Heart-rendering stories.
He's ridden himself into the cobbles.
He (Boardman) crashed out through injury.
It could be all over bar the shouting, or until the fat lady sings.
It's every man for himself- man the lifeboaaaats!
Monet was born in Le Havre or Paris, or was brought up there and then went to Paris to do his painting.
See now as they go up: the stunted trees, the sparse grass, the special alpine flowers that can withstand the hard winter.
Any of you who have just finished hoovering the house out and have turned on the old TV…..
Easy-go-lucking.
My (steering) wheel's on the right-hand side, and when you look down you can almost get vertigo and bumps on your tummy, it's so far down!
They're big birds, so watch out lads, in case they drop one on you! (birds dropping bones on mountain rocks to break them open).
And the streaker gets his organs caught and thrown out of the finishing straight! He nearly won by a short head!
Apurov (=Abdujaparov!).
If you ever get the chance to visit Paris, do go up to the d'Orsay….I love painters; they've got Monet, Ceganne and Déjà.
2, 4, 10, 20: there must be 100 photographers here on the line!
He had time to throw his hands up in the…er…
De las Cuevas is so far down on GC you could time him in with a calendar!
This morning I went out for a run (in the Pyrenees) and was looking at the little alpine flowers.
They cycle through the toll - and no one's got their money out!
Paris, we can't hear, we've got a thunderstorm on our heads!
Escartin has a pursuiter's hooter. A big nose spread all over his face to suck in lots of oxygen.
Dr Robert Millar says stay clear of Columbians and weaker Spanish riders on the descent.
This is what I call a "beyond comprehensible" climb.
If you've got a grandmother in a wheelchair, now's the time to take her for a walk so she needn't see this!
SR: What are they doing there, Dave? - DD: They're riding their bicycles!
Also STEPHEN ROCHE from the same period…
He's got his backside between two chairs.
I have my ear to the grindstone, Dave.
The team is not firing on all four cylinders.
It's time for them to show the colour of their…….
There is more than one guy has ideas behind his head here.
If it came to the sprint, Ulrich might have the upper hand on Ulrich.
He probably doesn't know himself what he's up to. That's the sad thing about it. (on a Virenque breakaway)
They're uneasy here, they're going round the corners like an old thrupenny bit.
And MIKE SMITH (link-man)…
The birthday boy of three years ago.
It could be that '98 will be seen as a watershed year. Let's hope it's a watershed with the water flowing in the right direction when all the dust has settled.
I'm sure everyone who enjoyed it took part.
Not actually a lake, a reservoir, as it's artificial water.
