Le Tour
This is my first non-school related blog so I feel like I am taking baby steps towards this hip new inter-web thing all the kids are talking about. I sure hope all the tubes that make up the inter-web are working and that I don’t make too much of an ass hat of myself in this blog.
Because this is the first post in a long line of posts that will never be read by anyone, I figured I should start off easy and talk about the Tour de France. Because nothing makes a girl popular like a long rant about the inherit greatness of Thor Hushovd. Really, you can rent me out for parties and I can give an oration about my pure, noble love for comentator Phil Liggett and my wish that Bob Roll will find himself in a hotel room covered in a dead hooker’s blood (surely, that would get him off the tv??).
I wasn’t always a Tour de France fan. I can honestly say that I kind of hate being on a bicycle. In fact, I kind of hate the men who feel the need to ride in the Tour. Mainly, because the riders often look like anorexic eight year old girls and that just can’t be healthy.
I watch the Tour because my dad started to make us watch the Tour. My brothers and I either had to find something interesting about it or go crazy ,and after 10 years I can’t not be interested in the event. The very least you can say about the Tour is that France is pretty. Watching the French countryside go by is kind of like watching the best kind of escapism on tv, you know, mind numbing, but not soul sucking like VH1. The best that can be said about the Tour is that the riders are in one of the most intense and grueling competitions around. And that the riders have funny names that stick in your head. Every year in June names that I haven’t thought of in exactly one year start popping up in my head. “Hum, I wonder what Alejandro Valverde is doing right now?” Which is always followed up with the thought, “why in the hell did I just think about Alejandro Valverde?? Who am I going to think of next? Jens Voight? Damn, did I just remember who Jens Voight is?”
Really, I know way more about the Tour de France than is good for a girl.
WARNING: TV sport is NOT Corinthian sport
Never take pro sport seriously. It is entertainment only–at a high price for the atheltes. (they get sick and die early after years of heavy doping) Many events are fixed too for TV ratings, etc..
The TV Networks & talking head people are big liars. (lying pays the bills)
From soccer, to tennis to NFL to Olympics to the TDF—they all dope.
But only cross-country skiing and Grand Tour stage racing do the winning riders use cow blood (bovine-based hemoglobins) in addition to the many steroids and anabolic products, asthma, insulin, growth hormones, etc… (5-6 injections per day is what all TDF rider require for overnight recovery, in 15 hours time. (72 years is the undoped time needed)
The last man to win a TDF NOT named Lance is dead. Marco Pantani died on Valentine’s Day 2004, at age 34. Every 45-60 days a TDF rider dies, typically of heart failure due to massive anomolies created by EPO, steroids and 25,000 miles per year for ten years build outs.
The TDF is life sciences on two wheels. Keep that in mind at all times.
Lance’s cow blood doping doctor convicted in 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/3708036.stm
Playing Dirty
http://outside.away.com/magazine/0799/9907tour.html
1991 EPO drug overdosing of Team PDM:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/archives/dec97/dec1.html
Cycling Great Lie Never Likely to Die:
Posted 4 years, 7 months agohttp://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=5575