Tour de france

by **Death** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 17:49

Prologue: Cancellara, martin, kittel ->

DISCUSS

by **DMG_Kowi** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 18:27

Wow, it's been years since I watched TdF. I used to watch in times of Armstrong's supremacy. In times of Richard Virenque winning King of the Mountains. Now I only know that Cadel Evans is recent winner, but I don't really know many head cyclists.

by **FlowerPower** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 20:12

Cancellara winning the prologue: how unsurprising

by **Death** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 21:11

FlowerPower wrote:Cancellara winning the prologue: how unsurprising

Indeed ^^

I was however surprised by how bad some people like Samuel and Luis Leon Sanchez did and also Lieuwe Westra

And positively surprised by Marcel Kittel, i know he is a great sprinter and he should be able to keep up a high speed for a short distance but that he could ride top 20 i would have never thought.

by **Method** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 19:40

Holy shit.
Please do not call it a sport.
That is just a blood doping contest

by **icefrost** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 21:31

well even with doping its pretty awesome what they drive each day imo.

by **FlowerPower** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 0:20

Method wrote:Holy shit.
Please do not call it a sport.
That is just a blood doping contest

Well, it could be true, but how much do you know about doping in other sports?
What about atheltics? and swimming? DOn't you call them sports?
As far as I know, cycling is one of the most controlled sports, and of course every year an idiot is catched. I'm wondering if other sports had the same level of controls what would be the results...

by **DMG_Kowi** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:06

The most interesting thing is that penalties in cycling are short. I remember Vinokurov being caught several years ago. Now he starts in TdF.

Cycling in weird sport if it comes to doping. Maybe all know that most of them use it, so that punishments aren't so harsh, but just to show: 'look, we caught him'.

by **Death** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:32

The sport itself stands alone with the fact wether some (or most of them in your eyes) use doping or not.
You can't tell me that even with using doping they dont have to cycle so incredibly hard that they are completely empty after 3 weeks non stop racing in france.

and btw, like flower says, there are a lot of sports where people use doping. Maybe in cycling a little more then in other sports but shit happens.

by **davies** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:43

Cancellara <3

by **Method** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 16:55

Well flower, in fact they were spotted.
I'm actually not studying medicine but I've watched cycling for 10 years.
And almost each winner or good athlete was judged for doping.

It is so much disappointing that I do not respect those athletics anymore or follow the giro or the tour or anything else.

by **DMG_Kowi** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 17:03

But they've never caught Armstrong and I think he was clear or at least didn't 'halped' himself so much.

by **Method** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 17:16

agree

by **DMG_Kowi** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 17:16

I've seen last few kilometers of today's stage. Nice run by today's winner Pinot, in the end it was only 20s advantage or so, but I like when a lone rider wins a stage. And btw. funny guy in the car cheering him up.

by **Death** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 17:29

Yea was an amzing race today.
many escapes and good racing, even the head riders fighting for seconds in the last 20km

this is how the tour should be instead of 5 man in front for 180 km to be caught in last 10

by **DMG_Kowi** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 18:15

In 2003 (maybe) there was a stage, where few guys made an escape and bastards from peloton caught'em on a last straight to the finish (it was at less than 1km form finish line). And it was such a crap. But when peloton speeds up at last kilometers it is always faster then few riders from escape, so wheter escape is 'eaten' or not depends only on the proportion between distance left and time difference between peloton and escape

by **Death** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 14:02

And the first DOPING CASE is brought to light (or atleast suspects are "arrested")

Remy Di Gregorio is brought to his hometown of Marseille where he together with 2 other men is held at the police station on suspicion of doping.

Di Gregorio riding for Team Cofidis, the same team where David Moncoutie and Rein Taaramea ride.

The investigation itself is older (from the time Di Gregorio was riding for Astana) and therefore is not likely to affect Team Cofidis.

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