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


Pick the yellow and green jersey winners.  

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  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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If I remember correctly my list is the Tour only and excludes ITT's - where obviously you don't have pedal for 200km at 45km/h before you reach the climb, and you can measure your effort to go as fast as possible, versus tactical riding and responding to attacks.

Sure - and I mentioned the 2 year's that times were from ITT's for that reason... Quite a few other faster from other races where timing was available though...

 

Your list took only the most recent 3 tours thereby excluding for example Pantani's 57.34...

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anyone notice that both Hesjedal and Van Gaarderen were bested up Ventoux by Andre Greipel? xD

 

Sorry dracs - I can't resist...

 

Power is still power - Greipel got it - Hessie and the gardener don't ;-)

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Does anyone know how many points are available on Sunday for the sprinters or is it a done deal that Sagan will get green?

 

Same for white jersey, I see the gap is around 2 minutes but surely with Alps to come Quintana will hold on.

 

Will Froome let someone get away to grab the Polka dot jersey? My pick was Rolland.

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Blog on cyclingnews by Richie Porte

 

http://www.cyclingne...k-or-be-flicked

"We know that Tuesday's a hard stage. We've been here before and it blew to pieces at the start in the cross-winds and there's some hard climbs"...

 

Wonder what the wind is doing today? I reckon this is the only way Froome could lose much time in the rest of the tour - the other teams need to attack him on the flats (before the climbs) - and some wind will help...

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"We know that Tuesday's a hard stage. We've been here before and it blew to pieces at the start in the cross-winds and there's some hard climbs"...

 

Wonder what the wind is doing today? I reckon this is the only way Froome could lose much time in the rest of the tour - the other teams need to attack him on the flats (before the climbs) - and some wind will help...

 

Temp 32C

Wind 5kmh

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How screwed up is this: If Chris has a bad day everybody gets on the bandwagon and points out how sky is cracking etc. When he has a great day he is a doper! Geez, give it a break already! Enjoy the racing and hate LA and his cronies a bit more for screwing it up for everyone

sad but true. They have created a situation whereby when a rider does good, questions are asked.
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There's goes the man for today...

 

165km - http://l.yimg.com/up/259488.png BREAK: Around 20 riders have managed to jump clear of the peloton - including the oldest rider in the race, SIR Jens Voigt (RadioShack) and the green jersey, Peter Sagan (Cannondale).

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