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Look at his stats now to a couple of years ago and his physical build.

Look at how far Vijay has fallen off as well. Hmm?

Played FB in LL and HS. Blocked more than ran. High and tight and 3 points of contact are the 2 teaching "aids". Tell the young man to have fun and to tell you any time he gets hurt.

A tip of the cap to you Morrie and Godspeed.

Small story about the resort during yesterday's telecast said that the bunker has been decommissioned. Bunker tour

Then don't have a good time. It wasn't advice.

Have fun.

Good to hear from you again Olivier. Thanks for the clarification.

No arguement there - I'm with you. This is just one of those "rules" that have been there for a long time.

Golf even has some non-written rules.

No doubt. However, just the hint of PED in any sport raises the question to all. Wasn't there some "ejections" from fencing in the Beijiing Olympics?

I'm really only familar with the TdF as that one is really the only one televised here. I really don't know, but I would think yes.

Different sport - different rules.

No - not stop. Had he known he would have slowed down to allow Schleck to get back up to speed, not catch back up to him. There was another incident in one of the following stages where Contador did slow down for the points leader to collect himself after a mechanical failure. (Exact details escape me at the moment - I'll look around). Official TdF site is TdF site

There are a number of prizes for the TdF. The most important is the winner of the GC (general classification) - yellow jersey. He wins this by the least amount of time for the entire event. Then there is the green jersey - most points. Red polka dot - king of the mountains. White jersey - best young rider.

OK here goes - 1 - A large group is acutally more energy efficient than one rider alone. If Schleck had tried to recover the 39 seconds he would have expended a lot more energy by himself, or with his team (9 riders), than against the rest of the teams (180+ riders). 2 - The "team" works together to get its best person to the top. In the case of riding in the peloton, it helps to keep the leader from getting pushed around or setting pace against the other teams. 3 - Hard to say if the differential was 1 second what would happen. Never seen it on the last stage. 4 - Baseball has an etiquette - Do not throw at the batters head when retailating. In this years TdF case, it was not a flat that was the critical event. Schleck's chain came off the front gearset when making a change on a very steep incline when trying to "attack" Contador. At the same time he was making his gear change he hit a bump in the road and the chain became lodged between the small chainring and the crank hub. While all this is happening, Contador is responding to the attack and pulls away. Team car is not in sight of all this and can't tell him to back off via radio communication. Perfect storm of events.

Cycling rules say that if anyone crashes within the last 3km of the end that person would get the same finish time as the peloton, or main group.

The Tour has 20 "contested events" over 22 days ranging from time trials, flat, and mountain profiles. The average distance for each "contested event" is 113 miles. The end result is the cumulation of those 20 "contested events". If Schleck or his team tried to challenge the leader, the peloton would have chased them down and spit them out like cherry pits.

Let me use a motor racing analogy. If both cars are relatively equal it is very difficult to make up time / distance on the other car. But, if one is a high end sports car (you fill in the make/model) and the other is a Smart car, making up is fairly easy. Schleck and Contador are the former example. The last stage is essentially a procession with a couple of sprint points and the stage winner at stake. The overall GC (general classification) goes un-contested. That being said, one of the Tour's back in the 80's, the last stage was a time trial. Everything was still up for grabs. Greg LeMond was about 20 seconds behind Laurent Fignon. LeMond, using aero technology that is now standard issue, made up the 20 seconds plus 8 or 9 additional seconds to win. In the final stage like yesterday, teams would never challenge the leader like that. Sport etiquette. Does that help answer your question?

Eat and drink my way around the world while checking out all the big time sporting events. Maybe sponsor a sports team. Build my self a kick butt golf course. And work for a charity - Livestrong.

That makes 2 of us. Surgery was not extreme thankfully. Godspeed to Kaye and thoughts to the rest of the Cowher family.

Oh, believe me, I will be doing both.

Saving!!

Got a bottle of that as a gift. It is under lock and key.

Isn't that what the "Zoom" feature is for on your camera?