Saturday, June 30 - Tour de France, Prologue: Liege - Liege, 6,4 km

[manafana]

got fancy fab over martin on this course.

Otherwise prehaps look out for chavenel, cavendish interestig see if any of gc men mess this up.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

8 years ago Cancellara won on almost exactly the same course (now it's 300m longer).

 

[Flamin]

Spartacus. Easy. Sagan is a bit overrated on this course. Explosive, yes, but flat and few corners. Between 6th and 10th at best.

EBH top 5 or even better today.

 

[theyoungest]

Video from Cancellara's win in 2004

Funny to hear the commentator talk about the surprising winner Cancellara

 

[AussieEdge]

Silly question coming up...

does this count towards the overall classification time>

 

[Yingge]

Evans not to wear yellow in the Prologue

The CN Prologue start list article at:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-prologue-start-times

says that Evans will not be wearing the Yellow Jersey in the Prologue. What would be the reasoning behind that? - apart from avoiding the "Evans loses Yellow" headline when he doesnt win the Prologue of course.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Silly question coming up...

does this count towards the overall classification time>

Nah, ceremonial prologue before the race starts tomorrow.

Nothing to see here.

 

[burning]

Silly question coming up...

does this count towards the overall classification time>

Well, of course they count

 

[webbie146]

Silly question coming up...

does this count towards the overall classification time>

Yes it does haha

 

[jens_attacks]

here we are.in less than two hours,the tour starts.

i hope the riders will crash less than last year and i hope we'll have some good entertainment overall

some beautiful highlights from last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUaFxG4P9qU&feature=relmfu

1:11, 2:29 and 3;14 my favourite moments

oh tommy what a nasty boy!

vive le tour!

 

[AussieEdge]

thanks for that

 

[Bavarianrider]

49 weeks of darkness and waiting have come to an end. The big one is finally here.
Wish all of you guys a great Tour.
May your favourite riders shine!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

49 weeks of darkness and waiting have vome toan end. The big one is finally here.
Wish all of you guys a great Tour.
May your favourite riders shine!

Even on the bizzare premise of the statement, I'm still confused that you have 54 weeks in German years.

 

[LaFlorecita]

49 weeks of darkness and waiting have come to an end. The big one is finally here.
Wish all of you guys a great Tour.
May your favourite riders shine!

Oh god... of all people... I had expected you to know better than that.. Unless you are being sarcastic of course.

 

[One Eyed Aussie]

Nah, ceremonial prologue before the race starts tomorrow.

Nothing to see here.

Effing hilarious.

Don't worry Aussie Edge, I'm on your side though you must be (very) new to cycling.

I agree with all those saying Cancellara for the win in the prologue ...very motivated and desperate for some success.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Oh god... of all people... I had expected you to know better than that.. Unless you are being sarcastic of course.

Sorry dont understand what you mean

 

[AussieEdge]

Effing hilarious.

Don't worry Aussie Edge, I'm on your side though you must be (very) new to cycling.

I agree with all those saying Cancellara for the win in the prologue ...very motivated and desperate for some success.

I just had mental blank that's all

Being from Stuey O'Grady's part of the world, Iv'e been following it for a while

 

[One Eyed Aussie]

49 weeks of darkness and waiting have come to an end. The big one is finally here.
Wish all of you guys a great Tour.
May your favourite riders shine!

Thanks and chapeau for that Bavarianrider.
Happiest three weeks of the year are about to start.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Sorry dont understand what you mean

Well you are not one of those July only fans, I had thought that you'd also enjoy other races. Well my fault, I guess I am the only one on this forum that doesn't feel like this is THE time of the year

 

[Walkman]

Sorry dont understand what you mean

You know, the usual "The Giro is much better than the Tour" (yeah, the Giro sure was amazing this year...), classics are waaaaay better tha le Tour, every real cycling fan knows that, etc...

But I agree with you, the Tour has finally arrived, and IT IS AWESOME!

 

[Gloin22]

Well you are not one of those July only fans, I had thought that you'd also enjoy other races. Well my fault, I guess I am the only one on this forum that doesn't feel like this is THE time of the year

By that you're ipmplying that if you like Tour - you can't like any other race though

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

By that you're ipmplying that if you like Tour - you can't like any other race though

Well, Bav's post implied that the rest of the year was miserable darkness.

And in his first attempt, he implied the year was 54 weeks long.

 

[AussieEdge]

Well you are not one of those July only fans, I had thought that you'd also enjoy other races. Well my fault, I guess I am the only one on this forum that doesn't feel like this is THE time of the year

just because I haven't been here before doesnt make me a July fan.....

 

[Walkman]

Well you are not one of those July only fans, I had thought that you'd also enjoy other races. Well my fault, I guess I am the only one on this forum that doesn't feel like this is THE time of the year

What?!

Your "logic" is totally flawed, just because one sees the Tour as the biggest thing during the season doesn't mean that one can't appriciate other races. Where does this nonsense come from?!

 

[One Eyed Aussie]

What?!

Your "logic" is totally flawed, just because one sees the Tour as the biggest thing during the season doesn't mean that one can't appriciate other races. Where does this nonsense come from?!

Logic and laflorecita don't go together unfortunately.

(Sorry laflo hope that doesn't come across as too harsh and I have nothing against you personally but it is my objective assessment of your posting pattern.)