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Michael Boogard showed so much form in the early part of his career, without actually delivering... Alot of people still alude to Boogerd not delivering at the Tour in the past. Its always been totally unfair though, coz its always been apparent Boogerd has never had the complete game to do really well in Grand Tours. I think it came from the Dutch just being so desperate to have a GC rider again they latched onto him. I assumed Tomalaris was referring to all that, which actually pleasantly surprised me, that he even knew Boogerd was ever considered to have any promise at the Tour. Bruce Dickson Wrote: Last night they had McEwen leading the mountains competition and they couldn't remember Boogerd doing so well on a mountain stage ever before, even I could remember him winning a mountain stage a few years ago and I wasn't even there. Bruce. Well I cant remember him climbing so well either. Its his most impressive ride i think (classics aside). He was doing all the tempo in lead group, shelling guys, and still didnt finish that far behind when dropped. For his Queens stage win, he was allowed to get alot of time in a breakaway, he hadnt exactly ridden the leaders off his wheel. Still a good effort, not knocking it but this performance i thought was far more impressive. -- oely |
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I just can't stand any of the SBS guys using the 'fancy' Southern and Western Euro accents on the Euro names. My "favourite" of Tomo's was his "Mee-airks" for "Merckx", during that history of The Tour doco he narrated. And how about Andrew Orsati during previous tours saying "Veronkay", for "Virenque"!! Tosser -- 531Aussie |
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oely wrote: Michael Boogard showed so much form in the early part of his career, without actually delivering... Alot of people still alude to Boogerd not delivering at the Tour in the past. Its always been totally unfair though, coz its always been apparent Boogerd has never had the complete game to do really well in Grand Tours. I think it came from the Dutch just being so desperate to have a GC rider again they latched onto him. I assumed Tomalaris was referring to all that, which actually pleasantly surprised me, that he even knew Boogerd was ever considered to have any promise at the Tour. Bruce Dickson Wrote: Last night they had McEwen leading the mountains competition and they couldn't remember Boogerd doing so well on a mountain stage ever before, even I could remember him winning a mountain stage a few years ago and I wasn't even there. Bruce. Well I cant remember him climbing so well either. Its his most impressive ride i think (classics aside). He was doing all the tempo in lead group, shelling guys, and still didnt finish that far behind when dropped. For his Queens stage win, he was allowed to get alot of time in a breakaway, he hadnt exactly ridden the leaders off his wheel. Still a good effort, not knocking it but this performance i thought was far more impressive. -- oely I'm not saying it wasn't more impressive. I was just surprised that they were going on about how he'd never done a good ride in the mountains before and how surprising it was and didn't once refer back to that mountain stage win when often they dig up all sorts of obscure facts from riders past performances. Bruce. |
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On 2006-07-14, 531Aussie (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: I just can't stand any of the SBS guys using the 'fancy' Southern and Western Euro accents on the Euro names. My "favourite" of Tomo's was his "Mee-airks" for "Merckx", during that history of The Tour doco he narrated. And how about Andrew Orsati during previous tours saying "Veronkay", for "Virenque"!! Tosser At least we don't have a tosser saying "tour DAY france". That would **** me off. -- TimC In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. -- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies |
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TimC wrote:
On 2006-07-14, dtmeister (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: BrettS wrote: He even managed to mention Lance Armstrong 5 times during his 'wrap-up' More than Phil and Paul last night I think. However I think Paul still managed to say "engine room" at least 136 times. They're still talking about massive gears despite der kaiser being out. Is that because der kaiser does massive amounts of gear? allegedly :-) |
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Great Call Phil
Theo Bekkers wrote: I got an email from blah but his return address bounced so I am assuming he meant to post this to the ng and am responding here From: blah Theo Bekkers wrote: wrote: My favourite Philism of the night was his comment about the upcoming Stage 11: "There's a lot of climbs in tomorrows stage, and we finish on the last one." There were a few climbs in stage 10, but they didn't finish on the last one. Stage 11 finishes at the top of a climb, which is what I understood Phil to say in context to stage 10, where he said it. Jeeeez mate! Get into the pedantic spirit here! Not at all. I was a little incensed that the original poster (was that you?) was slinging off at Phil and appeared not to have understood what he said at all. I have a great respect for Phil and other commentators who can talk for six hours during a stage during which nothing happens for at least three hours, and still manage to be entertaining and informing. I know I couldn't do it, could you? If there is nofin' to say, don't say nofin' at all... Couple a years back Dingus One actually says something like "there is a lot of conversation in the pelaton today" and Dingus Two says "yes if you very quite you can actually pick up what they are saying" Did either Dingus STFU ? |
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Beastly Gear for a Beast of A Man
haha Gumby wrote: TimC wrote: On 2006-07-14, dtmeister (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: BrettS wrote: He even managed to mention Lance Armstrong 5 times during his 'wrap-up' More than Phil and Paul last night I think. However I think Paul still managed to say "engine room" at least 136 times. They're still talking about massive gears despite der kaiser being out. Is that because der kaiser does massive amounts of gear? allegedly :-) |
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SteveA wrote: Last night, I was watching for riders "turning themselves inside out". How would you tell which team they were riding for - they would all just be pink and fleshy. SteveA -- SteveA Like Cippo's muscle time trial suit heh |
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