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Tour de France telephone and other party games
It’s go time in Rotterdam! All the pundits have weighed in with their obligatory Tour de France general classification picks and I’m giddy like a teenage girl waiting for the midnight showing of Twilight. Now all that we can do is wait for the first rider to roll off the prologue starting ramp. It’s a classic short prologue so all it’s going to provide is the general classification. Luckily we won’t have to wait too long for the action to start. As Armstrong said at the team presentation, this edition of the Tour is not one that you can ride yourself into. Just like your high school romance, it’s “complicated”.
The complications aren’t just on the roads of the Tour. Things can get wacky right up to the start on Saturday. A rumor was floating around like a stagnant fart that RadioShack wasn’t going to be allowed to start the Tour. And just like a fart it was unpleasant and no one ‘fessed up to who started it. Bicycling Magazine’s Bill Strickland Twittered the rumor and quoted two unnamed sources, but even he doubted the validity of the claims. While highly unlikely that the Shack would be bounced out of Rotterdam it did give me a moment of pause. That could have been a disaster of, dare I use the word, epic proportions. As I write this it looks like Lance and company have no fears and will be ripping through the downtown streets on their new Treks.
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