Tour de France 2013 *spoilers*

[smutchin]

God to see that Anton is not letting Roland pick up top points. It would be a travesty if Rolland won the polka dot jersey.

See earlier posts. Because of the way the points are dished out, he'll have to finish the stage ahead of Froome and Quintana to win the jersey outright. Likewise Riblon & Nieve.

In other words, it's between Froome and Quintana.

 

[rich p]

Handbags there from Rolland and Anton! Cav stylee!

 

[Noodley]

In an unexpected move I have just received an e-mail from Phil Liggett asking me to write his "farewell to commentary speech" for after tomorrow's stage finish. Who'd have thought...

 

[araapatlio]

God to see that Anton is not letting Roland pick up top points. It would be a travesty if Rolland won the polka dot jersey.

Howcome?

 

[theclaud]

"Nairo Quintana added a new photo" at 14:26, apparently. Gotta admire some people's dedication to social media.

 

[jarlrmai]

Probably got a new Garmin.

 

[raindog]

Kreuziger and Nico Roche have just been clocked by one of the motorbikes at 100kph

 

[jarlrmai]

Christ.

 

[jarlrmai]

My strategy of switching between Eurosport and ITV to avoid ads is not working that well, the seem to be syncing ad breaks.

 

[raindog]

Howcome?

It's a long time since the best climber on the Tour got the climber's jersey, but even these days it usually involves a stage win, or at least some convincing climbing, but Rolland just got dropped by Jens Voigt.

 

[raindog]

Christ.

quite

 

[Noodley]

Yep, as raindog said it has been a while since the best climber won the polka dot jersey but Rolland isn't even in the top 10 of best climbers on the tour - it's fair enough that he has played to the system, but I'd rather see someone that has at least sparked up the crowds a bit rather than accumulate points on lesser climbs then drop away when the real climbing started.

 

[Noodley]

Kreuziger and Nico Roche have just been clocked by one of the motorbikes at 100kph

I've done nearly that fast. Although in fairness I have weight on my side (and my back and my moobs...)

 

[araapatlio]

Yep, as raindog said it has been a while since the best climber won the polka dot jersey but Rolland isn't even in the top 10 of best climbers on the tour - it's fair enough that he has played to the system, but I'd rather see someone that has at least sparked up the crowds a bit rather than accumulate points on lesser climbs then drop away when the real climbing started.

I see, makes sense. Thanks to you both.
Do they give away those points because they want to encourage more excitement from early breakaways?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

So, Froome won't be in the yellow jersey tomorrow then!








He'll be in the ''gold tunic'', apparently, with gold sequins! Come back, polka dot onesies, all is forgiven....