L'officiel Le Tour 2008 Thread!

[mushroom]

Where is the best venue in Melbourne to watch live coverage of the tour?

 

[alchemist]

what about michael rogers. is he fit this year. he could give it a shake if he shows form like last year.

He's not fit and not riding the Tour.

 

[NASHWORTH]

How is Contador going to race in the tour when his whole team, astana, has been banned?

 

[alchemist]

Teams & Riders

Silence-Lotto
Cadel Evans
Mario Aerts
Christophe Brandt
Dario Cioni
Leif Hoste
Robbie McEwen
Yaroslav Popovych
Wim Vansevenant
Johan Vansummeren

Team Columbia (High Road Sports)
Kim Kirchen
George Hincapie
Thomas Lövkvist
Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Mark Cavendish
Gerald Ciolek
Adam Hansen
Marcus Burghardt
Bernhard Eisel

Garmin-Chipotle (Slipstream)
Magnus Backstedt
Julian Dean
Will Frischkorn
Ryder Hesjedal
Trent Lowe
Martijn Maaskant
David Millar
Danny Pate
Christian Vande Velde

Milram
Erik Zabel
Christian Knees
Niki Terpstra
Peter Velits
Björn Schröder
Ralf Grabsch
Martin Müller.
Brett Lancaster
Marco Velo

Quick-Step
Carlos Barredo
Matteo Carrara
Stijn Devolder
Steven De Jongh
Sebastien Rosseler
Gert Steegmans
Matteo Tosatto
Kevin Van Impe
Jurgen Van de Walle

Saunier Duval-Scott
Riccardo Riccò,
Leonardo Piepoli
Juan José Cobo
David De La Fuente
Josep Jufré
Alberto Fernández De La Puebla
Jesús Del Nero
Ángel Gómez Gómez
Rubén Lobato, Aurélien Passeron or Rubens Bertogliati

Rabobank
Denis Menchov
Laurens ten Dam
Pieter Weening
Oscar Freire
Juan Antonio Flecha
Sebastian Langeveld
Koos Moerenhout
Bram Tankink
Joost Posthuma

Team CSC
Fabian Cancellara
Carlos Sastre
Andy Schleck
Fränk Schleck
Nicki Sørensen
Jens Voigt
Stuart O'Grady
Kurt-Asle Arvesen
Volodimir Gustov

Barloworld
Mauricio Soler
Robert Hunter
Baden Cooke
Felix Cardenas
Paolo Longo Borghini
Moises Duenas Nevado
Gianpaolo Cheula
John-Lee Augustyn
Christopher Froome

Gerolstiener
Markus Fothen
Bernhard Kohl
Sven Krauss
Sebastian Lange
Ronny Scholz
Stefan Schumacher
Fabian Wegmann
Oliver Zaugg

Euskaltel Euskadi
Haimar Zubeldia
Samuel Sánchez
Mikel Astarloza
Rubén Pérez
Gorka Verdugo
Iñaki Isasi
Egoi Martínez
Amets Txurruka
Juanjo Oroz

Lampre
Damiano Cunego
Alessandro Ballan
Marzio Bruseghin
Danilo Napolitano
...

Liquigas
Filippo Pozzato
Manuel Quinziato
Frederik Willems
Aliaksandr Kuchynski
Manuel Beltran
Vincenzo Nibali
Roman Kreuziger
Murilo Fischer
Francesco Chicchi

Agritubel
...

AG2R - La Mondiale


Francaise Des Jeux
Phillipe Gilbert
Sandy Casar
Sebastien Chavanel
Remy Di Gregorio
Arnaud Gerard
Lilian Jegou
Yoann Le Boulanger
Jeremy Roy
Benoit Vaugrenard

Cofidis credit par telephone
Sylvain Chavanel
Stephane Auge
Florent Brard
Herve Duclos-Lassalle
Samuel Dumoulin
Leonardo Duque
David Moncoutie
Amael Moinard
Maxime Monfort

Credit Agricole
...

Bouygues Telecom
...

Caisse d'Epargne
...

 

[alchemist]

How is Contador going to race in the tour when his whole team, astana, has been banned?

From his lounge room on TV like the rest of us.

 

[NASHWORTH]

From his lounge room on TV like the rest of us.

Yeah but he's fucking stupid, he moved from discovery to astana, even though he knew he wont be able to defend his tour crown this year because astana'a banned. I don't get some people.

 

[dunk]

Yeah but he's fucking stupid, he moved from discovery to astana, even though he knew he wont be able to defend his tour crown this year because astana'a banned. I don't get some people.

He signed with Astana in October '07 and Astana were excluded by Chris P in February '08

Really? Discovery disbanded and he took a job with another pro tour team, that by being a member of the Pro Tour has paid a huge license fee to be able to attend and compete in le Tour. I don't think any winner of the tour would take a job on a team knowing it had no chance of being invited to any of the grand tours. He could have commanded a very large salary and been in great demand form many Pro Tour teams.He chose to follow the "organisation" which won him the tour from Discovery to the new Astana, which I think most reasonable people would have also done with a ull expectation of being able to ride all Pro Tour events.

 

[splunk]

I was hoping Astana would get a late invite like what apparently happened in the Giro.

BTW, Team CSC is now known as Team CSC - Saxo bank

And because I work for CSC and had the opportunity to speak to the sports directors in Italy recently, I think Sastre is in with a chance this year. But Cadel is going to be hard to beat.

 

[blueraja]

I was hoping Astana would get a late invite like what apparently happened in the Giro.

BTW, Team CSC is now known as Team CSC - Saxo bank

And because I work for CSC and had the opportunity to speak to the sports directors in Italy recently, I think Sastre is in with a chance this year. But Cadel is going to be hard to beat.

You are shameless. Any chance to rub it in that you went to the Giro d'Italia this year

 

[bighitter]

anyone know of a good site i can stream live footage from ? im living in japan now with no tv so cant watch old faithful sbs
Hopefully theres something

 

[k3n!f]

anyone know of a good site i can stream live footage from ? im living in japan now with no tv so cant watch old faithful sbs
Hopefully theres something

Is the SBS website going to be streaming footage?

 

[akashra]

Maillot jaune (Yellow Jersey): Edit: I said Valverde, but then realised it seems he's not racing this years tour. So I'll revise later.
Maillot Vert (Green Jersey): Hunter
Maillot à pois rouges (Polkadot Jersey): Soler
Maillot blanc (White Jersey): Andy Schleck or Lowe. Hard to pick.

 

[LTR]

Maillot jaune (Yellow Jersey): Edit: I said Valverde, but then realised it seems he's not racing this years tour. So I'll revise later.
Maillot Vert (Green Jersey): Hunter
Maillot à pois rouges (Polkadot Jersey): Soler
Maillot blanc (White Jersey): Andy Schleck or Lowe. Hard to pick.

Where did you read about Valverde not being in the tour?

Ive had a quick search, but cant find any info... just today cyclingnews posted this item.

"With the win he feels ready to help team-mate Alejandro Valverde vie for the Tour de France. "I prepared very well for the Tour," he remarked in a team press release. "I will to do my best in France to help Alejandro Valverde win the race. Today, I believe that I showed everybody that I am in great condition already." Tour de France favourite, Carlos Sastre (Team CSC), finished 1'46" back."

 

[BrindiCruiser]

cadel doco

I think there was a cadel doco at midday on SBS on Sun 29 June 08. Did anyone see it, was it the same one they showed earlier in the year?

 

[splunk]

Damn right! Had to share And I can get to the le tour too, if only I could find a prospective client to be interested in using CSC for their IT stuff.

Any one interested?

You are shameless. Any chance to rub it in that you went to the Giro d'Italia this year

 

[joemax]

I think there was a cadel doco at midday on SBS on Sun 29 June 08. Did anyone see it, was it the same one they showed earlier in the year?

I didn't watch on Sunday but the programme guide said it was a repeat of the one earlier this year.

 

[toby]

Yellow: Cadel Evans
Green: Thor Hushovd
Polka: Sammy Sanchez
White: Andy Schleck
Team: CSC-Saxo Bank


Have to say that Menchov is going to go close to GC.... but Evans will have him on the hills in week three!

 

[...jim]

Shamelessly pimpin' a Cadel Evans interview I did recently.

http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/

Click Cadel to load it.

 

[skivi]

24 hours to go! who's excited?!


http://tdf.sbs.com.au/tdf2008/tvguide

 

[davzab]

couch is set! fridge is full! all stations are go..