Tour de France 2009

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Google translate it's 2009 grandad

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So is the ITV4 assertion that Bradleys time was correct the final word?

I'd like to see how he lost time at the end.

okay

Where is this reported? Any more news?

It was on the itv live feed that wiggo had a grievance with the official timing of his TT so wanted to have it checked. The itv crowd checked it themselves and found no discrepincy but were still waiting for the officials to come back with an answer.

And then broadcast ended, with no official news.

I'd like to see Contador's VO2 max published too, but the VAM method that Vayer uses is a very rough indicator, i.e. it doesn't prove that Contador was doping. It doesn't take into account weather conditons or wind speed and direction, and he estimates the weight of the rider.

Lemond's like a broken bloody record.

Lemond's broken bloody records.

And then some.

wiggo to win the TT, let's shout for that, only cancellara and contador as main threats for the stage.. expecting Annecy to look spectacular... the organisers have got it so right for the final week..

damn did i say that.. smug fucker i am, why didn't i put money down..

i hate damien hurst, there i've said it.. what a creep..

Fair enough... I like it. Maybe not the pink rims mind sniggers

Though I doubt that will ever get ridden, just hung up on a wall to gather dust.

won't lance use it for a stage, like the other special bikes he has?

picasso knew art like no one else..

the Saatchi's have alot to answer for bigging up the likes of damien hurst and tracey emin..

Reckon we'll see it on Ventoux - see his Twitter - it's out in France.

ok, you know about art, we get it. however, i find it unlikely that Picasso will be designing a Livestrong bike anytime soon..

Hirst bike is for final stage. real butterfly wings not transfers :(

ok, you know about art, we get it. however, i find it unlikely that Picasso will be designing a Livestrong bike anytime soon..

not unless someone's dug him up..

Hirst bike is for final stage. real butterfly wings not transfers :(

surprise surprise.. yawn

Lemond's like a broken bloody record.

Maybe but the tune he's playing needs to be heard.

If all the kit was black and the frame stayed the same it would be nice.

adoubletap.. the yawn wasn't for your comment apologies, that sounded very rude.. it was for the artwork, which frankly my children could do, in fact ... wait a minute, they did just that last summer.. what a fraud..

anyway the fact that we are talking about it means that Livestrong / Damien Hurst have our attention, which also means that everyone will debate it's merits or not, which is art i suppose..

And they are all going to be auctioned for self-promotion charidee so it's all right really.

Go Team Tandy!

Cancellara not happy about Cuntador's moto assistance..
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fabian-cancellara-speaks-out-at-preferential-treatment-for-alberto-contador

Very pleased to see David Millar's time up there today.. i hope Wiggo has something left in the tank for the final stages, too.. and better Armstrong in the GC..

And the cycling press tried to get Contador to respond to the Lemond piece...

Cancellara should take heart from the fact that, while he did the business on the road, Contador’s performance in his post-race press conference was, by all accounts, horrendous. I wasn’t there, but for once it didn’t take long to catch up on whatever juicy sound bites I’d missed.

That’s because Contador was asked three questions -- all vaguely connected to a column penned by Greg LeMond in the newspaper Le Monde this morning -- and he refused to answer all three.

The title of LeMond’s piece was self-explanatory: “Alberto, prove to me that we can believe in you.”
The three press conference questions, two of which came from a Le Monde journalist, were as follows:

1. Can you please respond to what Greg LeMond said in Le Monde about proving that you’re not doped?
   
2. You were the fastest up Verbier, and now you’re the fastest in this time trial. Can you explain that ?
   
3. Can you please tell us what your VO2 Max is?
   
   

Contador’s three answers were identical: “Next question”.

Now, you might say that Contador did well not to dignify such loaded questions with a response. You might say that, but if you do, you’re sorely mistaken.

Whether Contador has something to hide or not, I’m sorry, but it takes a fool to think that refusing to answer questions about doping is a smart PR move. Or to think that it’s the best way to nip such scrutiny in the bud. A fool or just someone who was born yesterday and not, as Contador’s birth certificate states, long before Festina or Operacion Puerto or any of the other scandals that have brought professional cycling to its knees over the past decade.

For us journalists – or at least those who heard him – it must have been like traveling back in time to that execrable half-hour we spent hanging on Floyd Landis’s every guilt-ridden word in Montceau-les-Mines in 2006. The Tour was about to finish and Landis was the champion elect. A bit like Contador’s today, the American didn’t wanted to answer any questions even vaguely related to doping.
We all know what happened next.

At the end of a Tour whose scandals have been mercifully confined to the road, it would have been nice to feel that trend will continue when Contador steps onto the podium in Paris and even beyond.

Tonight, he had an opportunity to instill that confidence. Tonight, Contador made his first major faux pas of the Tour.