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Virtual Directeur Sportif 2008

All Races Spreadsheet

Scoring for Paris-Nice

Scoring for Tirreno-Adriatico

Scoring for Milan-San Remo

Scoring for Dwars door Vlaanderen

Scoring for E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

Scoring for Criterium International

Scoring for Brabantse Pijl

Scoring for Dreidaagse de Panne

Scoring for Tour of Flanders

Scoring for Vuelta Ciclista a Pais Vasco

Scoring for Gent-Wevelgem

Scoring for Paris-Roubaix

Scoring for Scheldeprijs

Scoring for Amstel Gold Race

Scoring for La Fleche Wallonne

Scoring for Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Scoring for Tour de Romandie

Scoring for Giro d'Italia

Scoring for Volta a Catalunya

Scoring for Dauphine Libere

Scoring for Tour de Suisse

Scoring for Tour de France

Scoring for Clasica San Sebastian

Scoring for Olympic Games Road Race

Scoring for Olympic Games Time Trial

Scoring for GP Plouay

Scoring for DeutschlandTour

Scoring for Vuelta a Espana

Scoring for Vattenfalls Classic

Scoring for World Championships Time Trial

Scoring for World Championships Road Race

Scoring for Pro Tour Finale (?)

Scoring for Giro Dell'Emilia

Scoring for Paris-Tours

Scoring for Giro di Lombardia

Rosters and Points

Explanation of how races are scored

The 2008 VDS Yahoo! Calendar, or the list of events

Basic resource roundup here.

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This video is an attempt to show the ambience at the final hour of the Nice Ironman competition. A lame attempt i'll admit, but wth? If you're ever going to finish towards the end of an ironman, i suggest Nice as the place to do it. The applause and support and general ambience at the end is really remarkable. Dj's, pom-pom girls, people dancing, shouting, dance music blasting ... Some finishers just go on through, others raise their arms or just have a huge smile, one guy did some pushups while the dj counted for him, another did a cartwheel, some ran through with their little kids holding their hands. And this all 8 hours after the winners have finished. 

When i went out my door to walk over to see the last hour or so of the Ironman, the first thing i saw was a guy across the street, pushing his triathlon bike, head hanging down to his chest, walking with a pronounced. Painful. Slow. Trudge. Medal around his neck. He'd done well. Hope he felt better the next day.

Then i got to the promenade and started seeing more of the people who'd finished: one guy asleep on the pavement with his wife by his side in all the raucous noise and confusion and crowds everywhere. Then the medical tent - massages, those heat blanket thingies, oxygen, people limping aorund, Oy! 

Then every now and then you see a finisher with a medal around their neck who look fresh as a daisy, like they've just had a nice walk in the park.

Then finally you get to the finish line ... and that's the video. At the end there's a fireworks display (no one timed their finish to coincide with it this year) and then apparently a few hundred people stayed all night to party on the prom next to the beach until daybreak.

I could not do an ironman even if i wanted to, but i'll be there again next year to help welcome the last finishers in.

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