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11th July 2008, 11:59 PM #1
le Tour de France
Anyone else having their sleep patterns disrupted to watch le Tour ? Great coverage and commentators again from SBS .... a few crashes and bingles, some nice challenges and breakaways .... the tactics sometimes escape me then I get an 'aahhh' moment (occasionaly tho I still just scratch my head ) .... nice way to see the French countryside as well.
Regards
Rob
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12th July 2008, 12:48 AM #2
yes ...stupid bl'dy race , be glad when its over so I can get a good nights sleep
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12th July 2008, 08:44 AM #3
Go Cadel
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14th July 2008, 11:19 AM #4
Its the only "must watch" telly program
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14th July 2008, 01:42 PM #5
Yep great stuff. One of the sports telecasts I really look forward to each year. Already one drug cheat caught out too! Will they ever learn?
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14th July 2008, 01:46 PM #6
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14th July 2008, 02:08 PM #7New Member
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G'day! I've just stumbled across [& joined] the Woodwork Forums whilst researching how to make an axe handle and am looking forward to using the site, just as soon as Le Tour is over & I can get back to normal sleep patterns!
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I can't handle the late nights but am catching all the highlights - wish they were more than 30 minutes and had less fluff at the beginning.
Hope we get a first this year!
Cheers,
Adam
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14th July 2008, 02:21 PM #9New Member
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...but that's the problem, the "highlights" are just not good enough, the whole point of each day's racing is the tension from the off! I watch the highlights, too, but have to explain to those others who don't stay up what the excitement is all about!
It's like a 5 day test every night!
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14th July 2008, 05:00 PM #10
For me watching Le Tour is a great way to live my past. Back in the fifties ( yes they had progressed from the Old Ordinary to real bikes by then) I was a keen cyclist. Desperately wanted to be a "road man" because all my mates were. Couldn't climb hills. No guidance back then to point out I was big and heavy and more suited to track sprinting. Even though I became a track man, part of me still would like to have been on the road. Wife likes Tour because of the countryside and puts up with me blathering on about whether the breakaway was too early or whether the peleton will not make enough effort to catch them. Peleton? Back in my day young fellas it was called the Bunch.
Wife suffers a lot because I used to play Rugby Union and the Tri Nations is on as well.
Jerry
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14th July 2008, 05:53 PM #11
Sympathise there, Jerry. My ambition was always to win Le Tour, and I would have, too, if I'd had any ability. I was always a roadman & hillclimber, but never quite good enough to get a big enough break to avoid a sprint that I could never win. If only I was as good then as I am now.
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15th July 2008, 02:29 AM #12
What a great stage (10) - wonderful fight all through the final climb!
oooooooooh waiting for official confirmation - has Cadel taken le Maillot Jeune - by a mere one second ........... anticipation is agony and then they throw in an ad... arrrgh
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Finally official. yes by one sec - well done Cadel (and what a great climb by Frank Schleck)
.Last edited by MALPT; 15th July 2008 at 02:33 AM. Reason: waiting for official result
Regards
Rob
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16th July 2008, 02:27 PM #13
Interesting grab on the radio about his fall, and then "Its come a bit early but the goal remains yellow in Paris" attaboy Cadel,
"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
My blog. http://theupanddownblog.blogspot.com
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16th July 2008, 02:35 PM #14
Yes it is a bit early. I really don't think the team's up to it (defending the yellow I mean), but it's a bit much to ask a bloke to hang in and rely on the final time trial!
It's always an amazing race, and I think both of the last years have had "what if's" for Evans, and so many things can go wrong in the next two weeks.
Is anyone else feeling better today after the night off last night?
P
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16th July 2008, 06:19 PM #15
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