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I think they did that on purpose to put Contador in an even more negative light, they wouldn’t dare post that Annecy hotel thing either, same goes for CN.

I even took a few liberties with the above translation, here’s the Spanish:

Mi relación con Lance Armstrong es nula, pero es un grandísimo corredor y ha hecho un gran Tour, otra cosa es a nivel personal donde nunca le he tenido una gran admiración, ni se la tendré.

So you can see he goes out of his way to separate the personal from the professional, “otra cosa es a nivel personal,” “it’s different on a personal level” or “the personal aspect is something else/something different.”

still catching up. I fell asleep halfway through the Ventoux stage last night, though I blame my kids, the local transportation network, and the two hours of hills I had just done.

but yet then you say Vino will be team leader for sure even though in that qoute it is more than clear that Bert will be the leader, the only one. I think Vino is realistic about what roles he will play, he’s even said he will be domestique and that he knows Bert is better than him.

Conta is looking forward to another Tour of “sure we like you but we looooove the other guy” -teammates.

Well no, I don’t think so.

is the funniest thing I have read in a while. How I’d roll if I had a team:

“We will meet with Alberto Contador and offer him the captaincy of our team for years to come. I will get my pro license and ride as one of his primary support guys, along with Emma Johanssen. The Swedish womens’ swim team will be trained in physical therapy and run our massages. The team will be composed of Spanish, American, Japanese and Cambodian riders.”

I mean, you can say stuff. Doesn’t mean there’s a grain of truth or sense to it…

No snuggy?

ELMO gets the boot.

Ed K do you have anything interesting or productive to say regarding this post as it seems to me you are just acting like a bit of an idiot here. Do you actually have an interest in cycling or do you just come onto forums like this because you dont have any real people to talk to

I think Ed just called me a 12 year old ghost in the 3rd grade, or something like that. Doesn’t that also mean he’s calling me stupid or slow, since that’s pretty old for the 3rd grade?

Can somebody tell me what a mock whining parody is? I think I’m in over my head here.

I’d say they are an American publication located in Australia, but that article from noah is from cNN

Future Publications, of Procycling fame, controls it.

is like every big American media outlet with a casual interest in cycling. Complete crap. At least ESPN gets credit for paying Bonnie Ford to write something sensible.

in his hotel room or locked up to the lampost outside the hotel, though

I’m more curious about the mountains next year, which climbs will they do and how hard will those stages be. I guess I could wait until October but….no.

one of our campmates this weekend is from Rotterdam, she says day 2 runs along the coast, across lots of bridges and whatnot, down to De Panne maybe?

but it all comes down to what cities will pay money to get stages, so to plan 5 years ahead is probably impossible.

as I understand it, Phil and Paul do English commentary all at the same time for a number of English channels in different countries (ie. SBS in Australia, ?ITV in UK), where the other channels do their own additional interviews/fill-ins that would replace Craig and Bob, Frankie and Robbie for instance. Do these other channels get commentary from Phil and Paul pre/post-race (like the pre-race show on Versus)? and if so, what are they like re: Lance then? Or perhaps these other channels only get the play-by-play commentary that would be exactly the same as we see via Versus…

(I’ve often wondered how they coordinate – I read once that at times when we only hear Phil for a while on Versus, for instance, it likely means that Paul is doing something specifically for one of the other channels or vice versa… maybe that accounts for the repetition/confusion we sometimes get, ie. Paul doesn’t realize that Phil just said the same thing because Paul was actually talking to someone else at the time … nah, couldn’t possibly explain all of it).

i’m not even a big Bert fan, i just can’t stand this creepy pandering to Armstrong. ugh.

yeah good point – the fact that he won the Tour in a pretty dominant fashion kind of gets lost in the shuffle sometimes

but you also have teammeatings so you can handle problems that arise instead of say Twittering them for all the world to see.

Imo. There is no such thing as time you don’t need. No one can know what’s down the road. You don’t walk by a twenty dollar bill lying on the sidewalk and think “I’ll leave that for later” or “my buddies are coming this way they’ll pick it up for me”. Nosiree.
Or more likely Alberto was smoothing ruffled feathers.