stage 15

Who needs a giant Renshaw head butt?

The French can put another notch in the belt, Thomas doing the Tri-color proud with a solo effort today. It's good to see a national champion win a race, even better a 2X national champ. "they are raising French babies and throwing soft cheeses"

I'm a little upset, I counted to ten like one hundred times, and I'm still very angry. Also, worried and sad. If you drop a chain in a crit or a road race I am going to attack, it's not a Grand Tour. There are unwritten rules, hello stage 2, that are not meant to be broken. Gentleman's rules are for fair play, kind of like guy code, you just don't break it. You will get your card pulled just for thinking about it.

Should Al have waited? Do you wait for a mechanical, a puncture? You MUST wait for a crash? Al claims that he did not see what had happened. ?????? Four letter words. He was right behind Andy and he "did not see what happened". He has a radio and I'm pretty sure the DS in the car was screaming at him to go go go! Dude, take a look, assess the situation, give it half a second to process and then decide if you have class or if you do not. If that is how you want to win a race, then more power to you. Yes, you won, but did you?

Lets get into Doc's time machine and set the dial to 2007, a day or two before Rasmussen gets the boot. Mike is killing, doing everything right and then some questions come up about his whereabouts. Where were you the night of.... blah blah Mexico blah blah Italy blah. 2+2 DOES NOT EQUAL 5. Your out. Al wins his first Tour de France, to some, to others he was gifted le Tour. He says that the 30 some odd seconds that he made up on Andy doesn't matter, "it will not win or lose the Tour". If you believe that, give me your address, I will send you a hammer and you can hit yourself in the head until I tell you to stop. 8 seconds is what LeMond had when he pulled on the yellow in Paris, and you think 30 seconds is not a big deal.

Booo Booo Booo to you Al. Give me a respectable champion. Not to beat the Lance drum: Lance waited for Ullrich when he went farming in a ditch. Could have put major time into him, did he need to, sure who does not like to have a little cushion? He waited because he has class. Say what you will about his off bike exploits, but the guy has on-bike class. Andy has every right to be pi$sed.

This just in: First of all: Tyler quit the Tour, after Renshaw was kicked out, because Garmin is out of excuses for why they cannot beat Cav. Oh yeah, Second: mountains are no fun for sprinters.