This TdF left me cold

Maybe I am just in a bad mood and down on cycling. I did not find a lot of enjoyment in this Tour. With the G.C. being so tight, it should have been a nail biter; but I did not care much for the G.C. battle. FLandis' calling it the Cat 3 Tour de France sticks in my mind.

The successful break were nice, though.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Drug busts, headbutts, elbows, ***** slaps and kinky stuffed animal fetishes.....farken hell son what more do you want?

I think one of the problems is that whether you consider previous tours to be "doped" or not, most of the GC contenders here have been given sound kickings in previous tours by the winners of those tours, psychologically I think that can skew your perception, I do agree with your statement.

I found the tour to be screwed in a way since even though Contador and astana werent invited, we still had a) a doped rider + team winning b) a big doping scandal and c) a dominating team controlling the race . And on top of that we got a race that was very tight but still quite dull to watch. Btw how come we have the news of Frank Schleck working with Fuentes and all the targetted tests against the CSC and still no newspaper or newsstation connects the dots and puts pressure no bjarne riis and the team?

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very well said.

It was a snoozer. The breakaways were nice. I enjoyed the Barredo finish.

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Most sport news people like uplifting stories. After all, sports is escapism. Who wants to have reality hit them in the face when they want to escape from reality.

I don't think Damsgard is worth anything. The only people that are going to catch these guys are the french drug testers and the French police. Nobody else really wants them caught.

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Standing on the shoulders of giants is what leaves me cold...

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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This may help. Kimmage was a minder with Slipstream.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle4407072.ece

seriously, I sure hope he's right. I want to believe, but it's hard.

Kimmage sums up this thread;

But not everyone was pleased. No, back in the press room, some of the muppets who had glorified the Robo-cop years were bemoaning the lack of “spectacle”. They had spent so much time with their heads up the arses of the cheats, they had forgotten:this is how it looks when it’s clean.

Damn fine article.

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
-- Albert Einstein

That is from when he stopped mumbling. Still a good album though.

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I remembered how it looked clean. This was certainly better than last year with Cantador. Still, the Schleck brothers put a bad taste in my mouth. And, Cadel didn't do anything to deserve to win. Did he even attack once this year? The racing was just too conservative.

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Well then, dirty it up again. I've been saying all along, I don't watch this sport for hero worship, I watch it for entertainment. Take the needle, boys. I'm bored to death.