Jens gives a tour of his hotel room:
http://video.saxobank.com/video/686516
"it's like a hard shell.... around chaos"
LOL
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Jens gives a tour of his hotel room:
http://video.saxobank.com/video/686516
"it's like a hard shell.... around chaos"
LOL
What a cutie pie!!!
:D
"Having things organized is for small minds.A genius controls chaos."
Oh I love that so hard.
Then the horse blanket thing. He's funny
And those accents can really get to a woman :rolleyes:
Thanks for posting that.
Me too Zen- I would have quoted that same line but you beat me to it!
He's such a great guy, isn't he? I just love him and then when he pulls the pictures of his kids out of the suitcase.....well, I just love him that much more:D
Can't wait to see what happens today.
He said, repeatedly, that if he wasn't the one who would be "chosen" on Radio Shack's team, that he would work for the leader. Now, he's saying he just wants to win a stage. I'm sorry, but that's just plain selfish. He's got enough yellow jerseys. Why not go out with a little class?
Winning a stage doesn't mean you get a yellow jersey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmama
And what's wrong with wanting to win a stage?
Probably every guy on that tour wants to win a stage.
Yep, remember those days...thank goodness for DVR. I am off today so will catch it intermittantly (since they rebroadcast multiple times), but try to save the end until tonight to was w GF and enjoy a drink!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
And Jens...OMG he is so cute and funny! I loved that video...and the quote! And the comment about the blanket--that he would only use it on a horse!
Thanks all for sharing!
K
K
Anybody else notice that the sheep that nearly took out Contador was wearing Saxobank colors?
Has this race every been called on account of weather? I can't imagine careening down that descent into a cloud bank and not being able to see more than fifty feet or so down the road. Holey moley.
Roxy
If anyone happened to walk by my front door during the last fifteen seconds of that race they would have thought I was having wild sex with a man named Andy.
They have no leader for GC. Levi is not up to the task and that's been obvious for a long time. So they shifted strategy and are going for team classification and stage wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmama
It's not unusual for a team to shift strategy over the course of a grand tour when they find plan A not working out, whether due to injuries, illness, bad luck, etc.
Sometimes they will shorten or reroute a race if the weather is bad, especially in the mountains.Quote:
Originally Posted by channlluv
Yeah, but I think they want to protect Levi's Top-10 placement.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
Too late for that...Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
But Chris Horner is now 8th. He is The Man.
LOL Zen!
Great stage today. I really wanted Andy to open a gap but AC really stuck like gum on a shoe.
LOL at the sheep crossing!
Great day for Chris Horner! He, Kloden, and Lance really trying to lock up the team competition.
I had the assistant farm manager and farm vet calling me every 1o minutes to get an update. At least I wont get in trouble for watching at work!!
Dam.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
:mad:
Haven't seen the results yet...
But, geez, Levi is my Man of Perpetual Frustration.
Too funny!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
After today I feel like there should be a strict "must wear pants" rule for spectators.
Ah, yes. I had an appliance tech in my house, was talking to him, could see the TV, and blurted out OMG! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cait
Yeah. I think he's better suited to 1-week stage races than 3-week races.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
Also -- from the sponsor's point of view, Lance in a break/Lance winning a stage is worth more than anyone else on the team finishing top ten in the GC. Like it or not, Lance gets the TV time and press photos that makes the sponsorship pay off.
All those crazies in neon g-strings were cracking me up. Too funny.
I was so excited in the last 30 minutes, I felt like I could throw up. Good thing I was alone in the house so no one could hear me yelling, "Go Andeeeeeee!!! You can do it!!!!!!! Come on! Go! Go! Go!!!!!" All the while waving my arms, of course.
Who is that guy sitting next to Andy at the press conference?
The team director?
He would make a good bouncer.
Yeah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Riis and he won the tour, once upon a time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Do you think Contador pulled up at the end there, though? Paul or Phil one kept saying that he would never have taken that win from Andy or the crowd would have turned on him (again), as if he could have taken the win if he'd wanted to. Their comments just left me wondering. It kind of tempered my joy for Andy, although I'm really pleased for him.
And has anyone ever done a study on the effect that the fans have on the riders climbing steep inclines like that? I didn't see anyone slapping Andy, but Contador got several slaps in the arm and on the butt as he rode through. All that noise, people jumping in your path, and then the motorcycles blaring their horns right behind you...how in the world do they concentrate enough to climb that mountain?
Roxy
My best guess is that Berto wanted to attack but really didn't have it in him. Andy would have given him a run for his money.
He let Andy win for the goodwill.
It will come down to the time trial.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
I think AC could have taken Andy if he wanted to.
The fans on mountain stages are always nuts, especially when the Basque get out in the Pyrennes. They take their cycling spectating to extremes! The guys dressed the Borat style Unitards weren't nearly as bad as the guys with their butts just hanging out because they dropped their drawers! The sheep were funny, they looked like "WHAT DID WE JUST RUN INTO????" :eek:
Those weren't sheep. Those were fans in sheep suits.
I don't think that any screenwriter could have scripted a more nail-biting finish than Schleck and Contador in the last stretch!
So which one made it first?!?!?! You have me on the edge of my seat!Quote:
Originally Posted by azfiddle
/really should have gone to the Tour party at my LBS last night... *&#(# 4 am alarm on workdays...
I definitely think AC could have smoked Andy. I think the little spurt he did at the end was meant to prove that exact point. I agree that AC's value would have plummeted if he had smoked Andy. More than a bike race is at stake here. Commercial endorsements pay big $$.
Given that Contador sat on Andy's wheel for nearly the entire climb, well, yeah, he probably could've smoked Andy. Between Andy's comeback after the dropped chain, his doing nearly all the work in this last climbing stage, and his winning two stages (even if one was possibly a "gift" from Berto), Andy's proven himself worthy to win the Tour, whether he does or not.
I just hope he doesn't give up.
With only two days to go, I seriously doubt he'd give up. He'd have to totally crash out to quit at this point.
Roxy
yeah, but it was years later that he admitted he wasn't a clean rider:Quote:
Originally Posted by redrhodie
"...on May 25, 2007 Riis issued a press release that he also had made "mistakes" in the past,and in the following press conference confessed to taking EPO, growth hormone and cortisone for 5 years, from 1993 to 1998, including during his victory in the 1996 Tour de France. Riis said that he bought and injected the EPO himself, and team coach Walter Godefroot turned a blind eye to the drug use on the team. Riis was removed from the official record books of Tour de France,but in July 2008 he was written back into the books, along with additional notes about his use of doping."
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz...What's up with that?
Yeah, I read that, but since it was Jan Ullrich who came in second, I figure the playing field was level. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MM_QFC!
Good on Cav today! And, he was sick.
I wonder what's up with Andy at the doc's car. That's doesn't look good.
I know, right? Is the movie really that bad that they have to pimp it at the TdF? Hollywood needs to give it a rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by malkin
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Eh. I'm not caring one way or the other. Sometimes show biz types visit. No big deal. Maybe Alberto got a thrill from it.Quote:
Originally Posted by carinapir
If they're publicizing a movie to people in France, then the TdF would be a logical place to reach a huge audience. Meanwhile the Tour sponsors and team sponsors get that much more publicity, too.
I loved the sleeping shirt - he loves his family :) Also really liked the chaos comments - but others have already quoted them.Quote:
Originally Posted by berkeley
Robin Williams used to follow Lance around, but he never climbed on the podium with him. It's a publicity stunt. Bleech...