Anyone else here who loves the Tour? My favourites for the win are Damiano Cunego, Alejandro Valverde, Cadel Evans, Dennis Menchov, Haimar Zubeldia and Carlos Sastre.
Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."
The endless string of doping abuse of the last decade, and the so-called odd concept aside, I think cycling is a very charming sport. Lol, apparantly nobody here shares that idea with me. Ah well, I'm not going to try to convince you anyway.
I don't like cycling per se, but France has such breath-taking landscapes. Who haven't dreamed to travel France on a motorbike or even a bicycle. Also there's so much fretting about doping, because the tour has one of the most advance detection tests. You won't believe how many athletes use EPO and get away with it. Not this year, the tour experts will be in Beijing.
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De Gaulle to the General Koenig, Norman hero of Bir Hakeim: "Hear and tell your troops: the whole of France is watching you, you are our pride."[
I don't like cycling per se, but France has such breath-taking landscapes. Who haven't dreamed to travel France on a motorbike or even a bicycle.
I like to canoe adventurous rivers or streams, so I'll always try to spot one while watching the Tour. Since one of the newer commentators on Dutch tv shares this love with me, this has become much easier: he will always say something like "hey, interesting stream there".
Last month, just before the Tour started, I canoed on two rivers in the Dordogne/Correze area. Both were not that daring, but still very enjoyable.
I like to canoe adventurous rivers or streams, so I'll always try to spot one while watching the Tour. Since one of the newer commentators on Dutch tv shares this love with me, this has become much easier: he will always say something like "hey, interesting stream there.
Last month, just before the Tour started, I canoed on two rivers in the Dordogne/Correze area. Both were not that daring, but still very enjoyable.
You, Europeans (Western, I mean), don't know how lucky you are. Can just pay a high-speed train ticket and visit some of the best countries in the world in a matter of hours.
You Europeans (Western) don't know how lucky you are. Just have to pay a high-speed train ticket to visit some of the best countries in the world in a matter of hours.
Dordogne river. What a dreamy landscape.
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De Gaulle to the General Koenig, Norman hero of Bir Hakeim: "Hear and tell your troops: the whole of France is watching you, you are our pride."[
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You Europeans (Western) don't know how lucky you are. Just have to pay a high-speed train ticket to visit some of the best countries in the world in a matter of hours.
That's Beynac castle you're showing us. I've been inside and it's wonderful. The Dordogne there, however, is not exciting to canoe. Better have a seat near the water and enjoy the view with a drink.
I don't take the train myself. It's a ten hour drive for me by car, with congestion in Antwerp and Paris only slowing you down. One thing about French automobilists: in Britain they drive at the left side, in the rest of Europe at the right, but in France they drive in the centre lane. That's so annoying. But still, you're highways are great and I like the 130 km/h speed limit.
Picture from someone (not me) canoeing on the Vezere river. I canoed the Vezere last month while being in the Correze.
This message has been edited by metternich on Jul 24, 2008 2:08 PM
France i certainly an amazing country that well suits cycling events both for its great landscapes and its historic monuments, I know ofcourse about Tour de France and Giro dŽItalia etc I wonder if Great Britain has any large cycling events ?
the oldest cycling event btw that has been arranged in an unbroken chain that is is the small cycling (a yearly race with small money for the winner )Skandisloppet in Sweden which is 100 years old an obscure event outside the big tournaments
One thing about French automobilists: in Britain they drive at the left side, in the rest of Europe at the right, but in France they drive in the centre lane. That's so annoying. But still, you're highways are great and I like the 130 km/h speed limit.
No, the non-writen rule here is: right line for the truck, center line for those who drive at 130 km/h and left line for those who drive over the speed limit.
It was great to saw the rival between Armstrong and Ullrich however Armstrong won almost all the time, those times were great.
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Prophet Muhammed (p.b.u.h):
"Surely, Constantinople (Istanbul) will be conquered, how blessed the commander who will conquer it, and how blessed his army"
1453 - Fatih Sultan Mehmet and army conquers Istanbul ( constantinople )
however Armstrong won almost all the time, those times were great. 