TDF: a shiny new thread for 2012

[jobob]

Way to go, spectator. Take your lovely, very large dog to watch the tour go by and let the dog slip it's leash and take out a bunch of riders. Dumbass.

[pll]

Way to go, spectator. Take your lovely, very large dog to watch the tour go by and let the dog slip it's leash and take out a bunch of riders. Dumbass.

Yikes. Saw that. And also saw the very angry Philippe Gilbert, who shared his thoughts with the owners of the dog (picture here). Really negligent of them not to keep the dog on a leash as the race approached.

[Cynedra]

Way to go, spectator. Take your lovely, very large dog to watch the tour go by and let the dog slip it's leash and take out a bunch of riders. Dumbass.

That dog looked big enough to be a bear. And awesome ending.

[ny biker]

From David Millar on twitter:

"Challenged roomie @dzabriskie to a race-off in the TT tomorrow. Loser has to publicly proclaim inferiority to other in said discipline."

So, that's one more competition to watch...

[malkin]

Love the donkeys in jerseys!

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&s...9,r:0,s:0,i:77

[malkin]

Wow...faster than a speeding bullet; it's a bird; it's a plane...
No, it's a cycling legend!

[emily_in_nc]

Way to go, spectator. Take your lovely, very large dog to watch the tour go by and let the dog slip it's leash and take out a bunch of riders. Dumbass.

When did this happen? Either they didn't show it on the nighttime replay, or it had already happened when we turned on (we missed some of it). I kept waiting for a dog to run out onto the course but never saw one.

[ny biker]

When did this happen? Either they didn't show it on the nighttime replay, or it had already happened when we turned on (we missed some of it). I kept waiting for a dog to run out onto the course but never saw one.

It was early in the race. They showed it during the live coverage but I think it was a helicopter shot -- not clear.

[jobob]

The aftermath was very briefly shown early on in the nighttime broadcast as well. The actual close encounter with canine was never shown in the US broadcasts.

It may impact Phillipe Gilbert's Olympic hopes

[malkin]

We saw riders on the ground, One ticked off rider going to yell at the dog owner, who had placed a child in front of himself and the dog. The dog was like a big black Newfoundland or something, as big as a bear.

[malkin]

http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral...ses-tour-spill

Scroll down to a still pic of angry Gilbert restrained by his manager.

[ny biker]

Okay I will say it, I think this tour has been boring.

Usually I have little interest in the sprinters' stages in the first week, but this year that turned out to be the most interesting part, with Sagan and Greipel lighting things up.

Since then, having the #2 guy on the same team as the guy in yellow has taken the excitement out of the mountain stages. Liquigas tried to attack, but when you know the guy in second has no intention of riding as fast as he can, it's just dull. It would have been way better if Froome was on another team.