here are some definitions i came up with after watching three weeks of late night tour coverage. feel free to add your own to the comments.
Schleckanical – when your bike has a mechanical at the most inopportune time.
Contadork – the look on your face when you are embarrassed about how you won something.
A Renshaw Kiss – to clear space around you by using your head…repeatedly.
Cancellara – coming from the word cancel and the swiss position of remaining neutral, this now means to cancel all the fun out of an event by neutralising it.
Chavanel – someone what attacks regardless in the vain hope that it might come to something only to find that it actually works…twice.
Cunego – someone who showed lots of ability and promise to one day be king, only to find that they are really just a little prince.
Wiggens – someone that tries to carry the hopes and dreams of 61million people up a hillside and finds the burden is too heavy.
Cobbles – equals awesome…unless you have a schleckanical.
OMS – old man sprinters. showing the young bucks how to do it in the early stages. they got a bt tired towards the end.
French Revolution – 6 stage wins, a couple of days in yellow, but at the end of the day the highest place frenchman was 24 minutes behind. not so much a revolution, but a couple of small uprisings.
Vino – someone who attacks at the weirdest moments and has everyone wondering if he is a team player.
Hesjedal – someone who is as surprised as the rest of them as to where they finished overall.
Evans – unlucky…again and again.
Tenuous – any link between sizzler and the tour de france.
Deep Fried Turkey – The reason Schleck couldn’t beat Contador
Schleckanical – what Zak had last week when a nail entered his tire just as he was launching himself off the front of the main group.
Numpty – me for changing his inner tube for him so that he didn’t get his lilly whites all dirty (although he did buy me a coffee afterwards for my troubles).
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CONTABRAT: “It’s me who is weaker, it’s not him who was better” – Alberto Contador on beating Andy Schleck by 39s in 2010 versus 4:11min in 2009.
How about a reverse-schleckanical – like when I lost both main 1 and 2 just past Steve’s Hotel in Crawley from a puncture and spent the next 30Ks redlining & chasing, about to give up when…. LO AND BEHOLD…. Zak’s schlekanical in Bicton allowed me to return home within the safety of wind blockers!
Ahh, now I know how Zak managed to keep his whites… white.
Just get some fool to do his dirty work.
Menchov – keep plugging away, doing your own thing, and watch everyone else fall behind, then suddenly find yourself on the podium.
Confudium – Absence of protocol during podium ceremonies, which results in confusion when kissing the girls (was it two kisses or three?)
Shcleckanical…? Didnt he admit it was his own fault by changing gears incorrectly?
Contadork….? If i run a amrathon and my opponants shoe comes off… If im a racing river and another drivers blows a tyre…. Hell no! Besides thought he more than made up for it by letting Shcleck win. And didnt shleck take time initially off contador after his brother crashed and everyone legged it, not waiting for the boys behind. Long live King Contador!!!
As a non aussie…. Evans? Unlucky….? Im at a loss…? Wiggins was terrible! Evans was Terrible! A little bias there. haha I kept hearing how good evans was before the race. In his defence the other top riders said maybe he as tired from the giro…
Crydel – To cry and moan when you have yet another bad tour
Schlecklled – when you stack riding over an uneven surface causing an end to your day!
well physikcalfitness, if you don’t like it or agree to it, then don’t comment. it is meant as a bit of fun.
skytrain – fast takeoff….to nowhere!
Sorry peter didnt mean any offense it was just sarcasm…. Most of them i found very funny, but just think alot of Shcleck fans out there lol
The TylerNol – To fall and break a bone, maybe a wrist, and at the sight of any hills decide that your injury means you miss the next three weeks of riding.