Tour De France

[Bateman]

Will anyone else be following this ?

Looking forward to seeing it start next week, it will be something i will be following and setting up a fantasy team for. Anyone else up for this ?

Fantasy Tour de France ?

[Lou]

Sounds good. I LOVE the tour!
Hoping Mark Cavendish does well this year, he was amazing last year just a shame he had the olympics to get to.

Is Lance definitely racing again? Should be interesting to see how he does.

[david5]

used to watch it with my dad

[londonpride]

i enjoy watching it when i can.

although i don't follow cycling officially (only the olympics and the tour stages i can manage to see), can someone give me a list of some of the uks best hopes in this years tour.

cavendish etc?

[Bateman]

http://www.velogames.com/

I have Mark Cavendish in my team Lou , also Christian VANDEVELDE who is a good climber...

looking forward to it, register a team and I will set a mini league up...

[Little-Big-Mike]

I will be, yes. Love the tour...

[thixty]

one sport i have never really got into i take it it comes highly recommended

[pauljono1120]

Think I watched 30minutes of it ounce.. and got bored..

Maybe i'll watch it this time properly, might be interesting..

[DetoxGuru.com]

ill watch , if just so to see the new "special training" methods they are using :)

[pauljono1120]

Correct me if im wrong, but isn't this the thing were they travel round france on pedal bikes? if so, it bores me to death....

[Bateman]

its worth a watch just to see how these athletes cope with it, the terrain its self is amazing. Watching them tackle the hills alone..

I was reading that the riders immune system is so poor close to the race because of the diets and cutting that when they get in the lifts they use there elbows to hit the buttons so that they dont catch anything...

Eurosport do an hour coverage a night...


Correct me if im wrong, but isn't this the thing were they travel round france on pedal bikes? if so, it bores me to death....

the string on onions around the neck does slow them down a bit....

[IjumpGuard]

David Millar is our best hope imo. only Brit to have worn all 4 jerseys

[Rob T]

Don't find it interesting but they're amazing athletes... "enchanced" or not.

[IjumpGuard]

Don't find it interesting but they're amazing athletes... "enchanced" or not.

no doubt and warriors!!

http://fantasy.cyclingnews.com/interviews.php?id=riders/2009/interviews/christian_vande_velde_jun09

CN: It was a bad crash. You sustained three fractured vertebrae, a cracked pelvis in addition to the two broken ribs.

CVV: Yeah, I was beat-up pretty bad for a while and probably started pushing it a bit too early. It wasn't like I could take a few days off and then start training again.

[AMOG]

They are sick athletes.

Best bit is the crashes.