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Topic: tour de france
Posted By: The Count
Subject: tour de france
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2007 at 5:06am
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anyone watchin the tour. tg4 is wreckin my head, i dont have a breeze what their saying! they should stick up a few subtitles ------------- 
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Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2007 at 6:21am
| Tour de France is dead in the water for me with the doping, like the Olympics. I used to like the Tour. 20 years since Galtee Cheese won it, amazing, I can still Charlie Hockey gatecrashing the podium as well, holding up Roche's arm like a long lost buddy, nauseating it was. |
Posted By: The Count
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2007 at 7:19am
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point taken freewheeler but I still think its great stuff to watch. Yeah remeber haughey hoping out of nowhere to claim the victory for himself and Roche. Great joint effort -------------
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Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2007 at 8:46am
| On that subject, I recommend Paul Kimmage's "A Rough Ride", he wrote it years ago with David Walsh, Kelly/Roche and plenty others weren't happy with him. You should still be able to buy it somewhere. |
Posted By: The GerK
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2007 at 3:56pm
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the tour is finished for me also,
maybe if another roche or kelly came through it might get interesting again I swear though, i don't jump on the bandwagon. the clricket world cup was great but haven't watched a game of clricket since |
Posted By: The Count
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2007 at 4:05pm
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wasnt mad about the Paul Kimmage book Freewheeler. I can understand his frustaration about the whole drugs thing and it is absolutely disgraceful that it still goes on but I think he comes across as a bit of a dick in the book. Can you rememeber the part where he wasnt into the whole pelothon chat and gags? one was where someone fell off and hurt there wrist and the gag was that your man wouldnt be able to crack one off for a whilke. Kimmage frowned at this sort of talk, he comes across to me like a bit of a prude and a bit of an all round moaner in the book I thought which was disappointing as I heard a lot of good things about it.
read a better one about some fat guy who rode the tour a month before the pros and just started cycling a week before he began, some buachill!
its called French Revolutons by Tim Moore, bit of a slow starter but a good laugh -------------
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Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2007 at 5:53am
| To be fair, it must be nearly 20 years anyhow since I read that book, maybe I'd read it different now. I still like Kimmage as a journo though. |
Posted By: The Count
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2007 at 3:13pm
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yeah I do like his work as a journalist aswell, thats what surprised me more about the book. 200 pages of moaning! Read a few Lance Armstrong ones aswell and he comes across like a right pr*ck! or maybe its just me -------------
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Posted By: RogerMilla
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2007 at 5:17am
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no count it aint you , its armstrong ! ------------- The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own. |