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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?

I've put in a stamped concrete patio. Only maintenance is sealing it once a year. It has picked up some cracks here and there. Neighbor put in a multi-level patio and turned out quite well. Even incorporated a fire pit with it as well. It can be done yourself, but keys are as stated before. And, if you do it yourself expect it to take 3X longer than if you had someone do it for you.

Raised in Lancaster, graduated in 1978 ECC-North and RIT, 1984 Dallas area 84-94 Raleigh NC 94-02 Columbus OH 02-present

Have a simple cell phone with minimum minutes. No bells, no whistles, 4G, internet, GPS, texting. Riding a 30 year old Fuji bike for my 100 mile ride in August. Grow some veg in the garden. Barter with some of the neighbors for some of theirs and with my yoga instructor for class discount. When we lived in NC, I saved the string from the pine straw bales for other uses. I had 2 grocery bags at one time. Back in NC again. After a couple of hurricanes, went around to co-workers and neighbors and got the trees that had fallen and were cut up. Hauled them home and split them by hand (5 pound maul and 2 wedges) - didn't have to buy firewood for years.

Never said it was. I said it was the personae of that area.

This statement is not correct. Club/course is directly across from Murifield Village (Jack's course). The residents there pretty much feel that they are equivalent.

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Congrats to Boomer. His spiel got a bit old at times. His enthusiasm for the game never did though. I'd like to know how many yards TT got on that little delayed draw over his career. Man, that play was just about unstoppable.

Godspeed Mr. GiaQuinta.

I just may have to make some time. Thanks for the feedback.

I'll have one of you call in my place next time.