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Velon brings you the highlights of cycling in 2015, with some incredible on-bike footage of winning moves, crashes and celebrations. This video puts you in the center of the action.
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The early days of the Tour are notorious for crashes, but yesterday during stage 3 things got bad, the stage had to be neutralized while medics took care of riders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSULhAyY9QQ
According to Cycling Weekly:
“The double crashes on a fast descent in the Ardennes at the Tour de France on stage 3 left many of the riders battered, scraped and bruised on the worst possible day – right before they hit the cobbles of Northern France. So numerous were the injured that race organisers were forced to halt the stage to let the medics do their jobs.”
Cancellara who was in yellow went down and has abandoned with a fractured vertebrae. Many other riders were injured. Those who survived have to face the cobbles today.
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” -Mark Twain
The Tour kicks off tomorrow, July 4th with the individual time trial in Utrech. Here’s a list of some key Tour de France resources, the route, the stages, who and where to watch online.
There are places you can watch the tour online streaming for free, but I don’t trust them. In my experience they’re slow, loaded with ads, ask you to download dodgy plugins, or worse.
For $29 you can get full access to the whole tour… watch it live, replays, highlights, interviews and more on NBCSports.com
The Story of the Tour de France is a rare gem of a book in a crowded category. It grabs you from the start, electrifies and keeps you immersed in the powerful drama that is the Tour.
“Drenched in rich detail.” -Paul S
“As soon as I began reading this book I was hooked!” -John W
We all have our favorites, and Contador is certainly a proven contender, but who else will have a target on their backs? Here’s the riders to watch… and who will be watched closely in the peleton.
Here’s a quick overview of where the Tour de France will be passing this year. The Tour kicks off July 4th in Utrecht and ends July 26 in Paris.
The Story of the Tour de France
The Story of the Tour de France is a rare gem of a book in a crowded category. It grabs you from the start, electrifies and keeps you immersed in the powerful drama that is the Tour.
“Drenched in rich detail.” -Paul S
“As soon as I began reading this book I was hooked!” -John W
France and the West is under assault from terrorist groups around the world. Now one Tour de France team wants to honor a terrorist during the Tour.
On January 7, 2015, France and the rest of the civilized world, was rocked by a barbaric act of terrorism in the epicenter of civilization, Paris, France. Two Islamist terrorists entered the offices of a weekly newspaper and slaughtered 11 people, and wounded another 11.
The carnage did not end there. In the days that followed there were further hostage takings, murders and injuries.
Exactly one week later, on January 14, the Tour de France organizers announced the teams in the 2015 Tour de France. Included in the roster is the first African-registered team, MTN-Qhubeka.
What has this got to do with the terrorist atrocities a week earlier?
The MTN-Qhubeka team is planning on turning July 18 in to a day of celebration of a political icon. That’s bad enough, but the political icon they’d like to honor was not just any political icon, he was an advocate of terrorism.
The team, along with the Mandela Foundation, would like to celebrate Nelson Mandela.
What most people do not know is that Nelson Mandela’s ANC group was a terrorist organization. The ANC’s goal was to impose Soviet-style communism on South Africa.
In 1961 Mandela co-founded the so-called “military” wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”).
In 1964, Mandela was convicted on 193 counts of sabotage and smuggling of munitions, including 210,000 soviet hand grenades and other bomb-making materials.
ANC Car Bomb, Church St, Pretoria, South Africa A huge pall of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air as debris and bodies were strewn around the scene of the explosion… It exploded at the height of the city’s rush-hour as hundreds of people were leaving work for the weekend. Glass and metal were catapulted into the air as shop-fronts and windows were blown out. Many passers-by had limbs amputated by the flying debris. Others bled to death. BBC, May 20, 1983
The ANC and Mandela’s “Spear of the Nation” went on to assassinate political enemies, bomb banks, shopping centers, restaurants, and indiscriminately slaughter blacks, whites, men, women and children.
This wasn’t limited to attacks against military, police and government targets, or even whites. The ANC used violence and terror extensively among the black population to command obedience and loyalty to the ANC, and to exterminate and instill fear in their political opponents.
As despicable as the apartheid regime was, Mandela was not in prison for his ideas or opposition to apartheid, it was because of his acts of violence and advocacy of terrorism. (Many people were opposed to apartheid and were not in prison.)
In fact, in 1985 then Prime Minister P.W. Botha offered Mandela his freedom in exchange for simply renouncing violence. He refused.
In 1986, as if to reaffirm the ANC’s commitment to terrorism, Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie Mandela, said, “With our boxes of matches and necklaces we’ll liberate this country.”
She was endorsing the horrific practice of “necklacing,” putting a tire doused in gasoline over someone’s neck, and setting them on fire.
The victim suffered a slow and agonizing death. Eyewitnesses report that it could take up to 20 minutes for the victim to die. Over a thousand people are estimated to have been tortured and killed by necklacing.
In order to defeat the bloody scourge of terrorism, we have to tackle it head on philosophically and militarily. We have to clearly identify it, condemn it, and deprive it of every shred of respectability.
There can be no ambiguity, no appeasement, and certainly no honoring of its advocates and perpetrators.
At a critical time when the West is under a bloody and barbaric assault from Islamic terrorists, at a time when the Parisian atrocity is fresh in our minds; how appropriate is it to turn the Tour de France into a vehicle for celebrating a man who had more in common with those who perpetrated the Paris massacre than with its victims?
