Nearly there
Veteran
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I think I more nervous of todays stage than yesterdays
Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)
- Thread starter Flying_Monkey
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
asterix
Comrade Member
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- Limoges or York
Golf (I use a loose definition of sport to include it, very loose) I don't mind people playing golf so long as they don't ruin good land with golf courses or televise people playing it.
NickM
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- Darwin's birthplace
Froome needs to be on a different team in 2013, for his own sake.
Sky need Froome to be on a different team in 2013, for the sake of their team's cohesion.
I hope that it comes to pass (and amicably). The prospect of the Tour that could result is mouth-watering.
In the meantime... I predict that Wiggins will take 90 seconds out of Froome on the final, flat time trial.
Sky need Froome to be on a different team in 2013, for the sake of their team's cohesion.
I hope that it comes to pass (and amicably). The prospect of the Tour that could result is mouth-watering.
In the meantime... I predict that Wiggins will take 90 seconds out of Froome on the final, flat time trial.
thanks for that - I know some people don't like him, but that's absolutely brilliant. Easily the best thing I've read on this year's race.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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Was it just me who clicked into the translation first and had no idea what all that stuff about atria was?
Chuffy
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- On the banks of the Exe
Alternatively - Sky deliver on what they must surely have promised and give Froome leadership on a GT, up to and including the Tour. That's the deal Froome signed post-Vuelta and Wiggy has explicitly said that he'll ride for Froome. Why are people so desperate to make a drama out of the obvious?
NickM
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- Darwin's birthplace
When he doesn't think that he can win the Tour himself. The Vuelta is a good race, but in a rider's palmares it counts for little beside the Tour. Wiggins, with his awareness of the history of the race (not to mention how he must feel about 2011), will not want to be a one-time winner.
Besides which, given the different emphases of their talents, I'm not sure how much help Wiggins can be to Froome. Nor am I convinced that Froome is indispensable to Wiggins.
Chuffy
Veteran
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- On the banks of the Exe
Perhaps not, but it's going to come down to the course. Assuming 2013 is lumpier than this year and has less TTing I think he'll be realistic and accept that Froome would be the better bet. Besides, it's going to be a team decision and Brailsford has shown that he can be ruthless when required, just ask Chris Hoy.
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
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- Manchester
Leave it to Sky and the riders to decide what they need, they seem to have a good handle on it! All this speculation and bullshitting about Froome and Wiggo is worse than peoples copy and paste commentary throughout each stage!
Well, that's the end of this thread for me.
See you after the race guys, when it's just the usual posters in the racing section.
Yeah, we have to wait to see what next years course is but logic doesn't follow sometimes. Froome is younger than Wiggo, how many more realistic tour wins has Wiggo got in him. I don't know the answer, plus you've got to throw Cavendish in the mix, he's not going to do another tour like this.
Froome for the GC next year, maybe, Wiggo supporting him and Cavendish, maybe, could be a goer and Thomas back in as well. Nice to speculate.
