Catfish Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Floyd apparently cracked pretty bad today!! owie!! both OLN and velonews have great ongoing coverage if you're jonesing for up to minute news and info while the race is in progress.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catfish Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 (edited) excellent post race interview today with Floyd online at velonews. That man is a class act. Not many folks would come out and face the press after a day like he had today. And did it with a smile, too. Class. Edited July 20, 2006 by Catfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catfish Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 HOOOOLY CRAP!!! Floyd comes back with some serious panache today!!! Solo win in a hardcore mountain stage and only 30 seconds out of yellow. Looks like Saturday's TT will settle this year's tour once and for all. Wow. I'm betting on Floyd to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipplehead Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 HOOOOLY CRAP!!!Floyd comes back with some serious panache today!!! Solo win in a hardcore mountain stage and only 30 seconds out of yellow. Looks like Saturday's TT will settle this year's tour once and for all. Wow. I'm betting on Floyd to win. OH MY I can't believe what I just saw. Now I have to eat every thing I wrote yesterday!!!! And glad to do so. Catfish: I listened to that interview on Velonews last night and All I can say is Floyd ia a hell of a man...I wish half the athletes had that man's class!! GO Floyd GO ...Make the French fly our flag again. In the last shorter Time Trail Floyd beat both the two guys ahead of him by minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 This year's tour makes all the previous tours I have watched since 1990 seem boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Holy crap!!! Note to self: do NOT make Floyd angy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 This year's tour makes all the previous tours I have watched since 1990 seem boring. Big +1 Maybe, just maybe we'll get to see some Lemond part deux. That was definitely the most exciting end to a tour I've seen. Come on Floyd, Lemond made up 58 on Fignon, you can make 31 on this year's crowd. If anyone never saw/read/heard about the Lemond victory check this out: http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/June06/top25-1.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 OK, I've even more impressed now after reading the recap. Even though it didn't take that long Landis slowed down then stopped so he could change bikes during the 3rd climb. Then he gets back on the bike and proceeds to put away the rest of the field with authority! Man on a mission! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Maybe, just maybe we'll get to see some Lemond part deux. That was definitely the most exciting end to a tour I've seen. Come on Floyd, Lemond made up 58 on Fignon, you can make 31 on this year's crowd. LeMond and Fignon were battling head to head but he didn't go from yellow to 10 minutes down and now all the way back up within striking distance of the yellow. Pretty much everyone said there's no f-ing way you can make up 10 minutes. 50 seconds deficit on a short TT is one thing, but 10 minutes in a road race is pretty much impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 (edited) LeMond and Fignon were battling head to head but he didn't go from yellow to 10 minutes down and now all the way back up within striking distance of the yellow. Pretty much everyone said there's no f-ing way you can make up 10 minutes. 50 seconds deficit on a short TT is one thing, but 10 minutes in a road race is pretty much impossible. Agreed, Landis had the best single day I've ever seen since I started watching the tour in the 80's. I was just pulling for Floyd to match Lemond's TT performance and take the overall GC. He's done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to Floyd Landis for taking back yellow by putting 59 seconds on Pereiro in today's TT. All that's left now is to roll into Paris sipping some champane on the way (and avoiding crashes).... Edited July 22, 2006 by j2fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catfish Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Seeing an American flag flying on the champs d' elysse is one of the best things in the world. period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catfish Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Just got to watch the day's stage - now how cool was that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Now we just have to wait for Lamond to accuse Landis of doping.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Six days.... http://sports.excite.com/news/07292006/v9259.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viggen Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 LeMond said it pretty well. Like Track and Field, Cycling is very chemically manipulated. The technology for maipulation will always continue to run ahead of those who seek to enforce some set rules. I don't like it but that's the way it is. Did Landis do anything bad, I don't know. A lot the of the outcome will come down to pure politics. At least that's my guess. This is an extreme sport - about like running 19 marathons in 21 days with a bunch of sprints thrown in. "Extra help" is likely necessary to function at such a level. Whatever the final result, it was a great ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted August 5, 2006 Author Share Posted August 5, 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis sacked by Phonak team after B sample confirmed positive drugs test.The Swiss-based team have decided to terminate the 30-year-old American’s contract after a B sample confirmed an earlier positive test for excessive levels of testosterone. A team statement read: “The Phonak Cycling Team has learned today from the International Cycling Union (UCI) that team captain Floyd Landis’ B sample has also resulted in a positive finding of doping. I'd like to think that he could somehow clear his name and retain the title but right now all I think is that he's just another dopping athlete that was stupid enough to get caught. I definitely don't advocate cheating but how dumb can these guys that get caught be. They know there's testing and in events like the tour they know they're going to get tested a lot. Oh well, at least it was definitely a fun tour to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmitz Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Sport.... or is it money.....or is it politics.....what's happening isn't right, doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Doesn't matter the sport, Landis in cycling, Bonds and the rest in baseball, and god only knows how many in football...they are all stupid and need to get out of the game or be thrown out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Many people will always do whatever it takes to win, including taking whatever performance enhancers they can get away with. In our modern world the dopers are often one step ahead of the testers so this year's riders are using something they will figure out how to identify next year. Stuff like EPO that creates a physiological response. It won't be long before it is gene therapy. Start with a good foundation and then leave the details to the doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkbrd Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Caffeine = Performace enhancing addictive drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I had a talk with my former employer who knows key people in cycling, specifically a very good team doctor who used to work in pro cycling and now is working for the US Olympic Team. Basically they know of one person in the tour that isn't doping in anyway shape or form and that's Levi Leipheimer. Was Landis cheating? In their conclusion, most definitely. Things that Landis has said during the tour has left implications that he did something out of the ordinary. Plus he used something like 70 water bottles during that one stage. 2-3 per hour is normal, 5 would be on the high side. Anymore than that is not normal. Could it be that he was trying to flush something out of his system? People do have bad days in the tour. Everyone has had a bad day in every tour. That's perfectly normal until Lance showed up. He's only had 1 bad day in the Tour in 7 years. That's not normal. The Discovery Team rarely ever had bad days in those 7 years also. So why is it that this year the entire team cracked 1.5 weeks into the race and not just Discovery, a lot of other people cracked also? It just happens that blood doping last approximately 1.5 weeks if you don't continue to do it. Hmm, something to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Not that it has anything to do with doping, but a former co-worker who raced professionally in europe told me that 5-6 yrs ago nearly everone was racing Litespeed Ti frames, regardless of who's stickers were on the bike. I don't know the extent of that truth, but hearing it didn't surprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 That's pretty normal. Late 80's/ early 90's, everyone was riding on TVT carbon fiber frames with different names on them but everyone knew because of the way the lugs are designed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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