Le. Tour. De. France.
Well, Team Radio Shack has a stage victory from Sergio Paulinho. While I congratulate the team and rider, Stage 10 didn’t change much though it is interesting that Samuel Sanchez continues to hang with Schleck and Contador.
Your US commentators keep hanging their hats on Leipheimer, but it’s not happening. Lance lost time.
Most analysts don’t expect anything exciting before Sunday when the Tour hits the Pyrenees for 3 days of climbing, a recovery day, and then a 4th day in the mountains.
And then the moving finger will have writ, and having written moves on; but that’s the beauty part of sports, it has at least novelty.
Today’s stage is 115 miles from Sisteron to Bourg-lès-Valence and has only one climb, a category 3.
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I had to laugh at the translation silliness. We are a multi-lingual household and sometimes hold conversation in two languages. My Great Grandmother’s 1st language was Russian. As she got into her late 90’s, she would answer our English conversation in Russian. Made for interesting Dinner table giggles from us kids because we had picked up the language but our parents hadn’t. Grams was notoriously sarcastic and “colorful”. I still can “cuss” in Russian
I usually catch the re-run of Le Tour later in the day because there is news is so depressing and uninformative.
Good to see you
I actually think the interesting race will be for third on the podium not 1/2. Schleck has to attack again in the Pyrenees in order to grab time because unless something has changed his TT is not as good as Contador.
Tho watching the duel will be fun. Funny thing they were talking to Contador on OLN/Versus. They asked the question in English…. dude translated and then Contador answered….. in English. But then I have a friend who is perfectly fluent in English but whose mother tongue is German, he has been here what 10- 15 years and he says he thinks in German and translates it in his head back to English and when he is stressed he forgets and speaks both German to me or his boyfriend. We’re like …..Wha……. dude we’re stupd we barely speak English.
I am not going to watch full coverage till Sunday I think. I don’t know why Versus has to insist on yapping about Americans in a pathetic way to keep audience. Most cycling fans have plenty of non-American favs they follow.