Penal TDF/ How's the kit.
06-18-09, 07:13 AM
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Penal TDF/ How's the kit.
No pinstripes. Cool enough you'd want to wear it..? Foods probably not up to the standards of the pro riders in the other TDF....?
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No jokes, please, about that extraordinary bicycle race, the Penal Tour de France, that is wending its way around the country in a pack composed of convicts, prison officials and policemen.
Hold the wheezes about how, if a low-ranked rider wins, it will be highway robbery, or, as a tumultuous sprint to the finish develops, somebody will get away with murder. Nothing about how, instead of a yellow jersey, the leader will wear one with black and white stripes.
Above all, no references to a breakaway, in French an echappée or, shudder, an escape. Well, maybe one. It comes from Daniel, a 48-year-old prisoner in Nantes, whose last name was not given when the Tour de France Pénitentiaire was announced there last month.
“It's a kind of escape for us, a chance to break away from the daily reality of prison,” he said, according to Reuters. “If we behave well, we might be able to get released earlier, on probation.”
Sylvie Marion, identified as a prison official, elaborated on the purpose of the race: “This project aims to help these men reintegrate into society by fostering values like effort, teamwork and self-esteem. We want to show them that with some training, you can achieve your goals and start a new life.”
That’s the point, said Philippe Lamotte, warden of the prison in Valenciennes — “to show convicts the possibilities of rehabilitation.” His predecessor, Jean-Paul Chapu, now the warden in Loos, came up with the idea of the race, according to the newspaper France Soir.
The Tour began last week, when 60 cyclists — 17 convicts, 23 prison officials and 20 surrounding gendarmes — set off in the northern town of Villeneuve d'Ascq, according to the newspaper Nord Éclair. That was the first of 15 daily stages (no rest days) that will cover 2,300 kilometers, or 1,400 miles, in a clockwise direction around the country.
The riders will travel in a pack, with no breakaways permitted. Nor will any rider be allowed to be dropped, or left behind in solitary confinement, while the pack disappears up the road.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/sp...tml?ref=global
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No jokes, please, about that extraordinary bicycle race, the Penal Tour de France, that is wending its way around the country in a pack composed of convicts, prison officials and policemen.
Hold the wheezes about how, if a low-ranked rider wins, it will be highway robbery, or, as a tumultuous sprint to the finish develops, somebody will get away with murder. Nothing about how, instead of a yellow jersey, the leader will wear one with black and white stripes.
Above all, no references to a breakaway, in French an echappée or, shudder, an escape. Well, maybe one. It comes from Daniel, a 48-year-old prisoner in Nantes, whose last name was not given when the Tour de France Pénitentiaire was announced there last month.
“It's a kind of escape for us, a chance to break away from the daily reality of prison,” he said, according to Reuters. “If we behave well, we might be able to get released earlier, on probation.”
Sylvie Marion, identified as a prison official, elaborated on the purpose of the race: “This project aims to help these men reintegrate into society by fostering values like effort, teamwork and self-esteem. We want to show them that with some training, you can achieve your goals and start a new life.”
That’s the point, said Philippe Lamotte, warden of the prison in Valenciennes — “to show convicts the possibilities of rehabilitation.” His predecessor, Jean-Paul Chapu, now the warden in Loos, came up with the idea of the race, according to the newspaper France Soir.
The Tour began last week, when 60 cyclists — 17 convicts, 23 prison officials and 20 surrounding gendarmes — set off in the northern town of Villeneuve d'Ascq, according to the newspaper Nord Éclair. That was the first of 15 daily stages (no rest days) that will cover 2,300 kilometers, or 1,400 miles, in a clockwise direction around the country.
The riders will travel in a pack, with no breakaways permitted. Nor will any rider be allowed to be dropped, or left behind in solitary confinement, while the pack disappears up the road.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/sp...tml?ref=global
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07-10-09, 01:31 AM
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anyone do a close up on the penal tour kit.. It apparently has a corporate sponsor.. Look closely at their jerseys, basically the same kit as the Le Jeux de France pros wear.. Who says they'd sponsor corporate logo's for mass murderers..Likely just minor theft cons about to be paroled. ?
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07-10-09, 02:49 AM
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anyone do a close up on the penal tour kit.. It apparently has a corporate sponsor.. Look closely at their jerseys, basically the same kit as the Le Jeux de France pros wear.. Who says they'd sponsor corporate logo's for mass murderers..Likely just minor theft cons about to be paroled. ?
