Tour de France 2009

Ah, ok, gotcha.

Wigo was flying yesterday!

Giro TTT was close between THR and GRM I seem to remember -- perhaps a replay. I love watching TTT!

Anyone know of a cyclist friendly pub that might show the tour?

Pref SE area.

Not SE, but perhaps close enough: BDW mentioned Le Bouchon Bordelais on Battersea Rise a few months ago. Apparently, they show a few cycling events on their big screen.

Slightly off-topic, but Chris Boardman : The Final Hour is being shown on ITV4 at 2pm today. Great documentary following Chris while he trained for his bash at the hour record in 2000.

Yes, I know it was also on last night. I'll fuck off now.

We were talking about hitting up that City Rd. sports bar again for some of the mountain stages..
Jonny will know what to do.

That sounds good.

I also watched the Boardman documentary, seeing Terry Dolan in it reminded me of this:

http://www.londonfgss.com/post34727-32.html

it's great to see Australia's nearly men doing their bit for the mother countries sporting heroes.
http://twitter.com/markrenshaw1

"Mark Cavendish will be making random tweets from my phone... Dont get me in too much trouble Cav !"

"Yesterday with 3km to go, Piet Rooijakkers (skil shimano) kidney punched me. Is he a:stupid b:crazy c:disrespectful d:all of the above? Cav"

HTFU Cavendish.

it's great to see Australia's nearly men doing their bit for the mother countries sporting heroes.
http://twitter.com/markrenshaw1

He's not English. "Mother country" fail.

mother country*n.***1. ** The country of one's birth or one's ancestors.
**2. ** The country from which the settlers of a territory originally came.

i was just guessing he has British ancestors :-)

"Mark Cavendish will be making random tweets from my phone... Dont get me in too much trouble Cav !"

"Yesterday with 3km to go, Piet Rooijakkers (skil shimano) kidney punched me. Is he a:stupid b:crazy c:disrespectful d:all of the above? Cav"

HTFU Cavendish.

I saw that!

Columbia train getting squeezed closer and closer to the edge of road and ditch by Milram train. Columbia rider puts out gentle stiff arm to guide Milram rider leftwrds to make a little space. Gets punched for troubles. Might be on the highlights - must be bout 2k out.

mother country*n.***1. ** The country of one's birth or one's ancestors.
**2. ** The country from which the settlers of a territory originally came.

i was just guessing he was british :-)

The mother country for everyone is probably Africa then..

Great lead out he's got from those Aussies.. he barely has to work for wins now :)

That punch is on the highlights,

ITV4 replay available through ITV website,
Around 37mins, 30 secs, approaching big Leclerc sign.

Columbia rider (cav) squished up against right edge of road, guides rider away from him. rider punches back.

Sorry for being a geek.

The mother country for everyone is probably Africa then..

Great lead out he's got from those Aussies.. he barely has to work for wins now :)

Africa is a continent not a country.

Africa is a continent not a country.

i doubt it was even called africa 50,000 years ago when the first migration happened.
i don't think the wheel had been invented then either.

Africa is a continent not a country.

"One of the countries within what we now know as Africa" then, smarty pants.

Midget or child chasing Didi?

Good win for Cav... Just watched the highlights and now Chris Boardman: The Final Hour is on (again)... I'm not gonna get any work done this afternoon, am I? Pfff... ;]

Midget or child chasing Didi?

You're the expert...

Anyway - any idea on when we're going to get away for some mid week beers/Tour watching?

Interesting statistic in l'Equipe today. This season Cavendish has an 82% win ratio in bunch sprints. This compares to 42% in 2007 and 50% in 2008.

Perhaps that's why he was 4/6 with most bookies this morning for a repeat of yesterday's win!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mundanetv

if anyone has problems with a feed.

the peleton is splitting due to the wind and columbia. not seen that before

Yeah, wierd split. Columbia preventing an attack that might put the sprint in jeopardy?

awesome echelon and rotation going on there.