Month: July 2012
-
Stage 4 Recap, Stage 5 Preview
When I mention to my friends that I enjoy watching bike racing on TV, they constantly clown on me and claim it’s not a real sport like football and they state that the racers are wimps. Well, yesterday I mentioned a few crashes that occurred. Here is the fallout from those crashes: Kanstantsin Sivstov (out) […]
-
Stage 3 Recap, Stage 4 Preview
During the intermediate sprint stage, Cavendish easily dusted the other sprinters to claim the most points out of the peloton riders but that doesn’t mean it was without controversy. One of the other riders bumped and then changed their line forcing Cav to go around him. Still, it wasn’t much of an issue as Cav […]
-
Stage 2 Recap, Stage 3 Predictions
198 people enter the Tour de France this year but only 1 can win. Out of the 198 people, there’s really only about 10 people that are likely to win the overall race and of those, there are 2 clear favorites this year. I’ll discuss those favorites in a future post but today, I want […]
-
Stage 1 Recap, Stage 2 Predictions
Stage 1 was very quiet early on. Team Radio Shack was doing most of the pace setting since they were in control of the yellow jersey. They kept a pretty slow and easy pace for the first half of the race or so. The riders typically ride in a large dense pack called the peloton. […]