Thank you, Jesse Wendel! I learned so much from your excellent and exciting coverage. Well done!!!
Myrtle June | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:07 pm | #

Well done, Jesse! Your coverage was informative and fun. Thank you.

(PS: The sleaze balls from Main Street and Wall Street are shocked, shocked at the ethics of the cyclists on the Champs-Elysees? PUH-lease.)
Watson | 07.29.07 - 12:15 pm | #

Let me add my thanks - great series of posts.

And a question.

Admittedly what with all the drama and scandal this seems like small potatoes, but...

I seem to remember that two years ago on Lance Armstrong's ride into Paris the Posties had a pair of small yellow cuffs on their jerseys, and I recall that Phil (or Paul) said something about how that was a no-no for a team to have yellow or major yellow elements in their jerseys, presumably because only one rider gets to wear Yellow. But this year we had a whole team (SDP) in yellow. Did I completely make up my memory of the whole "you can't weat yellow" thing from 2005? Have the rules changed? What?
FDChief | 07.29.07 - 4:02 pm | #

Aye, Jessie - fine work. Much appreciated.
Z | 07.29.07 - 6:03 pm | #

FDChief -

I don't know.

Jesse
Jesse Wendel | 07.29.07 - 6:10 pm | #

Let me add to the chorus of "well done" on this series of posts. Thanks also for the link love.

I also seem to remember some controversy about Lance's yellow bands....
Fritz | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 9:55 pm | #

FDChief:

I don't know either. It occurs to me that there would be difficulties in the TdF prescribing uniform standards to teams, in that the TdF is one event among several in the cycling calendar, and in that sponsors are the main source of income for cycling teams. If you're the NFL, where your income comes only indirectly from sponsors and you don't sell ad space on the uniforms, you can regulate uniforms to the minutest detail. If you're a cycling team, and your sponsor's logo happens to be yellow, guess what color jersey you wear?
ploeg | 07.30.07 - 3:41 pm | #

I do not understand why bicycles are tolerated. In this age of enviournmental awareness, the gratuitous wasting of so much human energy is to be deplored, if deplored is the word I want.
This waste of energy, used in pumping those stupid pedals, naturally leads to a depletion of enzymes, brain fatigue and enui, which will lead to doping, every time!

The idea that humans can ride on two wheels without a closed-loop, computer managed, fuel-injected, 16,000 rpm, over 150hp motor is a betrayal of everything we hold dear.
And those tires! Way too skinny! No wonder they dope!
Mooser | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 8:15 am | #