“My Tour is over”

Say what you like about Lance, he’s been more right and honest about his Tour than many.  His first ‘crash’ didn’t amount to much, more an off course.  Losing a wheel at the bottom of the Col de la Ramaz is the kind of thing that sets you back 11:45, 13:26 from the lead.

Within 2 minutes of each other are Evans and Schleck and Contador and they’d all have to get hit by a bus which hardly ever happens.

So now’s the time to think about your loyalty to the Islanders and this sport we call Hockey with it’s cups of Stanley.  I contend Le Tour is at least as compelling as curling or golf with the additional benefit of lasting 3 weeks covering the All-Star break.

It has it’s hypnotoad charms, because it’s practically on auto-loop and only the last half hour or so matters (you get plently of repeats of the NASCAR crashes) and you can really loose track of which day you are watching if you don’t pay close attention.

Plus there is that Deadhead vibe from the crowd.

In an ideal world you’d now root for the team of you fallen hero, but because the sponsorship changes are harder to follow than those in Formula 1 it’s hard to develop the kind of UPC driven Ferrari red loyalty that even so hardly makes a dent on the collective conciousness of the US.

Hear about that “football” game?  The score was 1 to nothing.

Relative to the sport, this is a Jordan moment, a sacrifice to the volcano.  I suppose we’ll get used to entropy, we always do.

Now with uptempo singing and dancing-

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    • on 07/12/2010 at 14:24
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    Thank goodness we have a day off, eh?

    • on 07/12/2010 at 15:00

    Lance did so well last year. I expected the “bonk” then.

    I think alot of Euro fans are gleeful about this and I don’t know that he was especially loved by colleagues. Evans has a rep as being vaguely flakey. If I was him I wouldn’t really want the yellow jersey this early on.

    I think Schleck wanted to prove he could win without his brother. He played it smart hanging in a good spot and waiting. He did not look stressed.

    Although much is being made of the change in leadership on Radioshack and I will be glad to be wrong about this I do not think Levi has it in him to win even if Lance goes all super domestique. He is only two years younger than Lance and while he is a fine rider he isn’t a beast. On the other hand he has been fixed in a supporting role for a long time. I am not real sure about the future of Radioshack either. Me thinks Lance will turn to other activities which will influence the future of the team.

    I would like to see Lance challenge for a stage rather than go out all battered up but who nows.

    Bottom line anybody who can even finish the tour is semi super human. I am going for Schleck. He is young and smart and showed yesterday he wants it.

      • on 07/12/2010 at 15:36
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      Working just fine here in XP land.

      This is a better version anyway.

    • on 07/12/2010 at 15:29
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    None of my singing and dancing is working for me.

    Another puzzle.

      • on 07/12/2010 at 17:20

      I think you’ll like the nifty little tools.

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