Tour de France 2009

I assumed he'd got Armstrong and Contador mixed up. There was only one charmless, arrogant, selfish, egotistic rider on display in the past 3 weeks, and he wasn't Spanish.

Headline of L'Equipe: 'Chapeau Le Texan". Weird that the grumpy French seem to have changed their minds..

Columbia HTC were fantastic on the last day, great lead out, great finish. but i still can't get over how good Shleck was on the climbs. i have decided i like him the most...

I say fuck it, let them all take the strongest drugs they can, we will have speeds of 70mph, massive mood swings, fights and rock and roll style headlines. at least it will get it off ITV and onto a channel that can give it a decent coverage.

i think if contador and armostrong are dopers, and they have managed not to get cought so far its unlikely tey'll get caught now, as you said earlier up in the page they will proibably remain 1 step ahead of the testers.

Although i have to say i'd be gutted if armstrong was a doper.

Also, Andy Shleck's performance in the TT does reek of something fishy, at least contador and armstrong are know as decent testers but he pulled the performance of a lifetime out the bag and still had the energy the next day to constantly attack contador and try and help bro out....

If Andy was a doper, wouldn't Frank be as well and nothing in Frank's performance marked him out as one.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1935&Itemid=26

fuck. now i have to find a job

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1935&Itemid=26

:)

*"Earlier Italian cyclist Franco Pellizotti was crowned King of the Mountains, Britain's Bradley Wiggins was King of the Fields and Streams, and Hanuman, the Hindu demi-god, was named King of the Monkeys.*

American Lance Armstrong put in a stunning performance at the age of 37 to finish third, with many saying he would have won for a record 36th time if his bicycle did not have cancer.

The race was won by some Spanish chap called Juan, or possibly 'Manuel'."

upset, no point to turning on the tv without the tour on.
post gran tour cycling comedown, boooo!!!

Corny - get out on your bike and ride! Best way to tackle post tour nihilism.

@CHUG_IT

Thanks for the pics .. makes a nice desktop background.

at least it will get it off ITV and onto a channel that can give it a decent coverage.

You mean like the BBC?
The same channel that started their round up of the Tour on the 10 o'clock news last night with the line:
"Paris they say is the capital city of romance. But nothing can have done more to dull the French love affair with cycling than the sight of an Englishman pedalling up the Champs Elysees to claim the final stage of the Tour de France."

Hackneyed, factually incorrect (Cav ain't english) and a gross injustice to perhaps the most successful Tour for British riders ever.

I love so many bits of this!...

*...Across Britain viewers cheered and shouted **'up yours you froggy bastards' **as Mark Cavendish sprinted ahead of the pack, only to discover that he actually came 131st.

Margaret Gerving, from Guildford, said: "Oh. Really? But I thought...[I] really?* How?"

Tom Logan, from Newark, added: **"What the hell are you talking about?"

**[/I]This may all have been in jest, but I know people actually think these things! It astounds me how people can turn on the tv for the last 5mins of the Tour and then wonder why they don't understand it.

i think if contador and armostrong are dopers, and they have managed not to get cought so far its unlikely tey'll get caught now, as you said earlier up in the page they will proibably remain 1 step ahead of the testers.

Armstrongs EPO program is overseen by the CIA, using NASA-developed drugs. Whenever a European tester gets close to catching him, they wake up in Guantanamo Bay

BBC sports coverage on the news is massively biased towards the sports they have broadcast rights to. MotoGP, F1 + Swimming/Diving champs all got top billing in the general news slots over the weekend.

Anyone else see that Cuntador got a St Bernard as a prize for winning in Verbier

haha awesome..

Can someone direct me to an interview with Contador where he comes off as arrogant or in any way like Christiano Ronaldo (he's been compared a couple of times in this thread)..

I've barely seen anything of him and can't see where it's coming from

Yeah i dont have any ill feeling towards him . . TBH just like saying Cuntador!

Roadie Trix, Yeah Fumy!

Brilliant!

So now all that excitement is all over we can just settle back and wait for the final doping test results to come in around September.

Added bonus of re-testing of lots of last year's samples using the all-new '09 CERA test which caught Di Luca et al.

Lance might get an 8th after all :|

This they are all doping bollox gets old fast you know.

cool wheelie.

Roadie Trix, Yeah Fumy!

Surely a wheelie where the back wheel is off the ground would be known as a bunny hop?!

Surely a wheelie where the back wheel is off the ground would be known as a bunny hop?!

With both brakes full on, it looks more like a trials-y back wheel hop

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10587100

'Contador hits out at Armstrong'

Seems like Armstrong is coming out of this looking less of a twat than Contador, which I didn't expect.
And then this:
He also described as an "enormous blunder" the playing of the Danish national anthem when the Spaniard stepped up to the podium on the Champs Elysees.
Sounds like something Paris Hilton would say...

@jonlubi - go and look at Armstrong's twitter account. Then decide who is the biggest twat.

I think far too much has been made of the whole armstrong contador situation.

Both of them are top level sportsmen and as a result very competitive, given that they were riding for the same team this is always going to cause tension.

When it came down to it, contador prooved himself to be stronger and armstrong didn't/couldn't attack him. When it came to the end of the race contador did his best to keep armstrong on the podium going up the mont ventoux. Neither one can really dislike the other that much or there would have been some sort of in fighting on the road, which there wasn't, in the ned both have ridden in the way that was best for the team