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Anybody catching the Tour de France now that Lance isn't participating? You should be. It's been an INSANE race. Floyd Landis showed the biggest balls in sports memory by coming back to 30 seconds back after collapsing the previous day to 8 minutes out. Absolutely the most stunning thing I've witness in sports in a long time. The time trial tomorrow will likely decide the race with the top three riders just 30 seconds apart. WOW!

I didn't think they were going to do this anymore since Lance retired???[;)][:o)]



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[quote]Originally posted by Blir
[br]Anybody catching the Tour de France now that Lance isn't participating? You should be. It's been an INSANE race. Floyd Landis showed the biggest balls in sports memory by coming back to 30 seconds back after collapsing the previous day to 8 minutes out. Absolutely the most stunning thing I've witness in sports in a long time. The time trial tomorrow will likely decide the race with the top three riders just 30 seconds apart. WOW!
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Yes, this Tour is being really interesting, and I enjoy watching cycling quite a lot, but I think it's a sport I will never understand: why did CSC and T-mobile teams not help the first rider team to catch Landis from the beginnig of yesterday's stage? I think the 2nd top rider would have won the Tour if his team had done something more yesterday... now everything favours Floyd, he'll surely be the winner... and I will have to wait until next year to see a Spanish rider on top again [V]. Anyway, 2nd and 3rd is a success too [:D].

Well OP, what do you think today? The two Spaniards or Landis? If it can be an epic time trial today, it would be an epic TdF finish. Too bad that our sport network ESPN gave the TdF story a verbal nod at the end of their Thursday telecast with not even a video snippet...ignorant and criminal. What a bunch of obnoxious suck-ups ESPN are. I'm so sick of their "Boo-yeah's" to every predictable home run or slam dunk highlight. I love when Mike & the Mad Dog on NY's WFAN rips into those sycophants. [xx(]

Oh yeah, go Floyd!

I think Landis will be the winner, he is better than the 2 Spaniards in the time trial, we'll see what happens in few minutes.

And yes, I don't know why some sports are completely forgotten in most tv channels and sport networks, they aren't even mentioned when there's a very important event with sportsmen/momen or teams from the country. Here most times the sports news start with things like "David Beckham has changed his looks again" - a piece of news I was dying to know Blir [:p]- and at the end, as if it was just an anecdote or nothing, the journalist says "The (Spanish) national team has won the Handball World Cup", and if you're lucky, you'll see the 3 second video they show [V]... unbelievable [:(!]!!

Landis won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sarah

Congratulations Blir, your fellow countryman has won, tomorrow we'll see him on top of the podium [:)]

Who would have thunk it last Wednesday. And Pereiro was amazing to come in 4th today. Fortunately T-Mobile once again didn't have a brain among them in this Tour.

Uh oh!
http://www.sportsline.com/cycling/story/9573947

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Floyd Landis has given a positive drugs test... bad news for cycling (again) [:(]

It's pretty ugly for everyone involved. I hope that second sample comes out clean. It would go from one of the great Tours to easily the worst. [V]

They just need to make everything legal and drop the testing all together. At least then everyone would be on a level playing field. I guess then it would be called baseball.[:o)]

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Hell, I don't care what country won, as long as those Godless French lost! (spits in spittoon) Yeeeeeeeehaw!

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>Hell, I don't care what country won, as long as those Godless French lost! (spits in spittoon) Yeeeeeeeehaw!
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France is a Catholic nation. That ain't godless.

I think Philly meant to say "gutless".

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