Roundup: The PdC TdF Preview Guide!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 30, 2009 5:31 PM EDT
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PrintThis post will live in the Featured Stories section until August, as the catch-all for our many, many ways of looking at the Tour de France. Thanks to so many of you, it's been a busy ten days or so, and won't stop soon.
Table of contents:
Why Not Me? Our communal rider-by-rider preview of the battle for the maillot jaune.
Parsing the Points Comp: a maillot vert preview. And why Boonen isn't there.
Sizing up the parcours: Five key points...and go here for our live chatter during the course rollout.
Strategery! How to win a Tour
Wines of the Tour! Kirsten, our resident expert, matches each stage to the perfect glass.
Wargames: join the Podium Cafe Tour-Only Virtual Directeur Sportif! And don't miss Who's Hot/Who's Not. Lastly, take the Lance Challenge!
Team lineups: Caisse d'Epargne, Skil-Shimano, AG2R, BBox Bouygues Telecom, Agritubel, Silence-Lotto, Columbia HTC, Lampre, Liquigas, Astana, Katusha, Cervelo Test Team, Garmin-Slipstream, Saxo/Rabo/Milram/Cofidis and some roster changes.
On the Bookshelf:
- Christopher Thompson's Tour de France and its cultural significance.
- Graham Watson's Tour Travel Guide
- Mark Cavendish: Boy Racer!
And more on the way!
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is it saturday yet?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
But look
and Merckx, Hinault and Prudhomme are posing with Prince Albert (who is not in a can)
Certainly that must mean the race is starting!
Looks like they needed a crowbar to pry open a smile on Hinault
On principle he probably doesn’t take pictures with bigger champions than himself.
Eurosport are showing the Teampresentation
Thursday(?) at 18:15 CEST which means there might be other available streams too.
VDS team in Tourbecco's inbox.
Did the whole thing in 10 minutes, Gut instinct. Will probably be a disaster.
Adrenalina Italiana!
How many Euskies are in it?
They were cheaper by the dozen I heard.
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
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