2008 Tour de France route announced!

Grant McLean · #1 07-30-2007, 08:49 AM

In order to combat doping in cycling,
the 2008 course will be shortened to 5 stages:

The stages are:
1. Denial*: The initial stage: "It can't be happening!"
2. Anger*: "Why cycling, It's not fair?!"
3. Bargaining *: "Just let them do whatever they want."
4. Depression*: "I'm so sad, why bother watching?"
5. Acceptance*: "It's going to be OK, this time they're clean"

See you next year!!!

-G

J.Greene · #2 07-30-2007, 09:41 AM

You forgot the stage where we all discuss if LA doped or not.

JG

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grant McLean

In order to combat doping in cycling,
the 2008 course will be shortened to 5 stages:

The stages are:
1. Denial*: The initial stage: "It can't be happening!"
2. Anger*: "Why cycling, It's not fair?!"
3. Bargaining *: "Just let them do whatever they want."
4. Depression*: "I'm so sad, why bother watching?"
5. Acceptance*: "It's going to be OK, this time they're clean"

See you next year!!!

-G

Jason E · #3 07-30-2007, 09:53 AM

Nice.

That's like last night when Al said they were waiting on Paul's out of competition results before giving him his last Yellow Jersey.

David Kirk · #4 07-30-2007, 09:58 AM

I thought that they changed the route every year?

Hmmmmm?

Dave

Sandy · #5 07-30-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Kirk

I thought that they changed the route every year?

Hmmmmm?

Dave

Only the ways to get there!!

Dopey

Delpo · #6 07-30-2007, 11:07 AM

Any resemblance to Dante's Circles of the Inferno is purely coincidental...

Delpo

Dave B · #7 07-30-2007, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J.Greene

You forgot the stage where we all discuss if LA doped or not.

JG

He didn't...end of discussion!

Erik.Lazdins · #8 07-30-2007, 05:28 PM

Hey Charlie Parker doped yet I spent many hours drilling on his transpositions in order to become a better player.

chuckroast · #9 07-30-2007, 06:47 PM

Are there 5 stages or are there 12 steps?

Grant McLean · #10 07-30-2007, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erik.Lazdins

Hey Charlie Parker doped yet I spent many hours drilling on his transpositions in order to become a better player.

don't hate the playa,
hate the game...

atmo

g

keno · #11 07-31-2007, 02:16 AM

I certainly hope that one of these stages will be massive.

keno

97CSI · #12 07-31-2007, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keno

I certainly hope that one of these stages will be massive.

At the individual rider level, Stage 1 (Denial) is even larger than that.

milhouse · #13 07-31-2007, 07:46 AM

From: The Economist - "as other sports followed up on promises to get rid of drug cheats, professional road cycling has lagged behind" - well, I don't agree.