Here is a bicycle race, with no leader speed constantly posted!, as in the Indy500. In fact, no peloton /main group speed either!, when at times they are 'faking' racing by using low gears to spin the pedals faster, tho the pavement is barely moving by. (It's French.)
They display distances, but not speeds! So strange to call this a 'race'. And time between the leader and the following pack, but not how fast or slow these bicycle racers are going. So frustrating and hard to watch , or believe. How can you have an internationally televised event , a "Tour" whatever that is is not a real honest fact-based race, and give so little important information, like speeds, incline or decline angles, race weather in the hottest time of the year like temperature and humidity and wind speed and wind direction?? (It's French.)
And then there are all the injured and hospitalized with broken bones and worse. How can a group of 'professionals' , on a closed road race course, with lots of police on the street, motorcycles and cars and even helicopters to watch and protect the bicycle racers, have so many accidents? Huge money ? (It's French.)
Oh, even the official race cars collided with 2 bicyclists this year, pushing one into a barbed wire fence!! Such gladiator carnage is unnecessary and unprofessional !! (It's French.)
So what if the French want to , year after year, fake the winning of 'stages', and the winning of the yellow , green, white, and red polka dot jerseys / shirts ? In day 20, the next to the last day, there is no believable way Andy S.--they showed him SLOWING DOWN on this time trial on the slight hill left side of the road!!-- was truly and honestly beaten by his slower brother Frank S. and Cadel E.!! In boxing, if you throw a fight, you get ridiculed and, if for money, go to jail !! Not in the 'Tour de France' (It's French.)
Maybe the French are comfortable with all this actors-on-a-stage fake and the Tour not really being an honest real bicycle race, by the day or by the 3 weeks !! The French seem to be very comfortable stealing from tourists with the wrong change at places like the Gare du Nord Metro Station, where i lost most of a 100fr.note. Hopefully this sports fraudulence will not spread to the rest of the world, like the Tour of California !! Phil and Paul yammering away all the time, i just laugh at the commentary b.s.!! What a total sham !! There is no way a reasonable person can look at the pavement and these bicyclists who stop pedaling just before the daily 'stage' finish line and call this a real honest team and or individual race !! It is a phony show, a French fraud of massive monetary complexity, a hoax, a 'tour' , a joke !! And they have not even started talking about all the illegal drug doping, but for one rider i heard, in this bicycle poorly regulated 'sport'-farce !! Why would Andy and Frank yield the win to weaker short Aussie Cadel !? We may never know the truth. (It's French.)
'Professional' bicycle racing as a sport is hurt by the fraudulence of this 98 years of French faked 'race' show.
