Tour

[gerbie]

The Tour de France started today. Looking forward to 3 weeks filled with cycling. Today 70+ people handed in their fantasy team at my parents home where we always sit and discuss before the first stage. Tonight 9 of us had an auction at my home. Great fun with plenty of laughter. Cancellara was a nice surprise today.

14 days from now I will interrupt my visit to my students to stand on a mountain in the Pyrenees and watch my heroes go past.

I love this time of the year.

Comments

Re: Link

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

It certainly is worth watching. I would have volunteered to miss all of Euro 2004 for one mountain stage in the Tour!

Dissapointed

[harryroberts.livejournal.com]

I've been fairly dissapointed with Euro 2004, the best game was the Czechoslovakia V Holland game where the Czechs won 3-2.

I like the tactical side of the Tour de France where team mates help each other and push each other just to gain a few seconds here and there.

Re: Dissapointed

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I was quite impressed with the group stages, happy to see teams like Germany and Italy fly out. In the end it's a shame a team that was very fit can still win against more skilfull teams.

There is so much heroism in the Tour, it is the greatest sports event in the world.