Well, that was a brilliant afternoon!

Bright here; blustery, fast moving clouds, warm. Went out for a good fast
40 mile workout with some friends, coming back via the last 'mountain'
prime of the first stage of the Tour of Britain. And then back home just
in time to watch the last 10Km of the Vuelta stage and see a storming
solo victory by Vino, who is in my opinion beginning to look very
dangerous again; then switch over to BBC2 and see an absolutely textbook
team sprint by Quickstep on the last lap of the London criterium,
peeling off one by one with military precision as if in a velodrome to
deliver Tom Boonen to the line. Magnificent team work. And, even better,
Martin Pedersen came home in yellow for CSC, so the man from my
favourite team who won the first stage in my home town went on to win
the tour. Most, most excellent.

Sastre is riding a canny Vuelta and controlling his losses, but in my
opinion the costs of having ridden three GTs this year are showing. He
did brilliantly and I was cheering for him, but Valverde is doing better
and Vino, if he can be consistent, is in better form still.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Morning had broken, and there was nothing left for us to do
but pick up the pieces.

"Simon Brooke" wrote in message
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Bright here; blustery, fast moving clouds, warm. Went out for a good fast
40 mile workout with some friends, coming back via the last 'mountain'
prime of the first stage of the Tour of Britain. And then back home just
in time to watch the last 10Km of the Vuelta stage and see a storming
solo victory by Vino, who is in my opinion beginning to look very
dangerous again; then switch over to BBC2 and see an absolutely textbook
team sprint by Quickstep on the last lap of the London criterium,
peeling off one by one with military precision as if in a velodrome to
deliver Tom Boonen to the line.

Spoiler alert Shirley. I'd just DVD'd the bugger ;-)

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Simon Brooke wrote:
Bright here; blustery, fast moving clouds, warm. Went out for a good fast
40 mile workout with some friends, coming back via the last 'mountain'
prime of the first stage of the Tour of Britain. And then back home just
in time to watch the last 10Km of the Vuelta stage and see a storming
solo victory by Vino, who is in my opinion beginning to look very
dangerous again; then switch over to BBC2 and see an absolutely textbook
team sprint by Quickstep on the last lap of the London criterium,
peeling off one by one with military precision as if in a velodrome to
deliver Tom Boonen to the line. Magnificent team work. And, even better,
Martin Pedersen came home in yellow for CSC, so the man from my
favourite team who won the first stage in my home town went on to win
the tour. Most, most excellent.

I thought that Mark Cavendish did a really good sprint to get third -
very quick and if he had started a few places further up would have
been a serious contender for the win.

And just seen the tallbiketour guys doing a loop behind Chris Boardman
during the post race summing up.. ;-)

...d

"Simon Brooke" wrote in message
...
Bright here; blustery, fast moving clouds, warm. Went out for a good fast
40 mile workout with some friends, coming back via the last 'mountain'
prime of the first stage of the Tour of Britain. And then back home just
in time to watch the last 10Km of the Vuelta stage and see a storming
solo victory by Vino, who is in my opinion beginning to look very
dangerous again; then switch over to BBC2 and see an absolutely textbook
team sprint by Quickstep on the last lap of the London criterium,
peeling off one by one with military precision as if in a velodrome to
deliver Tom Boonen to the line. Magnificent team work. And, even better,
Martin Pedersen came home in yellow for CSC, so the man from my
favourite team who won the first stage in my home town went on to win
the tour. Most, most excellent.

Sastre is riding a canny Vuelta and controlling his losses, but in my
opinion the costs of having ridden three GTs this year are showing. He
did brilliantly and I was cheering for him, but Valverde is doing better
and Vino, if he can be consistent, is in better form still.


And what a pity that Vino for "ethical" reasons wasn't allowed to
participate in the Tour!

Benjo

in 525776 20060903 170657 Simon Brooke wrote:
Bright here; blustery, fast moving clouds, warm. Went out for a good fast
40 mile workout with some friends, coming back via the last 'mountain'
prime of the first stage of the Tour of Britain. And then back home just
in time to watch the last 10Km of the Vuelta stage and see a storming
solo victory by Vino, who is in my opinion beginning to look very
dangerous again; then switch over to BBC2 and see an absolutely textbook
team sprint by Quickstep on the last lap of the London criterium,
peeling off one by one with military precision as if in a velodrome to
deliver Tom Boonen to the line. Magnificent team work. And, even better,
Martin Pedersen came home in yellow for CSC, so the man from my
favourite team who won the first stage in my home town went on to win
the tour. Most, most excellent.

I was looking for the giant panda, Chi-chi, that the commentator kept talking
about, but I didn't see him.

Bob Martin schreef:
I was looking for the giant panda, Chi-chi, that the commentator kept talking
about, but I didn't see him.

Did he pronounce it Kiki or Cheechy? The former is the Italian version.

--
E. Dronkert

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
Bob Martin schreef:
I was looking for the giant panda, Chi-chi, that the commentator kept
talking
about, but I didn't see him.

Did he pronounce it Kiki or Cheechy? The former is the Italian version.

I thought he was just being cheeky....
Boonen & Cavendish very impressive. Valverde too in the vuelta.
All the best
Dan Gregory

in 525791 20060903 190918 Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
Bob Martin schreef:
I was looking for the giant panda, Chi-chi, that the commentator kept talking
about, but I didn't see him.

Did he pronounce it Kiki or Cheechy? The former is the Italian version.

He pronounced it Cheechy. I dunno about the Italian version - surely there's
only one version and that's the right one?

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:18:40 GMT, Bob Martin wrote:
He pronounced it Cheechy. I dunno about the Italian version - surely
there's only one version and that's the right one?

Well, yes, but do you say Pariss or Pahree?

--
E. Dronkert

Simon Brooke wrote:
And, even better,
Martin Pedersen came home in yellow for CSC, so the man from my
favourite team who won the first stage in my home town went on to win
the tour. Most, most excellent.

this dude, pedersen looks like a fire hydrant. i've never seen a
protour rider built like that.