Interesting quotes from the world of Twitter (yes, I spend way too much time online):
Robbie McEwen re Astana TTT: I'm sure @Lancearmstrong did that on purpose to leave cancellara in the jersey. He sat up in last 50m. Nice. I repeat, LA will win.
Axel Merckx: Whatever happens from now Lance made the most impressive comeback ever in sport history. Way to go boss!
George Hincapie re TTT: was dissapointed
with todays ride for about a second. we have won two out of four
stages. lots to be happy about. congrats to astana.
Mark Cavendish guest tweet on Mark Renshaw's Twitter: Yesterday with 3km to go, Piet Rooijakkers (skil shimano) kidney punched me. Is he a:stupid b:crazy c:disrespectful d:all of the above? Cav
CVV after ITT: more than happy with today. Didnt know what the body was going to do today. fabian?? yeah, that just happened.
CVV after the stage three split in the peloton: hard day yesterday. caught with our pants down. hats off to columbia.
Taylor Phinney re Cavendish's mock phone call as he crossed the line: My kind of racing today... Never an easy day in the Tour! Way to go Cav, you probably just got yourself a big raise from the new sponsor!
Thank you Sara! I bet that curlish behavior by Piet goes on inside the peloton all the time! What a jerk.
I'm just sitting down with a glass of vino to watch to days stage!
Posted by: cat | July 08, 2009 at 08:48 PM
i tried to comment yesterday, but everytime i clicked "post" i got a strange message saying they couldn't accept my data!(?) nehoo, i'll try again. can't really remember what i said except that i LOVED the TTT. and i only realise now how much i've missed LA in the peloton. and by the looks of things, so have the french cameramen! can you believe how much of LA we saw in the ITT. i'm certain novice TdF viewers thought he was the only rider in the world.
and i heard phil and paul commenting yesterday about the LA vs AC thing. paul mentioned that in a conversation with johan bruyneel re "who's the leader of astana" issue, johan calmly replied, "i know exactly who the leader is. . . . me" ! tee hee, give it to them, johan.
cat - tri-nations is a rugby tournament amongs the all blacks (new zealand), the springboks (south africa) and the wallabies (australia) which starts on 18 july. first up all blacks vs wallabies. it's usually exceptionally good rugby.
nakigrl - hmmmm, i think smart money says the wallabies. i don't think the springboks deserve to win, they've got a moron for a coach, and are way too undisciplined. and the all blacks aren't the same without rodney! where's he, btw?
did you watch any of the IPL? we went to a few games, it was too much fun.
onward, to the mountains!
Posted by: debi | July 09, 2009 at 01:53 AM
sara, last year on VeloNews, andrew hood posted stage stats, giving a medical report, jury decisions, who DNS, DNF, etc. etc. am i too dumb to find it this year, or is it not there? if not there, is anyone else doing something similar? it was so informative of 'behind the scenes'.
Posted by: debi | July 09, 2009 at 02:12 AM
Debi, that information is available at the back of the official results each day, so it might be on the Tour's site--I haven't looked for it, but I will today and let you know.
Posted by: CMehl | July 09, 2009 at 09:54 AM