Has anyone been watching the Tour of California or following it? It has been pretty interesting. Lance Armstrong has been struggling unfortunately. Anyway, curious to hear what people think. ;)
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Has anyone been watching the Tour of California or following it? It has been pretty interesting. Lance Armstrong has been struggling unfortunately. Anyway, curious to hear what people think. ;)
In case you aren't following and want to check it out here is a good site I've been using to follow the action. Bruce Hildenbrand has a great blog featured on the site also.
Tour of California
Struggling? - finishing in the pack - the ToC is not his A race - his A race is the TdeFrance.
Yo, Betty! Very cool to see you here.
I keep wondering if people think that Lance is struggling because they don't understand that he's working in a domestique capacity for this race. He's publicly said that he's working for Levi to win. It's interesting to watch him in this new role. Just a few stages in, he seems to be handling it well.
Very good point. The whole "crashing into a motorbike" thing is also a factor, I think: http://cyclingnews.com/road/2009/feb...b09/feb17news3Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
He has said he is not quite in form which would not be expected. He is trying to peak for the Giro and ultimately the Tour de France. I was surprised to see he did something bone headed like hit his own motorbike, he had some mad bike handling skills which I witnessed when personally when he was mountain biking.
The race is Levi's to lose, he is a great form and is hungry. Unless he keeps falling over like yesterday he will be tough to beat. I am still hoping for the DZ upset, I just love the Argyle!
Overall the biggest loser in the ATOC is VS. The coverage sucks! And they keep cutting off for hockey, bull riding, basket weaving. :mad:
I agree about the coverage! I was really looking forward to the end last night, and then they did not even show it! AH!!!!:mad:
If you're following the race at the Amgen site, they keep explaining that their coverage issues are due to the weather. I assume that Vs. has the same situation, since it seems that Vs's TdF coverage is always borked when it rains.
I know about the rain, but yesterday was tough because they started late, so they didn't get to show the end :-(
I didn't think to go on the Amgen site. I see it is on now with sunny skies.
~ JoAnn
No I understand the weather, it is the cutting out to start a hockey game that stinks. :mad:
Is it bad if I leave the kiddo at daycare an extra 15-20 minutes tonight so I can watch ToC? I did bring her in 20 minutes later than normal this morning . . .
Hey there! I am lurking everywhere! He he he he:cool:
I may unfortunately have to give up on the Amgen coverage. The site just froze my computer for the second day in a row. Shame, I really like having the video feed right next to live coverage. Edit: Problem solved. I remote-connected to another computer in the office that's not being used and pulled the site up there. Where there's a will, there's a way :D
limewave, it's only bad if your child grows up to hate cycling because of being left at daycare ;)
. . . she never needs to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga