Tour de France

Posted on September 8, 2020

Weekly Update – Week of September 8, 2020 (COVID Week 26)

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Baseball: MLB injuries. Lou Brock died. Baez not happy about video. Standings going into final month.

Basketball: NBA Quarterfinals. 10 guests allowed in bubble for conference finals. Greek Freak questionable for Game 5.

Football-NCAAF: 6 of the Top 25 teams playing this week! OSU/Tulsa postponed a week. #2 NFL Draft prospect sits out season (that his conference opted out of anyway). Social change plans tweeted by Trevor Lawrence.

Football-NFL: NFL Season starts on Thursday! Watson signed 2nd highest deal. Hopkins sets non-QB record. Plenty of other money talking. Mariota out for undisclosed injury. OBJ having a s***ty day.

Golf: DJ wins FedEx Cup – stays #1 in World.

Horse Racing: No triple crown this year. Authentic leads whole race despite late push by Tiz the Law

Olympic Sports: Tour de France update. Tokyo 2020 is a go. WRs broken in one hour run (M & W) and W half marathon. Table Tennis comes back in Nov for China. Kerri Walsh against masks.

Soccer: Ronaldo hits 100 goals. Messi staying at Barcelona.

Tennis: US Open drama! Djokovic hits judge in throat and gets DQ’d! Men’s side has no previous GS winner left. Women have Osaka and Williams still in. Finals this weekend.

Posted on July 29, 2019

Weekly Update – Week of July 29, 2019

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Baseball – MLB: Orioles historical 16 inning win. Bauer gets mad. Ortiz is home. Scherzer is hurt. Marisnick still suspended.

Football: LSU gets a recruit and losses a felon. UConn to pay for leaving AAC. Pac 12 at 11am?

Golf: Koepka takes his first WGC event. Langer secures his 11th major. Morikawa takes his maiden PGA win. Schedule changes.

Olympic Sports: Olympic Preview: Swimming Worlds Updates and lots of swimming news! Only 1 Phelps WR left! Track and Field – Team USA set for Worlds. TdF winner is a first!

Posted on July 22, 2019

Weekly Update – Week of July 22nd, 2019

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Baseball – MLB: Lindor pushes for netting extension after his foul ball hits 3yr old. P Woodruff to IL. 1B Zimmerman re-injured foot. Yankees/Red Sox this week. AL/NL Standings.

Basketball: Beal deal. Giannis younger brother to the Lakers. Bucks deal for Korver.

Football: Petrus dies from heat stroke. Minnesota player 4x cancer survivor. Reed suspended for 6 games. Maryland coach helping with Falcons training camp. Sending all the good feelings to Devin White.

Golf: An Irish Open champ in an Irish Open Championship. Trump contributes to the Barbasol winner.

Olympic Sports: Swimming Worlds. New WR. Biles remains undefeated. TdF final week.

Posted on July 15, 2019

Weekly Update – Week of July 15th, 2019

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Baseball – MLB: American League > National. Not hitters and a close to perfect game. Honoring Skaggs. Gibson got cancer.

Basketball: Davis to sit out USA camp. Summer League final tonight.

Football: Media Days for Big 12 and ACC. Elliott off the hook. 49ers kicker.

Golf: Frittelli wins first PGA title. Open Championship this week – last major of the year.

Olympic Sports: Whitaker KO’d by car. Tour de France Update – American out. Mile record breaker. Kazarin continues coaching. Retired swimmer saves someone.

Tennis: Wimbledon marathon match. Final results.

Posted on July 11, 2019

Berets, baguettes and bikes – oh la la!

Olympic Sports

I have never watched the Tour de France

Explain this to me s l o w l y .

Over 23 days (from July 6th – July 28th), 176 riders will race over 2,000 miles for a series of 21 ‘stages’ through mountains, hills, towns and sprint days. At the end of each stage, every cyclists’ individual time is added to his previous stage times. The cyclist with the lowest cumulative time wins the Tour de France and iconic yellow jersey.
- 22 teams of 8 riders who use varying strategies to win
- 28 riders in the young rider classification this year
There will be 7 flat stages, 5 hilly stages, 7 mountain stages (with 5 mountain top finishes), 1 individual time trial stage, 1 team time trial stage and 2 rest days
- Each stage gives its own points and prize money.
- Stage 1 started in Brussels (you’re not crazy that is in Belgium not France)
- Every year the route changes but it always ends the same
- Stage 21 will end on the Champs-Elysees
- Rest days are 7/16 and 7/22
Who is in the lead? Here are the updated standings.
- One of the favorites, GBR’s Chris Froome is not competing this year after a serious cycling accident earlier in the year. He won the TdF in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017
It will be televised everyday on NBCSN live at ~7am CT and replays most days @ 8pm
- Every year the TdF has ~3.5Bn views (now granted that is over 21 days) which is a similar figure as the World Cup. The most viewed Super Bowl had ~111MM

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