Tour de France 2011 talk

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Originally Posted by jusdooit

Andy & Frank will never win the tour if they can't improvwe on their TT skills. I thought Cadel & BMC rode an excellent tour. Cadel was always well positioned & never put himself in trouble. He was in perfect condition & when the team had to drop off he was able to do the work for himself. Very impressive!

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I think Andy should spend some time mountain biking. It sure worked for Cadel's bike handling skills.

BTW, George Hincapie has a great future as a team director, if he wants it. So much experience winning grand tours.

The podium ceremonies were fun to watch. Garmin Cervelo hauled a full size cut out of David Zabriskie. And for Cadel, it must have been really touching to have an Australian performing the national anthem live for him (how cool is that? She posted the clip in her site, if you did not see it).

Ah, almost a month of withdrawal until the Vuelta....

The USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado will be on Versus beginning August 22. According to the commercials, the final stage(s) will be on NBC.

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Originally Posted by ny biker

The USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado will be on Versus beginning August 22. According to the commercials, the final stage(s) will be on NBC.

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Cool! Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully they will repeats off working hours.

Addition: The Vuelta starts on August 20, 21 stages ending on September 11.

During June we were in Colorado and drove over some sections of the race route. Independence Pass is narrow and has no barriers... scary! It should be very exciting though.

Frandy will be there. They're trying to get Cadel to commit, too.

DZ and Chris Horner will be there.

@pll. The Vuelta will be in my backyard on Aug 23rd, going over Blancares Pass, where I often train, on the way to a finish in Sierra Nevada. If you start the Vuelta thread, I promise pix of that day!!

MuddyTrails

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Originally Posted by MuddyTrails

@pll. The Vuelta will be in my backyard on Aug 23rd, going over Blancares Pass, where I often train, on the way to a finish in Sierra Nevada. If you start the Vuelta thread, I promise pix of that day!!

MuddyTrails

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You have a deal!! How exciting... you should chronicle the preparations, the day of and what happens afterwards.

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Originally Posted by ny biker

Frandy will be there. .

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I like "Frandy."

AC showed incredible heart and soul trying to come back from all the time deficit he faced, crashes, etc.
I would have loved if it were Cadel, TV and AC on the podium...Shlecks show little class and humility...not to mention horrible descending and TT skills.

Cadel was the best, hands down, what a great champion!

PS -- I hope George breaks the record next year!

What, no Tour this morning?

Holy cr@p! Just turned on the news for the first time in 3 weeks. What the heck?

Marianne Vos (@marianne_vos) tweeted a nice quote today:

Thinking back on #TdF this quote of Churchill comes up: 'Success is not final, failure not fatal; it's the courage to continue that counts'.

The day after it's over is the saddest day of the year.

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Originally Posted by redrhodie

the day after it's over is the saddest day of the year.

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+1 :(

I literally laughed out loud at the cut-out of Zabriske. For some reason I thought that was really funny - and sweet.

I am having Tour withdrawals. I don't know what I am going to do with myself.

I actually had to work at work today ... :D

SheFly

I know! I couldn't believe work actually started so early. :rolleyes:

I get to see at least 2 stages of the USPRO in person. That's really a long time from now though. :confused:

Here's another picture of the DZ cutout... getting a ride in Paris (it's funny they put a jersey on the cutout):

http://velonews.competitor.com/files...69-439x660.jpg

The picture is from Casey Gibson @ VeloNews

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Originally Posted by ivorygorgon

I literally laughed out loud at the cut-out of Zabriske. For some reason I thought that was really funny - and sweet.

I am having Tour withdrawals. I don't know what I am going to do with myself.

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There's NOTHING on... Waaah. :(

Relive it through photos...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ce_part_1.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ce_part_2.html

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Originally Posted by redrhodie

The day after it's over is the saddest day of the year.

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yeah...ended up watching the swimming myself!

One more post TdF indulgence link: pictures from The Atlantic In Focus feature. Some unusual shots, like Sammy Sanchez shoe next to an award presenter's one.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...part-2/100114/

Amazing photos pll, thx for sharing!

Wow. Add to the list of Chris Horner's injuries...a blood clot in his lung. His season is probably over.

http://www.cascadegranfondo.com/blog...ation%E2%80%A6

But on the plus side...a wedding!!

You sure have to read carefully to catch the part about the wedding. You think he's really excited? Boys! :p

I was wondering how he was doing though. Thanks for sharing. Hope he heals up from all of that.

Whoa! Poor guy; I hope he heals fast, but blood thinners are no fun. I had to re-read to find the part about the wedding. :rolleyes:

Wow. I had read that earlier today and missed the wedding! Boys.

Bonjour! le petite bump!

Is anyone watching?

We will be. We DVR the first showing and watch it in the evening.

Mais oui! Thanks to Malkin for inaugurating a 2012 thread de France. :D