TDF Stage 17 - Thursday, July 22 2010, Pau - Col du Tourmalet, 174 km

[Fourier]

Message to french TV: We don't care about Sarkozy. Where is Carla Bruni?

 

[sometriguy]

i'm kind of surprised by the guys up front

 

[The Hitch]

chapeau cervelo

They could have had a fresh sastre for the vuelta

Instead they force him to ride the tour, tired and in poor form as he is, pretty much unnoticed, and then send him on a 80 km suicide solo ride, just in case he had the chance to accomplish something.

And lets not get started on the fantastic team support thor hushovd gets in his quest to scrape enough points for the green jersey.

 

[nicholaaaas]

Mile after mile of Livestrong chalkbot.

I hope they've used chalk and not paint for that otherwise it will take them years to get it off.

it's called the chalkbox for a reason... and it was designed by nasa

 

[Moondance]

Boom killing the peloton on the front and Menchov struggling in the back

I don't think Menchov is suffering. He's just hanging round the back like he's done before this year. I imagine he'll go to the front when the climbing starts.

If neither Gesink or Menchov felt good Boom wouldn't ride.

 

[nia O'Malley]

Woah, miles and miles of that technological road american spam. Way to go....... thank god, next year.....................hopefully

 

[Francois the Postman]

Message to french TV: We don't care about Sarkozy. Where is Carla Bruni?

Getting cosy with the commissar in the commissarkozy car.

 

[BroDeal]

agreed that, geographical debates aside, the chalkbot is unequivocally awful.

Yup. It is a corporate takeover of a tradition. Nike advertising itself under the guise of fighting cancer is just sick.

 

[skidmark]

Lol, with his current recuperation/form, I'd be suprised if Gesink finishes among the 10 best climbers of the day. He'll have a hard time normally.

Yeah, I guess he got dropped early the other day... I don't really have much to go off of his 'normal' 3rd week performance, though, as the only GT I remember him being in the third week (last year's vuelta) he was injured pretty badly.

 

[Fourier]

Andy needs to pull a "Sastre 2008" and attack from the base of the climb if he wants to get a large enough gap to survive the tt.

 

[sometriguy]

Andy needs to pull a "Sastre 2008" and attack from the base of the climb if he wants to get a large enough gap to survive the tt.

the stage has been far too easy, nobody is tired... no chance ac cracks... doesn't matter

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Sastre dropped. Oh well, at least he tried something

 

[The Hitch]

Yup. It is a corporate takeover of a tradition. Nike advertising itself under the guise of fighting cancer is just sick.

nike is always sick. They force 10 year olds in the 3rd world into dreadful child labour for peanuts, asked the chinese secret police for cooperation in finding and torturing a blogger who said that nike forced lui xiang into competing at the olympics when he was injured, and engages in hero worship like no one else.

 

[Kazistuta]

Sooo booring that we didn't at least got a battle of the KOM competition... Moreau must be placed 7th or higher at the finish to win - sweet Utopia!

 

[thrawn]

Message to french TV: We don't care about Sarkozy. Where is Carla Bruni?

getting ready for lance tonight?

 

[Big GMaC]

Agree BroDeal, Cozy Beehive / Joe P could do a good blog piece on it

I have had to switch to P&P as my internet started going dodgy....

 

[sublimit]

About to hit the climb, this better be good.

 

[ak-zaaf]

nike is always sick. They force 10 year olds in the 3rd world into dreadful child labour for peanuts, asked the chinese secret police for cooperation in finding and torturing a blogger who said that nike forced lui xiang into competing at the olympics when he was injured, and engages in hero worship like no one else.

Didn't they also force Ronaldo to play the '98 World cup final even though he had a seizure or something the night before?

 

[timmarshall]

nike is always sick. They force 10 year olds in the 3rd world into dreadful child labour for peanuts, asked the chinese secret police for cooperation in finding and torturing a blogger who said that nike forced lui xiang into competing at the olympics when he was injured, and engages in hero worship like no one else.

confiscated a video of lebron james getting scored on by a 14 year old as well

 

[Big GMaC]

Yes on the Ronald thing. Goes ot the Hero worship etc.

 

[Ferminal]

Here we go... good luck everybody.

 

[Big GMaC]

Ha, Wigan at the back

 

[The Hitch]

Didn't they also force Ronaldo to play the '98 World cup final even though he had a seizure or something the night before?

i heard that too, though it is just a rumour.

 

[Fourier]

getting close to "Navaro time"

 

[nicholaaaas]

perfect Fabian is gonna pace AS up the climb