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Tour De France 2010

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Monkex Jul 2010 8:43pm, 7 Jul 2010 1,034 posts	0 Monkex um 450,000 euros last year, its usual for the winner to divide the winnings equally to the team as he will make 10 times that in the following year in endorsements and advertising etc etc
SPR™ Jul 2010 9:31pm, 7 Jul 2010 11,129 posts	0 SPR™ ...and it is a team event. I wonder if Lance took his share last year Looking at my fantasy team, if I had my chance again, i'd swap Kloden and Cunego for Sanchez and Cancellara
Gobi Jul 2010 10:08pm, 7 Jul 2010 36,508 posts	0 Gobi Evening all Funny being back home watching the highlights We have goodies and happy memories NICE
hammerite Jul 2010 10:14pm, 7 Jul 2010 10,658 posts	0 hammerite Did you fight any middle aged French women for the "delights" being thrown by the caravan? You have to watch them they turn nasty
The pilotlight Jul 2010 7:56am, 8 Jul 2010 1,599 posts	0 The pilotlight the team takes a share of the prize money and if you win you give your share to the team. the big jersey winners and stage winners will get their earnings from the post tour criteriums (town centre races), where they can demand huge start fees. the tour winner can ask up to 30,000 euros or so for a couple of hours work. In the past that was where the pro's would make much of their annual earnings, racing 3-4 times a week throughout August and travelling all round france and benelux. there's not so many races now, but there are a few big ones that draw big crowds.
The pilotlight Jul 2010 7:59am, 8 Jul 2010 1,600 posts	0 The pilotlight another fast finish cyclingnews.com pettechi v hushod v cav.
Rach E Jul 2010 8:35am, 8 Jul 2010 5,560 posts	0 Rach E Hammer, I managed to get a Francaise des jeux shirt from the caravane which may have annoyed one French guy a little. Largely the caravane passed us in quite remote spots though, so no fighting needed. The Haribo cars really should have offered Starmix though.
Keefy Beefy Jul 2010 9:06am, 8 Jul 2010 4,973 posts	0 Keefy Beefy A few grim photos here: guardian.co.uk
Dai Bank Jul 2010 9:08am, 8 Jul 2010 1,665 posts	0 Dai Bank The people in the caravan allegedly play a game where they try and hit the adults with stuff as the adults are not looking and try and catch them on the head. Haribo usually win as their packets are pretty small. It get's quite vicious towards the end of the Tour as by then their aim is pretty good and they've had 2.5 weeks of practice. Champion hats cause cuts! So for today I quite fancy Robbie Hunter to win, he looked like he was getting his legs well run in yesterday. I see Maggie brought his Pave into the studio the other day, when the money is spent you need a Lion or a block of stone to remind you of the good days.
hammerite Jul 2010 9:55am, 8 Jul 2010 10,663 posts	0 hammerite Nice to see Maggy also wearing his coffee shop shirts every day in the studio too. Nice one on the FDJ top Rach. We had a family next to us on AdH - we were about 3 miles up, they'd been there since 10am (like the rest of us), went absolutely mental when the caravan passed grabbing everything (Jnr and their lad nearly had a punch up, then their lad realised that it was only a washing powder sample!). Then after the caravan went they started walking down seemingly not interested in the race!