EPO. Whos next ?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380923,00.html



So when will we hear from the Lance haters?
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