Tour de France 2023 ** SPOILERS **

[Adam4868]

Groupama-FDJ confirm Thibaut Pinot and David Gaudu for Tour de France lineup | Cyclingnews – https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gr...ot-and-david-gaudu-for-tour-de-france-lineup/

No Bennett, no Demare... must be doing Cavendish's odds some good!

That I agree with....much rather see Pinot crying than Demare winning a sprint.

 

[mjr]

That I agree with....much rather see Pinot crying than Demare winning a sprint.

Tears of joy, sadness, or do you treat those imposters both the same?

 

[T4tomo]

Feel for Bennet because I like him !

View: https://twitter.com/Cyclingnewsfeed/status/1671807161536598021?t=_EyPCfmaEuKzbUn64SfKQg&s=19

whilst Bennett isn't in great form. his replacement Meeus isn't either. Politics?

 

[Adam4868]

Tears of joy, sadness, or do you treat those imposters both the same?

I expect joy....but I love nothing more than disappointment !
Never short of that latter with Thibaut.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I expect joy....but I love nothing more than disappointment !

That really does sound like a quote from a French intellectual. Satre perhaps, or Cantona.

 

[rich p]

Feel for Bennet because I like him !

View: https://twitter.com/Cyclingnewsfeed/status/1671807161536598021?t=_EyPCfmaEuKzbUn64SfKQg&s=19

You could have put this in the Transfers thread cos I can't see Sam being at Bora next year!

 

[Adam4868]

That really does sound like a quote from a French intellectual. Satre perhaps, or Cantona.

More Inspector Clouseau 😍

 

[Dogtrousers]

You could have put this in the Transfers thread cos I can't see Sam being at Bora next year!

He does seem to be making a habit of this. Understandable when your boss is Lefevre, maybe. But is there a pattern emerging?

 

[T4tomo]

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2023/startlist

provisional start list link....

brit watch:
Cav
Fred Wright
Yates 1
Yates 2
Pidcock

is this the first the Yates brothers have been at the same GT on different teams? i think it is.

 

[rich p]

He does seem to be making a habit of this. Understandable when your boss is Lefevre, maybe. But is there a pattern emerging?

You do wonder but his form has been iffy so he's not being picked on form, as it were. The chat was that they wanted to take him but maybe he rubs people up the wrong way. Lefevre obviously thought he was play-acting in his last season at Quickstep. Did he leave Bora the first time in a huff?

 

[matticus]

is this the first the Yates brothers have been at the same GT on different teams? i think it is.

Probably yes, Please let them be teams with easily distinguished kit!?!
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Back to the sprinters [Bennet and Demare staying home ]...
Anyone got a list of Sprinters Likely To Stop Cav?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Yates 1
Yates 2

Which is Simon and which is Adam. I can never remember.

 

[Dogtrousers]

You do wonder but his form has been iffy so he's not being picked on form, as it were. The chat was that they wanted to take him but maybe he rubs people up the wrong way. Lefevre obviously thought he was play-acting in his last season at Quickstep. Did he leave Bora the first time in a huff?

I thought he did. But I may have been just making stuff up in my head as usual.

 

[T4tomo]

Which is Simon and which is Adam. I can never remember.

me neither -Simon is still with the Aussie team Orica mitchleton scott Jayco green edge

Adam is the one who came back to Ineos and now at UAE.

I thought he did. But I may have been just making stuff up in my head as usual.

He was miffed at playing 2nd fiddle to Sagan all the time, which i think was why he left, and to be fair had a good first TdeF with Quickstep in 2020.

 

[Adam4868]

Probably yes, Please let them be teams with easily distinguished kit!?!
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Back to the sprinters [Bennet and Demare staying home ]...
Anyone got a list of Sprinters Likely To Stop Cav?

Groenewegen,Jakobsen,Pederson,Philipson?