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Nicholas Roche Paris-Nice Diary

  • 08-03-2011 8:46am
    #1
    Joxer_S
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    In the Independent.

    Great to see they are continuing this!


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  • #2
    ednwireland
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    cheers, forgot they were doing this

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3
    Guybrush T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Guybrush T


    Does anyone know who writes it? (I'm assuming it's not Nico, since I doubt he's got time to be sitting at a PC bashing out 500 words after each stage, so I'm guessing he chats to a hack who actually produces the article.)

    If he does write it all himself, it's very well done.


  • #4
    manwithaplan
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    His account of stage 2 is excellent. Crashes, fights, mechanicals, railway crossings - great stuff.


  • #5
    Jawgap
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    Makes a stage of a continental pro-tour race sound like a Friday morning on Moore St -

    "'After the line they traded slaps like a couple of aul ones'"

    That's good writin':)


  • #6
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Guybrush T wrote: »
    Does anyone know who writes it?

    Ger Cromwell


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  • #7
    Jawgap
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    el tonto wrote: »
    Ger Cromwell

    Thanks for spoiling the magic!!!!

    Next you'll be saying there's no Santa:)


  • #8
    LCRC_BAX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭LCRC_BAX


    Great read today, his TDF Diary is top notch.


  • #9
    dastardly00
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    Saturday and Sundays diary in the Indo today: Link
    The team doctor asked me what I had for breakfast and I told him I wasn't feeling hungry so I just had an omelette.

    ^^^
    This isn't the first time that he hasn't eaten enough food before a stage and then performed badly, and in this case, abandoning the race!


  • #10
    ednwireland
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    dastardly00 wrote: »
    ^^^
    This isn't the first time that he hasn't eaten enough food before a stage and then performed badly, and in this case, abandoning the race!

    amazing really considering these guys burn through several thousand calories a day that he still makes a mistake like trying to race on an omelette (unless it was stuffed with pasta i suppose)

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #11
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    He mentioned that he'd been trying to be careful with his diet since coming back from injury. He obviously overdid it. It happens. Contador bonked in Paris Nice two years ago too.


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  • #12
    blorg
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    Interesting thread on the diaries here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056211486


  • #13
    Hail 2 Da Thief
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    Some people really have nothing better to do with their time!


  • #14
    TinyExplosions
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    blorg wrote: »
    Interesting thread on the diaries here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056211486

    Good ol slideshowbob....


  • #15
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    The OP of that thread in News & Media is currently banned from the Cycling forum. Because of this, I'd ask people not to comment on his thread here, since he will be unable to respond to remarks. If you want to discuss it with him, do it over in News & Media.


  • #16
    Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,238 ✭✭✭Junior


    He's even turned up in the Rugby forum as well ..


  • #17
    Beasty
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    Junior wrote: »
    He's even turned up in the Rugby forum as well ..
    Nicholas Roche in the Rugby forum - well I never (who's ghosting that one for him I wonder?)

    Thread closed

    Beasty


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