Skip to main content

The Tour d'France - Part III

Well, the two favorites were barred from this years race, but that sure didn't take anything away from the excitement of this years Tour. It has been, by far, the most exciting race, since Greag Lemond came from a 50 second deficit, to beat Laurent Fignon by 58 seconds in the final time trial back in '89, to win the Tour by only 8 seconds.

This years Tour has seen the Yellow Jersey change hands 8 times, and just when we thought Floyd Landis rode himself out of any possibility of winning the Tour, he made a miraculous recovery on the 17th stage to recover 7 minutes and 30 seconds on the race leader. Now Landis is considered the favorite to win the Tour out right, with Saturdays 57 km time trial being still to go, before the final victory stage on Sunday.

Landis stands in 3rd place, 30 seconds behind Oscar Pereiro and 18 seconds behind Carlos Sastre, but is considered the superior time trialist, and has beaten both riders in the previous time trial by over a minute

Of course nothing is over until "the fat lady sings", and the Yellow Jersey has been known to make supermen out of mere mortals, so tomorrows time trial is sure to have plenty of excitement. I don't recommend missing what is, IMO, the greatest sporting event (challange) in the world.

You can watch it live on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN - channel 608 for Direct TV subscribers) starting at 8:30 AM EDST, and repeated throughout the day. But if you don't have Direct TV, or your cable provider doesn't give you OLN, you can still stay abreast of the action via the official Tour d'France website, and the OLN website.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fatigue! Part II - Maybe it is real?

Or it's actually Motivational Deficiency Disorder, MoDeD (pronounced Mo-Dee-Dee) for short. In a report this week by Roy Moynihan who reports for the British Medical Journal Austrailian scientists may have come across the reason for extreme laziness . The condition is claimed to affect up to one in five Australians and is characterised by overwhelming and debilitating apathy. Neuroscientists at the University of Newcastle in Australia say that in severe cases motivational deficiency disorder can be fatal, because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe. Neurologist Leth Argos is part of the team that has identified the disorder, which can be diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes. "This disorder is poorly understood," Professor Argos told the BMJ. "It is underdiagnosed and undertreated." Who knew? Maybe I have MoDeD, from my attempts to become a...
Post a Comment
Read more

My concerns reaffirmed today

When I was first diagnosed with MCL, I pretty much read just about everything I could get my hands on, I attended various conferences, and I talked to anyone who would listen. One of the most important lessons I learned, and which I've mentioned numerous times before was No one cares more about you than you. But in addition to that, I learned to fear the drug Doxorubicin , AKA Adriamycin, Doxil, Hydroxydoxorubicin, or more affectionately the Red Devil. Besides being a deadly chemical, as is the case with most chemotherapy drugs, it is one of the few chemotherapy drugs known to cause permanent heart damage. I even heard Dr. Sandra Horning , a noted Stanford lymphoma specialist, state at the first lymphoma conference I attended in LA, there was no evidence Doxorubicin provided any added benefit to chemotherapy protocols. This was music to my ears, since Doxorubicin is very common in most lymphoma treatment protocols. And even though Dr. Horning has since changed her tune [which my sk...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tacitly condoning racism?

I learned something very discouraging in my current events class yesterday, there are a lot more racists and bigots out there then you may think. They may not admit it, or they'll claim otherwise, but when someone says they place the blame for what happened in Charlottesville on both sides, or better yet, they don't know where the blame lays, then they are condoning the action of the white supremacists groups, and in my book that is a racist/bigot. The truth is, there should be no doubt where blame for Charlottesville lays. It lays with the white supremacists, neo-Nazi's, KKK, etc, plain and simple! The hatred, bigotry, and misogyny displayed and espoused by these groups, coupled with the tacit approval of President Trump needs to be confronted at all cost, and history tells us so. If only the Jews, in pre-WWII Germany, had confronted the Nazi's in the same manner, Hitler might never have risen to power, and we would not be looking at the prospect of a  third anti...
Post a Comment
Read more