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.