| Re: Spectators on the Tour
On 8 Jul 2004 16:31:27 -0700, kmssavage@earthlink.net (Karen M.) wrote:
>Badger wrote:
>
>> please say it wasn't today! (I missed the end of the stage to go ride)
>
>
> I'm pretty sure Steve was talking about the 2003 musette bag
>incident. (That just can't happen ever again. No way.)
>
>--Karen M.
Whew. Today's race had a lot of crashes. Listening to it over the streaming
feed was like watching ice skaters (which I can't do). Makes me nervous. I
hadn't followed a tour as I'm doing this year, but in reviewing the clips
from previous years and then today's crash of two of the US riders it
apparently happens a lot.
One of the sprint finishes I was watching from the 80s (88?) one of the
riders started to lose it but then managed to save it by putting out both
feet like an outrigger, and managed to stay up.
Of course there's the famous one from the 50s, where the guy went over a
200 foot cliff. They showed him being interviewed in front of a plaque that
they put on the side of the cliff for him. (Forget the specifics, and his
name - maybe someone remembers).
I've seen a clip of Lance's famous ride through the fields in one race
where he jumps a ditch and rejoins the pack.
I had no idea the Tour was more like a combination of bike racing and the
annual 'running of the bulls'. ;-D
-B
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