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Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:34 pm
by Phlamingoe
What? No topics on the tour?! :shock:

Oh well...Any other cycling fans in here?

Re: Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:52 pm
by Rn5ho
aye, right here :)

Re: Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:57 pm
by Juliette
Definitely!
Love it, despite all the controversies, which I find to be uninteresting. That is also the reason why I personally never started a topic on it, because generally that is the focus of all discussions on that subject.


Gotta love the whole Armstrong - Contador rivalry. Big PLUS for The Boss returning with an American team of his own next year! Can't have two captains on a single ship.

Re: Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:05 pm
by Phlamingoe
If Armstrong and Contador weren't on the same team this year...oh boy, it'd be a totally different race.

Anyone else love Armstrong catching up to the lead group in stage 16? Good to see him riding good

Re: Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:14 pm
by EdwardThatch
Phlamingoe wrote:If Armstrong and Contador weren't on the same team this year...oh boy, it'd be a totally different race.

Anyone else love Armstrong catching up to the lead group in stage 16? Good to see him riding good

I'm personally sick of armstrong. He's there as a novelty, and I would have more respect for him if he did like the other rides and rode in other races around the year.

Re: Le Tour de France 2009

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:41 pm
by Phlamingoe
EdwardThatch wrote:
Phlamingoe wrote:If Armstrong and Contador weren't on the same team this year...oh boy, it'd be a totally different race.

Anyone else love Armstrong catching up to the lead group in stage 16? Good to see him riding good

I'm personally sick of armstrong. He's there as a novelty, and I would have more respect for him if he did like the other rides and rode in other races around the year.


He's hardly a novelty considering he is 4th in the GC (I'm watching the ITT right now, so I don't know the new GC's yet, shhhh!), sounds like a serious contender to me. Whether he's there to promote Cancer awareness, whatever, doesn't matter, he's still a threat. I for one look forward to seeing him ride next year.

And he does ride other races, in fact he broke his collar bone back in March in a pileup near the end of Stage 1 of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. He also rode in the Giro d'Italia in May.