Teamsiliconvalley - Sports Blog

le tour!

July 4th, 2008

Tour de france 2008 kicks off tomorrow. AWESOME. Back in Sydney, we would be glued to the 10pm SBS telecasts until the stage finish. It was typically 1 or 2am by that time, and the telecast didn't even start from the beginning of the stage. Fark. I finished writing that sentence and realised I should check whether they are even telecasting it here in Singapore. FARRR OUTTT! I don't think they even telecast on the cableTV sports channels. I am so bummed. Oh...I need to look for alternatives...Now this really deserves a sad mushroom =(

Entry Filed under: Sports

Le Tour

July 16th, 2007

This is my first non-school related blog so I feel like I am taking baby steps towards this hip new inter-web thing all the kids are talking about. I sure hope all the tubes that make up the inter-web are working and that I don't make too much of an ass hat of myself in this blog.

Because this is the first post in a long line of posts that will never be read by anyone, I figured I should start off easy and talk about the Tour de France. Because nothing makes a girl popular like a long rant about the inherit greatness of Thor Hushovd. Really, you can rent me out for parties and I can give an oration about my pure, noble love for comentator Phil Liggett and my wish that Bob Roll will find himself in a hotel room covered in a dead hooker's blood (surely, that would get him off the tv??).

I wasn't always a Tour de France fan. I can honestly say that I kind of hate being on a bicycle. In fact, I kind of hate the men who feel the need to ride in the Tour. Mainly, because the riders often look like anorexic eight year old girls and that just can't be healthy.

I watch the Tour because my dad started to make us watch the Tour. My brothers and I either had to find something interesting about it or go crazy ,and after 10 years I can't not be interested in the event. The very least you can say about the Tour is that France is pretty. Watching the French countryside go by is kind of like watching the best kind of escapism on tv, you know, mind numbing, but not soul sucking like VH1. The best that can be said about the Tour is that the riders are in one of the most intense and grueling competitions around. And that the riders have funny names that stick in your head. Every year in June names that I haven't thought of in exactly one year start popping up in my head. "Hum, I wonder what Alejandro Valverde is doing right now?" Which is always followed up with the thought, "why in the hell did I just think about Alejandro Valverde?? Who am I going to think of next? Jens Voight? Damn, did I just remember who Jens Voight is?"

 Really, I know way more about the Tour de France than is good for a girl.

Entry Filed under: Sports