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The 100th Edition Of The Tour de France: Chirps, Opinions, News, Updates.


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Pick the yellow and green jersey winners.  

305 members have voted

  1. 1. Who will reign in Yellow?

    • Froome Dawg (Sky)
      216
    • Contador (Saxo Tinkoff)
      53
    • A Schleck, Radioshack
      13
    • Evans (BMC)
      8
    • Uran (Sky)
      0
    • Tejay (BMC)
      3
    • Gesink (Blanco)
      0
    • Hesjedal (Garmin Sharp
      0
    • Valverde (Movistar)
      4
    • J Rodriquez (Katusha)
      2
    • Suprize package!
      6
  2. 2. Who will reign in Green?

    • Sagan (Cannondale Pro Cycling)
      178
    • Cav' (Omega Pharma Quickstep)
      104
    • Greipel (Lotto Bellisol)
      7
    • Bouhanni (FDJ)
      1
    • Goss (Orica-Greenedge)
      3
    • Surprize package?
      12


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Alpe d'huez x 2 in one stage

Mont ventoux

 

nuff said

 

Alpe d'huez is only later in the week(Thu) though

 

Alp dhuez is next Thurs

 

Sunday Mount Ventoux aside is also the longest stage at 242km

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Alp dhuez is next Thurs

 

Sunday Mount Ventoux aside is also the longest stage at 242km

Pulling a man-flu on sunday....me, the couch, my spaniel and TDF in HD. happy times

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Pulling a man-flu on sunday....me, the couch, my spaniel and TDF in HD. happy times

 

I'm going to be tired after watching that! Riders are going to be grateful that Monday is a rest day :whistling:

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I'm going to be tired after watching that! Riders are going to be grateful that Monday is a rest day :whistling:

Yea, the columbian, froomy, porte, contadoos, valverde....go till you blow for each of them.

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Its like the concrete slabs, but 20 times as long....bleeeeugh kotsies

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Alp dhuez is next Thurs

 

Sunday Mount Ventoux aside is also the longest stage at 242km

 

That's massive.

 

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I'm sure Quintana dreams of climbing in his sleep.

 

 

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Its going to be interesting to see how they all attack Froome here,

He will surely be alone halfway up unless Porte has some gas left.

 

Conto and that little Quintana will make a few quick attacks im sure.

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Sunday is going to be a very important stage! No hiding on those slopes! Will any of the GC contenders be prepared to roll all their dice to see what will happen hoping to recover enough on the monday?? That could make for some exciting events on the run up to the finish!

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Its going to be interesting to see how they all attack Froome here,

He will surely be alone halfway up unless Porte has some gas left.

 

Conto and that little Quintana will make a few quick attacks im sure.

Saxo and movistar might do they yea ol tom and jerry on froom, but I think porte will have fresh legs then...

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Its going to be interesting to see how they all attack Froome here,

He will surely be alone halfway up unless Porte has some gas left.

 

Conto and that little Quintana will make a few quick attacks im sure.

 

Yep, its going to be riveting stuff...hopefully.

 

So far no one has come up with a formula to beat Sky or Froome however stage 9 (also coincidently on a Sunday) has shown how it could be achieved...by attacking Sky early in the stage and not leaving it until the last climb.

 

Teamwork between the various teams (Spanish speaking ones plus a one or 2 others like Garmin) might well be required.

 

I'm nervous in anticipation, can you imagine how Froome and Sky must be feeling?

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I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but does anyone else think that Cavendish has lost his edge?

 

I mean, he left Sky last year in a big huff because their green jersey aspirations didn't match his, so here he is with a whole team dedicated to him and he doesn't seem to be doing any better.

 

Are the other just better? Or has the whole team and lead-out not reached full potential yet?

 

Your thoughts?

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I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but does anyone else think that Cavendish has lost his edge?

 

I mean, he left Sky last year in a big huff because their green jersey aspirations didn't match his, so here he is with a whole team dedicated to him and he doesn't seem to be doing any better.

 

Are the other just better? Or has the whole team and lead-out not reached full potential yet?

 

Your thoughts?

 

No I don't think so, there can only be one winner and there are quite a few challengers out there. Winning at that level requires all your planets to be in a line and not everyone can get that all the time.

 

Maybe he should just follow another lead out train instead of his own?

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