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Author:  MaliA [ 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.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 14:26 ]
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Bertie has taken a tumble, it seems. Balls.

EDIT: Apparently he is back on,, but miles adrift.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 15:00 ]
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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?
Author:  myp [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 15:03 ]
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MaliA wrote:
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.
Author:  romanista [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 15:09 ]
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three tourwinners out now (schleck), contador, froome... :(
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 18:49 ]
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Bertie broke his leg but still carried on for a bit longer.
Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 19:07 ]
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Probably felt a bit numb initially.
Author:  romanista [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:25 ]
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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)
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:12 ]
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After the rest day: Sagan to win, Porte to put some time into Nibbles. Valverde to be in the mix.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:14 ]
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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...
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:22 ]
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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.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 16:31 ]
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MaliA wrote:
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.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jul 17, 2014 14:15 ]
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Oh, erm, Gerrans. Simon Gerrans. Then Sagan. Valverde arrives with Nibbles and Co.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jul 17, 2014 16:12 ]
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Sky's Jonathan Tiernan-Locke is on the two year naughty step for irregularities in his biological passport.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:54 ]
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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.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:47 ]
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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.


Good to see he takes BeeX advice seriosuly, and parrots it out as his own.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:47 ]
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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.


Good to see he takes BeeX advice seriosuly, and parrots it out as his own.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:54 ]
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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.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 13:04 ]
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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?
Author:  myp [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 13:07 ]
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You are the Zaphod of cycling.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 13:47 ]
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American Nervoso wrote:
You are the Zaphod of cycling.


I'm promoting my love of the most honest sport in the world.
Author:  myp [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 13:49 ]
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MaliA wrote:
American Nervoso wrote:
You are the Zaphod of cycling.


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

:DD
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 13:57 ]
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American Nervoso wrote:
MaliA wrote:
American Nervoso wrote:
You are the Zaphod of cycling.


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

EDIT:
bbc wrote:
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.
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 14:25 ]
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They had to destroy them or Nadal and the Spanish footy team (and Barcelona) would all have been banned.
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 14:25 ]
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Allegedly.
Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:29 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
They had to destroy them or Nadal and the Spanish footy team (and Barcelona) would all have been banned.

Totally unrelated to both teams' alarming decline, of course
Author:  MaliA [ 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.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Jul 23, 2014 19:05 ]
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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)
Author:  myp [ Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:49 ]
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So, Nibali probably a crackhead then.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 25, 2014 19:56 ]
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Poor Sagan, forever the bridesmaid and rotten luck today.. Valverde cracked yesterday, too.
Author:  romanista [ Fri Jul 25, 2014 21:13 ]
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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 ..
Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jul 27, 2014 15:12 ]
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What a Tour! Best one in years.
Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jul 27, 2014 19:27 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Clever money would see an each way bet on Alejandro Valverde, I reckons. Righty, ho.


Fucking Valverde.
Author:  romanista [ Mon Jul 28, 2014 15:35 ]
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the gazzetta is all in yellow today... great tribute...

Image
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Jan 21, 2015 13:50 ]
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Tour de Yorkshire route announced!

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

Looks to be a fun few days.
Author:  myp [ Wed Jan 21, 2015 13:55 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Tour de Yorkshire route announced!

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

Looks to be a fun few days.

Could be tempted.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:10 ]
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It is quietly reassuring to wake up to headlines saying "cycling still way dodgy".
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:45 ]
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Anyone watch Paris - Roubaix? It was a superb race. With bonus TGV!
Author:  romanista [ Tue Apr 14, 2015 20:19 ]
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Yup. Quite chaotic last miles. Shame niki couldn't repeat..
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:57 ]
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romanista wrote:
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.
Author:  MaliA [ Sun May 03, 2015 18:29 ]
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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.
Author:  romanista [ Thu May 07, 2015 13:47 ]
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Thought he had rode is final course o the road?
Author:  MaliA [ Thu May 07, 2015 13:54 ]
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romanista wrote:
Thought he had rode is final course o the road?


I think that was it.

Bertie and Aru for the Giro I think.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue May 19, 2015 19:44 ]
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Well, that is tough for Porte.I disagree with the decision to penalise him.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Tue May 19, 2015 19:49 ]
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Currently watching the Pearl Izumi tour in Redditch.

A few steps down on the cycling ladder but still impressive.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue May 19, 2015 20:03 ]
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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.

Otley Races is 1st July I think. I will take the 2nd off as it is party time (again) in the town
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Tue May 19, 2015 20:24 ]
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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.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue May 19, 2015 20:33 ]
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Tue May 19, 2015 20:51 ]
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My excuse is that I'm on a hybrid with fat tyres, wearing a heavy rucksack with a change of clothes and a laptop to slow me down. That and I'm twice their age and 50% heavier.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jun 01, 2015 14:51 ]
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MaliA wrote:

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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