Tour de Pez: The View From The Pailheres
July 19th, 2010 admin
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St. 14: The choppers are the first warning, like bees in a perfect blue summer sky, the crowd stands, and way, way down below us we see them – a white jersey and a red jersey, moving steadily up the ribbon of hot tar which unwinds up the valley…
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Message by Edmond Hood The maracas shake, ‘Cara mia, mine !’ blasts from the PA. Bang! The little cannon fires and the hall fills with smoke. Yes, this is the right place, the Ballerup Super Arena, I heave Franco forward as the opening one hour chase gets the last six day of the 2009/10 season under way. Once again, Ed Hood is on the scene,...
Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.18: Is Contador on the way out? Why is Cav out of the running for the green jersey? Who’ll win the final time trial? Can Robbie McEwen win one of the last two stages? And why isn’t Ivan Basso going well? At the start of stage 18 at Sailes-de-Bearn, we asked the men who know better than most the answers...
Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.17 One hundred years – that’s how long ago it is since Octave Lapize first conquered Le Tourmalet on 15 kilograms of steel bike in the 1910 Tour de France. Today, PEZ goes roadside for the Tour’s final mountain showdown.
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St. 12- Finish: Ca va? You know you’re in the south of France when: it’s so hot you can’t touch the car’s paint work, there are fortresses on every hill top and you can buy today’s L’Equipe.
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.20: The alarm blasts – 06:00 am. It’s 600 kilometres plus from Bordeaux to the Longjumeau. It’s not without reluctance we leave our lovely chateau among the vineyards of Medoc and load up the SEAT.
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.15: ‘Contador en jeune!’ the guy in the race car tells us as we fight through the human tide, back to the PEZ car which is parked two kilometres on the wrong side of the mountain top…
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.13: Donna Summer is talking about ‘workin’ hard for the money’ on Radio Nostalgi, breakfast was parfait and the sun is shining on the stunning Millau viaduct – it’s gonna be a good day!
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Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.16: ‘I think I’ve talked enough about that!’ says Nico Roche. About what? Team mate John Gadret riding past his leader and refusing to give him a front wheel when the young Irish man was stopped with a puncture. The day got off to an inauspicious start in Bagneres de Luchon, but from there it was...
Message by Edmond Hood PEZ Roadside : Opening weekend in Belgium is a joyous affair, and it’s one for the aficionados. There’s nary a man more deserving of the title than our own Ed Hood. If there’s a true hard man’s race to be witnessed, Ed will be there, either by plane, boat, car, foot, or all four. Ed takes us inside the...
Message by Edmond Hood Roadside St.19 The French radio car tries to muscle Dave off the wheel, but Daves ridden too many road races to let that happen and we tuck back in alongside the Sky team car. Stage 19, Tour de France 2010, a 52 kilometre time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac and PEZ is on the wheel of one of the fastest men in the world
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