The Official - Tour de France Thread - 2010

[Gene Regulation]

Some stats.

Men who've won without winning a stage:-
Firmin Lambot (BEL) 1922
Roger Walkowiak (FRA) 1956
Gastone Nencini (ITA) 1960
Lucien Aimar (FRA) 1966
Greg LeMond (USA) 1990
Óscar Pereiro (ESP) 2006
Alberto Contador (ESP) 2010

Oldest Points Jersey winner Petacchi 36

Men who've won points jersey on all 3 Grand Tours:-
Abdoujaparov.­ Jalabert, Merckx & Petacchi.

First back to cack wins on the Champs - Cavendish.

[LAFOLIE]

They say a picture paints a thousand words!

[Gene Regulation]

Contador exiting Astana.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 864170.stm

I've heard HTC Columbia, wi Cav exiting to Sky.

[LAFOLIE]

Contador exiting Astana.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 864170.stm

I've heard HTC Columbia, wi Cav exiting to Sky.

Also I see the schleck brothers will also be changing teams.

[LAFOLIE]

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/s ... team-27223

[Hammersmith1982]

Only 2 hours and 6 minutes till the worlds greatest race starts in Corsica. Come on Cav

[Bag Lady]

Only 2 hours and 6 minutes till the worlds greatest race starts in Corsica. Come on Cav

Go Froome!

[Hammersmith1982]

Froome Dog has already hit the curb after only 45 minutes!!!!

[Hammersmith1982]

Gerraint Thomas (Team GB/Team SKY from Wales) has fractured his pelvis and yet continues to cycle. He fractured it on Saturday and only found out yesterday.

It took a few attempts to get his leg over the bike this morning. Fucking Hell footballers, you fall on a tuppence and complain!!! Fecking poofs!

[Bag Lady]

Ha! So true! School sports day: a football fanatic friend of my son's had on a support bandage around his knee for effect and to excuse any poor results. My son was proudly displaying the wounds on his shoulder, elbow and knee from where he came off in a road race last week. I don't like seeing these huge scrapes but I was impressed with his determination and how he'd got back up and finished the race. Got to be a lesson for life in there somewhere!

(My Velogames fantasy team's not doing too badly at the moment!)

[Hammersmith1982]

My son was proudly displaying the wounds on his shoulder, elbow and knee from where he came off in a road race last week. I don't like seeing these huge scrapes but I was impressed with his determination and how he'd got back up and finished the race. Got to be a lesson for life in there somewhere!

(My Velogames fantasy team's not doing too badly at the moment!)

Cyclists are a hardy bunch aren't they??? Cycling in the snow in races or pouring rain, when the footballers get a pitch inspection and get told, watch out it's too wet to play on grass.

Who've you got in your team? My wife always loves little Tommy Voeckler - Well, he's not so little or baby faced any more, but I think she has a soft spot for him, and Nicolas Roche.

[Bag Lady]

My son was proudly displaying the wounds on his shoulder, elbow and knee from where he came off in a road race last week. I don't like seeing these huge scrapes but I was impressed with his determination and how he'd got back up and finished the race. Got to be a lesson for life in there somewhere!

(My Velogames fantasy team's not doing too badly at the moment!)

Cyclists are a hardy bunch aren't they??? Cycling in the snow in races or pouring rain, when the footballers get a pitch inspection and get told, watch out it's too wet to play on grass.

Who've you got in your team? My wife always loves little Tommy Voeckler - Well, he's not so little or baby faced any more, but I think she has a soft spot for him, and Nicolas Roche.

Not such a good day for my team They've fallen just out of the top 200 now. But that's not bad because there's over 19,000 teams registered! My main point scorers are Peter Sagan and Daryl Impey. Thomas Voeckler's my only team member not to have got me a single point. It's still early days, could go either way!

Back in the real world, my youngest is currently ranked in the top 30 under 8 girls' national cycling points in British Cycling