And a spaniard won in london the triathelon yesterday...
and Jorge won in Moto GP at Laguna Seca.....

Well to make it more interesting, they could always try a handicap system and start the slowest at the front and the top guys at the back.

Probably end up like the whacky races or destruction derby with lots of expensive hi-tec machinery piled up in a crumpled heap ,and the sponsors mechanics,backers and all weeping into their champagne glasses.

Or they could learn how to overtake like in motorcycle racing.

Admit it, you've been working towards that post for years (with your userid)

So if there is a crash or someone gets a puncture everyone should stop until the bikes get repaired ?, could be a long T de F.

It's a gentlemen's agreement than you don't attack your rival when he has a technical problem or gets off for a pee. But I always took that to apply to situations where a group, large or small, is cycling along together. The morality of it is a bit blurred for me because it happened when Schleck was attacking.

Imagine a striker through on goal, only the keeper to beat, and he slips and falls. Should defenders stop chasing back just because their rival is on the floor? Should they wait where they are until he has recovered and is ready to shoot again?

Well if motorcycles were the same width as F1 cars I think they would have just the same problems

Yes, I think at the time Schleck said something like Contador wouldn't have won the sportsman of the day award. Plus the French, who tend to know a thing or two about TDF, saw fit to boo Contador. But he won, and that's how it will appear in the records books.

Especially when he is wearing the yellow jersey.

They overtake with sidecars though, must be as wide an F1 car, especially with the guy hanging out on a bend.

equally, some big names from within french cycling have said Contador did nothing wrong, they would have done the same.


But perhaps not when he has just launched an attack.

Apparently Contador lied in the first instance and said he did not see that Schleck had a problem.
However he later admitted that he had seen him and was sorry and regretted what he'd done.
The Tour being very much a French thing, I suppose its all about etiquette, but maybe the Spanish aren't quite so much into that sort of thing.

I don't really know how he could say that he never saw it, he must have seen the video afterwards, and then changed his story. The video clearly show Schleck is all but stationary as Contador goes by him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQYmLOUZXQ

Are people really interested in french bike riding? It's sooo dull. (To me it is anyway). The most exciting bit was someones chain falling off? Wow.. I hate the stupid bike riders here, always in the road causing accidents and being dangerous on motorways. Have they never heard of single file? I looked at the stages on google and the english bloke won 5 stages. More than anyone else. So why did he not win the thing? Mark Carrondish or something.

Who? Alonso? If you refer to Alonso, you see the chance that I read opinions of many British, and they in fact said that the error of McLaren was to have a capricious or baby pilot (as them they defined to Hamilton), when was Alonso and De La Rosa those that gave everything for the team (the best punctuations, they discussed the problems of the cars with the mechanics, etc)