Lapize's judgment
Lapize's judgment of the course's designers has become part of Tour legend: "You are assassins, yes, assassins."Nicknamed "The Circle of Death," the combination of the four big mountain passes was also crossed in the 1926 Tour. Like in 1910 and 1969, the winner of that stage, Lucien Buysse, went on to win the Tour."We will follow in the wake of Eddy Merckx on this arduous succession of mountain climbs," race director Christian Prudhomme said. It will be the first time since 2004 that riders will have to handle cobblestones, a difficult task that dashed Spanish rider Iban Mayo's hopes of unsettling Armstrong that year."We don't put cobblestones for riders to fall, but to make a selection," Prudhomme said. wholesale jerseys from china My grandmother (she's 85) showed me her shorthand. I had no idea this thing existed and found it awesome. I never got past doubling, but nevertheless managed to get to 125 wpm during my secretari