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| Trance-MB |
Anyone here following Le Tour this year?
I'm really enjoying it, not only because our guys/teams are doing well after many years.
It's fantastic, because team play and tactics seems to be more important than ever, probably because individual differences are smaller.
Even the flat stages like today's make differences. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Nobody in the US has cared at all since Lance Armstrong stopped racing. |
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| Spacey Orange |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Nobody in the US has cared at all since Lance Armstrong stopped racing doping. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Everyone doped. He's just the only one anybody cared about. I think doping in exchange for brain cancer is fair. |
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| Serial Killer |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Nobody in the US has cared at all |
there you go |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Nobody in the US has cared at all since Lance Armstrong stopped racing. |
That's probably the same as no-body cared about soccer while in 2006 the U.S. with 18 million registered soccer players had more then we have inhabitants. |
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| srussell0018 |
Nobody in the US cares about Soccer either unless they have half a chance at winning, which they never do. Probably half of those "registered soccer players" were 4 year old kids who could barely run. The population is over 300 million. 18 million still isn't very much.
And still, nobody cared about soccer in 2006 either. The only reason anybody cared about Lance Armstrong was the cancer story and the fact that he dominated every single year and you got to hear all the Frenchmen cry about it.
#livestrong |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Nobody in the US cares about Soccer either unless they have half a chance at winning, which they never do. Probably half of those "registered soccer players" were 4 year old kids who could barely run. The population is over 300 million. 18 million still isn't very much.
And still, nobody cared about soccer in 2006 either. The only reason anybody cared about Lance Armstrong was the cancer story and the fact that he dominated every single year and you got to hear all the Frenchmen cry about it.
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The number will be at bit higher if the illegal Mexicans were counted as well. My 65+ cab driver in Boston in 2005 had Portuguese roots, he still was watching European soccer, which surprised me actually. But I would say 18 million is a decent number. Problem with soccer is they just have one break, so that's a problem as you can't have commercials every 5 minutes.
The French still don't have anything to be happy about though... |
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| srussell0018 |
| Meh, the only people who really care here either played in high school or younger, or are from another country which actually cares about it. Although it has seemed to increase in popularity a bit recently. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Played soccer for 6 years when I was younger. Joining a coed league this summer with some friends. Soccer is fun to play, but I find it boring to watch (unless you are at a game and drunk).
Same with biking. I love to ride my bike, but I've never found the draw to watching bike races (again, unless its live and in person). |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Played soccer for 6 years when I was younger. Joining a coed league this summer with some friends. Soccer is fun to play, but I find it boring to watch (unless you are at a game and drunk).
Same with biking. I love to ride my bike, but I've never found the draw to watching bike races (again, unless its live and in person). |
To me it's the opposite. Watching on television is so much more interesting, as live you can't keep up, both soccer as cycling. Well cycling is obvious as those at Le Tour ride 50 km/h, so that's just a flash. |
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| Frenkieee |
| Today's race was ing awesome. And I'm not saying that because I'm Dutch, and the Dutch team and two Dutch riders have performed really well. I just love seeing factors like the wind play such a huge role here, that it totally turns the whole race upsidedownface. |
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