Best name in the Tour de France?

[NickM]

I nominate Christian Knees of the Milram team

Did he have them blessed by the Pope before the race?

 

[Paulus]

How about Joost Posthuma of Rabobank. Will he make to the end?

 

[rich p]

Not the best name but Murillo Fischer is the only Brazilian in the tour.

I'd like to have been a brazilian rider but that's another story

 

[beanzontoast]

Not from the current tour, but Vladimir Karpets. Great name!

Wasn't it David Duffield who came up with the immortal commentary "... It's curtains for Karpets"?

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Riccardo Ricco - wasn't he the black fella out of 'Miami Vice'?

 

[mr_hippo]

On the CA team - Dmitriy Fofonov; try saying that after a few sherbets!

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Billy the Kid of Credit Agricole - William Bonnet.

For sheer sillyness though, I like Josep Jufre Pou.

And Marco Velo had to either be an explorer or a cyclist.

 

[terry huckle]

Again not from the current era, but I always liked to hear

"Djimoulidine Abdujaporov" being said.

 

[MichaelM]

I've just spent a lazy afternoon watching the stage.

The commentator mentioned an italian rider whose name translates to.....

long turn on the front. Can't remember who it is though.

 

[yello]

David Millar.... oh how I laugh...

Danny Pate... probably feels either at home.... or worried

Brett Daniel Lancaster... should be on a horse

Rabobank gets the team prize; Moerenhout, Posthuma, Tankink, Ten Dam

Amets Txurruka wins the most unpronounceable name contest, with fierce competition from some other Basque boys.

but my current fave has to be Inaki Isasi (Euskatel). It just sounds dangerous, something cold war, dark and misty Bulgarian side streets about it.

 

[Dayvo]

These two sound like a foot infection:

Amets Txurruka
and
Gorka Verdugo, both of ESP Euskaltel - Euskadi.

The Dutch normally have the best names, but my fave, although absent this year, is Levi Leipheimer. Class!

 

[yenrod]

Bram TANKINK

 

[monnet]

Txurruka in this year's Tour, of years past, I always liked Bo Hamburger as a name.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

djamoladine abdujaparov - and done without googling (so if it's wrong…)

 

[Lardyboy]

Björn Schröder - for the extravagant use of the "umlaut".