Friday, July 15, 2011
Turnover!
Vincent Jérôme of Team Europcar has held the Lanterne Rouge for 12 consecutive stages of the 2011 Tour de France. Today, by finishing at about 9 minutes after the stage winner in Lourdes, while the autobus finished at about 22 minutes, he reliquished his position and moved up one in the overall standings.
The new Lanterne Rouge is Andrey Amador of Costa Rica, riding for Team Movistar. Since I was previously unaware that there was a representative of Costa Rica in the Tour (and probably not alone in that), I welcome him taking over the role and gaining the recognition associated with the Lanterne Rouge. Bravo!
The new Lanterne Rouge is Andrey Amador of Costa Rica, riding for Team Movistar. Since I was previously unaware that there was a representative of Costa Rica in the Tour (and probably not alone in that), I welcome him taking over the role and gaining the recognition associated with the Lanterne Rouge. Bravo!
Labels: Amador, Jerome, Jérôme
Monday, July 04, 2011
Two first names
As someone who also has two first names, I should know better. I keep getting Vincent Jérôme's name backwards. He's holding on to the Lanterne Rouge for the third consecutive stage of the 2011 Tour de France. Here's the good-looking young man's profile at Wikipedia.
There have been no DNFs so far, despite a number of crashes.
Right next to him in the penultimate spot in the GC is Dimitry Murayev of Radio Shack. We probably will see more of him - he was the Lanterne Rouge last year in two stages of the Toru de France and was the overall Lanterne Rouge of the 2008 Vuelta.
Labels: Jerome, Jérôme, Murayev
Sunday, July 03, 2011
2011 Tour begins
The first two stages of the 2011 Tour de France have seen Frenchman Jerome Vincent Vincent Jérôme hold the position of Lanterne Rouge for Team Europcar, after seeing some trouble in a crash-ridden first stage. Here he is getting things untangled:
Pre-Tour favorite clenbuterol-positive Alberto Contador finished Stage 2 in 75th place, 1:42 back from the leader, which makes me happy. Naturally he and the team aren't happy with that result, so they're asking for the rules to be retroactively changed in their favor.
Labels: Contador, Jerome, Jérôme, Vincent
Thursday, September 06, 2007
La Vuelta continues
I haven't followed the Vuelta closely this year, I admit. Right now after Stage 5 their Lanterne Rouge of 183 riders is Vincent Jérôme, a French cyclist on Buoygues Telecom, 6:02 back from the penultimate rider in the overall standings.
I was just interested to see that our old friends Tom Boonen of Quickstep-Innergetic, Magnus Backstedt of Liquigas, and Bradley McGee of Française des Jeux were all in the bottom 15 riders (#168, #172, and #181 respectively).
I was just interested to see that our old friends Tom Boonen of Quickstep-Innergetic, Magnus Backstedt of Liquigas, and Bradley McGee of Française des Jeux were all in the bottom 15 riders (#168, #172, and #181 respectively).
Labels: Backstedt, Boonen, Jérôme, McGee
