Tour de France 2010

Make your minds up, girls...

Harsh, I'm just very tired (nights and no sleep).

No work. I was thinking about the tour. Not until a bit later though.

Make your minds up, girls...

3 minutes before the Friday drinks thread gets a bump. Then even more indecision will arrive.

re. Vroomen comments (his blog is always a good read) I was wondering about the niceties of leadouts obstructing other teams last year on the Champs Elysee when Hincapie pulled off the front and dies @ 00:35 and forces the Garmin boys off their line

YouTube- Mark Cavendish wins on the Champs Élysées

Don't book around me. There's a chance I will bail. I will know in about an hour.

yeah, we know that ;) , well thats what teenslain tells me. ooooof! good luck on trip btw

now. this is a headbutt!!

YouTube- Head Butt Cadel Evans

YouTube- Zidane Head Butt

Anyway, another stage today, and it sounds like an interesting one already:

                          Sounds like today's stage has  started at full pelt. Wiggins has crashed and is chasing back on while  Armstrong has been dropped

TDF is DTM

Chavanel has made a break. Ha! Nice one.

Again? Fuckin' Energizer bunny..

He got caught. So did a Hesjedal break. Nothing's sticking yet. I'd love to see Ryder have another go.

manx = crown dependency.

they punch above their weight in terms of annoying HM govt.

It does seem like a harsh penalty and i take the points that if there is a punishment then it should be one that affects the rider and therefore last place doesn't really work if you are a leadout rider.

seems to me that the headbutting was all he could do to stop himself being pushed in to by the other rider and it worked. The move across to the left is harder to defend.

in a footy match it could be the equivalent of a cynical foul in the centre of the park to stop a player about to go on a run at a vulnerable defence (e.g. not auto red card for last man tackle but certainly cynical and yellowcardable)

surely a fine, a warning, last place etc and then a dq if it happens agains is what is required as punishment. an alternative view is that this is dangerous play so red card, but still seems harsh as there is no way he would have been able to head butt anyone if they weren't cycling in to him.

all in all it doesnt feel quite right

manx = crown dependency.

they punch above their weight in terms of annoying HM govt.

Fuck yeah!

the barredo v costa punch up is different. they werent going at 60kph were they? no chance of a mass pile up. it's between two guys fighting over the better chorizo (argentine beats both btw) post race.

anyway, vroomen and mcewen made some pretty good points.

I think Pineau had a crash earlier and Charteau is taking advantage. Looks like he's collected enough points for KoM now and is in the breakaway looking for more.

I also think Vroomen gets it wrong here

"1) Headbutting doesn’t belong in sports, never."

what about WCW or WWF wrestling. They headbutt eachother all the time in that. According to Wikipedia headbutting is "also the primary focus of Eritrean martial art Testa."

so therefore Vroomen's comment that Headbutting doesn't belong in any sport is plain wrong and as it is the first point he makes then all others that follow from this should henceforth be ignored. ha

immediate post-race interview with renshaw

http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/1044

18 rider break with Thor (who's now tied for Green, with one more sprint in this stage - if the break maintains itself, he'll be back in Green today), Ryder, Casar, Kloden, and Charteau.

Exciting :)

Where the fuck are Sky in that break??? Vino is in it, for fuck's sake. They said they were going to try for stages, but this isn't how you do it.
Sky Fail.

Headbutting must be an Aussie thing;

YouTube- MattyBob - Yosser (remix)

Didn't know Julian Dean was a Kiwi; that probably explains it....

Headbutting must be an Aussie thing;

well they were track sprinters.

great photo.