Awesome.
 
Last year, some one really, really smart decided that people who didn't have a NBCsports Cable or Satellite subscription couldn't purchase a live stream of the Tour de France broadcast. So people in America that didn't have that channel couldn't see the race on a legal feed.
 
I learned a lot about split feeds provided on sketchy websites that had lots of funky links and yuck.
 
This morning I became aware that NBC has changed their policy again... so I just paid $30 to watch live streams in HD.
 
Yeah!!! Like a pig in slop!
 
I'm gonna miss my favorite Euro accent commentators but I'll enjoy actually being able to recognize riders with the nice HD pictures.
 
 
See ya!
 
best,
mike
 
 
 
 I should just learn how to spell™

that sucks about the streaming.....
 
those bar stewards.
 
 
LOL


but i have to say, after being an ardent fan of the tour since about 1987, that i could give a rat's @ss.... yes, i said RAT'S @SS, about the tour anymore.
 
call me about the tour in about, say, 10 years, we'll see what's happened with the doping by then.
 
f lance.
 

by then they'll be genetically engineered....

Yes, I'm not letting *Lance* ruin my enjoyment of the racing. :-)
 
The racing seems more competitive than ever even though the speeds are lower.
 
My personal opinion is that in 50 years we will realize that the sports doctors and the "sports medicines" that became so well known with cycling will be recognized as having had an influence in all professional sport.
 
At this juncture we look at the athletes the same way we look at a kid on the street corner, and we hardly acknowledge the "Learjet-lifestyle" infrastructure that makes the prohibited substances so easy to acquire.
 
I feel that with hind sight we will come to realize that the distribution network of high tech information and pharmaceutical materials did not confine it's existence to cycling.
 
Look at any sport's evolution over the past 30 years and you may be able to recognize that each has had a huge surge in athleticism and the base standards required to compete.
 
It will be the story of our life times.
 
 
 
 
I like watching the Tour because it inspires me to get on my bike and push myself hard enough to maintain some basic fitness.
 
best regards,
mike
 
 
 I should just learn how to spell™

nah, i'm done.
 

I'm glad I knew the cyclists were cheating all along.
 
I still enjoy the sport of seeing who can go the fastest.
 
:-)
 

WELL, the race was never about who went the fastest..
 
it was a test of endurance.
 
and since they are all taking endurance enhancing drugs, well, it takes the 'contest' right out of it, it's no longer a sport.
kinda like rhoids in baseball, weightlifting, all that kind of stuff.
 
 
might as well watch world wide wrestling.

It's the race of a thousand races. 
 
I like the part at the end of each day where I wait, anxiously trying to figure out which rider is going the fastest so as to win the race.
 
Most of us, on our very best day, couldn't keep up with those guys if we rode with them through the feed zone... I don't care how they do it... it's fast and exciting to me.
 
Today's race was won by half a wheel. Everybody near it was going as fast as they can go.
 
all the best,
mike

as fast as they can go on drugs.
 

 
 
as long as it's illegal to dope, they are all cheaters.
 
 
if they legalize doping, then it's game on, let every freak come out of the woodwork, and may the best freak win.
 
 
until then, it's just cheating...
 
and there is NOTHING glorious about cheating.