Before we answer this question lets think back to a week ago. The Tour de France was 2 days away and the general attitude was:
"Who cares?"
"I'm not going to watch the Tour."
"They are all a bunch of dopers."
Everyone was sour grapes over last years tour. And why? Doping allegations turned everybody off causing world wide shrinkage in the phallus of competitive cycling. I'm not going to argue that dopers don't suck, but I'm asking you to put your memory of the doping aside. Do that and all of the sudden last year's Tour was the more exciting than your first experience with aerosol containers.
I cannot get behind the movement to ignore the 2007 Tour de France. The Tour de France still has the excitement of previous years. If not more so. Lance Armstrong is no longer available to crush the competition. Who knows who is going to win?
Levi? (Snicker, Snicker)
Vino or Kloden? ( Ten bucks says they get in fight over who is leading Astana before the Tour hits Paris. I could see them attacking each other on the climbs.)
Pereiro? (Was last year a fluke?)
So lets all take our little blue pill for competitive cycling. Get back the excitement you had on prom night. You are missing a great Tour de France.
3 comments:
not being able to watch it is for me the easiest way not to get excited again...
didn't watch it last year but i did have a chance to listen to it and that was somewhat cool. Although, honestly i've been pretty sour on the whole thing since the Festina crap way back when...
it has never really regained the luster it had in the past for me.
the giro just had damn fine scenery, and the Vuelta is so damn tough (heat and all the barren roads)...
The tour is cool in the mountains but then even that is just tacitly holding my attention now...
and like solobreak says, ya gotta have someone you are cheering for, or even just excited to follow to really care about a race...
*shrug*
when does cross season start?
Originally, I wasn't going to buy your argument of not getting it on T.V. But then you went and used the old "when does cross season start?" line.
All I can say is . . . Not soon enough!!!
seriously...
we don't have cable or dish in the house...
have to watch regular old broadcast Networks or DVDs if we want to zone out in front of the TV...
If want to know the weather in the morning i have to wait through the regular morning news program till the weather dude starts talking... no weather channel...
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