A massive pictorial review of a day's worth of ligging at the finish of the Tour of Britain's second stage! Ironic photos in abundance!
Published by Halverde on 8/30/2006 at 19:33.
The army! They were doing the security. Apparently the official line from the recruitment tent was "Join the army and you might get to salute Juan Manuel Garate."
Today's stage featured a very technical finish.
Aren't cyclists getting much younger these days. Shortly after this picture was taken, David Duffield ran out of his commentary booth, claimed to be the Pied Piper, then did a toppletail in the middle of the road. You think we're lying, but we're honestly not.
Some company had the genius idea of making a virtual training aid for turbo trainers, allowing you to realistically simulate riding on a road -- something we could previously only dream of doing.
Hugh Porter and David Duffield were there, guaranteeing that the commentary never delved into the realm of relevance.
A not-very-in-advance notice.
"I guarantee you that we won't get a British winner today," is what we said five minutes before this.
Pretenious arty bollocks photo number one. Also: our caption competition. Entries to the usual address.
Pretenious arty bollocks photo number two. We wanted an ironic photograph of the media taking photos of Hammond from their uniform positions. Stand here, photograph this. Please.
We also went to Roger Hammond's post race press conference but forgot to bring our camera along. He didn't really say anything we could write anything funny about, so we didn't take notes. You can probably read the whole thing on a proper website anyway.
Some other things we saw but didn't take photographs of:
-- Johan Museeauw eating a sandwich
-- Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside
-- Tony Bell
-- The awkward looking man from Cycling.tv looking particularly awkward
-- A scouser leaning into the CSC team car shouting about how much he loves their team
-- Some kids being told off for riding bikes (they were riding BMXs, so it's fair enough really)
-- The usual entourage of British ex-cyclists
-- A tandem with a tandem kiddie carrier thing attached, carrying a full family of four
-- A man with an excessively long beard
The jersey status, copied and pasted from a press release we got e-mailed
Yellow jersey - Mathew Goss, South Australia
T-Mobile Sprints jersey - Martin Pedersen, CSC
E.ON King of the Mountains jersey - Rosesems
Points competition - Russell Downing
TOMORROW:
The Yorkshire stage.
