brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
Can the sprint finish start from 10km out? i.e. Steve Cummings
Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**
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Froome - utter machine
Yates - pretty outstanding
Bardet - a well deserved podium
Aru - pretty much came to nowt
Mollema - great ride but blew up in the last two mountain days
Porte - bloody unlucky, but out of sorts and clearly not on top form
Quintana - he's actually irritated me and got on my wick this edition. He's been on the rear seat of a tandem with Froome but has simply not pulled his weight. Out of the whole three weeks and 80-90 hours of racing, he's probably spent less than about 6 minutes in front of Froome. And half of that will have been during the Ventoux debacle. It has been said that he's not felt well/suffered allergies and considered abandoning several times - then why didn't he do the honourable thing and let Valverde have a crack?
Some quarters in France have had a go at Sky for having the temerity to win, but they should be having a bit closer look at some of the competition in my opinion.
Yates - pretty outstanding
Bardet - a well deserved podium
Aru - pretty much came to nowt
Mollema - great ride but blew up in the last two mountain days
Porte - bloody unlucky, but out of sorts and clearly not on top form
Quintana - he's actually irritated me and got on my wick this edition. He's been on the rear seat of a tandem with Froome but has simply not pulled his weight. Out of the whole three weeks and 80-90 hours of racing, he's probably spent less than about 6 minutes in front of Froome. And half of that will have been during the Ventoux debacle. It has been said that he's not felt well/suffered allergies and considered abandoning several times - then why didn't he do the honourable thing and let Valverde have a crack?
Some quarters in France have had a go at Sky for having the temerity to win, but they should be having a bit closer look at some of the competition in my opinion.
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
Did you manage to see him on tv?
Yeah, he was the one in the white jersey....
I like the plaintive cry of 'medic' at the end.
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
That looked, and sounded, bloody painful for Kelderman.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
No - ITV decided to take a very long ad break at the foot of the climb and by the time it occurred to me to switch over to Eurosport, I think they'd passed the spot where he was standing (he told me he was just past the sign indicating 10km to the summit).
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Does anybody know whether ITV4 are showing La Course before the TdF?
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Yes, they are - in full.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Ta. Good news.
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
The programme starts at 1pm
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
Great news about La Course.
Can't help but feel they should stagger the starts, for today's stage: everyone gets given a pint of Chantily Cream, and can't start until the glass is empty. Prize of €50,000 to the first rider at a point 100m away
Can't help but feel they should stagger the starts, for today's stage: everyone gets given a pint of Chantily Cream, and can't start until the glass is empty. Prize of €50,000 to the first rider at a point 100m away
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Done twice in this thread and apparently an infinite number of times on Twitter. Keep up.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
10km out? No.
1km out? Maybe...
View: https://youtu.be/Hwifyh5Uo3k
Actually, I'd say someone nicking it à la Vino is not outside the realms of possibility, given how disorganised the big teams' sprint trains have been this year.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Looks like a nice day for it
