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Date: 02 Jul 2007 17:20:06
From: Roger Zoul
Subject: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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Anyone?
Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
Anyone going?
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 17:12:35
From: bdbafh
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 3, 2:48 pm, "Bill Sornson" <a...@ask.me > wrote:
> There's a Tour this year?
Sure is:
http://www.tourdetoona.com/home/main/index.htm
Heck, one might even get to have a beer with Burt Frigggin' Hoovis.
-bdbafh
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Date: 05 Jul 2007 04:29:04
From:
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 2, 10:20 pm, "Roger Zoul" <rogerzo...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
it briefly follows my daily commute route this year (in London). It
seems rude not to go and watch
best wishes
james
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 11:48:41
From: Bill Sornson
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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There's a Tour this year?
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 11:13:30
From: SlowRider
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 2, 3:20 pm, "Roger Zoul" <rogerzo...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Anyone?
Hell, yes!
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
More interesting, I hope. I enjoyed the Lance years, but at times the
Tour did seem more like a parade than a race. It'll be nice to see
Vino racing for himself, and he's got some good competition: they're
not going to let him walk away with it.
> Anyone going?
Not unless a genie drops a whole lot of $$ in my lap in the next few
days...
- JR
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 15:17:43
From: Jeremy Parker
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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"Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:138ir09s7bd1kb4@news.supernews.com...
> Anyone?
>
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
I'm leading a ride, of the Barnet Cyclists, down to the Prologue.
Transport for London is providing us with some kind VIP seating
supposedly, back behind the Duke of Wellington's house.
Getting through security is going to be a real mess, I fear, not to
mention extracting our bikes from a 2500 bike parking lot at
going-home time.
I didn't go on the London-Canterbury stage cyclosportive thingy, and
haven't heard any reports from anyone who did. Places for it got
booked up within about a half hour, I gather.
Peter Treadgold, who is one of the top people in Transport for
London's "Cycle Centre of Excellence" is doing the Etape, which
impressed me. I think it's in the Pyrenees this year
Jeremy Parker
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 06:52:29
From: Just A User
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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Roger Zoul wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
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I'll be watching, I watched a preview the other day. I think it will be
less interesting, but I will fill the hot weather void cycling void that
occurs this time of year in Florida.
Ken
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 15:16:21
From: Marlene Blanshay
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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i'll watch...canal evasion will be airing live coverage every morning.
The tour is ideal tv watching for july- except for baseball. Everything
else is reruns...and the tour is now the only cycling they show on tv.
Except for RDS showing some bike races and CBC coverage of the worlds.
Just A User wrote:
> Roger Zoul wrote:
>> Anyone?
>>
>> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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>> Anyone going?
>>
> I'll be watching, I watched a preview the other day. I think it will be
> less interesting, but I will fill the hot weather void cycling void that
> occurs this time of year in Florida.
>
> Ken
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 05:45:18
From: catzz66
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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Roger Zoul wrote:
> Anyone?
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> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
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Not me. My money grubbing cable company picked OLN/VS out of the
premium lineup and moved it to a super premium classification. I will
read about it on the net.
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 07:53:07
From: marian.rosenberg@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 3, 5:20 am, "Roger Zoul" <rogerzo...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Anyone?
I'm, as previously mentioned elsewhere, going to be working at a
different Tour during The Tour so I suspect the answer to that
question, at least in televised form, is a very big yes.
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
Last year was only the first year that I watched any of the Tour at
all. Only the first couple few stages, all on tv, and all in the back
room of the bike shop. It was interesting. This year I'll get to
watch a couple more stages surrounded by even more rabid cycling fans
(the kind of professional fan who has a cycling related job that he
gets paid money for) so yeah I think it'll be pretty interesting.
> Anyone going?
To France? Not me. Not this year. Probably not for many years.
-M
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 01:47:27
From: Mike Kruger
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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Roger Zoul wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
Not so interesting; I paid some attention to the live feed of the Giro this
year, and that was entertaining, but now I see that winner Di Luca's under a
cloud.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jun07/jun30news&from=rss
I wasn't a big fan, so the Pros won't suffer from my lack of attention.
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 22:58:40
From: victor.kan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 2, 6:07 pm, Brian Kerr <b...@bexremovethis.net > wrote:
> I'll be watching with great interest. I'm curious to find out whether
> or not Vino is the real deal and also wondering how Valverde will do if
> he actually can finish a TDF.
Ditto. Even if we find out in August that they're all dopers and
results get nullified, if it was exciting racing at the time we see
it, it will have been interesting to have seen it (even if only as
fiction).
> I've also taken note of Zabriskie's new climbing prowess!
Yep--on one climb at the Dauphine, the climbers around him looked to
be struggling, leaping out of the saddle with legs flailing all over
the place in low cadence (I guess they chose the wrong gearing for
that stage?), Dave was sitting there cool, with his shades still on,
seated, knees in, spinning up the hill right there at the front.
> All in all I think it will be more interesting than those in recent
> years, perhaps what we hoped last year's race would have become had it
> not been for all the last minute scandal.
Yep.
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 22:36:55
From: RBrickston
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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In article <138ir09s7bd1kb4@news.supernews.com >, rogerzoul2@hotmail.com
says...
> Anyone?
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> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
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They ought to test every rider on every stage this year and try to gain
some credibility.
And can't something be done to keep those idiots out of the contestant's
path? Favorite "fan" photos from 2005:
http://tinyurl.com/2t2zj4
http://tinyurl.com/36xqw7
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Date: 03 Jul 2007 00:26:29
From: Booker C. Bense
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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In article <MPG.20f347c16de69a129896b1@news.verizon.net >,
RBrickston <rb20170REMOVE@yahoo.com > wrote:
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>And can't something be done to keep those idiots out of the contestant's
>path?
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A TDF with no idiots... That would be wrong, very wrong.
_ Booker C. Bense
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 19:07:11
From: Roger Zoul
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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RBrickston wrote:
:: And can't something be done to keep those idiots out of the
:: contestant's path? Favorite "fan" photos from 2005:
::
:: http://tinyurl.com/2t2zj4
::
:: http://tinyurl.com/36xqw7
haha!
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 22:34:08
From: ufatbastehd
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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I love the tour and will watch. Lance retired, Landis out. Sometimes
the best things happen when you least expect them
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 18:07:20
From: Brian Kerr
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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Roger Zoul wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
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I'll be watching with great interest. I'm curious to find out whether
or not Vino is the real deal and also wondering how Valverde will do if
he actually can finish a TDF.
I've also taken note of Zabriskie's new climbing prowess! Team CSC says
Sastre is their GC man though but with his limited TT ability that could
always be subject to change.
All in all I think it will be more interesting than those in recent
years, perhaps what we hoped last year's race would have become had it
not been for all the last minute scandal.
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 21:45:39
From: garmonboezia
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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"Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com > wrote in
news:138ir09s7bd1kb4@news.supernews.com:
> Anyone?
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> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
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Seems to me it's wide open. To me that's interesting. Even the
French have a shot this year.
199 Mike
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 14:29:58
From: Ozark Bicycle
Subject: Re: Who's watching the Tour this year?
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On Jul 2, 4:20 pm, "Roger Zoul" <rogerzo...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Anyone?
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> Will it be more interesting or less than recent years?
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> Anyone going?
IMO, this is the biggest "who cares?" TdF in years. The stench puts me
off.
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