Tour de France 2022 with SPOILERS

[matticus]

What a cracking finish! I love a messy breakaway, squabbling, bluffin', counter-bluffin' ... 5 riders could have won that if they'd guessed right!
Great stuff!

[Now, who can I criticise from my armchair with my hindsight goggles on, let me see, so many choices ... ]

 

[nickyboy]

What a cracking finish! I love a messy breakaway, squabbling, bluffin', counter-bluffin' ... 5 riders could have won that if they'd guessed right!
Great stuff!

[Now, who can I criticise from my armchair with my hindsight goggles on, let me see, so many choices ... ]

Cort on the line....a future for me in sports journalism beckons

Today....surely a big GC shakeout with a v hard mountain top finish. It looks like JV and Pog battling out the top step. I wonder who is in line for 3rd? I think Thomas will suffer, Mas is my tip...been under the radar the whole race thus far

 

[matticus]

I wonder who is in line for 3rd? I think Thomas will suffer,

I've been tipping him all race ... but the cracks are starting to appear; he lost his white Oakleys for a day. Twitter turmoil!!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

My pessimistic side thinks that these tough looking stages often end up a bit of an anti-climax.

I'm with you on this, and I'm predicting "a bit of a disappointment".

This is actually a cunning double bluff, as I attempt to convince the cycling gods to prove me wrong.

 

[Adam4868]

Cort on the line....a future for me in sports journalism beckons

You started well....

Mas is my tip...been under the radar the whole race thus far

Then this 🙄

 

[Shadow]

11 seconds he's going to try.

Would love to see it. Who from Bora is going in the breaks now though cos it sure ain't gonna be lovely little Lenny!

My pessimistic side thinks that these tough looking stages often end up a bit of an anti-climax.

Sadly, I think you may well be right. ING to make their move next week! And yet I will still be watching the second half, truly, truly hard.
At least Ewan & his grupetto will have a much longer cut off today.

 

[Shadow]

How about a good descender, maybe an ex-ski jumper, making a manic jump from the top of the Galibier to take a lead onto the Col du Granon?

 

[Shadow]

More gut wrenching from TeeBo to ultimately no avail and tears from his over-wrought well wishers?

 

[Peter Salt]

I realise it's naive, but will be watching Tom Pidcock closely today

 

[nickyboy]

At the risk of introducing a bit of non-punditry into this thread, I was aghast and angry at the comments made by Wiggins during the protest.

“Whatever they're protesting about, it's probably over nothing. We don't need that disrupting this bicycle race. A lot of people getting quite angry, some of the directeur sportifs got out the cars, stuck a boot in. It really was going off. Great scenes here.”

I never rated him as a commentator but now my opinion of him as a person has hit a new low. "Great scenes" indeed 😠

 

[Peter Salt]

At the risk of introducing a bit of non-punditry into this thread, I was aghast and angry at the comments made by Wiggins during the protest.

“Whatever they're protesting about, it's probably over nothing. We don't need that disrupting this bicycle race. A lot of people getting quite angry, some of the directeur sportifs got out the cars, stuck a boot in. It really was going off. Great scenes here.”

I never rated him as a commentator but now my opinion of him as a person has hit a new low. "Great scenes" indeed 😠

I believe that in this context 'great' meant 'extraordinary/huge' rather than 'magnificent'. Seemed quite obvious to me, really.

 

[matticus]

At the risk of introducing a bit of non-punditry into this thread, I was aghast and angry at the comments made by Wiggins during the protest.

Punditry punditry, shurely?!?

[I'm quite a Wiggo fan - but with that comes acceptance of the odd c0ckbrained moment ... ]

 

[Dogtrousers]

At the risk of introducing a bit of non-punditry into this thread, I was aghast and angry at the comments made by Wiggins during the protest.

He just says whatever bollocks comes into his head.

This is why his comments in general are waffly unlike someone more thoughtful like, say Brian Smith or Kelly.

 

[matticus]

He just says whatever bollocks comes into his head.

This is why his comments in general are waffly unlike someone more thoughtful like, say Brian Smith or Kelly.

yeah, he's really not suited to commentary. Although I did enjoy the frosty tension between him and Smith (who is rather dull) in the Eurosport studio (was it the 2021 Giro? Anyway, they've totally binned that team and moved to something jollier this year!)

 

[Dogtrousers]

But back to the race.

WTF is this all about? The van brothers WVA and MVDP off the front? Wout has already successfully bagged the only green jersey points on offer for the day.