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2014 Tour De France


ScottCM

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Purito virtual KOM after taking the 1st climb in the breakaway.

 

Kiriyenka currently alone in front on the 2nd climb of the day, 1.40 in front of the breakaway including Purito and 2.40 in front of the peloton.

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In the ascent to the col de Peyresourde, Kiriyenka has 1.45 lead over his former 21 breakaway companions including Rodriguez and Majka, and 3.20 over the main peloton.

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JM Leblanc on the Peyresourde, his favourite: “With its mousse carpet, it makes you want to lie down on the grass next to the sheep & cows.”

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Here's a very entertaining article just published by The Inner Ring on the lingo used by the French in the peloton.

 

"Even a bottle of honey couldn’t help him. We’d made a hole and I knew some were trying to fill it, but they ended up potato hunting because we burned the feedzone.”

 

and...

 

"[He was] soon was pedalling with his ears. By then I was in the red and using my asthmatic gear, I had everything on the left."

 

So descriptive, loved it!

 

Read it here:

http://inrng.com/2014/07/le-jargon-cycliste/

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