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| Author: | Shands [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Tour de France |
Anyone else a fan? I'm very excited about this years race, lots of action in the mountains hopefully. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
Me me me. Though I tend to skim through the boring stages (flat ones, time trials, etc) and linger over the mountains, especially those with a mountain top finish. |
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| Author: | Shands [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
Yeah who doesn't love a mountain top finish; Last year's Vuelta Espana had 11 of them, this year they're going for 13!! My Tour Top 5 prediction: Contador Quintana Froome Rodriguez Porte |
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| Author: | milchman [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
I've been following road cycling since the Greg LeMond era. Been over a few times including spending a day on Alpe D'Uez. My Predictions. General Classification Chris Froome Alberto Contador Joaquim Rodriguez Ryder Hesjedal Tejay Van Garderen King Of The Mountains Joaquim Rodriguez Green Jersey Mark Cavendish Young Rider Thibaut Pinot |
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| Author: | SPT [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
| Author: | SPT [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
Erm, back on topic. Yes, of course I've been avid since watching the '85 tour (think it's mainly to do with being a bit of a Francophile that i started). Only time I've been, I was in the Pyrenees on the slopes of the Peyresourde in '87. I just like the whole event. And Cavendish is so superb, it's always worth watching the sprint. If Froome has timed his prep right I think it's his. |
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| Author: | Shands [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
My first year watching The Tour was 95 I think (Indurain’s last triumph/ the untimely death of Fabio Casartelli) and I stumbled into by accident really. I’d broken my ankle two days before the start of the summer holidays and as all my mates were taking advantage of the sunshine by having a kick about or running round the rockpools, I was left stuck in the house with nothing to do. A bit of TV channel hopping later and I found myself on Eurosport listening to David Duffield chat about the haunted chateau he stayed in the night before and the numerous varieties of cheese he’d encountered at breakfast – and there also seemed to be a race happening in the background. I did fall out of love with it somewhat during the Armstrong/US postal years, but the emergence of Contador in 07 with his panache in the mountains was what drew me right back in. Up until a couple of years ago I was very much purely a ‘July only’ follower of the sport, but that’s changed now, in particular this year where, with the exception of the Tour Of The Basque Country, I’ve watched virtually every stage of all the main races from Down Under and Oman through to the Dauphine. I know given his form this year Froome must start at favourite, but there were signs of life from Contador in the Dauphine that make me think he might have something to say about that. I can’t shake this gut feeling that there is going to be some point late in the race where Froome cracks and the Spanish armada + chums will take advantage and grab some significant time off him. Milch, I agree about Cav, there should be enough flat stages for him to edge out Sagan for green. I'm a big fan of Pinot too, but I think Quintana, if given freedom by his team, should take white and could just possibly be in the mix for yellow too. Kwiatowski could be in contention for white also, though I'm not sure how he'll handle repeated high mountains. Other than that, I'm hoping that Thomas, Dan Martin and Kennaugh all do themselves justice. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
| Author: | milchman [ Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:56 pm ] |
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| Author: | milchman [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
Was anyone else sitting at home, watching that thinking "Why don't they let some air out of the coach's tyres in order to lower it the few inches needed to reverse it out?" Not that the driver should ever have been allowed to get that far in the first place. |
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| Author: | Shands [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
| Author: | Shands [ Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
First day today where the GC begins to become relevant. Froome and Contador will probably both be pretty content all told, more so the latter. Oh and Geraint Thomas, take a bow!* *once your pelvis is better. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
| Author: | Shands [ Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:25 pm ] |
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| Author: | Shands [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
Mountains start tomorrow - costumes and bells at the ready! |
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| Author: | KevW [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:58 pm ] |
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| Author: | Shands [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:44 pm ] |
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| Author: | KevW [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:05 pm ] |
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| Author: | KevW [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:07 pm ] |
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| Author: | Shands [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tour de France |
..and I look forward to you ceasing music reviews until such time as you've learnt how to play all parts of I Am The Resurrection
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