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Lance and The Tour de France
Replied Jul. 16, 2009
Lance and The Tour de France
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Started this discussion. Last reply by vxla Jul. 27, 2009.
Climbing hills and such Part 2
Replied Jul. 3, 2009
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Maybe there was so much talk about LA because he's the 7-time Tour winner returning? I'd imagine if Eddie Merckx decided to ride it, there'd be just as much talk about him.
The ratings on the Tour de France were going way down, it was off the schedule until Lance decided to ride again.
The individual time trials are recorded to the 0.01 second but only published to the nearest second. The team time trial is scored by…
I haven't yet been overdosed with Lance-centric coverage, maybe because I'm keeping up through Justin.tv and Velonews. Personally I think he's a huge part of the excitement this year, so I understand some of the focus, as long as we don't forget tha…
But why hasn't the TdF been on a more mainstream TV channel, albeit cable, since it was on ESPN during LA's early victories?
They don't even appear to have the pathetic one-hour weekly summaries on broadcast TV this year - was that channel 5, I can…
I find it nice that the Trib at least seems to include something about Christian Vande Velde in most of its stories. I like that.
As for Paul and Phil, I know that Paul has at times worked as Lance's PR guy, and still works for Lance as a translato…
I agree. The recent story about Lance possibly doing another tour just reminds me of the Brett Favre stories.
And speaking of Chris Horner - he'll be racing the Chicago Crit again this year! He's such a hard man - and I understand a super nice guy - it will be cool to watch him race right in downtown Chicago.
Its the biggest story because that's ALL anyone reports on.
Levi has ridden the tour to win in the past and he had an extremely good chance of finishing on the podium this year. Yes, his leaving the tour is a blow to Astana -- just as Arveson's lea…
I don't mind it at all... Levi is here riding in support of Lance and the team for the Tour. if the same thing had happened during the Giro (where Levi was the lead rider) I think coverage would've been different. I also think they've given fair tim…
Anyone else a little irritated with the wall-to-wall LANCE coverage? Levi - an American contender for the TdF podium - broke his wrist and is out of the tour and the first thing from the media is OH MY GOD HOW DOES THIS AFFECT LANCE!!!
I appreciate…
The reason that the peloton gets the same time is that if 60+ riders each tried to better their times as the race ended, it would be chaos at the finish line.
There's a wrinkle in that stage finishes that occur during a climb don't have the "everyone in the peloton gets the same time" rule since the grades are steep enough to generate separation. Oh there's also a rule that says that if there's a crash in…
Thanks a lot, Joe
The don't bother giving individual times to each racer. Each rider in the peloton gets the same time. You gain/lose time by getting separation from the peloton - hence the "breakaway." The other way riders make up and lose ground is in the time tria…
Can anybody explain to me how they score/time the tour? There must be some kind of idiosyncrasy to it because it's hard to believe that he's EXACTLY 8 seconds behind 3 or 4 stages in a row. Also Alberto Contador, who's in 2nd, has been EXACTLY 6 sec…
Hey, h3:
Gearing on my 'ford is 34 inner, 50 outer, double crank, shifters give me ten speeds per ring.
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- Have been trail riding on and off for years, and just purchased my first road bike. Looking forward to riding in several of the organized rides in the area. Specifically interested in finding someone to ride in the Le Tour de Shore in June
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