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Aren't they the ones that had caffeine suppositories as well? I could never imagine wanting to win anything that badly!

Vino an honourable rider? That's a mickey take, right?

WINNER; Tom Boonen SECOND; Fabian Cancellara THIRD; Roger Hammond

TDF Specials I particularly used to love the Tour De France Weekly newspaper-style issues. I still have a few copies from the late '80s. The monthly edition was a great magazine and helped me to understand a sport that I was just starting to get into. The fantastic photography and features...

Fair point. I forgot about the pure comedy gold that was Michael Rasmussen's 2006 horrorshow time trial, or the B-Box teams impromptu diversion into a potato field! Long live the time trial!

I probably stand alone on this one but, apart from a prologue, I'd consider getting rid of all time trials from Grand Tours! You have to admit that there is an air of inevitability about the results of them that you don't get on the other key stages. I shall start plugging my ears in...

Given that Monaco was the start point, I actually thought this years course was pretty good! OK, I'd stick in another mountain top finish and lose the TTT but other than that I was OK with it. Having the Ventoux on the penultimate stage was an excellent idea. In general though, I always...

Just thought of another: Mario Cipollini was once asked (during the Giro I think) whether cyclists miss the, ahem ,"closeness" of their wives company during a grand tour. His reply was; "Do you know what the second thing is that I'll do when I get home? Put my suitcases down!" Awesome!

God bless RDV4ROUBAIX for this thread! "We were f***ing sh*t" - Jens Voigt's response to a journo' s question of why the German team performed so badly at last year's road champs. "Climbers suffer riding up mountains just as much as everyone else, we just suffer at a higher speed" -...

I agree. We do have some very good newspaper journalists covering cycling (Alisdair Fotheringham in The Independent for example). My gripe is that when cycling becomes popular (usually in July) sports editors like James Lawton (excellent on football and cricket) feel the need to write utter guff...

Di Luca is both unlucky and stupid. He served a suspension for using a dodgy doctor but that was unlucky because Lance got away with doing the same thing! However, getting caught while you know you're already under suspicion is the height of stupidity. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Surely the question should be...if Rasmussen was a doper how did Contador keep up with him in the 2007 Tour? Talent or CERA...you decide!

They should just force these tools to run alongside the riders on the descents!

The "sex change" thing was just total bull****, just read In Search of Robert Millar by Richard Moore. Alas, back in those days it was the only way cycling could ever get any coverage in the British press. Now, after the Olympics and Cav's domination in the sprints, every ****ing "sports...

VDB probably will lead Silence/Lotto next year but only after Cadel "sees his own ****" (to use a Northern English expression) and after Silence buy in some big names over the winter only for them to have failed a drugs test earlier this season!