Tour de France 2006!
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Hey, Valkenburg again, last weekend my wife found a t shirt from Le Tours last visit to Valkenburg and said - I'll throw this away, it's really old. Have you no soul woman? She gave up, she knows she'll never beat le tour.
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Originally Posted by kokodeselavy
No TTT?
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After reading this, I wish all teams would forget about the TDF and compete only in the Giro:
https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006...05/oct27news3b
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https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006...05/oct27news3b
Cheers
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Originally Posted by kokodeselavy
I forgot to say before, thanks for the notice and the link....you posted it before cyclingnews had it!
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Originally Posted by karesz3
After reading this, I wish all teams would forget about the TDF and compete only in the Giro:
https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006...05/oct27news3b
Cheers
https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006...05/oct27news3b
Cheers
Unlike the Tour organizers, the Giro organizers constantly watch Italians win, and Vuelta organizers always watch Spaniards win. What the French need to do is embrace thier riders (and the best possible results those riders can produce) instead of critising others, and light a new passion in the French fans for the likes of Cristophe Moreau, Thomas Voeckler, and Jean-Patrick Nazons. It's sad that the Tour organizers have become so angry and so bitter when France has so much to offer in fine racers, fine teams, and one of the best countries to host a bicycle race. The French may not be Tour winners right now, but they are still at the heart of European pro cycling and should support and encourage and (drug-free) rider from any nation who shines in the Tour. Doing anything else shuts out and snubs not just Armstrong, but legions of cycling fans like myself who can just as easily get my cycling fix at the Giro and Vuelta, and spend the month of July at the beach with my TV turned off.
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But it could be said that the presentation of the 2006 route did more than turn its back on Discovery Channel, the American super-squad. In an extraordinary mission statement by Amaury Sport Organisations's deputy managing director Jean-Marie LeBlanc and director of cycling Christian Prudhomme, the pair said in their introduction to the 2006 event:
"On the 24th of July we turned the page on a long, very long chapter in the history of the Tour de France. And one month later, current events made it clear to us that it was just as well that this was so."
"On the 24th of July we turned the page on a long, very long chapter in the history of the Tour de France. And one month later, current events made it clear to us that it was just as well that this was so."
I started watching Le Tour during the Lemond era but truly grew to love it during the Armstrong era, grew to appreciate and respect it through watching the daily live coverage on OLN which never would have happened were it not for Armstrong, and eventually joined those tourist throngs to bear witness to Le Tour in person in '03. For LeBlanc to so readily turn his back on Armstrong is a slap to an important champion and a disservice to a magnificent spectacle. I'll always love the Tour, I'll always watch it as long as some North American broadcaster ponies up for the broadcast rights, and I dream of going back to experience its excitement and color again, but right now, I'm loving it just a little bit less.
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looks like this course is set up to give Jan once last chance. Onl 2 pyranean stages, and one has 45k to the line after the mountains. over 100k of ITT. If Jan is ever going to win the TDF again, it is 2006
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
looks like this course is set up to give Jan once last chance. Onl 2 pyranean stages, and one has 45k to the line after the mountains. over 100k of ITT. If Jan is ever going to win the TDF again, it is 2006
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Originally Posted by bvfrompc
Yep, and with only three mountain top finishes, maybe a podium for Georgie? He really turned on the TT legs last year.
Discovery has some shots, and George is not one of them.
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well this might be enough to bring lance out again. . .
just to p.o. the French.
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just to p.o. the French.
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I thought for sure they'd do the ventoux this year...surprising there's no TTT, though.
Love the poster. BUt haven't they announced the giro route yet? I thought they'd do that before the tour.
Love the poster. BUt haven't they announced the giro route yet? I thought they'd do that before the tour.
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Originally Posted by zakk
he won ONE (UNO! SINGULAR! NOT TWO! EIN! UM! 하나개! ) mountain stage! How the hell do you people get from one stage win to Podium!?! no TTT, 2 ITT's of intermediate length (Can it be any MORE tailored for Ullrich?) and with only 3 mountain top finishes, Georges chances for a repeat is exactly NIL because of the KOM hopefuls taking those 3 wins.
Discovery has some shots, and George is not one of them.
Discovery has some shots, and George is not one of them.
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Bruyneel is right about the TTT:
"We will probably be the most affected by it since we've won it the last three years," Bruyneel said. "But I've always said that since they applied the new rule to the stage, which I never approved of, it made the stage less interesting when the time losses were capped. It was a very stressful day and almost had no major change to the race. Plus, we've heard that most of the spectators didn't really understand what was going on as well. You either need to have it full on, or not."
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Originally Posted by timmhaan
i'm way more interested in george winning PR. i just don't see him on the podium in the tdf.
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Part of me hopes US viewership tanks. But I'd hate to miss the Ulrich / Basso battle with Vino playing all around mad dog f'ing with everyone's strategery (do we chase him or let him go; chase him; let him go?).
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Originally Posted by zakk
How the hell do you people get from one stage win to Podium!?!
(to be fair, Riis actually scored 2 stage wins before "appearing" on the TdF podium in '95)
What I can't seem to get my gourd around is why so many people see this course as favoring so many different riders. I elaborate in the second paragraph here.
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The TdF leaders seem to have the stereotypical French desire to do anything (including shooting themselves in the foot) that they think might annoy an American. What they succeeded in doing was to tarnish the event and, to a lesser extent, next year's race. They have the chance to keep an American audience, and they're flushing it down the toilet out of spite.
The swipe at Armstrong was unnecessary. Let the investigation run and, in the mean time, move on. Clerc, Leblanc and Prudhomme just made the French look like pathetic, whiney, losers. But I guess that didn't change much.
As to the race itself. . . no Team Time Trials? That was probably the most elegant part of the race. Again, they are willing to hurt the race just to spite the American team. What a bunch of losers.
The swipe at Armstrong was unnecessary. Let the investigation run and, in the mean time, move on. Clerc, Leblanc and Prudhomme just made the French look like pathetic, whiney, losers. But I guess that didn't change much.
As to the race itself. . . no Team Time Trials? That was probably the most elegant part of the race. Again, they are willing to hurt the race just to spite the American team. What a bunch of losers.
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i really wish they had kept the TTT in it for next year. i had my money on CSC getting that stage next year.
even my girlfriend, who only gives the tour a tiny bit of interest, was truly dissapointed by this. i think the TTT was the most interesting stage i made her watch with me this year, at least from her perspective.
even my girlfriend, who only gives the tour a tiny bit of interest, was truly dissapointed by this. i think the TTT was the most interesting stage i made her watch with me this year, at least from her perspective.
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Originally Posted by superdex
think this is a little poingant?
*takes evasive action*
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As much as I would like to see Ullie win, Basso is closer to Jan's TT ability than Jan is to Basso's climbing. Do anyone else think we'll see a few solo Basso climbs leaving a wake of dropped hopefuls?