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 Post subject: Re: Tour de France 2013
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:06 
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Bastille Day.

Hilltop finish, 7 categorised climbs. Expect mayhem.

Looks insanely hard day. Contador to crack today, as it looks like he's been rolling his shoulders a bit up sme of the climbs.

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Bertie has taken a tumble, it seems. Balls.

EDIT: Apparently he is back on,, but miles adrift.

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Contador is out! Abandons on the descent in the fog! Amaze.

You all went each way on Valverde, didn't you?

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You all went each way on Valverde, didn't you?

I'd be surprised if he could do it each way. One way is enough.

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three tourwinners out now (schleck), contador, froome... :(

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Bertie broke his leg but still carried on for a bit longer.

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I'm a big fan of 'lo squalo', so i'm happy with his performance.. will he still have competitors though?



(lo squalo dello stretto.. the shark of the strait (of messina), Nibali)

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After the rest day: Sagan to win, Porte to put some time into Nibbles. Valverde to be in the mix.

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Congrats mr Indurain!.. you've proved that even when you blood is like bubble gum through the epo, you can still get to 50!

Nice interview with Nibali in the Gazzetta...how he will bring the yellow jersey to mama pantani...

sagan , adventurer (van avermaet, van marcke?), or sprint...

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I think Sagan'll make tracks and burn the pure sprinters off to ensure he wins. ANyhoo, sprints are pretty dull, I much prefer it when the riders are scattered up the side of a mountain.

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I think Sagan'll make tracks and burn the pure sprinters off to ensure he wins. ANyhoo, sprints are pretty dull, I much prefer it when the riders are scattered up the side of a mountain.



Blimey. Well, Valverde is 24 seconds from 2nd.

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Oh, erm, Gerrans. Simon Gerrans. Then Sagan. Valverde arrives with Nibbles and Co.

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Sky's Jonathan Tiernan-Locke is on the two year naughty step for irregularities in his biological passport.

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Stage 13 finishes on an uncategorised climb ("Fuck me, thats a bastard" in maliA speak), 1,500m of climbing in 30km. This should offer a chance to make up time on Nibbles, or for him to zoom away even further. I think he's going to be attacked a lot over the last two climbs. So, Valverde to emerge and grab the stage win, followed by Porte as they have to do something spectacular and not let the Astana rider run away with it.

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Nibbles wrote:
Today I expect attacks by the GC contenders. I fear mostly the riders from AG2R, Romain Bardet in particular, but the adversaries I have to control the most are Richie Porte and Alejandro Valverde. It's a long stage today. That will make the race very hard. But I expect my team to do a good work again. We'll try to keep the situation under control.


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Today I expect attacks by the GC contenders. I fear mostly the riders from AG2R, Romain Bardet in particular, but the adversaries I have to control the most are Richie Porte and Alejandro Valverde. It's a long stage today. That will make the race very hard. But I expect my team to do a good work again. We'll try to keep the situation under control.


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Also, whilst i tink of it, and I should have mentioned it yesterday:

Talansky's ride up on his own, finishing last after stopping for four minutes because he was in so much pain was something brilliant and to be applauded.

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Nibbles questioned about being on a team run by people that have been on the naughty step and have coaches who ahve trained people who have been on the naughty step (except for Pantani, because Pantani had panache and style). I suppose the best quote to come out of this is "the mother of the imbecile is always pregnant" when referring to other members of the peleton that are urrently on the naughty step or will be soon.

Hello? hello? Is this thing on?

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American Nervoso wrote:
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I'm promoting my love of the most honest sport in the world.

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I'm promoting my love of the most honest sport in the world.

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American Nervoso wrote:
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I'm promoting my love of the most honest sport in the world.

:DD


2012 drug test stats from UCI and ITC:

Cycling 14,168
Tennis 2,185

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Figures for last year show tennis carried out 2,185 urine and blood tests in 2012. Of those, 124 of these were in-competition blood tests.

According to World Anti-Doping Agency's 2010 statistics, tennis carried out 3,638 tests in 2010, compared with 21,427 in cycling, 25,013 in athletics and 13,138 in swimming in the same year.


edit2: Sadly, the really odd decisoin in Operation Puerto to destroy all the files (whichv amde no sense whatsoever and only made it look really, really suspicious) means we will never know the extent of doping in the blue riband sports.

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They had to destroy them or Nadal and the Spanish footy team (and Barcelona) would all have been banned.

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They had to destroy them or Nadal and the Spanish footy team (and Barcelona) would all have been banned.

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 Post subject: Re: Tour de France 2013
PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:17 
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Yesterday's stage was looking to be an incredibly dull one. It was pretty much flat, with a few uncategorised climbs unlikely to trouble even the sprinters, and it dropped down into the valley for a flat finish. The only real trickiness was six roundabouts in the final six kilometres which might shake the peloton up a bit.

I kept half an eye on twitter during the day, as I was too busy to watch it all. This was a mistake. It turned into something amazing. From the moment the flag dropped, Jack Bauer and Martin Elminger steamed off in a break. This is normal, neither are massive names, and wisdom is the peloton will let them have their fun and then catch them up later. Then it rained. It absolutely heaved it down. This soaked the roads and riders hate wet roads. It's tricky enough to not fall off on dry roads, but downhill with next to sod all grip and in a pack it sorts those that are good from those that aren't (dear reader, your correspondent is firmly in the latter category). With 50km to go, the pair was still out there. And at 40km. And 30km. As a rule of thumb, the peloton will catch a break at a rate of a minute per 10km. This was going to look very tight; the calculation at 20km was "caught on the line".

With 10km, you begin to shout the TV. You will the riders in the break to make it, especially after spending all day out on the front. At 5km, the shouting stops and you begin to look at the time gap, and peer into the background of each and every shot, looking for the motorbikes that mark the front of the chasers. With 1km to go and the motorbikes peeled away you start to shout once again.

Jack Bauer wrote:
Bitter disappointment. A childhood dream to win a stage of the Tour, and for a person like myself, a domestique, I’m normally working in the service of others so this was my first chance to actually be 'up the road’, and with the change, and the wind, and the weather, in the last 100 km we really realised, myself and Martin, we were in with the chance of the win. So I played him in the finale. I tried to look as though I was as tired as possible when I thought I still had one more punch, so I launched at 400 to go and man I thought I had it. I realised in the last 50 meters I had nothing"


Bauer tailed the winner, Kristoff, in by 3 seconds. He finished in tenth, and stopped just after the line, head bowed trying to choke back the tears.

It was incredible.

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moving story indeed...

great that the polkadot jersey is won by someone who actually won two mountain stages in both mountain ranges.. (better than just getting points on the small mountains..... they did change the rules btw)

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So, Nibali probably a crackhead then.

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Poor Sagan, forever the bridesmaid and rotten luck today.. Valverde cracked yesterday, too.

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I forgot to say how AWESOME it is that a descender, and an artist at that, wins the tour de france... Un uomo, solo al commando ..

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What a Tour! Best one in years.

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Clever money would see an each way bet on Alejandro Valverde, I reckons. Righty, ho.


Fucking Valverde.

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the gazzetta is all in yellow today... great tribute...

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Tour de Yorkshire route announced!

http://m.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/new ... announced/

Looks to be a fun few days.

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Tour de Yorkshire route announced!

http://m.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/new ... announced/

Looks to be a fun few days.

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It is quietly reassuring to wake up to headlines saying "cycling still way dodgy".

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Anyone watch Paris - Roubaix? It was a superb race. With bonus TGV!

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Yup. Quite chaotic last miles. Shame niki couldn't repeat..

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Yup. Quite chaotic last miles. Shame niki couldn't repeat..


I am in two minds about the riders using the paths by the side of the cobbles. On one hand, they should ride the cobbles in their entirety as the smoother bits are too easy. On the other, the selection made into each section is good and forces quick tactical choices. Riding on the paths increases the risk of comedy pratfalls. Luke Rowe did very well.

Pinarello's suspension bike seemingly did not. a similar technology (pivot less rear suspension) appeared on mountain bikes about 18 years ago and was soon quietly droppEd. Due to it being shit.

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Bradley Wiggins is still a favourite amongst the older ladies i was watching the Tour du Yorkshire go past with. Crikey, and then some. The field was split into four chunks, i am looking forward to seeing how that happened. Cow and calf was very busy too.

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Thought he had rode is final course o the road?


I think that was it.

Bertie and Aru for the Giro I think.

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Well, that is tough for Porte.I disagree with the decision to penalise him.

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Currently watching the Pearl Izumi tour in Redditch.

A few steps down on the cycling ladder but still impressive.


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Currently watching the Pearl Izumi tour in Redditch.

A few steps down on the cycling ladder but still impressive.


Criterium racing is supercool. Lovely evening for it. Well envious.

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For spectating in person it's great, especially when it's only a few miles down the road. The steepest bit of the course up to the start finish straight is on my ride to work and I've never gone up it at the speeds they do.


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For spectating in person it's great, especially when it's only a few miles down the road. The steepest bit of the course up to the start finish straight is on my ride to work and I've never gone up it at the speeds they do.


it is crazy, isn't it? And also a bit rncouraging,maybe. Either way, Loons, the lot of them. And

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Bertie and Aru for the Giro I think.


All in all, a good Giro. Super racing and Bertie seemingly doesn't need a team.

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You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
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RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

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