Criterium de Dauphine 2016 - mod warning in post 223 and OP

irishrover99

Another GC snorefest while sky are controlling

ednwireland

irishrover99 wrote: »

Another GC snorefest while sky are controlling

huh ? bardet up the road

bazermc

Jesus how many times is Kirby going to tell us that every time froome wins the dauphine he wins the tour. You would swear to god froome has won the tour more than a whole twice

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Kreuziger and Kiserlovski in the break spells fireworks from contador

Not really...

ednwireland

go dan

Carpenter

3th good man

neris

that was a brilliant finish

irishrover99

ednwireland wrote: »

huh ? bardet up the road

I was talking about the yellow jersey group and since bardet was always going for the stage I dont think froome was worried about him

neris

yates got 4 seconds on aliphillipe in the young rider category, was all going on in that finish

Andre 3000

Kirby outdid himself today...absolutely shocking commentary.

Dan Martin outside chance for TDF podium? He's in great form.

retalivity

"Well what can we say about Chris Froome"

Nothing Carlton, you have said absolutely everything. Twice.

pelevin

Would ye ever all f*** off with the Kirby complaining?! I find him roughly infinitely more enjoyable than the whining about how bad he is.

Thought Dan looked super on that climb as shown by his finish.

My exciting bit of news is I'm going to launch a bid for head of the UCI. My main platform will be abolishing teams so the racing will be mad, uncontrolled & elevating to the soul of participants & observers alike.

gordongekko

pelevin wrote: »

Would ye ever all f*** off with the Kirby complaining?! I find him roughly infinitely more enjoyable than the whining about how bad he is.

Thought Dan looked super on that climb as shown by his finish.

My exciting bit of news is I'm going to launch a bid for head of the UCI. My main platform will be abolishing teams so the racing will be mad, uncontrolled & elevating to the soul of participants & observers alike.

nothing about doping?

pelevin

gordongekko wrote: »

nothing about doping?

I'll abolish doping also.

Inquitus

Dan could take 2nd in this if the GC Contendors contest the stage win tomorrow, between potential bonus seconds and his explosive finish, he has a great opportunity.

neris

pelevin wrote: »

Would ye ever all f*** off with the Kirby complaining?! I find him roughly infinitely more enjoyable than the whining about how bad he is.

Thought Dan looked super on that climb as shown by his finish.

My exciting bit of news is I'm going to launch a bid for head of the UCI. My main platform will be abolishing teams so the racing will be mad, uncontrolled & elevating to the soul of participants & observers alike.

Will you ban carlton bashing aswell?

irishrover99

Perhaps he deserves his own thread. He'd love that

CramCycle

pelevin wrote: »

Would ye ever all f*** off with the Kirby complaining?! I find him roughly infinitely more enjoyable than the whining about how bad he is.

He is a bit rubbish but then again, I find eurosport commentary on any sport rubbish.

My exciting bit of news is I'm going to launch a bid for head of the UCI. My main platform will be abolishing teams so the racing will be mad, uncontrolled & elevating to the soul of participants & observers alike.

It would be class but unfortunately, even if it was possible, would never be workable as you would have individuals teaming up to make pseudo teams with the same backer but as some one who enjoys club league racing and A4/A3 racing, it would be wonderful.

gordongekko wrote: »

nothing about doping?

Other than refusing to accept WADAs ruling and handing out a lifetime ban to every guilty pro rider, no excuses, there is nothing to do. There is no fear now, as there wasn't many years ago. ASO races seem to be almost protected from such issues.

bazermc

irishrover99 wrote: »

Perhaps he deserves his own thread. He'd love that

Rock and rolling, keeping his powder dry with Carlton Kirby

pelevin

neris wrote: »

Will you ban carlton bashing aswell?

I'll relegate the Carlton bashers to tennis watching & prawn sandwich eating.

neris

pelevin wrote: »

I'll relegate the Carlton bashers to tennis watching & prawn sandwich eating.

I think we see more tennis while waiting for cycling

Brian?

My lady words on Mr Kirby:

"Look at Froome stamping his authority on this race"

As he finished 4th, losing time to Dan Martin and widening his massive lead over Contador to 35s.

Lusk_Doyle

Is the racing that bad that the thread has been reduced to mocking the commentator?

Brian?

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Is the racing that bad that the thread has been reduced to mocking the commentator?

It's not great. Yesterday was a decent stage. Today wasn't good at all.

You may have been asking rhetorically. But I am answering anyway.

Lumen

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Is the racing that bad that the thread has been reduced to mocking the commentator?

It echoes ironically the fact that Kirby's poor commentary is a constant distraction from the racing.

Inquitus

Brian? wrote: »

It's not great. Yesterday was a decent stage. Today wasn't good at all.

You may have been asking rhetorically. But I am answering anyway.

It seems there was some action today, but the fact only the last 30km of the Queen stage was broadcast meant we missed all the attacking and just saw a GC ride to the finish with an attack in the last 1km, and Kirby's fawning over Froome was at it's worst.

manwithaplan

What was Bardet doing? If he promised Pinot the stage and did a two hander all the way to the line, he would be in yellow.

Inquitus

manwithaplan wrote: »

What was Bardet doing? If he promised Pinot the stage and did a two hander all the way to the line, he would be in yellow.

All seemed a bit much for him, he made a slew of bad decisions, you'd think the DS would have given him some sensible advice in his ear.

Brian?

Inquitus wrote: »

All seemed a bit much for him, he made a slew of bad decisions, you'd think the DS would have given him some sensible advice in his ear.

I get the feeling there is bad blood between Pinot and Bardet. It's the only way I can explain how Bardet rode today.

Darkglasses

Brian? wrote: »

I get the feeling there is bad blood between Pinot and Bardet. It's the only way I can explain how Bardet rode today.

Definitely rivals at least, they're both competing to be the new young French hope for the teams trying to be the big French team. Pinot's 26 and Bardet's 25, wouldn't be surprised if they've been competing for longer than we've known them.

neris

Brian? wrote: »

I get the feeling there is bad blood between Pinot and Bardet. It's the only way I can explain how Bardet rode today.

This could be the year where a french victory in the tour is thrown out the window by these two fighting each other and forgetting everyone else in the race. At least if froome wins the english will have won something in france this year

retalivity

neris wrote: »

This could be the year where a french victory in the tour is thrown out the window by these two fighting each other and forgetting everyone else in the race. At least if froome wins the english will have won something in france this year

There's at least 3 better riders than both of them in the tour this year, they might as well fight each other to be best french rider and finish anyhwere from 4th-10th

gordongekko

retalivity wrote: »

There's at least 3 better riders than both of them in the tour this year, they might as well fight each other to be best french rider and finish anyhwere from 4th-10th

Its not long ago the Nibali won a tour easily despite being only the 3rd best rider to start the race. Anything can happen over 3 weeks of racing

Brian?

neris wrote: »

This could be the year where a french victory in the tour is thrown out the window by these two fighting each other and forgetting everyone else in the race. At least if froome wins the english will have won something in france this year

Froome may be British, but is he English? I wouldn't think so.

oconnpad

Live coverage starts at 12:45 today in case it catches any of you on the hop

Lusk_Doyle

oconnpad wrote: »

Live coverage starts at 12:45 today in case it catches any of you on the hop

Great. Just when I have to bring the kids to their "how to be a triathlete" classes

neris

Cummins on a solo breakaway carlton be getting himself very excited

retalivity

Tony Martin is an absolute animal

neris

Bertie attacks

neris

Berties been caught and dan gets dropped from a group of 5

Andre 3000

Cycling would be tragic without Bertie.

neris

This is great racing

retalivity

hopefully the other sky lads do not join up on the descent and leave the top 5 to battle it out

EDIT: feck that

Arrow in the Knee

Why doesn't Richie Porte show his true colours and put a Sky jersey on.

neris

retalivity wrote: »

EDIT: feck that

Get used to it. You,ll be seeing that for most of july

neris

Good man dan 2nd

Andre 3000

Completely toothless from Porte. Dan Martin is a warrior.

Pudsy33

Did Dan sneak a podium?

pajor

Looks like it was a great ride by Cummings. Deserved stage win.

ednwireland

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Did Dan sneak a podium?

yep 3rd