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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 17-05-2009 18:20
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The etape caledonia, britains only closed road cycling sportive, had to be cancelled today after thousands of tacks were scattered on the roads by objecting locals
there goes cycling in britain
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 17-05-2009 18:21
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Sonuva... Tacks...
THE THOMAS VOECKLER PROPHET OF PCM DAILY
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 17-05-2009 18:21
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wait a sec, it was only over 20k of the 81k course and they restarted an hour or so later but still.
The ride raised 250,000 pounds for mcmillan cancer research
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| issoisso |
Posted on 17-05-2009 22:39
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1. Armstrong's responsible for the protest, says Pozzato
2. RCS Sport paid Armstrong US$3 million to race.
3. Scott Sunderland is rumoured to be in Italy to negotiate with Alessandro Ballan, Franco Pellizotti, Eros Capecchi, Danilo Di Luca and Alessandro Petacchi to try and sign as many as he can to the new SKY team for 2010.
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-05-2009 23:00
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Would hope that Di Luca and Petacchi wont sign.
Alao with the SKY team, the Procycling magazine June Issue suggests that Nibali is interested in coming to the team. |
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 17-05-2009 23:29
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
wait a sec, it was only over 20k of the 81k course and they restarted an hour or so later but still.
The ride raised 250,000 pounds for mcmillan cancer research
It was 81 miles or 130km. Don't belittle my achievement, even if I got an hours break in the middle of the race 
Actually, it was an achievement in the last two years, because they cut off about an 8 mile loop that was covered in tacks from the run in, only 73 miles. Understandably, nobody took it seriously after the restart, with many people cramping from standing still in the cold for an hour. Not a great day for British cycling at all.
I got lucky with only 1 tack puncture, but one guy who I overheard at the Feed station had 8! Mavic actually ran out of spare tubes and puncture repair kits: all 700 of them. I hope the person responsible is caught and made to pay for the thousands of pounds worth of damage they caused, but its not likely. Its a small wonder nobody was seriously hurt, or the case could be much more severe against them.
Its sad to see a local turn his back on the millions brought into the area by the race, as well as the money raised for charity, all because the road closure makes life inconvienient to get a Sunday paper for a few hours. |
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| Macquet |
Posted on 17-05-2009 23:33
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knasen wrote:
...I heard today that everybody in the Astana Giro squad had the new jersey today, but not one. Wast that Andrey Zeits? If it was him he will probably not get a new contract when Lance rule the team.
Zeits likely did not wear the new jersey because he is Kazakh and that would insult his national cycling federation.
As far as being able to afford the jerseys, they only had to buy enough for the guys wearing them not the whole team...and I'm sure the cyclists could spring for a new jersey. |
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| trueatfirstlight |
Posted on 18-05-2009 00:37
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Contador to Euskatel
 Nope.
schleck93 wrote:
Euskaltel properbly don't have the budget to pay contador.
Correct.
issoisso wrote:
No, they only have riders that did their "cycling education" in basque youth teams.
If you're basque and didn't ride for basque youth teams, you're not a "basque cyclist" so they don't want you.
Ding ding ding!
While Contador did ride as a youth in the Basque country and with a Basque team, he'd never go to Euskaltel, and I doubt they'd take him anyway. There is many a reason why some still call him "niño" there.. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 18-05-2009 11:31
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issoisso wrote:
For the second time in this Giro, Cunego explains the fact that he couldn't follow on the climbs with the sentence "I've learned at my expense that certain people's performances are suspicious".
Yes Cunego, you can't follow because you're riding clean. We get it. It was obvious last summer at the Tour. Now shut up and suck it up.
Cunego now rides below 385 W uphill. In the races where he did good gc's, like the Giro he won or the Giro he was 5th, he was waaay stronger. Dunno what he is babbling about, but he is just completely out of it. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 18-05-2009 12:17
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Police found the blood doping equipment exactly where Kohl testified it would be. Along with evidence that several athletes helped Matschiner pay for its purchase.
Chicken is among those athletes.
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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| knasen |
Posted on 18-05-2009 12:48
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issoisso wrote:
Police found the blood doping equipment exactly where Kohl testified it would be. Along with evidence that several athletes helped Matschiner pay for its purchase.
Chicken is among those athletes.
Good to here. |
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| zemaria |
Posted on 18-05-2009 13:55
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knasen wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Police found the blood doping equipment exactly where Kohl testified it would be. Along with evidence that several athletes helped Matschiner pay for its purchase.
Chicken is among those athletes.
Good to here.
here? No, hear... |
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| knasen |
Posted on 18-05-2009 14:44
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zemaria wrote:
knasen wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Police found the blood doping equipment exactly where Kohl testified it would be. Along with evidence that several athletes helped Matschiner pay for its purchase.
Chicken is among those athletes.
Good to here.
here? No, hear...
Sorry my mistake.  |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 18-05-2009 15:11
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issoisso wrote:
1. Armstrong's responsible for the protest, says Pozzato
He also says that Armstrong went around the pack after the first lap telling people to slow down, which many was unhappy about as things like that should be planned before the stage.
BenBarnes wrote:
Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 18-05-2009 15:32
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yeaah this is have to Lance ...he failed to get a pink at least for a day..he was clearly focused on that..and was almost succesful. Now... new tricks.. you just have to hate this guy..he don't give you other option. |
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| Macquet |
Posted on 18-05-2009 15:39
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I love how you find ways to hate the man, first he wants to ride again, so he must be cheating. Then he wants to get a shower and identify this strange guy who wants his blood, urine and hair, he's cheating...now he helps organize a protest after a fellow rider falls 60m into a ravine and has to be chopper lifted in a basket and put in a medical induced coma for a day...and this is a reason to hate...you got to see the Golden Boy Cavendish win a sprint, did you think something magnificent was going to happen on a circuit stage...NASCAR fans get a bad reputation for wanting to see "The Big Crash", I would hope cycling fans were above that....quit crying about a slow ride through town and stop trying to find ways to hate Armstrong, you can like him or not, you can think he is cheating or not, but really do you need to find a new thing to blame on him every other day....what is next you going to blame him for global warming too. |
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| Biathlon |
Posted on 18-05-2009 15:54
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Ofcourse he have to hate Lance. He is a Ullrich fan.. And everybody know the story how Lance allways owned Ulle.
Edited by Biathlon on 18-05-2009 15:54
Words to live by
"What would Lance do?"
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 18-05-2009 16:08
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Macquet wrote:
I love how you find ways to hate the man
I liked Lance. Until he came back.
When I began watching cycling, it was just the tour (that was all they raced... right?!). And so I only knew Lance, and Ullrich, and ONCE. Then I found the internet, PCM, and that actually riders raced more than once a year. It filled the gap where Lance had once filled. I found new riders to admire, better styles to envy, nicer guys to look up to. I had moved on. Completely. 100%.
Then he came back. Like an unwelcome intrusion into my present.
How does anybody react when something they've gotten over, comes back? (Diseases, women, a bad politician, etc) Everyone reacts with the same animosity. They treat it as an invasion.
The way I personally see it is as follows:
I had my own ideas, I found out they were wrong. I found new ideas, that were closer to the truth. This destroyed my previous innocence from the days of Armstrong. Thats ok (I tell myself), because he's gone, as is the past. He comes back, I dislike the past. I dislike Armstrong. I dislike that on his arrival back, the world events seem like a soap opera. He makes a mockery of the sport with his American balderdash...
So, on second thoughts, it's not that I dislike Lance, it's that I dislike Americans.
EDIT: Yes, this post was a waffle, but hell, I'm doing anything to avoid actual work.
Edited by rjc_43 on 18-05-2009 16:08
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| BenBarnes |
Posted on 18-05-2009 16:12
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So, on second thoughts, it's not that I dislike Lance, it's that I dislike Americans.
So I've noticed... |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 18-05-2009 16:15
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Macquet wrote:
I love how you find ways to hate the man, first he wants to ride again, so he must be cheating. Then he wants to get a shower and identify this strange guy who wants his blood, urine and hair, he's cheating...now he helps organize a protest after a fellow rider falls 60m into a ravine and has to be chopper lifted in a basket and put in a medical induced coma for a day...and this is a reason to hate...you got to see the Golden Boy Cavendish win a sprint, did you think something magnificent was going to happen on a circuit stage...NASCAR fans get a bad reputation for wanting to see "The Big Crash", I would hope cycling fans were above that....quit crying about a slow ride through town and stop trying to find ways to hate Armstrong, you can like him or not, you can think he is cheating or not, but really do you need to find a new thing to blame on him every other day....what is next you going to blame him for global warming too.
well..why everything in cycling should go with Lance rules. If someone else has told doper hunter ..basicaly: go and fuck yourself..you can imagine reaction.
I don't belive that Horillo crash was Giro fault..
Lance spoiled great Milano stage..and he's big gesture .."We will ride but wont be happy"..was not doing any good eather. Damn ...dont race then! Why to you need a play a fool and get so many angry fans..If you looked that stage ..you had seen numb spectators. And this stage should been great one..like Monaco in F1.
Ofcorse I dont like to see someone get hurt..not in Nascar, NHL or cycling. But what we should do..keep them inside on exercise device? |
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