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This week starts part of my favorite part of the summer, “Le Tour de France”. The tour is likely the hardest athletic challenge in the world. Last year, Armstrong covered 2100 miles at an average speed of just under 26 MPH, including 7 days of riding over mountain passes.

The best TV coverage is on OLN, though you need to get past the whole “Cyclism” thing. I recommend recording the early morning live broadcast, as they use different commentators for the afternoon recap.

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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    go lance!

    have you seen the liveSTRONG bracelets his foundation is selling to raise $$$ for cancer research?

    http://www.nike.com/wearyellow/index_f.html

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    July 08, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    Another tech fan of Le Tour! Has Tyler got a chance?

    We're looking for contributors to a group blog on TdF [http://2004tourdefrance.blogspot.com] and I'd like to invite you to post as a blog team member.

    If you'd like to, shoot me an e-mail and I'll send you an "invite".

    cheers

    @gmail.com
    Eric.Pederson

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    It's the finest sporting spectacle in the world. I think Tyler has a chance. We'll have to wait and see.

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    I've loving the tour, too.

    I agree that OLN's coverage is pretty good. We've been TIVOing the live coverage with Phil and Paul; we love Bob Roll, but can't stand Al "Troutface" Trautwig. (Okay, that is mean, and he isn't a troutface, but I can't stand his coverage. What kind of pinhead says "wouldn't it be great if it started to rain again before the end of the stage?" Bob should slap him when he says dumb.)

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    July 08, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2004
    You should probably mention that last year was a "wake up call" for Lance also.

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2004
    where can you get those bracelets?

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2004
    You can find the Live strong bracelets at the Lance Armstrong Foundation - http://www.laf.org/

  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2004
    Go Lance? I really hope we see a changing of the guard this year. It has been tiresome watching UPS grinding their way to a victory the last few years. I would love to see Jan Ulrich come up - he deserves a win as much as anyone else.

    Interesting that the big mountains this year are happening in the final week - makes for a much better tour because the winner will not be decided until the latter stages.

    Go Robbie or Stuey for the Green jersey!

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