Congrats, Floyd!

[ysobelle]

You heard, right? Right. The 93rd Tour de France is over, with an American receiving the trophy in Paris for the 8th straight year. The peleton gave the honour of leading the race onto the Champs Elysee to Viatcheslav Ekimov of Team Discovery. At 40 years of age, he's by far the oldest rider in the race, and in his fifteenth Tour. The honour of final stage win was definitely NOT given-- it was taken by our favourite racing Norwegian, Thor Hushovd, he of the Worst Paper Cut in Tour History waaay back in the Prologue. He bookended the race, in other words, winning the first and the last stages. In between, he was constantly foiled by Robbie McEwen, upon whom he turned the tables this last time. Fear not, however: Robbie still walked away with this year's Green Jersey for Best Sprinter, having taken the most sprint points in the whole Tour. Mickael Rasmussen stood on the podium in his polka-dot King of the Mountains Jersey, holding his polka-dot-dressed baby. The Charge d'Affairs from the Danish Embassy was there to present his jersey, and wound up having to hold said baby while Rasmussen committed the blatant fashion faux-pas of layering polka dots over polka dots. Not that they're not already sartorial death in the first place on a guy. Damiano Cunego rounded out the jerseys, taking the White of Best Young Rider.

Floyd Landis, Man of the Hour-- well, Man of the 89 hours, 39 minutes, 30 seconds, and of the 2,200 Miles, actually-- was handed a microphone as he stood on the Champs Elysee in his coveted maillot jaune, following the precedent set by Lance Armstrong last year. Rather than the defiant, vindicated pride of the retiring king, Floyd spoke of his gratitude to his team, and the team's owner. And then he waved to the crowd, and walked off.

To his complete hip replacement.


In other news? Thanks to the amazing help of foxglove_8778 and mirroreyes, I have not one, not two, but FIVE corsets cut, with the last of my loops pinned in place on all of them. To say I'm ecstatic is a vast understatement. But I'm also exhausted. Away to bed for me.

Comments

[imafon.livejournal.com]

Belle,
Congratulations on the cutting of FIVE corsets! Wow is an understatement!

And til next year...Vive le race!

How exciting for a local to have won.

Also, I can honestly admit that I have never watched the Tour. But have enjoyed your play-by-plays immensely. So much so, that I do believe the Tour has found a new fan.

Sleep my precious, and dream of fairy tale corsets.

Luv ya, me

[mirroreyes.livejournal.com]

Yups. I would never have started watching that darn Tour without Nikki's play by play. I enjoyed it so much LAST year, that I actually volunteerly watched it this year.

how sad. That and I'm a Lancastrian too... so, Got to cheer for the hometown boy! HAHAhA! "we" can beat you all with one hip tied behind our backs!!!

[imafon.livejournal.com]

Go Floyd, Go Floyd, Go, Go, Go Floyd...

Can't touch this!

Yes, I am channeling MC Hammer. (And unfortunately some poor misbegotten soul in Lancaster/Lebanon County is probably wearing his pants as we speak. LOL.)

BTW: Isn't Nikki fabulous? I really do think that she should do play by play for ESPN during the Tour. Although, she would most likely need to use smaller words. HA

Bobbie

[mirroreyes.livejournal.com]

much much smaller words.

try single syllable words.
with some ya'll's put in there.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Bah! Phil Liggett will come and smack you both in the head!