this is WEIRD, no Tour de France thread so far?? Ok, this is one

Post all your thoughts about it, and your comments on the winnars so far. Also a forecast for the winnar?? Mine: Lance Armstrong...

T'days winnar: Alessandro Petacchi; man....that bloke is pretty strong!!!

Your thoughts? Post them!!!

GreetZ RubDub

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yeah, interested to learn about this sport...can some1 explain what the strategies are? how u go bout winning the race? point of teams? point of sprints etc? what the jerseys are all about?

greatly appreciated

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First week of the tour Sprinters Teams/yellow jersey holder team are at the front defending and attacking.

Second week = Mountains/polka dot jersey, this is where the yellow jersey/polka dot will be decided.

After the Mountains= Sprinters/green jersey are back in contention.

Yellow Jersey= overall leader of the race based on time.

Green Jersey = Sprinters/Points Jersey, each flat stage has sprints where points are given, points/time are also given to the winner of each flat stage and lower places. that’s why sprinters sometimes wear the yellow jersey in the opening week of the tour.

Polka dot jersey/King of the mountains = this one is for the climbers obviously. Each mountain has a category, smaller climbs are lower and higher climbs are of coz higher category, higher category climbs get you more points, if the stage is a mountain top finish the winner gets points and time towards this jersey as well. Lower places also get points towards this jersey.


Teams are there to help the top riders of the team, take US postal for example, lance Armstrong will not do any work until its needed to either take the yellow jersey or defend the yellow jersey. In the mountain stages his team will ride in front of him, giving him the slipstream, setting the pace at what lance wants, once his riders cannot set the pace any longer lance will take over and defend/attack for the yellow jersey.

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Mayo was awesome today, looks like Lance isn't as strong as I expected. Tons of respect for Hamilton!

armstrong doesnt look strong, but i still think he is the strongest
he knows he will win time on his concurrents in the time trial
and i think he will make the difference in the pyrenees
he was just riding defensive, he didnt have to attack on alpe d'huez
he already had 30sec on his nearest concs

but we have to admit armstrong is not as strong as the past years
he did 3min17sec slower on alpe d'huez then in 2001

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anyone watched today??
so sad what happened to beloki.. even though im hoping for armstrong to win.. this not something that should happen.. I was so shocked when i saw it.. noone deserves something like that

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Originally posted by Scav anyone watched today?? so sad what happened to beloki.. even though im hoping for armstrong to win.. this not something that should happen.. I was so shocked when i saw it.. noone deserves something like that

Word! I want Armstrong to win and I think the only way he wouldnt be able to win this year is through a accident like Belokis. But Vinokourov is a real joy to watch. Hope McEwen will take som sprint victories the forthcoming days or why not Hushovd.

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i just hope someones (that would be vinokourov now) can make it armstrong a hard time in the pyreneees.
yesterday a nice show from petachi-piil, it was nice when they shook hands, always good to see that in sport.

any thoughts on armstrong? does anyone think hes not that strong anymore??

-Glad

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Originally posted by Gladius i just hope someones (that would be vinokourov now) can make it armstrong a hard time in the pyreneees. yesterday a nice show from petachi-piil, it was nice when they shook hands, always good to see that in sport. any thoughts on armstrong? does anyone think hes not that strong anymore?? -Glad

uhm, that would be sacchi.. petacchi left the tour a few days ago, he was intimidated by the mountains ahead of him..

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ohh nooo...only a 15 second lead for armstrong.

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back to 1 minute now.. i don't understand why they waited for lance to come back after he fell.. "a fair fight" my *$$! he just had bad luck.. when the crew has problems refuelling michael schumacher's formula one car because something got stuck in the hose, you don't see his rivals wait for him to come back either?!

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