Tour de France 2006

[Drake Tungsten]

With Floyd Landis' victory in the Tour today, America officially dominates cycling, a gay sport that Euros seem to care a lot about. Can soccer be far behind?

[RoboCon]

Hello there! I see you are discussing France. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

There's not much you can say about stuck-up, treasonous, liberal Continentals that Trent Lott didn't say in his remarks about Senator Thurmond. We continue to pay the price for Chirac's disloyalty, De Gualle would have paid the debt in Freedom Fries. Drake, you must realize that we don't have that option.

[SlowwHand]

If it isn't the Borg Butthole.

[MRT144]

youre just mad you havent been mentioned.

p.s. landis is a beast

[Drake Tungsten]

p.s. landis is a beast

QFT

[notyoueither]

[DinoDoc]

How soon before the French start whining about him?

[snoopy369]

He's obvoiusly on drugs. How could he not be? No american could beat a frenchman on a bike without them.

For that matter, one has to ask... if some number of cyclists are on drugs, and you can be assured that some are, don't you sort of assume the winner is one of such? After all, if bikers generally are roughly equal except in their stamina and ability to climb hills and sprint, wouldn't the drugged ones get most of their advantage in those categories (blood oxygenators = more stamina and more muscle power)? Although certainly it's possible for someone to beat out a doper, as Lance proved , isn't it 'more likely' that a doper be the winner, if some reasonable percentage of them are doping?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Some number of cyclists on drugs? Try 'all' or 'just about all' .

[The Mad Monk]

So after being beaten (and whining about being beaten) by an American cancer survivor for over half a decade, the French are beaten by an American with a bad hip.

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[Drake Tungsten]

The Mad Monk makes a good point. Cycling has been relatively easy to conquer, as even the scraps of the American athletic community are enough to defeat the "athletes" the Euros put forward to compete. Soccer, however, may prove more difficult. Euro soccer players, while certainly not athletes on the level of a football, baseball or NASCAR competitor, do have some small amount of ability (mainly in running for a long time and not falling prey to boredom). To dominate soccer, America will have to field a team of athletes one step above the ranks of hunting accident/terminal illness survivors and invalids we've sent to make the cycling world ours. The problem will be finding these athletes because, seriously, what American wants to play soccer after they get to junior-high school?

Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this dilemna? And I want serious answers, people. Don't tell me that American kids can be seduced by international fame and fortune or some bull**** like that. No American is going to care about a "fortune" in Monopoly money like the Euro. And what good is fame if the only *****es you can **** with it are revolting foreign slags? It's good for nothing, which is why every American kid eventually realizes that being the back-up catcher for the Lincoln Salt-Dogs is better than being FIFA Player of the Year. Seems like an intractable problem...

[DanS]

or NASCAR competitor

Oof.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by snoopy369
He's obvoiusly on drugs. How could he not be? No american could beat a frenchman on a bike without them.

Correction : no biker could possibly win the tour without them.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
So after being beaten (and whining about being beaten) by an American cancer survivor for over half a decade, the French are beaten by an American with a bad hip.

As do the Germans, the Dutch, the Italians, other American competitors etc.

Landis' comeback during the tour (10 minutes late that he caught up on in only two runs) was an inspiring feat

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by DanS
Oof.

At least he didn't mention baseball player...