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le Tour finis

"Finis" is French for "finish," right?

Congratulations, Lance.

I said I wasn't going to be upset if he did win number 6, and actually, as it happened, I did become pretty excited. I was watching history being made...on tv, but still, I was watching it live.

Congratulations, too, to the rest of Postal, and to the overall team winner T-Mobile. Congratulations to the other guys on the podium, Andréas Klöden and Ivan Basso (and what a cute kid!), and Robbie McEwen (his kid's cute, too, but Ewen McEwen?), Richard Virenque, and Vladimir Karpets. And to Thomas Voeckler for all his days in yellow...his grin at the end of those stages showed pure joy, and I bet it'll be awhile before he has to buy a drink for himself. And another guy who deserves kudoes is Jimmy Casper, the lantern rouge, as they call the guy who finishes last. Yeah, he finished last, almost four hours behind Armstrong, but he still rode 3,390 kilometers, every mountain, every wet corner.

A lot of people thought the Tour was dull. I'm not one of those people. My only disappointments were on behalf of some of the riders, Tyler Hamilton in particular, and Jan Ullrich, but I enjoyed the sneaking onto the Tour site in the morning to get the results, and watching the replays every evening. I didn't even mind Al Trautwig. I'm bummed it's over already, really.

Well, I guess it's time for me to start paying attention to Important Things. What else is going on in the world...?

Really. Ugh. On the other hand, maybe I'll just lay low until the Olympics start.

Posted by Nic at July 25, 2004 08:00 PM