Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[coffeejo]

I know I said my hearing's dodgy but you didn't need to repeat yourself.

Ok, who deleted the double post?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Cav says he was ill today.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/raci...-tour-de-france-stage-15-after-illness-183321

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Ok, who deleted the double post?

Ha, after I posted it my browser gave me 4 versions. So I deleted the second and refreshed. I've got a bit of gunk stuck under the l-hand click part of the keypad and it's in misbehaviour overdrive mode tonight.

 

[bikeman66]

Great entertainment to see Laurent Jalabert squirming around trying to get out of having to give a straight answer to his massively hypocritical comments.

He's a Grade 1 Bellend for sure!!

 

[mcshroom]

Oops - this is a silly way to get yourself thrown off the tour: -

Tour de France juries are known to be harsh every now and again, but Bretagne-Séché Environnement rider Eduardo Sepulveda can have few complaints after grabbing a lift for a few hundred metres on stage 14.

The Argentinian was disqualified at the finish of stage for hopping in a team car on the final climb up to Mende – but not his own car, one of rival French team Ag2r-La Mondiale.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/raci...r-hitching-a-lift-in-another-teams-car-183239

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Great entertainment to see Laurent Jalabert squirming around trying to get out of having to give a straight answer to his massively hypocritical comments.

He's a Grade 1 Bellend for sure!!

Just looking at l'Equipe*, Froome is quoted as saying he's had wide support from many teams and riders in the peloton, and he wished to underline the distance between the old (as in old=compromised) generation of cyclists and the new. Which is fine vis à vis Lie-rant Jabberberk for the Anglo-Saxon world, but the French have an oddly deferential attitude to oldies and an even more deferential press.

Which is just my way of saying that it's a cultural war too. And not over. Sky and the Brit press will come over as disrespectful. When LJ says he's outragé, many French will sympathise.

* http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Chris-froome-ce-n-est-plus-le-far-west/575474

 

[Bollo]

Oops - this is a silly way to get yourself thrown off the tour: -

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/raci...r-hitching-a-lift-in-another-teams-car-183239

Good to see some proper old-school cheating.

 

[bikeman66]

Just looking at l'Equipe*, Froome is quoted as saying he's had wide support from many teams and riders in the peloton, and he wished to underline the distance between the old (as in old=compromised) generation of cyclists and the new. Which is fine vis à vis Lie-rant Jabberberk for the Anglo-Saxon world, but the French have an oddly deferential attitude to oldies and an even more deferential press.

Which is just my way of saying that it's a cultural war too. And not over. Sky and the Brit press will come over as disrespectful. When LJ says he's outragé, many French will sympathise.

* http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Chris-froome-ce-n-est-plus-le-far-west/575474

I guess I would be licking my wounds too, if I hadn't managed to produce a single winner of the worlds biggest annual sporting event in my own back yard for 30 years.

If Pinot had pulled off the kind of results Froome has managed during the last couple of weeks the likes of L' Equipe would have him on a pedestal, not be dragging his name and reputation down!

I hope everything calms down before the Alps, as I can see Froome being put through the mill if the French press don't rein it in a little!

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Great tour so far, innit?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Great tour so far, innit?

Pas pour les perdants....

 

[Bollo]

Great tour so far, innit?

S'alright.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Pas pour les perdants....

Il est un merveilleux cirque!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Il est un merveilleux cirque!

True enough but it could get ugly in the Alps.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

True enough but it could get ugly in the Alps.

Grand guignol?

 

[rich p]

The constant carping about doping is spoiling my enjoyment to an extent but the racing is full-on fun.