jarlrmai
Veteran
Icebox in the in the teamcar? Friendly spectators/soigneurs with a feezer in the campervan.
Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***
- Thread starter brommers
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Icebox in the in the teamcar? Friendly spectators/soigneurs with a feezer in the campervan.
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brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
Simon Yates is not going to be easy to pick out in the peloton today - white jersey, dark shorts and yellow helmet - the same as Sky.
Shadow
member
- Location
- edge of the south downs
For those of you with nothing better to do and are not economical with your viewing today and just to show Marmy does not have a monopoly on the Kirby/Sherwen/Duffield-isms, a while before the intermediate sprint, look out for something the french do spectacularly well, the magnificent triple span viaduct at Chaumont.
Lee_M
Guru
Team car and ice box i guess
jarlrmai
Veteran
Just join the Sky Train and get some help up the hills.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Well, for today at least it's not really likely to matter is it cos he'll be hidden away just keeping safe and conserving energy. But point taken.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
If they did care about the points, gambling Cav's recovery would have been a bit daft. On a purely points bases, it would make sense to keep him for attempts on Cyclassics and RideLondon because the top 60 get points (compared to 5 on tour stages), with 50th at those worth more than 5th on a Tour stage and the top three positions worth more than treble those in a Tour stage, unless they've changed the points recently.
So I think Cav is at the Tour mainly because it's good for publicity and they're not paying attention to the points - unless they've already got a plan to buy a pointful rider in.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Discussed on a recent Velonews FastTalk podcast about racing in hot weather. An attempt at evaporative cooling, but he'd be better off drinking ice water before the climb IIRC.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
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brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
What do you mean, probably?
jarlrmai
Veteran
it's under NDA so I can't confirm or deny.
Meanwhile....
Sagan's team are taking it to CAS
https://www.bora-hansgrohe.com/en/n...de-france-ausschluss-von-peter-sagan/10983587
Sagan's team are taking it to CAS
https://www.bora-hansgrohe.com/en/n...de-france-ausschluss-von-peter-sagan/10983587
Wow, has anything like that ever succeeded before?
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I read the link address as Anschluss, so was going to reply "yes", then realised it was a bit of an extreme reaction even for a German cycling team.
