Art O’Connor

Comment by Flahute

June 28, 2007 @ 7:06 pm

Man, the uber-tool Adrian Karsten hasn’t been associated with the Tour de France coverage since it went off ESPN after the 1999 Tour. Hell … Karsten committed suicide in 2005!

Now we get Al “Fish” Trautwig … and I keep trying to decide who’s worse …

But like a train-wreck (no pun intended), I gotta watch Le Sucks year-after-year!

Comment by Art

June 28, 2007 @ 9:27 pm

My bad, yeah Al Troutwig he is the uber-tool.

Comment by Forrest Gladding

June 29, 2007 @ 10:52 am

I am gonna watch or at least have it on in the background. And to all the Lance fans out there, Lance has you duped. The thing is I dont really care. He was doped and he beat the other dopers so I guess he was still the fastest. What I dont like is his whole attitude of “I beat them clean”, bullshit! Thats why Sheryl left him, found out the truth and didnt want to be around when it came crashing down. I watch the tour for the soap opera, not the cycling. Its the best reality tv show out there. The crying, the blaming, the backstapping, the drug addictions, the suicides, the lies, the drama, you got to love it.

Comment by Bob

June 29, 2007 @ 11:11 am

Biggest, hardest, longest sporting event in the history of the world. And cycling is not the focus, France is. If you have not been to Europe, you are commenting on scenes and country beyond your knowledge. America is not the be-all end-all of exsistence. Try understanding other cultures and the love they have for the sport. Cyntics are a dime a dozen in America.

Comment by Forrest Gladding

June 29, 2007 @ 11:20 am

Its is the biggest, longest, hardest race in the world, but it hasnt been run clean in 20 years! Also the VS coverage is all Lance and Discovery all the time, god forbid they talk honestly about the tour and what is going on out there. The thing with the French though is they hate on Lance, Landis and everyone else for winning their tour, but treat other dopers like Gods, look at how they acclaim Virenque at the Tour presentation but have no Lance?? Landis is not invited to the presentation but Virenque is, that dude won 5 polka dot jersey doped, whats the difference? the whole race is losing its interest, and this is why. Bike racing is the gayest sport in the world and the coolest sport, but I dont think the Tour is helping. I didnt see Lance win a Flanders, but 7 tours is cool??? Come on, there is more to bike racing than just the tour.

Comment by Art

June 29, 2007 @ 1:58 pm

I never said America was the be all end all on anything. Hell NASCAR is considered a sport here. I just think the whole “Le Tour” is like the Vegas era Elvis, a fat bloated parody of itself. I want to see the pro’s race the entire season again. Using Lance as an example how many times did he race worlds after he became a “Tour” rider? He couldn’t even be bothered to show up and put out a real effort at the SF Grand Prix. Weak.

Comment by Forrest Gladding

June 29, 2007 @ 4:08 pm

Look at how many dopers were in the top 3 since 94.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/?id=history

Proven dopers in the top 5. Riis, Landis, Basso, Jan, Raimondas Rumsas, Hamilton, Marco Pantani,Richard Virenque, Zulle(admitted to using epo in 99). No short list. Also I put Vino, Lance and Kloden on the suspicous list.

How can a Tour win be cool if your old teamates admitted to doping to help you win. “Yeah I just won the TDF, but my doper teamates pulled for me and blocked the wind so I could rest, I won fair and square.” Art is right, the Tour is Elvis in the Vegas years.

Comment by luscious

June 29, 2007 @ 4:21 pm

Yeah, thats why I like American sports… no doping. Bonds just hit a homer, gotta go!

Comment by Forrest Gladding

June 29, 2007 @ 4:26 pm

I have been to Europe so that Argument doesnt fly with me. America still is the best damn country in the world.

What makes cycling gay, answer is Professional Cyling. What makes cycling cool, all those people Sly interviews on his blog.

The coolest sports then really are skateboarding and snowboarding, steriods dont do shit if you aint got the balance. They dont have all this silly drama that baseball, cycling, running, etc… have.

Comment by Bob

June 29, 2007 @ 8:28 pm

Ice skating is the gayest sport. Why is the Tour cool? You get to watch a great race with a great country for a backdrop. Living and riding in Europe, you can get a meat-filled fresh pastry at about any streetcorner. The French know food and how to enjoy life without obsessing about money or sucess. During the Summer the bars are full of men watching cycling and drinking beer at ten in the morning. Cyclists are respected by adults and idolized by children. I remember riding through villages and stopping to fill bottles at the fountains while children would stare at you with wonder in their eyes. In France you will meet sixty-year old men bike-touring from town to town for weeks at a time with only a change of clothes and a credit card. There was a wine co-op in my town where you brought your own container and good red wine was forty cents a liter. There is uglyness too, the French are clearly tramatized by Americans winning so much. They jelously hold tightly to the national identity. Landis is accused of using a little androgel, less than I use to treat my low testosterone, not enough to influence the outcome, not by any scientist’s reconing. His testosterone is lower than average anyway. Yet so many are ready to label him and many others “dopers.” That is the sad thing about the tour.

Comment by Bob

June 29, 2007 @ 8:30 pm

However, I pretty much agree with everything Art said about the tour, most of the time, it is like video cloroform. The team time trials are a hoot though, and then there are the wrecks…

Comment by slyfox

June 29, 2007 @ 11:25 pm

nba kicks ass

Comment by Brewer

June 30, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

Goddam Art you touched a nerve!