The Church of the Big Ring » chris horner http://thechurchofthebigring.com Your online source of 2 wheeled salvation. Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Giro Big Ring http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/giro-big-ring http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/giro-big-ring#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 20:54:28 +0000 The Rev http://thechurchofthebigring.com/?p=410 Big Ring:
-Team Columbia taking the TTT. Good to see some trash talking between the US teams. When teams compete, fans win.
-Di Luca taking ownership of the Giro. Most notably in stage 4 when he rode the last 100m like a possesed Montauk Monster and said he won with a cold heart.
-Horner – riding like he belongs, cause he does. 
 
 
 
Not Big Ring:
-The paint job on Armstrong’s bike. A bit busy for our liking.
-Brother Boonen. Sniff sniff.
-The Dope Show – Valverde, Frieberg, Kloden…what next?
 
 
 
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]]> http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/giro-big-ring/feed 4 Ask and You Shall Receive http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/ask-and-you-shall-receive http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/ask-and-you-shall-receive#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:51 +0000 The Rev http://thechurchofthebigring.com/2008/07/23/ask-and-you-shall-receive/ That was some showdown today ya?  For someone who supposedly can’t climb Cancellara did a pretty good job of shelling most of the peloton.  It was painful to watch, I can’t imagine what it would be like to follow that monster.  Then to have Andy Schleck covering all the attacks after Sastre went away, it was a CSC clinic out there today.

I think Cadel is going to lose.  He put 1:20 on Sastre in the first TT and now he is 1:34 behind.  Sastre is not terrible against the clock.  I think he will ride the TT of his life and hold off Cadel.  Nice try Cadel but I think you rode too defensive and are a little over confident in your TT.  I guess we will see.

I Cadels defense he kinda had to just follow wheels since he had zero team mates on any of the final climbs.  If he wins this tour he will be lucky.  Lotto has to shell out some $$$ and get him some help in the mountains.  Horner did a much better job last year than Popovich has done for Cadel this year.  They should have kept Horner around for another year.  Lotto has failed Cadel and failed McEwen for that matter.

Vande Velde, damn that crash yesterday.

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