Friday, August 01, 2008

First Loser

Le Tour is over for another year, and *yawn* oh excuse me I was just nodding off there....

So there were a couple of drug busts. And, surprise surprise, one of them was yet another former teammate of the sport's biggest shaman. Hmmmm....

Drugs aren't ruining the sport though. The lack of drugs is ruining it. The most exciting stages where the one's Ricco (and Piepoli) won, he was the only rider with enough balls (or enough go-juice coursing through his veins) to actually attack.

The only things Cadel attacked were policemen on motorbikes, journalists and cameramen. The guy didn't do himself any favours in the eyes of the fans with his petulant, bordering on plain weird, behaviour. And he rode like a dolt.
He apparently had a strange obsession with the sponsor's toy lions... here he loses it when someone touches his lion...

Here he tells someone he'll "cut your head off" if they stand on his dog.... should get a proper dog that you can actually see.

Pushes over someone with a bike (can't quite see who)then head-butts a cameraman....

And generally comes across like a twat...

But hey, he was still First Loser, for the second time....

3 comments:

Flametop59 said...

I thought the Tour was exciting this year. At least the first week. I did lose interest in two stages after the Alps.

Somebody needs to explain to Cadel that he rides a bike for a living. He should be going around with a huge smile on his face. I suppose that is the catch-22 of being a professional athelete.

By the way who is the shaman that you mentioned?

brettok said...

*Link added to identify Shaman*

Flametop59 said...

Ok. That is who I thought you were talking about. To be fair almost everyone rode for that team at one point or another. CSC - Saxo Bank showed how important a team is in winning a Grand Tour.

Saunier Duval was making those climbs look easy. Berhard Kohl looked like he was working. He did have a big grin on his face.

I want to see what the kit looks like for American Meat - Scott. I think having to ride for a team with that name is probably a worse punishment than suspension.