Tour de France 2008

Anyone know if this is being streamed online anywhere??
thanks

This place usually lists available streams;

http://www.cyclingfans.com/

Ok found one if anyone wants to watch at work:
http://pop-up-tv.t35.com/?video=2&mute=true&audio=1
from this site:
http://www.steephill.tv/2008/tour-de-france/

Ok found one if anyone wants to watch at work:
http://pop-up-tv.t35.com/?video=2&mute=true&audio=1
from this site:
http://www.steephill.tv/2008/tour-de-france/

hello tour de france, good bye work

how's the mountains dale? take pics please. and well done on your 8th place at hillingdon. chapeau!
first days nice, last few shitty. first day did a ride (gotta love a 40 min 7k ride back up the mountain at the end of ride), but got altitude headache for the next couple days.

pics front and rear of chalet :p

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hah. nice response from mark cavendish.. he wasn't impressed!

everyone watching the armstrong documentary now?

Was it on BBC?

Itv4

hah. nice response from mark cavendish.. he wasn't impressed!

everyone watching the armstrong documentary now?

Yep.

Media man
"What have you learnt over the last three days?"
Cavendish
"Nothing. Don't need to learn anything."

He sounded like a sulking teenager.

Don't ask him stupid questions.
What do you expect, his flat stage chance for a Tour win was fucked by a breakaway.

cavendish was not a happy camper. lots of aggro in these sprinter types.

What do you expect, his flat stage chance for a Tour win was fucked by a breakaway.

Which the peloton could have caught.

cav got baulked in the run-up to the line, and none of the teams did any work to catch the break, hardly surprising he was pretty miffed

He needed to take a top down action to the problem.

was a great result tho. i love seeing a breakaway succeed. and they deserved it. big effort staying up for 3qtrs of the dist

Which the peloton could have caught.

If his team had chased, which they didn't, which is what would make him/anyone in his position pissed off.

The last few hundred m was excellent too. Super exciting to watch.

He needed to take a top down action to the problem.

I thought they had an 'idea shower' earlier in the day?

No, they were just 'rain storming'

I was also a bit unimpressed with Cavendish. They have only themselves to blame.

He has a very high opinion of himself. Which is good for a sprinter I guess, he needs to be a selfish sod to nick a sprint win.

My bet on Menchov is looking more dodgy by the day.

the team not chasing the breakaway is one thing but not going first over the line as the sprinters arrive something different where nobody could be blamed. he claims to be the fasted over the last 200m, well the old guys mc ewen and zabel still rock!

He is faster over the last 200m. There's more things to sprinting than outright speed.
Positioning is much more important. I wasn't watching but if he was blocked or his leadout failed or he was boxed in or whatever.. all these factors can ruin someone's sprint.

There for perhaps he does have things to learn despite what he thinks. Thats my point. No one is beyond learning something

I understand of course why he was not happy and up for an interview though. Time for him to touch base with the team and go on a activity holiday in south Wales to build the love within the team.

was a great result tho. i love seeing a breakaway succeed. and they deserved it. big effort staying up for 3qtrs of the dist

That's true enough - it's always a shame watching the peleton swallow up those who show some bottom.

There for perhaps he does have things to learn despite what he thinks. Thats my point.

He was winning sprints in the Giro. We will see I guess. If he keeps getting cockblocked (Onion Movie!) then it would appear he needs to work on his positioning, if he wins something then he's doing just fine.

I'm going for McEwan anyway, fuck this Manx whinger! :D