Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The usual dope used to be WINE, red please, a bottle a meal ... considered as food then ... some of the guys would then even take a nap under a tree if needed .... the public would even give the cyclists a slight push in the back when it got too hard riding up the mountains - it was good humoured, popular, and un-professional, then money came in ... Now whatever the dope used today, I defy anyone here on the list to resist the physical strain as these guys do, doped or not. I have seen them in the Alps, and the Pyrenn?es (Tourmalet, Aubisque, etc) , at Meaux racing against the clock, Metz (after repeated falls and in the rain), Rheims and other places, my pleasure remains intact, and the older I get the more I admire them, leaves me panting just by watching BTW. Of course, my youth was rhythmed with the names Jean Michel quoted, :-) perhaps Hinaut, Merckx, Indurain, Zootemelk, Fignon, Ulrich, and so many more could also be remembered :-) Amiti?s de Mutz Philippe Tous vos emails en 1 clic avec l'application SFR Mail sur iPhone et Android - En savoir plus. ======================================== Message du : 19/07/2012 16:23 De : "Jayanand Govindaraj " <jayanand at gmail.com> A : "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Copie ? : Sujet : Re: [Leica] Tour de France Drugs included in the base price? As far as I can see from reports, it is the single most compromised sport in the world for cheating with chemicals. There is a very good case for making any drug legal for the TDF! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > I heard during the TdF coverage that it is arguably the largest free sport > event globally with something like 20-30 million spectators over the > course of 3 weeks (and it's all free of charge). It's the only spectator > sport event I watch because I ride and this is an incredible competition. > I have ridden over some of the famous (amongst cyclists :) mountain routes > (Alp d'Huez, Galibier, etc) and I know how difficult some of those climbs > are. I don't even watch ice hockey. ;) > > While the French riders hasn't dominated the GC standing in many years, > French riders like Thomas Voeckler who won yesterday's stage in the > Pyrennes with an incredible ride-from-the-gut means one day a French GC > contender will rise again. For those of you who doesn't ride a bike much, > the TdF is similar to running a marathon a day for 20 days. Probably the > most difficult multi-day athletic event in the world. > > If I run a company that wants to penetrate the European market, I would > sponsor a TdF team. There is nothing quite like having your company name > on all the team members on TV for days. All for a few $M per year. And if > your sponsored team is successful, the commentators will be repeat your > company names a few thousand times over the course of 3 weeks. I know > little about Credit Agricole except that it's a French bank of some sort > but I am never going to forget that name. :)) > > Maybe Leica should sponsor a team? :) > > Regards, > Spencer > > On Jul 18, 2012, at 5:04, Jean-Michel Mertz wrote: > >> >> Thanks Philippe! I was a Tour de France enthousiast for years, it all >> started with Bobet and then Darrigade, Anquetil, Poulidor and the like. >> Today this has cooled off a bit ... probably because the French aren't as >> good as they used to be and also because there's a shadow of a doubt >> hovering above all this ... But it's still a great show and a source of >> "bloody" good pictures! Jean-Michel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information