Marlow..it's Le Tour.. you take over

[Egbert]

As an American with my American concepts there's one thing I do not understand, it's the tolerating the spectators crowding the riders. There's been more than a handful of times I've sen the riders have to avoid them.

[Egbert]

Schleck won the stage. I'm glad. I wanted him to win it today.

It got so slim from spectatiors there just before the last hairpin that if Contador wanted to pass, there was not the room.

[Egbert]

The versus commentators seem to think Contador is a shue in to win the tour now.

[xor]

They do tend to put up barriers for the last few kilometers in recent years. But ISTR that it's particularly difficult to do on the Tourmalet because the street is so narrow.

Seems like they've put new asphalt on quite a few of those mountain roads. Should help to prevent some of the ugly crashes we've seen in the past.

In the end Alberto gave Andy the stage as a gesture of goodwill. On paper at least, he should be a decent enough time trialer to drive it home safely.

[mididoctors]

As an American with my American concepts there's one thing I do not understand, it's the tolerating the spectators crowding the riders. There's been more than a handful of times I've sen the riders have to avoid them.

its always like that

it is very very rare there is a clash surprisingly


it used to be worse on occasion... chiappuchi lost his motorbike chaperon up to sestriere 1992 couldn't even see the road

[Egbert]

They do tend to put up barriers for the last few kilometers in recent years. But ISTR that it's particularly difficult to do on the Tourmalet because the street is so narrow.

Seems like they've put new asphalt on quite a few of those mountain roads. Should help to prevent some of the ugly crashes we've seen in the past.

In the end Alberto gave Andy the stage as a gesture of goodwill. On paper at least, he should be a decent enough time trialer to drive it home safely.

Yeah, it looked like they contended up until the last few meters. Andy came off the handlebars a few meters early, depending on which of those lines were the actual finish line.

I noted a couple of times where, just before the barriers, the leading motorcycles couldn't get through the crowd and the leader had to slow up a bit to avoid running into the back of the MC.

[mididoctors]

They do tend to put up barriers for the last few kilometers in recent years. But ISTR that it's particularly difficult to do on the Tourmalet because the street is so narrow.

Seems like they've put new asphalt on quite a few of those mountain roads. Should help to prevent some of the ugly crashes we've seen in the past.

In the end Alberto gave Andy the stage as a gesture of goodwill. On paper at least, he should be a decent enough time trialer to drive it home safely.

Yeah, it looked like they contended up until the last few meters. Andy came off the handlebars a few meters early, depending on which of those lines were the actual finish line.

I noted a couple of times where, just before the barriers, the leading motorcycles couldn't get through the crowd and the leader had to slow up a bit to avoid running into the back of the MC.

http://www.ina.fr/sport/cyclisme/video/CAB92041539/tour-de-france.fr.html

[mididoctors]

feds thinking of using the RICO laws to investigate/prosecute the "mob" in the landis affair