2017 Tour de France

[lechatnoir]

FFS Bouhanni punches people and stays in the Tour, but we are talking about Hitler

 

Do only "populist" choices take flak?

 

Bouhanni... what a chop

[Gen]

Jis this TDF is going to be remembered for..

 

The incompetence of the UCI

 

Rival teams working for their main competitors.

 

Riders breaking unwritten rules

 

Peloton insulting a rider for wanting to go in the break but not allowed to as the day is supposed to be slow.

 

The fastest guy is sprinting against himself.

 

The guy that was giving a golden opportunity to win the green is finding that going in up the road on difficult stages and then still being able to perform the next day on the flat lands is easier said than done even when you have a team to help you.

 

Then the team that had some of the best tactics we have seen in a long time is getting hardly and praise for it.

 

Then there is that oke that knows his cycling and is talking about without showing bias towards any rider and people seem to not want that.

 

Then you have a french paper deflecting to a rider who as a youngster had a dodge coach..like with most in the peloton.

 

An Italian paper calling the French paper out for them having to deflect.

 

[emoji23] [emoji23] the circus that is the TDF.

 

 

 

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['Dale]

Screw Lance

He won't be invited to my group ride

And he's got a lekka entertaining podcast

[Jurgens Smit]

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Peloton insulting a rider for wanting to go in the break but not allowed to as the day is supposed to be slow.

 

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When was this?

[Gen]

When was this?

Yesterday ..with Küng

 

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[Gen]

When was this?

Yesterday ..with Küng

 

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Well apparently .. how much truth is in it I don't know.. it may just be blown out of proportion or translated wrong or interpreted incorrectly.

 

But at this point almost anything is possible.

 

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[kosmonooit]

Screw Lance

He won't be invited to my group ride

And he's got a lekka entertaining podcast

 

 

How much did those peeps cough out each to go on that group ride with him in the rain in the  WC? 2010 or 2011 was it?.  

['Dale]

Kittel leading by 100+ points in the mailllot vert comp while a desperate Bling had a frustrating time with his sprint train

 

Marcellus will be a worthy winner in Paris

Hop he gets through week 3

[Bonus]

Copied this from the Fantasy thread . . .

 

We're leaving early tomorrow morning to intercept Stage 12 around the 100km mark and then again at around 160km. No chance of getting to the finish - you'd have to be there today already!

 

Then tomorrow night we sleep in Saint-Girons, check out the town and the start line etc and on Friday morning go to the start to see what we can see. Hoping to catch Louis there :-)

 

After the start we will either drive to the finish at Foix, or intercept half way. Can't do both though :-(

 

Will try and post pics as and when we can . . . .

[SwissVan]

You are fully entitled to listen to LA, but why pollute this public space?

 

Some of us loathe him: he is a psychopathic liar, a cheat, an abuser of trust etc etc

FFS then stop posting about him and ignore the podcasts and fan posts.

 

The above directed at all haters in general not just Kosmo

 

LA had his time on many TDF hub discussions, let's not start those arguments again....

#been there and lost that war (pun intended)

[Rocket-Boy]

I can understand not liking LA for what he did, but shouldn't we dislike Merckx, Pantani et al as well then?

They did just as much damage to the sport, yet countries regard them as heroes instead of villains

 

Just a tiny bit hypocritical IMO from all the keyboard warriors to hate LA

I dont hate LA for doping, they were all doping at that stage and if you didnt then you couldnt race.

I hate him because of his personality and the way he merrily destroyed lives around him for his own gain.

[Plentipotential]

I was just starting to get back into the TDF.. and now this crap with Bouhani.

 

I should be more like Sagan..go chill at the yacht club.. now to find a yacht club and of course a yacht.

 

 

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Let's be honest here, some guys should never be allowed to wear a wife beater. Does go with the hat though.

[shaper]

GO LA... I mean FROOME.... Friday yet?? 

['Dale]

Can the Armstrong discussion be moved to the Armstrong thread, please, cycling fans.

 

It's 2017.

 

#freesagan

[Gen]

Let's be honest here, some guys should never be allowed to wear a wife beater. Does go with the hat though. [emoji317]

Lol

 

 

Hot summer day. .in an out of the ocean. .hell why not .

 

Hey I wonder when last he actually had a summer holiday.

 

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[Plentipotential]

With Aru sitting in second and a sniff away from yellow, you never know what dastardly moves Astana will resort too. They might just do something to spice up the challenge.

 

Well besides their usual rest day BB.

 

Heaven forbid that Aru gets caught out in the cross winds this year. Lucky for him Bostik are a sponsor, they'll get that all over the bottles.

 

Quick back to Hitler and Armstrong: See what happens when the cycling is boring, you lot just love a good free for all even if it's limited to the keyboards! Even Armstrong's haters watch his podcast, good news is you are not alone, I see Peter Sagan has 706 K followers on Twitter, Armstrong has 3.78 M? Gotta love people, or as my Gramps used to say. " there's nowt so queer as folk".

 

One of the best TDF's for years IMO. And yes I love the Stages podcast, way better than the PC ozzies commentary which is a massive step up on the Phil and Paul show by the way!