Can an African Win the Tour de France?
03-14-13, 10:51 PM
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I'd like to see it, too. And it will someday. I've been cheering for Daniel Teklehaimanot (Orica-GreenEdge). Last year he said he still has difficulty with cold wet weather.
03-15-13, 07:05 AM
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A question I'm more interested in is, "will another rider from the United States win the TDF". The current batch of non-juiced riders are good but not nearly good enough for a TDF title. The radar screen is looking bleak in the coming years.
03-15-13, 09:42 AM
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Winning best young rider doesn't put you on the Radar screen?
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03-15-13, 05:56 PM
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Guess that (which was also 5th in the TDF) isn't good enough for some.
But then again I'd bet there were some Belgians who were just as pessimestic after the 1967 Giro, sure that they had no one on thee radar who would beat the Italians. After all their yuong hope only finished 9th.
Now how did he do the next year?
But then again I'd bet there were some Belgians who were just as pessimestic after the 1967 Giro, sure that they had no one on thee radar who would beat the Italians. After all their yuong hope only finished 9th.
Now how did he do the next year?
03-15-13, 07:21 PM
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Guess that (which was also 5th in the TDF) isn't good enough for some.
But then again I'd bet there were some Belgians who were just as pessimestic after the 1967 Giro, sure that they had no one on thee radar who would beat the Italians. After all their yuong hope only finished 9th.
Now how did he do the next year?
But then again I'd bet there were some Belgians who were just as pessimestic after the 1967 Giro, sure that they had no one on thee radar who would beat the Italians. After all their yuong hope only finished 9th.
Now how did he do the next year?
04-23-13, 12:36 PM
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Not quite the TdF but Ethiopian rider Natnael Berhane (Europcar) today won stage 3 (queen) of the Tour of Turkey and leads by 10 seconds on gc.
https://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-turkey/#spoiler
https://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-turkey/#spoiler
04-23-13, 01:33 PM
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Not quite the TdF but Ethiopian rider Natnael Berhane (Europcar) today won stage 3 (queen) of the Tour of Turkey and leads by 10 seconds on gc.
https://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-turkey/#spoiler
https://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-turkey/#spoiler
04-24-13, 06:03 AM
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/er.html
Excerpt:
"The UN established Eritrea as an autonomous region within the Ethiopian federation in 1952. Ethiopia's full annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a violent 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating government forces. Eritreans overwhelmingly approved independence in a 1993 referendum. ISAIAS Afworki has been Eritrea's only president since independence; his rule, particularly since 2001, has been highly autocratic and repressive. His government has created a highly militarized society by pursuing an unpopular program of mandatory conscription into national service, sometimes of indefinite length. A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices in December 2000."
I'm hoping Natnael Berhane takes it all the way
04-24-13, 06:49 PM
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Tejay may not be a favorite for the 2013 TDF but he's got to be in the conversation of riders with the potential to contend in coming years.
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I believe Taylor was an American of African descent, commonly referred to as African American.
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Whether it's an African rider or an American rider the measure of success shouldn't just be winning in yellow at the TdF.
04-25-13, 04:49 PM
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04-25-13, 11:31 PM
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No African will win the TDF without surgery to remove their weight disadvantage. 
04-27-13, 05:45 PM
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it has to be pointed out that is what George Mount was saying when Lemond retired
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