Hellooooo? Anyone watching the Tour?

[Lifesgreat]

Maybe Danny Pate should be renamed Eeyore

DD got his autograph at the Tour of CA. She is a growing, skinny 11 year old and is about his height. Later, I learned he was SO sick (the stomach flu was going through the peleton), but he still took the time to sign her program. I didn't know he was so ill or I wouldn't have let DD near him

What is Dave Z up to? Check out this article from the local paper.

[Kalidurga]

Maybe Danny Pate should be renamed Eeyore

Aawww, poor Pate!

What is Dave Z up to? Check out this article from the local paper.

Thanks for that link. Now I have to make sure I watch the Olympics!

[Zen]

it almost looks like he was trying to commit suicide.
No attempt to turn at all, just straight over

I saw Elvis!

[rij73]

it almost looks like he was trying to commit suicide.
No attempt to turn at all, just straight over

I swear I saw that in slow motion when it was happening. I think I even screamed. He did so well to stop himself. It was practically a vertical wall. Does anyone know how far his bike fell?

[Possegal]

it's the Alps, his bike is probably still falling. i just told a friend - come on, let's go, there is a $10,000 bike waiting for us somewhere at the foot of the Alps.

[Kalidurga]

Well, this is fairly disgusting, but not entirely surprising. The following tidbits have been included in today's live coverage at Yahoo! Sport (not a spoiler):

More breaking news from Reuters: French customs officers stopped and searched a car driven by Johnny Schleck, the father of riders Frank and Andy, during Thursday's 18th stage, witnesses said. Customs officers first stopped a press car with Luxemburg number plates and searched it 35km into the day's 196.5km ride from Bourg d'Oisans to St Etienne. They then stopped a second car, driven by Johnny Schleck, whose sons are riders from Luxembourg representing the CSC team on the Tour de France. We'll keep you updated when we hear more.

Papa Schleck update from Reuters. Looks to our untrained eyes like much ado about nothing: Johnny Schleck, who drives guests around for one of the Tour sponsors, was asked to step out of the car at a roundabout and was searched by a police officer. He was then asked to drive the car towards the other side of the roundabout, where the vehicle was searched by customs officers for 30 minutes. "We will search the car," a customs officer told Reuters without giving any further details. The car later continued on the stage course behind a customs vehicle towards Grenoble.

A quote from the custom officials who searched Johnny Schleck's car: "We were looking for doping substances but the check was negative so we let him (Johnny Schleck) go," a customs spokesman told Reuters.

Oy.

[Zen]

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