12 days to go
ok, seven days into this countdown and not only am I getting into this event, I'm ready to kick out against convention and tell it like it is.
It's a colour thing really. Superstar Lance Armstrong finished a feeble 45th today but he still keeps hold of the Yellow Jersey. I like to see competition, a battle of wills and the determination to cross the finishing line first at all costs. So basically, I'm starting to value the Green Jersey more that the Yellow. Now I'm sorry if this is Tour de France heresy but I'm just not prepared to hide behind some politically correct yellowness.
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| French sport not included |
I was listening to Talk Sport today. Now I know the Tour is French but it still is sport, right? And it is, well, kind of, a major world sports event - right?? But not a mention on a radio station dedicated to sport. Plenty of reaction to the amazing recent performance of the British weather - but the only French item included was an advert every 5 minutes for the Renault Kangaroo (they must be a real menace on the roads for le Tour riders)
But credit where credit's due, the BBC's sport radio channel Five Live did have a Tour de France report this evening. A full report on every bone broken by Joseba Beloki, an update on Tyler Hamilton's collar bone. I switched off before their feature on the medics who are the real heroes of the Tour de France...
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| Dutch spam (and other sausages) |
I received an unusual e-mail today. Very unusual in fact. No mention of penis enlargement, no herbal miracle weight loss pills. Not even a plea for help from a desperate Nigerian. It seemed to be telling me about a useful Tour de France browser sidebar but when I clicked on the link and found that the page was all in Dutch I knew I had hit upon a rich vein of porn.
9:20:06 PM 
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