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Mapping The Tour de France Riders From Space

Posted by timothy on from the we-are-from-france dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "It was just a matter of time before someone gets the idea of using satellite localization to map the positions of the cyclists of the Tour de France. In a first test on July 21 during the ascension to l'Alpe d'Huez, ten riders were equipped with receivers and tracked by the EGNOS European satellite positioning system, a preparatory programme for the Galileo system. The European Space Agency (ESA) reports about this first test in "The best view of the Tour is from space." It's highly possible that all riders can get receivers as soon as next year. And this data will be available on the Web, so you will know in real time the exact location of your favorite champion. Read this summary for more details and a computer-generated image showing the respective positions of Lance Armstrong and Richard Virenque, the top-ranked climber, while climbing to the top of l'Alpe d'Huez."

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  1. Re:late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not late. The eurotrash haven't crossed the finish line yet.

    I have seen slashbots (probrably European) who call Lance "a one-balled freak". Well, that's still one more ball than his eurotrash competition!

    Ha ha frogs! An American (and a Texan to boot) won you precious race six times in a row. Now you have nothing.

  2. Fucking French Pussies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    An American wins your pussy race again, you worthless cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Maybe if you weren't a nation of disgusting cock gobblers, you might come up with something you can actually win yourselves. Like maybe, a contest for abject capitulationists who throw their women to the Hun as soon as der Schickelgrueber shows up for a ski weekend.

    1. Re:Fucking French Pussies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      This coming from some fat, pale geek from his parent's basement. How many competitions have you won? (That's not counting the tenticle rape anime wankathon you won against your overweight faggot IRC buddies)

  3. who the hell was selfone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and should I really care?

  4. Re:Tracking teams and other uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Indeed, Kudos to the ESA!

    Also, Kudos to Lance Armstrong's cancer drugs containing STEALTH STEROIDS ingredients.

    fucking 6-time cheating bastard! merde on him!

  5. Lance pisses off French by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't you know that some of the idiots in France are trying to figure out a way to ban Lance from the tour race? They despise Americans anyway, don't you know that him winning "their" race 6 times in a row has to be ticking them off. LOL

  6. Tour de Freedom? by herraukuli2061 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They should call it the TOUR DE FREEDOM.

    Like, those French are totally gay and everything.

    USA! USA! USA!

    Read my lips. We shall see whose capitalism stands in the end, the American one, the French one or the Iraqi one. Sissies.