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  1. 07-23-2006, 20:08 #1
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    Brilliant victory by Floyd Landis in this year's Tour, especially the amazing recovery to storm Stage 17.
    This must really piss the French off! I wonder when they will start the character assassination and drug rumours?

    Well done Floyd!

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    American domination continues..Now if only can get ice in yalls tea
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    What's this Tour thing you two are talking about?
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    I believe it is something the Germans started. Although overtime it has changed from being tanks to bicycles.
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    I believe it is something the Germans started. Although overtime it has changed from being tanks to bicycles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    I believe it is something the Germans started. Although overtime it has changed from being tanks to bicycles.
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    Brilliant victory by Floyd Landis in this year's Tour, especially the amazing recovery to storm Stage 17.
    This must really piss the French off! I wonder when they will start the character assassination and drug rumours?

    Well done Floyd!
    Brilliant, I don't think so.
    This tour was a tour with men with limits (Which is good as in the former tours drugs made men do extreme things). No one, apart from Sastre tried something. Landis even gave his yellow jersey away just so he wouldn't have to defend it ( I understand this on a tactical level, but it is not something a great champion would do). He even repeatedly said that he wouldn't attack (!!!) because he knew his limits and so he didn't attack. Hoorah for the champion that did it by following and nothing more.

    True Landis had one amazing trick up his sleeve. Here in Belgium and probably in France too we call it merckxian. For that achievement he deserves to be in the first place as no other contender (I don't count Rasmussen, de la Fuente and others as they weren't doing it to win the tour) could do something simular but he only did it after he was given no other choice. I don't want to minimise Landis' achievement but if T-mobile and CSC would've chased him sooner, the time difference wouldn't have been as big as it was now and Klöden or Sastre could've won.

    All in all Landis deserved the first place but only because no one else, or no other team, was capable of doing a tour winning performance.

    Brilliant performance by Landis no, but in the land of the blind rules king one-eye (Dutch expression).

    It makes me wonder what would've happend if Vinokourov would've started.
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    My Germans from T-mobile again failed (for yellow shirt). I will not mention Ullrich and his scandal with doping, again...

    Kloden (T-mobile) was excellent, but he coudn't better than 3rd place.

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    I think we all know the secret to his success is beer. After he fell behind eight minutes he drowned his sorrows in a large, frosty mug and the next day, zoom! I can't wait for the beer doping charges to be leveled.


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    Default Re: Landis Wins TdeF

    In a reaction to the recent revelations: Well done Floyd indeed.

    So what a Tour did we see this year?
    1)All the favorites weren't allowed to start
    2)Nobody really tried something to get the yellow jersey (in all fairness Sastre did try once)
    3)The winner did it because he used testosterone
    4)Pereiro Sio will now become the new winner because of the drug use of Landis and because the group let him take 30 minutes.

    Some tour this has been. You would almost want that those boring years of Armstrong domination would return.
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    I have heard that his abnormal testosterone levels are explainable by a medical condition, and that testosterone as marginal, at best, results in increasing aptitude.
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    But, the French are determined to get their man.
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    Indeed.

    ANGER and a sense of resignation were evident in France last night over the latest Tour de France scandal. Commentators said that the Tour had sunk to new depths after Floyd Landis tested positive.

    “It’s treachery,” Luc Leblanc, the French former champion, said. “It’s unacceptable, incomprehensible. I believed in his victory and his abilities.”

    But among cycling professionals, the news provoked little surprise, with many admitting that they had never trusted the claims that the sport had been cleaned up before this year’s race. “The Tour wanted to be exemplary this year,” France Info, the country’s state radio, said. “However, a big new scandal has appeared.”
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    France has been trying to reassert itself in cycling for years. I wouldn't be surprised if they took a sample of Landis' ***** from two years ago and try to use it as evidence.

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