Originally Posted by rousseau

Did anyone notice the helicopter shot near the finish at Hautacam today in stage 10, where Basque terrorist sympathizers took over a whole swath of road by painting "ETA" in huge letters over and over about 15 times in a row? I was surprised the camera lingered so long on that and took the whole thing in.

I thought politics and sport weren't supposed to mix (he said tongue in cheek)?