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Big Tour stage this morning. Looks to be all settled out now. Hell of a show.
I have to say, I rather enjoyed it.
In other exciting Tour related news you can use:
From: Brain
Subject: Great TDF parody…
Even though I’m not a French speaker, I can appreciate this. I’ve scrubbed a bit from an e-mail fwd’ed by a biking buddy.(begin snip)
A lot of this may go over your head but, as well as being a nice idea, it’s a parody of TV coverage of the Tour here in France. The voices are all exaggerated mimicry of commentators.You may have noticed, if you’re getting direct pictures from French TV, that a surprising time is spent dwelling on châteaux and churches. The reason is that about a third of the audience in France has little interest in the race but a lot in the beauty and history of France.
French TV has a specialist on these aerial views – he’s the one with the strangulated voice who starts every contribution with “We’re flying over…” and gets interrupted before he’s said much – but he is also one of the world’s greatest authorities on cycling history. His name is Jean-Paul Ollivier and what he doesn’t know isn’t worth finding out.
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Good chance this video will not work for those you using IE6 & 7. I can tell you, it worked for me on this old laptop (IE7 – XP Pro), but damn if that means anything for all of you out there on the tri-dub. Firefox works. Firefox always works. You can try this url if the embed won’t load here on DC: dailymotion.com
Anyway, embedded video below the fold for your protection:
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…jeez…after three frickin’ weeks of watching the “real thing” on tv, that little ‘parody’ was quite brilliant…
…& clean or dirty, i can’t imagine how the real riders feel…i get tired of just watching for this long…
Nice homage to Armstrong’s Earnhardtesque “pass in the grass”.