McGee followed O'Grady [4th] across the line but Philippe Gilbert is given 5th**********
What's the story?

It wasn't him. This excerpt from his website "Me? Quiet day in the end as all I could do was sit in and hope destiny brought all riders back to a bunch gallop and a chance for a stage victory. With guys like Jensey and Rasmussen on missions this was not to be. So my rest day began on the summit of the final Cat 1 climb 50km's from home"

so Phil got it wrong...

How surprising. But then he did think Magnus Backstedt was Tom Boonen the other day.

yeah, both he and Paul have made a coupla duff calls this year. Only minor, except for not knowing the name of a certain stage winner. Now what was his name?

come on now, Maggy and Boonen look very much the same, they even both have some green on their jerseys

It's... it's....., no hang on, it's........ oh sh1t, I don't know who the hell that is.

I guess they are watching the race on an 8" screen on the back of a truck in the height of a French summer....

Not ideal conditions.

not ideal but what a great job !! Sipping french wine, eating cheese, watching the race every day.

I just like saying Leaky-Gas.

Paul din know what to call them the other day. The trouble started on the first day when Phil called them Leaky-Gas and continued to do so for 7 days straight. On the eight day he started calling them Liqui-Gas. Paul ended up chopping and changing between the two.

Reminds me of Dave Zabriskie's "one question interview" with Charly Wegelius.


That's gold.

any predictions for tonight's viewing? should be a beauty

https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2005...tages/tour0510

I predict that this stage will not be won by a sprinter.

fark, you're going out on a limb there...

OK then, I like the look of some of the guys with OV in their names: VINOKOUROV, PETROV, MENCHOV, ARMSTROV, POPOVYCH.

These guys might be strong too PINEAU, BROCHARD, and PEREIRO, and MOOS.

BOTERO won't figure. VOIGT, MOREAU, and RASSMUSSEN will be tired and will just keep a watch on proceedings.

what about Basso, Frigo, Mancebo and Vicioso?

189 starters - (coupla drop-outs + sprinters and domestiques + 17 mentioned so far) = only 80 other riders with chances left to mention

well at least one of them MUST win it !! I'll wager $50.

Ill go out on a limb and say Ulrich. (please god let it be Ulrich......) . Maybee Basso's time to show his hand as well.

Kloedi to win.

He gave us all a warning the other day!

Um, isn't it a rest day today?

Not anymore.....it's 6.30 am Tuesday in Paris. Time to get up and fuel up for a tough day.

that was last night

where do I hire cycling videos in the south east?

Australian cyclist Mark French has been cleared on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. French was banned for two years in 2004 after an earlier hearing found that he had used and trafficked in prohibited substances, corticosteroid (allegedly contained in a supplement preparation called Testicomp) and equine growth hormone (eGH).