I have a pet Louse , guess what I am going to name him.tinks said:Yes, and all the children will be naming their pet chickens Hencapie to honor him
I have a pet Louse , guess what I am going to name him.tinks said:Yes, and all the children will be naming their pet chickens Hencapie to honor him
There is a solution...996vtwin said:I have a pet Louse , guess what I am going to name him.
Rasmussen is the "chicken" of this Tour (his nickname, I believe).tinks said:Yes, and all the children will be naming their pet chickens Hencapie to honor him
996vtwin said:F*ck Discovery Channel and F*ck GH, he is a louse and that is all there is to say. You yankees will defend him because his is a fellow yankee doodle. I am unbiased and am telling you that GH is a louse and Periero won the Moral Victory. Vive Periero! For he is the winner!
I remember my mom telling me not to cry and whine after a soccer game or a baseball game. But she never said anything about being a good sport after a mountain stage. Of course we did not live in the mountains. Matter of fact, my parents never even said anything about how I should act after a TDF sprint either.hombredesubaru said:I saw the e-runs last night, and there's no doubt that for the entire break, Pereiro did most of the work, which was a lot. But as for the last climb, after George and Oscar spoke there really wasnt much chance for G to come around, until the final km, when G obviously shouldnt have come around.
As for the moral victory, its race tactics. Grow up. And if Oscar is such a moral guy, why is he going around whining and trying to steal the victory back from George by insinuating that he was stronger and should have won. Where I grew up, thats being a sore loser and a poor sport, the sort of thing every parent tells their 9 year not to do whether its soccer, baseball or mountain stages in the TdF.
did you happen to notice how he won?996vtwin said:Haha Isnt Thomas Prehn that guy that rode for USPS Team, haha talk about biased. We really dont care what he has to say ,,,I just realised that Periero won today ....Ha Ha victory and revenge is bitter sweet.
Let me guess he used the American strategy , George better hope that they dont name that move after him, like the George Louse win or something to that effect.roadhog said:did you happen to notice how he won?
I don't know what you call the strategy. This is not a sport of nations but of sponsors really. Not sure why some guys here get so reved up about nationalism over these things. The allegiance in the peloton is to sponsors and money, not nationality. Sure, it may come into play occaisonally, but it is not the driving force. Nothing wrong with it, but that is the true basis of the modern sport, not nationality. In fact, it really makes it more enjoyable I think.996vtwin said:Let me guess he used the American strategy , George better hope that they dont name that move after him, like the George Louse win or something to that effect.
To be honest I havent seen the stage yet only yesterdays but if OP 'loused' today I really dont blame him nor will anyone else. Consider todays reward is from yesterdays effort. All is fair and I am sure all will agree that he needed to ride more aggressively to win. Bit unfortubate that there isnt always camradery amonst cyclist where as the one site put it 'the strongest dosent always win'. But Cie La Vie, thats life and I am just happy OP won today.JRMDC said:Well, we've beat this one to death, but that is what one does on forums like this, so... here is what Leipheimer had to say about GH in his daily diary on cyclingnews:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2005/diaries/levi/tour05.php?id=levi0524
996vtwin said:To be honest I havent seen the stage yet only yesterdays but if OP 'loused' today I really dont blame him nor will anyone else. Consider todays reward is from yesterdays effort. All is fair and I am sure all will agree that he needed to ride more aggressively to win. Bit unfortubate that there isnt always camradery amonst cyclist where as the one site put it 'the strongest dosent always win'. But Cie La Vie, thats life and I am just happy OP won today.
roadhog said:did you happen to notice how he won?
limerickman said:Pereiro did a huge amount of chasing to get on to the group and to put himself in place to win.
I thought it was an honourable win, I have to say.
whiteboytrash said:I agree ! It was true class the way OP won..... like I have said before... Hincapie still won his stage but his time will come and there is no way the Spanish riders will let him forget it...... await Paris-Roubaix or Tour of Flanders next year.... this is of course he decides to become stage rider and win the Tour next year...... but then again the Spanish fans WILL knock him offf his bike if he tries anything.....
Nein11 said:I agree. Screw Americans and Screw Discovery chanel. Lets bomb their place!
I agree. Very good win. His sniveling on Sunday was not so, but his riding has been excellent throughout.limerickman said:Pereiro did a huge amount of chasing to get on to the group and to put himself in place to win.
I thought it was an honourable win, I have to say.
mitosis said:OP didn't louse. Its only the ramblings of sour posters trying to get even because someone insulted the tactics of a Disco rider.
Read this http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/?id=results/tour0516
I draw your attention specifically to:
"With 30km to go in the tiny village of Nay, the four front riders were all together, but Zandio hadn't been working to protect his Illes Balears team leader Mancebo's place on GC. Pereiro felt no such compunction, as he and Evans hammered all out. The Phonak man didn't see fit to protect his teammate Landis's 7th place on GC, so the Davitamon-Lotto rider moved up into that position as Pau approached.
With 20km to race, the last climb of the day was the small Cat. 4 Côte de Pardiès-Piétat in the lovely green hills overlooking the beautiful capital of the Bearn area. Up the 2.6km, 5.2 % bump, Evans rode all out to move up on GC. Although it is the Aussie's first Tour de France on the road, he was a standout rider in the Tour de France VTT ten years ago, as well as a former maglia rosa in the Giro d'Italia. Pereiro was going pull for pull with Evans on the run-in to Pau, with the chasers at 2'00 and the hard charging groupe maillot jaune less than 4'00 back. Finally, Pereiro stopped working under orders from team director John Lelangue with around 5 km to go, leaving Evans to do everything. "
But I'm sure after you view the footage you will be able to make your own mind up. Believe it or not there are some posting opinions who haven't even seen it!
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