Ada and the Tour de France

My attempts to get the kids interested in the Tour de France continued this year. Ada is, to a point, mostly asking over and over again, "who is the winner?" She also got pulled in by the helicopter shots of castles and gorges as well. There's hope yet!

You can never start too early

Daily Ada: 12 July 12

This is the moment when Cadel Evans was being dropped by Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins on today's Tour de France stage. (I had the coverage on in the background and I just happened to be taking photographs when it happened.) She seems concerned - she must have secretly been supporting Evans!

Julie's neighbor.

According to wikipedia, George Hincapie lives in Greenville, South Carolina!

Ok, Phil's got it right.

The other rider that Phil Liggett always prefixes with "big" is George Hincapie. You might have guessed from my earlier post that I think it's kind of funny and I've never really understood the name. I mean, they're all sitting down and have huge legs and tiny arms, so it's hard to see why Phil has to say it every single time - and he's even said it enough that Paul has to say it, every single time.

But then today, watching the team time trial, the motorcycle camera person had a shot where they were following Team Columbia HTC with the camera more on a straight-on level with the riders. And there, in the middle was number 74, with a bike twice the height of everyone else's, rider all hunched over. And I thought, "who's that?" and then looked it up and sure enough, it's Big George Hincapie. I totally get it - everyone else really is a lot smaller. Except Big Tom Boonen, of course.

Le Tour est arrivee!

I just love that Phil Liggett can't refer to the Belgian rider as anything but "Big Tom Boonen." I don't think I've heard him say his name once with out "big" in front of it, last year or so far this year.