TdF - Fat Cyclist article

[laughlaugh18]

Trautwig does seem better each year to me, too. I'm starting to think that he's instructed by OLN to keep asking the same question over and over, on OLN's assumption that OLN viewers are cycling neophytes, and can't remember the answers they heard the first 500 times Trautwig asked the question. He can't really be that dense . . .

If you want an alternative to the OLN audio, log onto eurosport.com and listen to their audio with the OLN pictures. They don't always quite match, but the eurosport commentary is really interesting (assuming you can manage to understand Sean Kelly's thick Irish accent).

[SadieKate]

I loved watching today's stage. The entire househould was on the edge of their seats. Poor Izaak the Wonder Poodle didn't know what to make of all the hoopla.

[maillotpois]

Yeah today was fantastic!! I can't wait to get up early tomorrow and do it all over again!! Today they rode through the valley where we stayed the first year we went for the Tour (Serre Chevalier - it was their feed zone). I could pick out our hotel and the fantastic place that sold the great sausages which I smuggled back into the country...

Mike was able to pick out the tunnel in which he almost got run over by an RV and the area on the early part of the Izoard where a car almost T-boned him. The only two close calls we had riding there - and actually even those drivers, well, except the RV, were more aware than our drivers.

Good times.... I gotta figure out how to get back there and ride more!

[SadieKate]

[maillotpois]

Um.. eeewww. And the rest of him is so purty! Well, I suppose I should empathize as he is obviously a kindered messed-up vein spirit. Though my problems run deeper...

[Dogmama]

I was hoping that he would win the mountain stage yesterday - after pulling somebody else up the mountain for the last seven years - I know - long shot.

I wonder if George had chemical help? (Say it isn't so!) But you have to admit - his performance has really declined...

[jeannierides]

I was hoping that he would win the mountain stage yesterday - after pulling somebody else up the mountain for the last seven years - I know - long shot.

I wonder if George had chemical help? (Say it isn't so!) But you have to admit - his performance has really declined...

IMHO Team Discovery doesn't *seem* to have the cohesiveness that they have in years past. For seven years, their goal was to get Lance to Paris in yellow, now they don't appear to know who they want to be in yellow. It's going to take more than one Tour to see the greatness come through in that team. I'm still holding out hope...

[crazycanuck]

The only reason i'm interested in watching some of the coverage is because of the Australians doing well.

It's nice to see lesser known folks win and know that we don't have to hear lance's name all the freakin time....

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[Dogmama]

IMHO Team Discovery doesn't *seem* to have the cohesiveness that they have in years past. For seven years, their goal was to get Lance to Paris in yellow, now they don't appear to know who they want to be in yellow. It's going to take more than one Tour to see the greatness come through in that team. I'm still holding out hope...

So, why didn't somebody define the goal before the tour? It's all very strange.

To be fair to Disco, it seems like a lot of the teams are disorganized. People on other boards are saying this is the first "clean" TdF in a long time.

I'm still watching. These guys are amazing. I never realized the extent of their fitness because Lance made it look so easy.