BS: Tour de France

Subject: BS: Tour de France
From: PatrickRose
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 02:10 PM

Anyone else watch the Tour de France? Or am I alone in this?

Though we run a sweetstake in the DC household. I've won 14 sweets thanks to Gilbert being in the Green Jersey for all but 3 days.

Subject: RE: BS: Tour de France
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 02:18 PM

GO LANCE!

Subject: RE: BS: Tour de France
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 03:10 PM

I watch it...even without Lance. It's a toss-up this year, with Contador having problems....and wow, the crashes! That French car put 3 riders into a fence! I wonder if he stopped.

Subject: RE: BS: Tour de France
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 03:33 PM

There's crashes? Maybe the Nascar crowd will pick up on it. Was the car making a left turn?

Subject: RE: BS: Tour de France
From: PatrickRose
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 03:34 PM

Aye, Wiggins going was a bit of a shock. It was absolutely crazy.

Subject: RE: BS: Tour de France
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:12 AM

Well, the car that turned into TWO, not three, riders is now banned from the race. He simply swerved because there was a tree on his side of the road, and didn't pay attention to where the bikes were.....but he had ALREADY been told by radio to pull to the side in that narrow section to give precedence to riders & team cars.
Fortunately, both riders were able to continue, though seeing the video, it was pure luck that they were not both badly injured.