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First African team at Tour de France since the 1950s wants rider thrown out for alleged racial abuse
National Post | July 10, 2015 | Tom Cary/The Telegraph

Posted on 07/10/2015 8:49:08 AM PDT by Loyalist

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To: catfish1957

No kidding. How dare they use every advantage to get over on the competition. It isn’t like winning is important.


21 posted on 07/10/2015 9:20:58 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: TexasCajun

Wow, the first guy in white. Got trammeled over and over.


22 posted on 07/10/2015 9:25:47 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Baynative

I thought Condi and Thomas were descended from black Africans. no?

Colin Powell is Bermudan and not African.


23 posted on 07/10/2015 9:28:11 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Disambiguator
No he didn't faint.

There was another cyclist side-drafting him on his left, doing a little rub'n, that caused a cut rear tire.

24 posted on 07/10/2015 9:28:12 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
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To: TexasCajun

I just said it LOOKED like he fainted because he went down so hard. At those speeds, stuff happens fast.


25 posted on 07/10/2015 9:31:58 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Cis-American)
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To: Disambiguator
But it does look like he was 'asleep' upon hitting the pavement.

..he got pummeled.

26 posted on 07/10/2015 9:35:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
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To: moovova

Looks to me like some did get wrapped around the pole.


27 posted on 07/10/2015 9:47:46 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Loyalist
during yesterday’s fourth stage of the Tour of Austria.

Huh?

28 posted on 07/10/2015 10:30:42 AM PDT by Moltke (The tagline that was here previously has suddenly disappeared)
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To: Noumenon

Thanks! I saw what you(did’t) say.


29 posted on 07/10/2015 10:37:53 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: PrairieDawg

I was racing in a pack when some one took out the guy behind me that cause him to fall and shove his handle bars through my back wheel taking me down.

I guess I bounced and got run over I don’t remember anything of the crash except the handle bars going through my wheel.

My helmet was shattered, hundreds of dollars of damage to my bike, lots and lots of road rash a trip to the ER. Lost a few days of work.

I felt I was lucky not to have more damage the speed was 22mph when it happed.

A few years before in the same race one of leading pack got taken out and died due to neck injuries. they were most likely doing close to 35mph on a slight down hill.


30 posted on 07/10/2015 10:43:49 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Gaffer

come to think of it Ive never “heard” of there ever having been any animosity based on the use of the so called “n word” anywhere in Africa


31 posted on 07/10/2015 1:34:53 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: moovova

Riders slid into the pole but not at high speed. The road slowed them down A number of bikes were tangled around the pole.


32 posted on 07/10/2015 3:40:57 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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