Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)

[deptfordmarmoset]

Anyone else got goosebumps......?

Oh yes indeed!

 

[johnr]

So what's the odds of Brad chasing Cavendish down the Champs, and then announcing in the final press conference, 'Me and Froome have always been best mates; It's that chancer Cavendish who could never follow team orders'?

To quote the greatest living Englishman, 'Viva la France.'

 

[johnr]

Anyone else got goosebumps......?

We're going with chilled champagne

 

[raindog]

The armchair psychoanalysis is much more creepy than Froome's manner and about as well-informed as the armchair DSing.

d.

thanks alot smutch
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[rich p]

Paris looks pretty

 

[rich p]

36km to go before Wiggo can safely fall off

 

[ComedyPilot]

36km to go before Wiggo can safely fall off

Shhhhhhh

 

[Noodley]

anyone gonna bet on the guy from the Halfords advert taking the win?

 

[raindog]

Is everyone ready? This is bloody historic stuff, this is.

 

[rich p]

Olympic time trial?

He'll have a couple of weeks to get up again

 

[Smokin Joe]

This my third year of viewing the Tour de France and have loved every one of them. I know the last day is steeped in tradition, but I can't get my head round this 'non racing' in the run up to the racing in Paris. No other sport is like it. Amazing to see the best riders in the world just cruising along on a nice Sunday ride.

Contrary to popular belief there is no rule, written or otherwise, about not racing on the last day. The reason the stage turns into a promenade is because it is short and flat and a break would have little chance of succeeding because every team has someone to contest the finish and they would jump on anything that moved before Paris. It is always a matter of minutes between first and second, almost impossible to bridge on such a stage, but believe me if it ever comes down to a couple of seconds you'll see Holy War break out on the final day.

 

[Noodley]

Is everyone ready? This is bloody historic stuff, this is.

I'm eating a packet of crinkle cut salt'n'vinegar crisps.

 

[raindog]

I'm eating a packet of crinkle cut salt'n'vinegar crisps.

fair enough, but what are you drinking eh?

 

[ComedyPilot]

I've got a pack of spicy McCoy's

 

[yello]

I just think we can do without personal comments about Froome's character. Sorry if I'm coming across as having a sense of humour failure.

No, it's me that ought apologise. I would have agreed with you if I'd realised that you were referring to negative comments about someone. I wouldn't condone that either. I thought you were referring to amateur discussion generally. My apologies, I misread your meaning.