2017 Tour de France

[Eugene Oppelt]

Ooooh. The Hub is on the war path this morning.

Friday Fight Club ????

[Vetplant]

Agree with him

 

This is a cut-and-dry case of biased officials. Can one not appeal to the court for arbitration of sport? 

[s14phoenix]

Now in light of this evidence presented... surely they could reconsider their position on letting Bardet off the hook...

 

surely they should.

[Gen]

This is a cut-and-dry case of biased officials. Can one not appeal to the court for arbitration of sport?

Didn't work for Bora[emoji53]

 

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[Gen]

Well you know what this means.. come Vuelta time the commisaires will have to even the score ????

 

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[gummibear]

[Eugene Oppelt]

Now in light of this evidence presented... surely they could reconsider their position on letting Bardet off the hook...

 

surely they should.

What a failure

The sport of cycling has enough adversity and wounds

 

#freesagan

#cuffbardet

[VicanZA]

the race that has become about marginal gains needs some EPO if you ask me.

[Eugene Oppelt]

100ish kms

3 Cat 1 climbs

 

Today

Don't blink ????

[seanp]

On ITV they were saying that even if they had attacked it would have been a stupid move because sky (still 4 strong at that stage) would have just reeled them in with 5 odd km's to go at that stage...so it was not that they didnt want to attack because of the yellow...but that tactically it would have been a bad decision

 

Is the answer then to do nothing?

 

Team Sky have followed the same tactics since 2012, and since then the other teams have just not been able to find a way of combating these tactics and beating them. In that time Sky has grown even stronger, bigger budget, with support riders to CF probably capable of being the leader if they were in the other WT teams and CF has become an even better rider. Sky's tactics are so obvious yet nobody seems to be able to find a way to beat them.

 

A couple of years ago, a few mates and I had the opportunity to enjoy a ride with a SA pro. We followed his career on the local circuit and knew his strengths and weaknesses. There was no way any of us was going to be able to beat him in a flat out race. That did however not mean that we didn't try. And nearly died trying, if I might add  .

As a group we each took turns, nasty yes in know, to attack, to try and tire him, to try and break him in some fashion. We failed.

It was a pointless exercise; at the end of the day it just highlighted the difference between a professional and the rest of us, good amateurs and weekend warriors.

Yes we failed in our attempt, BUT we damn well TRIED.

 

I think that's what most of us want, someone to at least give it a go.

[Wannabe]

Eish, I was rooting for Stevo yesterday (even if it was just to prove me right in my prediction, once in my life    ) but alas, it was one hill too far.

Kudos to him for trying, though. 

[Vetplant]

Eish, I was rooting for Stevo yesterday (even if it was just to prove me right in my prediction, once in my life    ) but alas, it was one hill too far.

Kudos to him for trying, though. 

He'll take today as a recovery ride and then I am pretty sure tomorrow will be another opportunity for him

[Stretch]

 

Yes we failed in our attempt, BUT we damn well TRIED.

 

 

 

like Steve yesterday! 10/10 for a gallant effort....but he was broken. I saw he came in 11 minutes later!

[s14phoenix]

Is the answer then to do nothing?

 

Team Sky have followed the same tactics since 2012, and since then the other teams have just not been able to find a way of combating these tactics and beating them. In that time Sky has grown even stronger, bigger budget, with support riders to CF probably capable of being the leader if they were in the other WT teams and CF has become an even better rider. Sky's tactics are so obvious yet nobody seems to be able to find a way to beat them.

 

A couple of years ago, a few mates and I had the opportunity to enjoy a ride with a SA pro. We followed his career on the local circuit and knew his strengths and weaknesses. There was no way any of us was going to be able to beat him in a flat out race. That did however not mean that we didn't try. And nearly died trying, if I might add  .

As a group we each took turns, nasty yes in know, to attack, to try and tire him, to try and break him in some fashion. We failed.

It was a pointless exercise; at the end of the day it just highlighted the difference between a professional and the rest of us, good amateurs and weekend warriors.

Yes we failed in our attempt, BUT we damn well TRIED.

 

I think that's what most of us want, someone to at least give it a go.

 

Another theory also was that perhaps at that point Sky was pushing the pace at the front so hard that everyone was just relieved to take a break and wait for Sky.

 

OR

 

There was not a single rider willing to take up the pace and lets face it - I don't think any of the other guys would have worked together at that point - they all too used to riding the Sky-train.

 

Today will be a real tell if Astana's bunch of individuals can pull together and assist Aru? I don't see them doing what sky does for Froome and once the rest of the team has all dropped like Flies what is Aru going to do? Maybe it is lucky its a downhill finish.

 

AG2R will be shaking the peloton apart today with their descending skills... the final 13km may just be too flat for them to stay away if they do create a gap.

[Davey_Jones]

So Meintjes to be in yellow in 2-3 years?

[Jurgens Smit]

So Meintjes to be in yellow in 2-3 years?

 

I don't think so, not unless he signs for a super team like Sky or Trek etc.

 

I see he may be going back to DD but I don't think the team has what it takes to go for GC