Liggettisms TDF 2011

[Apollonius]

Again saying Movistar are a new team! New sponsor doesn't equal a new team! They've been around since the 80's :s

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Haha, they're actually the oldest team in terms of direct lineage in the Tour.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Sherwen: "Christopher Riblon is the most experimented rider of the front group"

 

[Square-pedaller]

Sherwen: "Christopher Riblon is the most experimented rider of the front group"

He must be listening to a French comemntary or reading from something written in French. "Experimenté" in French means experienced.

 

[cyclopeon]

Describing some baths being shown on the coverage, to the effect of:
"... built between 1817 and 1823... official historic monument... they haven't been changed in 200 years"
Arithmetic apparently not his strong suit either.

He also referred to them as Roman Baths, but maybe that's a functional or decorative style and was actually "roman baths" so I'll give them a meh on that.

 

[rzombie1988]

Your math is the one that's wrong. 1817 to 2012 is almost 200 years.

 

[oncehadhair]

I can't remember his exact words but while Wiggins was down injured he explained that the two most common injuries for cyclists were a broken collar bone and one of the small bones in the wrist, the scapula.
I like it.

 

[oncehadhair]

No one could ride on 70psi. You'd fall off at that pressure!

Why would you fall off? Still plenty of air between your rim and your tyre. A little less than ideal but certainly not dangerously low.

Not to mention the same posters criticising the language of Phil and Paul strangling nouns into verbs with the likes of fixated and podiumed. Glass houses.

Give Phil and Paul a break - they do a fantastic job (and i wasn't paid very much to say that).

 

[BigRingAbuse]

Sherwen's patter is brutally repetitive but never tiresome to my ear:

"he's playing a waiting game, Phil…"

"When you see the field strung out like that it's a good indicator that the screws are being tightened"

 

[woodburn]

Phil: "You must always descend with your own eyes."

 

[pmtg99]

Eurosport Commentator, "Look at that piece of castle"

 

[Potomac]

"The longest tongue in the business"

 

[Michele]

"The longest tongue in the business"

Dont wanna image what business he was referring to!

 

[Bazzza]

Phil Liggett quote of the day

When Lars Boom attacked off the front on stage 11 with 5km to go:

"He can do it. He's the time trial champion of Holland. He's also terrific against the watch".

 

[El Pistolero]

Just because you're the time trial champion of Holland doesn't mean you're great against the watch.

 

[Escarabajo]

When Lars Boom attacked off the front on stage 11 with 5km to go:

"He can do it. He's the time trial champion of Holland. He's also terrific against the watch".

It's funny, but a whole thread for this?

 

[Escarabajo]

Stage 12 Odds:

Just how do we compare with these bets? I can see different opinions to the ones in this thread.
Some not all

4 Alberto Contador (SBS)
5.5 Andy Schleck (LEO)
13 Samuel Sanchez (EUS)
15 Frank Schleck (LEO)
17 Cadel Evans (BMC)
21 David Moncoutie (COF)
31 Ivan Basso (LIQ)
41 Damiano Cunego (LAM)
41 John Gadret (ALM)
41 Robert Gesink (RAB)
51 Rigoberto Uran (SKY)
67 Jakob Fuglsang (LEO)
67 Paolo Tiralongo (AST)
67 Peter Velits (THR)
67 Sylvain Chavanel (QST)
81 Christophe Riblon (ALM)
81 Cyril Gautier (EUC)
81 Remy Di Gregorio(AST)
81 Roman Kreuziger (AST)
81 Simon Gerrans (SKY)
81 Tejay Van Garderen (THR)
101 Andreas Kloden (RSH)
101 Anthony Charteau (EUC)
101 Bauke Mollema (RAB)
101 David Arroyo (MOV)
101 Hubert Dupont (ALM)
101 Jerome Coppel
101 Remi Pauriol
101 Tom Danielson
101 Vladimir Gusev

 

[The Hitch]

Yesterday was a whole year to the day since he made his famous "Samuel Sanchez cant descend" comment.

I wonder what we get on the first mountain stage of this years Tour.

"And theres Robert Gesink from the Leopard Saxobank squad. Hes a pretty bad climber so he has to make up time on the descent"

 

[thrawn]

Yesterday was a whole year to the day since he made his famous "Samuel Sanchez cant descend" comment.

I wonder what we get on the first mountain stage of this years Tour.

"And theres Robert Gesink from the Leopard Saxobank squad. Hes a pretty bad climber so he has to make up time on the descent"

The other day Phil or Paul stated that Luis Leon Sanchez was one of the best descenders in the world. 15 minutes later when Voeckler attacked on the downhill they said LLS struggled on the downhills.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Phil: "Breaks have succeceded in 2 out of the 10 stages, that's a 2% strike rate".

 

[Spider1964]

How many times did Phil get Lars Bak and Lars Boom mixed up???? Every f-ing time!

 

[shieh165]

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[The Barb]

Ban this spammer.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

It's funny, but a whole thread for this?

The posts below are good examples of why we have this thread. Downright funny!

...Tho could prolly be merged with the Liggettisms thread. Either way it's a good laugh.

Yesterday was a whole year to the day since he made his famous "Samuel Sanchez cant descend" comment.

I wonder what we get on the first mountain stage of this years Tour.

"And theres Robert Gesink from the Leopard Saxobank squad. Hes a pretty bad climber so he has to make up time on the descent"

The other day Phil or Paul stated that Luis Leon Sanchez was one of the best descenders in the world. 15 minutes later when Voeckler attacked on the downhill they said LLS struggled on the downhills.

Phil: "Breaks have succeceded in 2 out of the 10 stages, that's a 2% strike rate".

+3

 

[JRTinMA]

I liked when Paul said Cav had a third leg on the podium, classic.