Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Tour de France
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:53:29 +0530
References: <CAH1UNJ10_V9yLfwyr7pP6=cWJBYROg4H9o=C314vZPdS7f9HAw@mail.gmail.com> <21753126.64358.1342547651003.JavaMail.www@wsfrf1127> <BLU155-W35E32C0ED50EE2066845DA8DDA0@phx.gbl> <39A7CA09-D5FF-44B4-A9BB-EA2FAB60A266@aotera.org>

Drugs included in the base price? As far as I can see from reports, it
is the single most compromised sport in the world for cheating with
chemicals. There is a very good case for making any drug legal for the
TDF!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote:
> I heard during the TdF coverage that it is arguably the largest free sport 
> event globally with something like 20-30 million spectators over the 
> course of 3 weeks (and it's all free of charge). It's the only spectator 
> sport event I watch because I ride and this is an incredible competition. 
> I have ridden over some of the famous (amongst cyclists :) mountain routes 
> (Alp d'Huez, Galibier, etc) and I know how difficult some of those climbs 
> are. I don't even watch ice hockey. ;)
>
> While the French riders hasn't dominated the GC standing in many years, 
> French riders like Thomas Voeckler who won yesterday's stage in the 
> Pyrennes with an incredible ride-from-the-gut means one day a French GC 
> contender will rise again. For those of you who doesn't ride a bike much, 
> the TdF is similar to running a marathon a day for 20 days. Probably the 
> most difficult multi-day athletic event in the world.
>
> If I run a company that wants to penetrate the European market, I would 
> sponsor a TdF team. There is nothing quite like having your company name 
> on all the team members on TV for days. All for a few $M per year. And if 
> your sponsored team is successful, the commentators will be repeat your 
> company names a few thousand times over the course of 3 weeks. I know 
> little about Credit Agricole except that it's a French bank of some sort 
> but I am never going to forget that name. :))
>
> Maybe Leica should sponsor a team? :)
>
> Regards,
> Spencer
>
> On Jul 18, 2012, at 5:04, Jean-Michel Mertz wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Philippe! I was a Tour de France enthousiast for years, it all 
>> started with Bobet and then Darrigade, Anquetil, Poulidor and the like. 
>> Today this has cooled off a bit ... probably because the French aren't as 
>> good as they used to be and also because there's a shadow of a doubt 
>> hovering above all this ... But it's still a great show and a source of 
>> "bloody" good pictures! Jean-Michel
>
>
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Tour de France)
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Message from j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz) ([Leica] Tour de France)
Message from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] Tour de France)