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Bob is neither as stupid or foolish as he at times appears... he knows Italian very well and can pronounce French when he wants to, but if you've ever heard his hilarious story about how hard it was to get water from French waiters back when he was a racer you would understand why he tends to mangle the French language...Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
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Me too! TdF viewing party #2 is tonight - my house - 7 p.m. (dinner first)
:D
It's about time. BBC Sport news: Unnamed Cricket Player Tests Positive.
Finally, WADA's hopefully found a new target. But... cricket??? Really??Quote:
The International Cricket Council have confirmed that an unnamed player tested positive for a banned substance in the recent Indian Premier League season.
The tests were carried out under the supervision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), after the IPL adopted the ICC's code on doping.
Drugged crickets...I knew it!
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I think Kim Kirchen's kinda cute...though the Italians and Spaniards usually are my, um, favorites...:D
So that's why Jiminy's always whistling...Quote:
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I wish there were enough people near where I live who like to watch tdf that we could have a viewing party! That would be fun. I'm always sad when it's over.
Several years back there was a french rider (wish i could remember who) who finally approached bobke about his trashing of the pronunciation of his name. From then on, Bob pronounced his name right, but another rider with the exact same name, kept saying it wrong. It is all a part of the Bobke mystique. :) He knows dang well how to say a lot of it. Even now, despite how many riders speak english, french is the language of the peloton, they all can speak it well enough. Lance is really very fluent, it was fun to hear him interviewed on TV when we were over there for the tour in 04.
i'm thorougly enjoying it (working at home today and watching the tour live). when we went over, we were in the south area near the pyrenees, so the last couple days and next few, are great fun to watch given that we were in this area. heck, i found it frightening to drive the pyrenees in our car. :)
Take that, VeloNews. Tsk, tsk.
Bobke is very cool and, yes, very smart. He's my favorite kind of person: Someone with a brain who's also a great big, irreverent goofball. Anyone who's a fan of the Tour who has not read his book, should.
And, may I just say... GO ARGYLE!!! Yay, Christian!
I too was a bit surprised about the use of drugs in cricket..but..
Well, if you were an aussie/kiwi/pom/etc playing in the IPL (indian premier league) & were offered $1million/yr..someone might be inclined? You try and be a batsman when you have Shane Warne spinning that cricket ball towards ye!:eek:
It's the first time i've heard of cricketers doing performance enhancing drugs for on the field performance..Off the field is a different story...:rolleyes:
Baseball players do it, why not Cricket players?
Perhaps because cricket's a 'gentleman's" game & it takes longer to play...
I can't see Andrew Symonds, Scott Styris, etc doing performance enhancing drugs. I do see them training their pitooskis off though!
The question is what drugs? Cricket looks like a good drinking game if I ever saw one.
Umm yes to the drinking game..Ian told me that he & friends once went to an ODI & someone ate thier esky :rolleyes:
It's a game you have a picnic & drink wine.. How much wine can one drink during a 5 day International is beyond me :rolleyes:
Also, it was one of the Pakistani fast bowlers that was caught out..http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7505454.stm
What next, croquet :eek:?Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip