Miscellaneous Sports

[Tanager]

TdF 2013


The Tour de France is actually my least favorite of the three grand tours, but it's still a good race, and it should be even better this year for the absence of Wiggins and for a slightly less all-conquering (but still stronger than any other) Sky squad. I'm a Valverde/Movistar fan myself, and I've watched a lot of Nairo Quintana's emergence this Spring in the Spanish tours (Volta a Catalunya and the Tour of the Basque Country) - hoping for big things from Quintana, and I'm declaring myself an honorary Colombian for now.

Stage 1 was wacky - bus stuck under the finish banner, they barely got it out in time, *two* big crashes in the closing parts of the race, one with only a few km to go, took out Sagan and Cavendish both!

I've got a fantasy team racing at fantasy.cyclingnews.com, I created a league if anyone here wants to join - name is "JazzTalk League," password is j4zzt4lk. I'm heavy on the GC guys, only sprinters I've got are Sagan (mirabile visu) and Degenkolb, and Degenkolb looks like he's going to be playing leadout for Kittel most of the time.

[uli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcnugEMAqk

[BeBop]

Noooo! Kill me now. Not bike racing. Sh*t was the death of me. I'm humming loudly to myself, a finger jammed in each ear. Hear no evil.

[Tanager]

Noooo! Kill me now. Not bike racing. Sh*t was the death of me. I'm humming loudly to myself, a finger jammed in each ear. Hear no evil.

If you don't have multiple scars on your legs, road rash healing, and at least one upper body fracture in your history, you ain't having fun.

[uli]

great first in the Pyrreanees (sp?)

I have been out of cycling last couple of years and had to look him up on wiki

Chris Froome
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Chris Froome

Froome at the 2013 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name Christopher Froome
Nickname Froomey[1]
Born 20 May 1985 (age 28)
Nairobi, Kenya
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Weight 69 kg (152 lb; 11 st)[3]
Team information
Current team Team Sky
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2007
2008–2009
2010– Konica Minolta
Barloworld
Team Sky
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2012)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2011)
Stage races
Critérium du Dauphiné (2013)
Tour de Romandie (2013)
Critérium International (2013)
Tour of Oman (2013)
Medal record[show]
Infobox last updated on
28 June 2013
Christopher Froome (born 20 May 1985) is a professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Team Sky.[4]
Born in Kenya and brought up in South Africa, since spring 2008 he has ridden under a British licence on the basis of his passport and father's and grandparents' country of birth.[5] He is regarded as a strong mountain climber and solid time trialist, contesting the general classification.
He moved to Europe to further his career and only turned professional aged twenty-two. His potential was spotted in 2010 by Team Sky and he has become one of the team's key cyclists. Froome made his breakthrough as a Grand Tour contender during the 2011 Vuelta a España where he finished second overall, equalling Robert Millar's second places in 1985 and 1986 as the best finish by a British rider in the Vuelta.
At the 2012 Tour de France, riding as a domestique for Bradley Wiggins, Froome won stage seven, which culminated on a steep uphill finish [6] and finished second overall, behind only Wiggins' win in the same race as the best British performance in the race's history. He also won the bronze medal in the time trial event at the 2012 Olympic Games and finished fourth in the 2012 Vuelta a España. His first stage race win came in the 2013 Tour of Oman, followed by wins in the 2013 Criterium International, the 2013 Tour de Romandie and the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné

[Mike Schwartz]

Mayweather once again makes another otherwise really good fighter look ordinary.

The judge who scored it a draw should never be allowed to officiate a fight again; same judge that had Timothy Bradly over Paquiau [sp?] after Manny boxed his ears off for 12 rounds.

[BFrank]

Ignore all the bickering, controversies, cheating and politics and the America's Cup is an amazing spectacle. Those boats are unbelievable. I've been out to the waterfront 3 times and thoroughly enjoyed each time.

[Mike Schwartz]

They're like hot rods on water!

I've caught some of the TV coverage and those things are flyin'!!

[BFrank]

They're like hot rods on water!

I've caught some of the TV coverage and those things are flyin'!!

Yeah - they're amazing! These sailors are among the best in the world, but the technology is so cutting edge that they are literally 'learning on the job'.

[Mike Schwartz]

Crazy results in America's Cup.....New Zealand was up 8-2 [races won], needing a total of 9... one more to take the championship.

USA wins 6 in a row to bring it to a 8-8 tie with a winner takes all final race upcoming.

[BFrank]

Oracle wins............go figure.

[uli]

[BFrank]

South Africa's Baker wins his 2nd Mavericks title

[Ron Thorne]

Those were some epic waves at Mavericks this year!