Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)

[Crackle]

Thanks. Do you have to pay for Eurosport player? That's a good idea for the days when I am stuck in the office.

Also, it's not quite the same as lying on the sofa at home in my y-fronts with a bottle of Tizer and a large packet of salt and vinegar chipsticks.

Ah jeezus. I'm shaking my head but that image is lodged now and won't come out.

 

[ColinJ]

superb win for Sagan.... is that a 'gorilla' celebration

The Hulk.

 

[yello]

Okay, I got another stab at listening to Voekler. Still none-the-wiser really but it seems the problem seems to be that they weren't told something via the radio. Some form of obstacle? Dunno. Schleck and Cancellera seemed to be less bothered by it.

 

[yello]

Apparently, the team management changed his mind for him and ordered him to get up there and go for it!

He did remarkably I think. You could see the sprint was not comfortable for him.

I want to watch Goss again, I just don't know what happened for him.

 

[raindog]

Okay, I got another stab at listening to Voekler. Still none-the-wiser really but it seems the problem seems to be that they weren't told something via the radio. Some form of obstacle? Dunno. Schleck and Cancellera seemed to be less bothered by it.

I heard it's something to do with orders to move up being given and making alot of the riders nervous, but as you say, we'll find out later.

 

[yello]

That makes sense to me, and squares with what I could make out. Something they were told rather than weren't. Schleck was dismissive really, saying they're pros and should be able to read the road ahead.

Maybe Voeckler's just packing a bit of strop because he's carrying injuries.

 

[doctornige]

Yeah, I read something in the paper the other day about the discovery of the Boasson-Hagen. Did the Tour of Switzerland extremely fast, apparently. Bizarrely, it was in the science section rather than the sports pages.

d.

heh. Let's hope it's not engineered haematopoietic peptide science!

 

[thom]

He did remarkably I think. You could see the sprint was not comfortable for him.

I want to watch Goss again, I just don't know what happened for him.

Goss misread the distance to go signs and jumped about 200m early when someone's chain snapped.

And Sagan's reaction as he came across the line looked involuntary to me - by beating Greipel on the flat he's at his limit and he know's he's just won the biggest drag race of his life. Lifting off the handle bars for air, that reaction is the effect of adrenaline going through suddenly relaxed upper body muscles, not a guy apeing a Gorilla...

 

[yello]

not a guy apeing a Gorilla...

how about doing an impression of The Incredible Hulk?

 

[fozy tornip]

Stage wins matter just as much as the Green Jersey.

Cav is Sky's sprinter, why shouldn't he be in the team? Eisel looks after Cav and Eddy joins them both at the end of a sprint stage. If it's an uphill sprint or Cav isn't there, then Eddy goes for the win. The rest of the team look after Brad.
I can't see the problem. Or perhaps I've misunderstood you.

Perhaps there is no problem, and the next fortnight may show my mild anxieties to be baseless. It's just that I don't recall USPS dividing their energies between scrapping for stage wins in the first week and putting Armstrong in yellow, and I don't see BMC doing the same this year. Is BMC fielding a recognised sprinter?
I just hope that by the end of the race Sky haven't fallen between two stools

 

[Noodley]

Congratulations...... that is deeply uninteresting.

Expect some equally uninteresting facts over the next few days.

 

[toby123]

Seriously sick of all these crashes. It's a much a lottery as a sporting contest. It's just the same thing as last year. I love cycling but right now I hate it a bit as well. Anyone else feel the same?

 

[raindog]

me, no

 

[Monsieur Remings]

This tour has been a disaster for Cavendish so Wiggins best come up tops; I know he's had bad luck, of three stages he could have won he's involved in a high speed crash the day before yesterday, yesterday he loses out due to the injury, I think, and today another crash. But, in my opinion, SKY have not looked after his best interests and if I was Cav, I'd be longing for the likes of HTC or a lead out like Lotto Belisol.​

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I really wish Cav hadn't joined Sky to be honest and like I, and so many others thought, you can't concentrate on two jerseys at the same time and he has been let down IMO. I like Wiggins as a rider but SKY...I don't care much for them and that's putting it mildly.​

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Seriously sick of all these crashes. It's a much a lottery as a sporting contest. It's just the same thing as last year. I love cycling but right now I hate it a bit as well. Anyone else feel the same?

I'm with you there.