le tour de farce

[yittz]

Anyone watch the amazing race? Awesome sport of competitiveness, fitness, team work, individual brilliance, strategy, pacing, attacking, counter attacking, sheer grit and pain, bravery, and above all else cheating?

Vino is out as a dope
Race leader Rasmussen is out as a likely cheat

Is it too hard to be competitive without cheating? Is it a case of may the best cheater win?

[atlantean0208]

Anyone watch the amazing race? Awesome sport of competitiveness, fitness, team work, individual brilliance, strategy, pacing, attacking, counter attacking, sheer grit and pain, bravery, and above all else cheating?

Vino is out as a dope
Race leader Rasmussen is out as a likely cheat

Is it too hard to be competitive without cheating? Is it a case of may the best cheater win?

is that intentional - FARCE, hahaha - that is very clever for playing with words

[flyingfox2002]

is that intentional - FARCE, hahaha - that is very clever for playing with words

That's just what pretty much every sports media outlet has called the Tour de France this year.

[yittz]

Oh i didn't know, what copy cats. I guess most of the riders aren't cheats. Evans looks good to be the winner now, can he get 2 minutes on the time trials on Contador the Spanish conquestador?

[milKBoi]

there is no creditablilty in winning the tour this yr.
All the great riders either retired or not riding cos of enhacements.

[yittz]

Wow close race. Poor Evans, if only he was as possessed (and aerodynamic) as Leipheimer.

[ChestNut]

Wow close race. Poor Evans, if only he was as possessed (and aerodynamic) as Leipheimer.

I'm not following it as I dunno how the race actually goes.. it's many stages and times confuses me.. I just wanna noe, do u mean Evans didn't win??

[yittz]

21 stages. For the yellow jersey, only high mountain stages (6 of them) and time trials (2 of them) really matter. The rest is more for points (green jersey, not that important) and eating up your energy. Generally the good mountain riders (Rasmussen, Contador) win the yellow, ie tour de france. Evans put up a good show by staying with them on the mountains and eating away at their lead during time trials.

In summary, no Evan's did not eat away all the yellow jersey's lead, so he is still second going into the last stage. The last stage is flat, so it's hard to gain any time on opponents, and being the stage going into Paris, it is considered a friendly stage. So most like Evan's will remain 2nd - first aussie on the podium, but only 23 seconds away from winning.

[ChestNut]

21 stages. For the yellow jersey, only high mountain stages (6 of them) and time trials (2 of them) really matter. The rest is more for points (green jersey, not that important) and eating up your energy. Generally the good mountain riders (Rasmussen, Contador) win the yellow, ie tour de france. Evans put up a good show by staying with them on the mountains and eating away at their lead during time trials.

In summary, no Evan's did not eat away all the yellow jersey's lead, so he is still second going into the last stage. The last stage is flat, so it's hard to gain any time on opponents, and being the stage going into Paris, it is considered a friendly stage. So most like Evan's will remain 2nd - first aussie on the podium, but only 23 seconds away from winning.

aww. dat is sad.. i tot he's gonna win ..