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General Tour de France Thread 2016 - use spoiler tags until midnight

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    #122
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,405 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    im a bit like cav saying i dont care after the previous year and now cant wait for it to start

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #123
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Yippeee


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    #124
    Bugsy2000
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭Bugsy2000


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    The issue with Dan is still consistency and staying well. If Etixx can sort that, I see absolutely no reason a solid top 10 isn't possible. I've taken that bet too.

    I know what you're saying. In the back of my mind as I was placing the bet there was a voice going 'allergies, crashes'.


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    #125
    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    bazermc wrote: »
    Well the magazine that I got is a British publication so it obviously says that froome will win. It also has mark cavendish on the front cover. Will he even be racing it?

    My bad


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    #126
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I'd love to have a subscription to, and some subtitles for, Dutch TV coverage of the tour. I watched it last year when in Italy and it was class. The post race shows in the evening, even with my very basic Dutch (which is my German!), I was able to grasp a good bit of what they were on about. WAAAAAY better than any ES post or indeed pre race coverage.

    Do all the keen racers here have French good enough to follow the French radio coverage? French sports coverage is usually appealingly biased and passionate.

    Prizes were much better in the past; Wikipedia:
    The first prize in 1988 was a car, a studio-apartment, a work of art and 500,000 francs in cash.

    BBC World Service was saying earlier that the Africans are coming up strongly; not there yet, but getting better every year. Opinions?


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    #127
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Incidentally, in relation to Dutch coverage, i have Swedish friends and their TV deal - Sky, I *think*, but I'm not sure - gives them access to some Swedish channels or a Swedish channel; they may have to pay extra…

    I don't know what TV deals offer what foreign-language channels - does anyone here?

    Is there anywhere showing the Tour with French commentary on TV? Alliance Française?


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    #128
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    This site has lots of video (sorry if everyone already knows this), a lot of it in English, some in French but the French is very clear - clear enough for me to understand a fair amount, which is saying a lot.


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    #129
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,055 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Chuchote wrote: »
    French sports coverage is usually appealingly biased and passionate.


    and Carlton & the ITV lads are keen neutral observers i suppose


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    #130
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    neris wrote: »
    and Carlton & the ITV lads are keen neutral observers i suppose

    Ah well, you're right; things have changed. I first came across French sports radio in the 1960s when I was studying for my Leaving. At that stage, British commentators tried to behave like RAF pilots, cool under fire, distanced, unbiased. Irish commentators even more so. Irish crowds at matches would politely applaud a nice goal by the opposing side. So the wails of "Ah! Quel dommage! Quel dommage!" from the French commentators when a goal was scored against France were hilarious and refreshing.


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    #131
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    According to the Freesat listings, ITV4 is showing Tour de France live from 14:00 to 17:30, it lists the same channel as showing Tour de France highlights from 13:00 to 15:00 and 19:00 to 21:00, which is puzzling. Chris Boardman and Gary Imlach presenting, whatever.


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    #132
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Oh, and it lists S4C as having Seiclo: Le Tour de France 14:00-16:30 and 22:00-22:30 or various similar times on Thursday and Friday.

    And TG4 has Tour de France Beo from 13:10 for 3.5 hours.


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    #133
    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    So who else has booked a holiday to Israel and bought alpecin caffeine shampoo. :)


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    #134
    JK.BMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭JK.BMC


    bazermc wrote: »
    So who else has booked a holiday to Israel and bought alpecin caffeine shampoo. :)

    Neither.
    But who is yer man in the shower?

    The wife was asking me. Honestly.


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    #135
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,397 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    I miss the bora ads. THey always had some nifty kitchen utensils. That extractor fan that went downwards blew my mind.


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    #136
    Melodeon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    JK.BMC wrote: »
    Neither.
    But who is yer man in the shower?

    The wife was asking me. Honestly.

    That's Roy Curvers in the shower, and Tom Dumoulin looking for the shampoo.

    Here he is for 'the wife' :rolleyes: ;););)
    390931.jpg


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    #137
    JK.BMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭JK.BMC


    Melodeon wrote: »
    That's Roy Curvers in the shower, and Tom Dumoulin looking for the shampoo.

    Here he is for 'the wife' :rolleyes: ;););)
    390931.jpg

    Thanks.
    He looks filthy.....


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    #138
    JK.BMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭JK.BMC


    ALPECIN SHAMPOO - it's not worth it. Dearer than champagne.

    I think I will stick to L'Oréal.


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    #139
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,397 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    JK.BMC wrote: »
    ALPECIN SHAMPOO - it's not worth it. Dearer than champagne.

    I think I will stick to L'Oréal.
    Any idea what caffeine shampoo is? Does is smell like coffee? Or give you a boost like caffeine? If so, how?

    It's one of those ads I've heard 100 times without questioning, but now that I read the words, it doesn't really make sense.


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    #140
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,573 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It does not smell like coffee... smells half medicinal, half cosmetic... it's all about applying ENERGY, directly to your hair follicles... especially in men whose hair follicles are getting a bit lazy and so thinning on top...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #141
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    That's a really nasty cut the poor little lad has; he clearly needs someone to kiss it better.


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    #142
    Leroy42
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    So few crashes this year. After the relative carnage of the last few years (If I recall correctly we had some really serious crashes last year) this year I don't think, apart from Bertie, there has been any big crash and we currently have no drop outs.

    We always hear that the reason for the crashes is nervousness in the bunch, the hard racing etc etc, so is it that everyone is simply taking it easier this year?


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    #143
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Leroy42 wrote: »
    So few crashes this year. After the relative carnage of the last few years (If I recall correctly we had some really serious crashes last year) this year I don't think, apart from Bertie, there has been any big crash and we currently have no drop outs.

    We always hear that the reason for the crashes is nervousness in the bunch, the hard racing etc etc, so is it that everyone is simply taking it easier this year?

    Bertie twice and Sam http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/bennett-could-see-bone-in-his-finger-after-crash-battles-to-finish-stage-2/


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    #144
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Not one dnf or dns yet which is amazing


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    #145
    dastardly00
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    68 lost souls wrote: »
    Bertie twice and Sam http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/bennett-could-see-bone-in-his-finger-after-crash-battles-to-finish-stage-2/

    From that link:
    “I could see the bone in my finger and I had to go under to get them stitched up.”

    Does that mean he had a general anesthetic?
    If so, that's nuts that he was back racing the next day.


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    #146
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    From that link:



    Does that mean he had a general anesthetic?
    If so, that's nuts that he was back racing the next day.

    I would believe so,crazy that he'd be allowed race the following day.


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    #147
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Kreuziger getting a bashing by Tinkoff team staff. May contain spoilers http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-cavendish-is-king-tinkoff-in-crisis-podcast/


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    #148
    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    So no stage of the tour today, no football, no game of thrones...................

    At this rate I might actually need to talk to the wife.


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    #149
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    bazermc wrote: »
    So no stage of the tour today, no football, no game of thrones...................

    At this rate I might actually need to talk to the wife.

    ITV have a rest day special this evening, its bound to be better than talking to the wife


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    #150
    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Boscoirl wrote: »
    ITV have a rest day special this evening, its bound to be better than talking to the wife

    Hmmmm, I dont know will they spend the whole hour talking about how brillant Froome is......:eek::eek:


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    #151
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Love watching him but he strikes me as very conservative, and its frustrating watching him always following, following.
    I wonder will he have a go on the time trial Friday?


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