On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:12:39 -0400, "Kevin Gowen"
<kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>mr.sumo snr. wrote:
>> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:73fde4f0.0307270557.3cdb4dbb@posting.google.com...
>>> Out of 148 riders finishing the race, not one is from Japan (or any
>>> Asian country, I believe). Just strikes me as odd somehow.
>>>
>>
>> I take it you were following the TDF on JSkySports3.
>>
>> The last three weeks have been a rather pleasant departure.
>> Finishing work at 9.30 every evening and then Le Tour until midnight
>> - especially once JSkySports got their act together and started
>> broadcasting the French commentary on the sub-channel.
>>
>> I hope they generated enough new customers with the live coverage to
>> justify repeating it every year. I signed up just for the TDF and the
>> Rugby World Cup in October - which if my memory serves me correct was
>> also broadcast primarily on JSkySports3 the last time in 1999.
>>
>> Congratulations to Armstrong.  Now if only that other famous Texas
>> native could learn to negotiate his way around the French landscape.
>
>Oh, he's done that quite well by denying France the relevance it so
>desperately craves.

Didn't France used to be a world power or something? Many centuries
ago, I mean.




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