Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)

[VamP]

Morkov in the escape AGAIN! Does this guy not do tired?

 

[tigger]

well since its top tipsters day

Ill throw Valverde into the hat.

Me too

 

[PaulB]

Never mind all this 'who's going to win' stuff. Let's have a mass debate on who we think is going to be the Lantern Rouge. My favoured people are the basques so I'm going for Gorka Verdugo.
http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2012/us/riders/euskaltel-euskadi/verdugo-gorka.html

 

[just jim]

I'm gonna go out on a limb with Chavanel today. He'll be really hungry for it after missing out in stage 1 and the prologue.

Oh, and who'd bet against Spartacus making another bid to build a lead ahead of the mountains?

Good bet, but I also hope to see some of Wiggin's special volcano training paying off.

 

[Beebo]

Today's not-very-interesting facts are in relation to national clean sweep podiums; only 2 nations have ever had the 1-2-3 in the Tour.
Unsurprisingly France had the clean sweep in the early years, with 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1911 - not surprising given the extra help and skullduggery involved in early tours and the limited number of non-French riders taking part.
The only other nation to manage a clean sweep of the podium is Belgium in 1920.
Since 1920, France is the only nation to have 1-2-3 on the podium, which happened in 1947. That makes this tour the 65th anniversary since a single nation occupied the top placings.

Slow down Noodley, that's too many facts in one email, you'll need to ration your facts if you want to make it to Paris.

 

[raindog]

I'm gonna go out on a limb with Chavanel today.

Chav's a good call for this stage.

 

[BrumJim]

I'll plump for Edvald Boasson Hagen then, if no one else has mentioned him.

 

[VamP]

I'll plump for Edvald Boasson Hagen then, if no one else has mentioned him.

I don't think that's going to be his job today... Mollema is another one who might go well today. Kinda wish I'd put him in my team instead of EBH now.

Big crash at 79km, but looks like all affected back with the peloton now.

 

[yello]

Big crash at 79km, but looks like all affected back with the peloton now.

Was there? Must have missed it!

It's an interesting course today. A few tough short little climbs towards the end. Singularly, perhaps nothing that'd worry most of them but the cumulative effect might make it interesting. A stage for somebody like Edvald Boasson Hagen, and/or perhaps evens Evans looking for a few seconds.

 

[yello]

Hmmmm, I thought Cavendish over reacted a little there, on the intermediate sprint. Sure, he was blocked/checked but I don't really think it warranted that reaction.

 

[VamP]

Hmmmm, I thought Cavendish over reacted a little there, on the intermediate sprint. Sure, he was blocked/checked but I don't really think it warranted that reaction.

What'd he do? I am following on a live text and all they said was he won the points...


Isn't it about time the peloton started the chase?

 

[montage]

Valverde for today for me

 

[yello]

Now that's a big pile up!

Edit: no major hold up though, nobody badly hurt, Siutsou (Sky) still down though. Farrar had to change bike and is now playing catch up.

 

[montage]

My dark horse pick for today is Devenyns

 

[LosingFocus]

Now that's a big pile up!

Sagan down and changed bike wheel?