Tour de France 2009

c'mon...still an italian with the yellow jersey...was long time id didnt see this scenario, i know it wont last long, but its bellissimo now!!! vai rinaldo, facci sognare!!!!

can i ask a question, an appeal even - why are lance armstrong and contador on the same team when there's going to be an obvious conflict of leadership? I understand the friction now ofcourse but how and why has that situation come about?

ducking and covering...

^There's no very brief answer to that but: it's more about Arsestrong being with Bruyneel (the team director) who he was with for all his TdF wins. That Contador was already there, already a Tour winner and already the team leader for the Tour was obviously going to cause problems but the publicity for Astana has been enormous. The chances are one of them will win the Tour.

Actually that was a very brief answer.

can't get todays highlights package off itv4s media player (http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Programmes/default.html?ViewType=1&Filter=2070)

anyone else having this problem? solution?

farrar nearly caused havoc a couple of corners out. i winced

Jesus Platini. I've had a stack of reported posts of yours in the last 24 hours. Are you in a bad place or something? All you seem to come out with is toxic posts making snide comments at people.

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48 Minutes Ago #37 !Nhattattack!

    Platini, I think I love you.

can't get todays highlights package off itv4s media player (http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Programmes/default.html?ViewType=1&Filter=2070)

anyone else having this problem? solution?

Patience. It's not up yet...

@wiganwill - thanks, that was a lot simpler than i thought it was going to be. mardy forum this.

Shameless repost but it only got 2 replies where it was, and it's TdF related.
My dad used to race bikes. Now he writes stories. I read this this morning and loved it, so I thought some more of you might also find it a good read.
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread25538.html

can't get todays highlights package off itv4s media player (http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Programmes/default.html?ViewType=1&Filter=2070)

anyone else having this problem? solution?

Yeah, Bastards. What are they playing at? Usually the highlights go up by the time they're being played on ITV4. I'm annoyed that I can't see it. The Arvesen crash is on the Eurosport highlights if anyone wants to see it but it doesn't give a very good camera angle and it's hard to see what happened.

Stage 11 will start in the tiny village of Vatan - population 2,000 - and symbolises a tribute to rural France. Vatan (pronounced 'Va-t'en', which means 'get lost') hosted a meeting of representatives of villages with similarly funny-sounding names last year - such as 'Montéton' ('my tit') or 'Trécon' ('Very stupid').

Another day for cav. Mountains didn't seem to kill his sprint.

We do the peyresourde today.

The last 500 metres of today's stage is uphill, averaging 6%, which might suit Hushovd or Freire more than it suits Cavendish.

When do you leave for France then Andy?

Saturday morning. Back Tuesday evening. It's a bit of a flying visit.

Platini, I think I love you.

ah that's sweet, i'm getting emotional now..

This is a nice set of photos from the Tour;

http://www.projectletour.com/

great photographs.

ah that's sweet, i'm getting emotional now..

Shame you can't figure out that it's not a quote from me then, eh, brainbox?

This is a nice set of photos from the Tour;

http://www.projectletour.com/

Martin Parr does le Tour.

Nice pics, The Telekom TTT and the Contador ones are my fav. Although the German Ulrich/Porn one was entertaining

i'm finding the tour de hippy much more interesting than the race itself ! anyone else

where are you today hippy ? another HC climb or you doing a bit of flat work ?

are you doing the same stages as the tour ? but with more rest / beer days ?

I think cav is telling the truth, how would he be most remembered / have the most impact, winning five stages in one tour or winning the green jersey (with less stage wins)?????

Is the whole Columbia team now riding in kit with green flashes added? Trying to psych out Thor?

I thought that but looking back it's always been on the new kit, think the green flashes are from the HTC logo. Could be fitting though...