Tour de France 2012

[kosmonooit]

So will Fris Froome be doing the Vuelta? vs Conti? hmmm

[GrumpyOldGuy]

 

On the other hand, very glad for the win today - Valverde deserved it.

 

Yup, glad he took a stage as well, Valverde must be one of my favorite riders, impulsive and temperamental, he is either at the front winning or been shelled off the back, there's no middle ground with him, but thats fine, I like it, you never know what he will do,....... or not do, depending on the occasion.

[DaLoCo]

Yup, glad he took a stage as well, Valverde must be one of my favorite riders, impulsive and temperamental, he is either at the front winning or been shelled off the back, there's no middle ground with him, but thats fine, I like it, you never know what he will do,....... or not do, depending on the occasion.

The boy did good

[Agteros]

Too right, what a ****-stirring liability, have the good sense to keep those remarks to yourself. Making *** for Chris and making herself look like an attention seeking bozo at the same time.

I reckon that she actually played his hand FOR him. With all the loose tweets flying about, Froome is now under pressure to show that he is there to support the yellow jersey. Just take all the to and fro conversations and waiting etc between him and Wiggins as an example today.

[petatodd]

Lost all respect for Voeckler......sitting on his opponents wheel and sniping all the points

 

Hope they nail him for doping

There's been some cr@p written on this site during the tour but this has got to take the cake. Tommy V was just brilliant today, played his hand incredibly well.

[Agteros]

There's been some cr@p written on this site during the tour but this has got to take the cake. Tommy V was just brilliant today, played his hand incredibly well.

He marked his man very well! What next?Just now 'people' will start calling the sprinters wheel suckers

[DaLoCo]

There's been some cr@p written on this site during the tour but this has got to take the cake. Tommy V was just brilliant today, played his hand incredibly well.

He did not even try pull his weight in the break, forced people out of the line to stay on the wheel....and did his Jabba the Hut impersonation. He did get all the points, but cannot be called a sportsman....

[canadonis]

Hi

I'm new to the cycling world watched today's stage end and noticed froome was the stronger rider today and on a few occasions it looked as though he was able to ride away from wiggins easily. I've also seen this in a few other stages..my question may be naive but shouldnt the best cyclist win the tour. If froome has the legs to should he not attempt to win the tour for himself and the team or does he have to follow orders and let wiggins gain all the glory. The reality is none of the competitors have been able to attack wiggins and sustain any advantage while the biggest threat to wiggins is within the team and under instructions to contain him.

 

Yes this has been boring to watch Cadel is finished schlek doping nabali tired..team sky give froome instructions to go for glory..for sake of viewership of TDF.

[Cav']

Good stage today,Sky did good.

 

Kudos to Valverde.

Like i said on another thread froome did good and is the better climber and should stick with sky as his day will come to prove how good he is contesting againts the best (ie. people on other teams)

 

Everybody new wiggins was going to be priority numero uno during the tour.

 

Basso also did good this week for me but boy if i owned a pro team i'd pick up little Pinot asap.

 

Three stages left- Cavendish, wiggins and Sagan FTW's

[Cav']

Hi

I'm new to the cycling world watched today's stage end and noticed froome was the stronger rider today and on a few occasions it looked as though he was able to ride away from wiggins easily. I've also seen this in a few other stages..my question may be naive but shouldnt the best cyclist win the tour. If froome has the legs to should he not attempt to win the tour for himself and the team or does he have to follow orders and let wiggins gain all the glory. The reality is none of the competitors have been able to attack wiggins and sustain any advantage while the biggest threat to wiggins is within the team and under instructions to contain him.

 

Yes this has been boring to watch Cadel is finished schlek doping nabali tired..team sky give froome instructions to go for glory..for sake of viewership of TDF.

All the teams have certain goals during the tour.

Sky's is to get wiggins to paris in yellow

[T-Bob]

I get the 'boring' tag but I've really been in awe of the way Sky have gone about it this year. they have nailed it and everyone of the team has been behind it. Just look at Cav', he's been burying the pin for Wiggo like I've never seen. respect.

 

 

mAndy was gone at the beginning of the year and so was the well worn line of 'if he'd been in it', if he'd been in it he'd be as far down as Scarpoini, Frank and the other favs'. Like saying 'if Menchov had been up to par', well that would have been a few years back, when Wiggo was 4th.

 

My memories of the tour were Lemond vs Hinault, Lemond vs Figion, Roche vs Delgado, Kelly vs everyone for the points, Indurain vs no-one but himself. Classic duels... unfortunately more and more of my heros have admitted to doping so I'm impressed by the less heroic fights because I believe they are clean.

[sharkysa]

I hope Froom takes the time trial! And they let him try take Giro next year....now there is a classic event to watch.

[Sandro]

Watched every Tour since '86, this is the worst by far. Champions like Eddy Merckx who had a 7 minute lead overall and then risk everything by making a break in the Alps and extending their lead by another 8 minutes, those are champions who inspire. Not some guy whose teammate has to drag him up climbs and then wait for him every two minutes. Winners are supposed to win because they're the best, not because they're chosen. I know a lot of you will disagree but that's my 50 cents anyway. Froome might never be in such good form again, I hope he isn't going to regret these sacrifices.

[Tumbleweed]

There's been some cr@p written on this site during the tour but this has got to take the cake. Tommy V was just brilliant today, played his hand incredibly well.

 

I think so too.

 

He had this to say: "I had to stick on his wheel all day. It's not the way I like to race but I didn't have the choice."

[Tumbleweed]

I just don't get it.

 

Was Wiggins willing Froome on for the stage win? Did the team order him back? Or was that Froome's choice as a loyal lieutenant? I do get the argument that the payback for that will be great in the long term, but wouldn't a stage win for Froome to put on his palmares be a great sweetener. And who believes Wiggins saying he would help Froome in a yellow jersey bid in 2013?

 

Some quotes from Froome. Humble.

 

"I think we've done a pretty good job until now, so hopefully we'll take it all the way.

"We wanted the yellow jersey on a Team Sky rider's back, and we've got that so we've done exactly what we've wanted.

"I've been watching the Tour since I was a teenager, just to be here and be in this position is already dream come true.

"To be on the podium, would be unbelievable for me."

Edited July 20, 2012 by Tumbleweed

[Spark]

Good stage today,Sky did good.

 

Kudos to Valverde.

Like i said on another thread froome did good and is the better climber and should stick with sky as his day will come to prove how good he is contesting againts the best (ie. people on other teams)

 

Everybody new wiggins was going to be priority numero uno during the tour.

 

Basso also did good this week for me but boy if i owned a pro team i'd pick up little Pinot asap.

 

Three stages left- Cavendish, wiggins and Sagan FTW's

Couldn't agree more. Pinot and van Garderen have bright futures.