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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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The average speed for the second hour was 50.4 km/h. That's even faster than the first hour, giving an average for the race so far of 49.3km/h!

 

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However the gap between the breakaway and the peloton is down to just over five minutes now.

 

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Im watching the Asses(Ashes), 30 runs for Aus to win, 1 wicket for England to take the test.

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The break is approaching the fourth climb of the day, the Côte de Bourdeaux. After this Cat 3 climb the only remaining ascent is the Geant, Mont Ventoux.

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The hard racing is starting to take its toll on the riders in the break. Julien El Fares (Sojasun) has been dropped.

 

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Team Sky performance manager Rod Ellingworth is confident that the Sky riders are good enough to help Froome win.

"We’ve brought a good team to the Tour. You can always look back and ask but we’ve got a lot of good guys here. Have we brought the right team? I think we have yes," he told Cyclingnews.

"We’ve been unlucky with Thomas and Edvald too. I’m still confident that we can see it through though. I’m 100 per cent confident."

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Impey in the break, ashes down to the wire. Remote getting overuse injury

 

:-D

 

And thumb too - careful for strains now.

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It is surely every French rider's dream to win on Mont Ventoux today on Bastille Day. Thomas Voeckler of Europcar knows that he is due to do something big in this year's race....

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With 76 km to go the gap is 3:40. The group may be caught before the massive final climb, at this rate.

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Looking at the landscape and at that of the Giro and Vuelta, one can only be amazed at the beauty of it all.

 

We live in a beautiful country, but this is in a stratospherically different league

 

Saving up for a cycling holiday next year!!

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