Tour de France
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:40 pm
Hey guys,
does any1 enjoy cycling? Does any1 follow the most awesome bicyclerace the world has 2 offer? Do any of u have a favorite team or rider?
I personally watch as many stage of the Tour every year, especially the alpine 1´s, which, at the end of day, really make the difference.
Yes it is, unfortunately, a sport infested with past doping scandals, and am sure, with several team doctors still enforcing Epo or other fancy drugs on their top notch athletes. But just stop and think about what these uber humans do. They literally ride thousands of kilometers at incredible high speed, under the most fierce of atmospheric weather conditions for three entire weeks with only 2 days rest. They literally spend over 4 hours on their high tech bikes per day, sweating liters and liters of water whilst suffering from huge altitude discrepancies as also thermal variations that would sent any normal mortal into the grave 50 years early.
For me the Tour de France, even though held in that country filled with french speaking French people, is truly the most gruesome sport out there, and I luv watching 100 men sweat for hours on end whilst chasing each other just so that they can wear a yellow shiny sweater.
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does any1 enjoy cycling? Does any1 follow the most awesome bicyclerace the world has 2 offer? Do any of u have a favorite team or rider?
I personally watch as many stage of the Tour every year, especially the alpine 1´s, which, at the end of day, really make the difference.
Yes it is, unfortunately, a sport infested with past doping scandals, and am sure, with several team doctors still enforcing Epo or other fancy drugs on their top notch athletes. But just stop and think about what these uber humans do. They literally ride thousands of kilometers at incredible high speed, under the most fierce of atmospheric weather conditions for three entire weeks with only 2 days rest. They literally spend over 4 hours on their high tech bikes per day, sweating liters and liters of water whilst suffering from huge altitude discrepancies as also thermal variations that would sent any normal mortal into the grave 50 years early.
For me the Tour de France, even though held in that country filled with french speaking French people, is truly the most gruesome sport out there, and I luv watching 100 men sweat for hours on end whilst chasing each other just so that they can wear a yellow shiny sweater.
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