Cycling Tour de France 2006 Part 4
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- The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 23, 2006. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of apparent winner Floyd Landis.
The Tour began with a prologue in Strasbourg, on the French-German border, and ended on Sunday July 23 in Paris. The distance of the course (run counterclockwise around France) was 3,657 km (2,272 mi). The race was the third fastest in average speed. Along the way, the cyclists passed through six different countries including France, The Netherlands (a stop at Valkenburg in Stage 3), Belgium (at Huy, Stages 3 and 4), Luxembourg (at Esch-sur-Alzette, Stages 2 and 3), Germany (though not stopping there, Stage 1) and Spain (Pla-de-Beret, Stage 11). The presentation of the course was made by the new director of Le Tour, Christian Prudhomme. For the first time since the 1999 edition, there was no team time trial.
The event, as with some of the Tours of the late 1990s, was marred by doping scandals. Prior to the tour, numerous riders - including the two favourites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso - were expelled from the Tour due to their link with the Operación Puerto doping case.
After the Tour, the apparent winner, Floyd Landis, was found to have failed a drug test after stage 17; Landis contested the result and demanded arbitration. On September 20, 2007, Landis was found guilty and suspended retroactive to January 30, 2007 and stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title making Óscar Pereiro the title holder. Landis appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport which upheld the ban.
All of this Flanders talk! First time ever that Phil and Paul had ever promoted one of the classics ;)
Le Tour de Dope.
Le tour de shut the fuck up!
cheers!
Questioning T-Mobile's tactics for pacing Kloden back up?? What, did they think that Mick Bloody Rogers was going to defeat Oscar, Denis and Cadel in the GC? Idiots!
It was even funnier watching in 2007 when Rodgers went on that break with Rasmussen the first mountain stage and they were talking like he could actually win the tour.
God the commentary is soooooo baaaaad. Watching Michael Rasmussen decent that horrible descend and they cannot tell that he's actually good at it. He's no Savoldelli or Sagan but he's riding to the edge and he never skids or locks up. His lines are just not the ones those morons (Who never rode bikes themselves) would take. Same guys that raved on about how Nibali was Soooooooo good down hill because he took such risks and was oh so fast.... Guess what? When his youthfull spirit left him he turned into on of the worst descenders I've ever seen cause he wasn't that good technically when it came down to it and had lost all his courage and got scared. But oh no he was still so fast and good.
Just because you look in difficulty doesn't mean you are. Rasmussen's style wasn't pretty but if he was that bad, how come he never crashed other then that famous TT in 2004 ofc. Rasmussen rode Contador out of the wheel going downhill a year later several times and Alberto was a pretty good descender. Doesn't get worse then British commentary as far as actually having knowledge about the actual race that's happening in front of you.