Christie Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 I agree with Auction Lamb. Last week will be a tour within a tour. Some monster Alpine climbs on Tue & Wed, the finishes are at the base of the mountain - if you have a 1 or 2 min gap at the summit, you can stay away till the finish.TT on WedThu looks like another hard one, lumpy, cat 2 climb before the finish - not one for the sprinters.Sat is Ventoux. Anybody with GC aspirations would have planned to peak in this week. It is just too early now to write of Cadel, Andy, Sastre etc. Those climbs will weaken Astana's domestiques, and then it will be a GC contenders battle. I stull think the route in the 1st 2 weeks is stupid.
Racing Hart Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 guys what are you smoking..this is probably the most exciting tdf in years...the pyreness is just a taste of what is to come...with most of the main favourites within in 2minutes of each other...every stage so far had a great story and I would think tv ratings have shot up again. Yesterday everybody excpected that the break is going to make it, than everybody thought it would be caught and then it just survived. And to add a little spice andy schleck gets a puncture 5km to go, and mr Voigt pulls him back with a superpull.
Tumbleweed Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 guys what are you smoking..this is probably the most exciting tdf in years...the pyreness is just a taste of what is to come...with most of the main favourites within in 2minutes of each other...every stage so far had a great story and I would think tv ratings have shot up again. Yesterday everybody excpected that the break is going to make it' date=' than everybody thought it would be caught and then it just survived. And to add a little spice andy schleck gets a puncture 5km to go, and mr Voigt pulls him back with a superpull.[/quote'] i wish voigt coulda stayed with the break!
kori Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 nothing to exciting so far, astana too strong and the other teams too weak.
Joe Low Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 I agree with Epoh It's a very negative tour so far - More than a week gone and nobody tested positive. Not as interesting as last year where you'd see a super-human performance by different guys to win different stages only to find out four days later it was indeed....errrr....superhuman. I like this Tour so far and there's plenty more good stuff to come. & the scenery is nice.
intern Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 Astana by far has the best doctors in the tour. Those okes work at the front day in and day out without tiring out, impressive. LA: I'm doing it for cancer (a year ago), I'm doing it for the team and will support whoever is strongest (6 months ago) I've won the tour 7 times so you can't write me off as a contender; I don't think a team should have one leader only (2 weeks ago), Contador taking seconds back was not in the plan (a couple days ago). What a giant tool he is. Never seemed to have a problem with only 1 team leader in the old days. That makes for an exciting tour, y'know.
Tumbleweed Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 nothing to exciting so far' date=' astana too strong and the other teams too weak.[/quote'] and then when mr boring himself, cadel, tries to make things interesting, everyone mocks him.
GreyOwl3.0 Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 Some people are just not happy unless they are complaining!?! Ok, its your opinion dude...but really. Do you expect them to tear each other to shreds every stage? We've only had 2 proper bunch sprints...one of which had suffered an exciting split...The TTT was super cool...The leaders are so close together its frigging fantastic! But, I'm sure you are the kinda guy that had you been riding you would expect us all to believe it was the hardest TDF in history. Quit complaining and just let them race...and us to enjoy it!
Delgado Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 nothing to exciting so far' date=' astana too strong and the other teams too weak.[/quote'] and then when mr boring himself, cadel, tries to make things interesting, everyone mocks him. Not everyone just South Africans!!
Tumbleweed Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 nothing to exciting so far' date=' astana too strong and the other teams too weak.[/quote'] and then when mr boring himself, cadel, tries to make things interesting, everyone mocks him. Not everyone just South Africans!! and we say the poms moan a lot!
nikki Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 IrishJ9, If you dont like or are enjoying the Tdf this year just switch your TV off and then you'll have nothing to complain about.
scotty Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 Found yesterday racing exciting particulary with the main bunch bearing down on them, never thought i'd be supporting a frenchman but was shouting for Fedrigo and Pellizotti to stay clear after working so hard and Fedrigo to win.
intern Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 Was also shouting for Fedrigo, he did more work towards the end and neither of them sat up and played games
GreyOwl3.0 Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 Yesterday was a good stage. That last bend almost caused a problem for Fedrigo though!
scotty Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 Yeah he mentioned he would have liked to be in the lead going into it, but all came good in the end.
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