Get your TdF fill of Phil for breakfast.

Cycling fans know the voice of Phil Ligget. He's been comentation on cycle races since I was a boy... and that's a couple, or three, years ago now :P

If you watch Tour de France on TV or DVD there's a good chance that you'll hear him and ex bike racer Paul Sherwen doing their famous double act. Phil has quite a few choice phrases: "The elastic's gone" when a cyclists just can't pedal any further and "He's dancing on his pedals in a most immodest way".

You can find a whole thread on Bike Forums devoted to his quotes here and a web site here.

But best of all there a web page, here, where you can listen to Phil's and Paul's, as well as cycling Photographer, Graham Watson's audio summary of easch days Tour de France stage. The files a short and load quickly.

Now you can impress all your cycling mates with... "That Ricardo Ricci is the new Marco Pantani" or I hear cadel (Evans, and Tour favourite) had a nasty crash"...

Posts are made each morning around 7-8am Fiji time.

The wonderful sport

I hope this works... I'm still trying to work out how to embed videos. The guy who made this must be a Lance fan 'coz every second shot is of Armstrong. But there's some pretty inspiring moments. And a couple of sad ones, like Erik Zabe admitting to doping and Joseba Beloki crashing in front of Lance in the 2003 Tour de France. Beloki was in second place in the Tour and smashed his leg, elbow and wrist in the crash. He never regained his form and in 2006 was implicated, and was cleared, in the Spanish doping scandal. The video ends with some memorable victories. Most, if not all are TdF stage wins. Enjoy!