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Tour de France 2018 - General Thread

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    #362
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    equivariant wrote: »
    Has the grid start thing ever been done in a world tour race before? Just wondering if there is any precedent as to how things might go at the start?

    Yeah they did it for La Course last year. Annemeik van Vleuten won it.


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    #363
    LeoD
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    nee wrote: »
    Yeah they did it for La Course last year. Annemeik van Vleuten won it.

    That was different. They started with the time gaps gained in a TT. This is more of a controlled mass start.


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    #364
    eeeee
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    LeoD wrote: »
    That was different. They started with the time gaps gained in a TT. This is more of a controlled mass start.

    No there was a regular road stage and the gaps were calculated from that.

    ETA only the first 20 did the second stage actually. But same format otherwise.


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    #365
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    G to win the ITT and show us all that he is a master of all terrain. Then he will use the winter to teach Sven and co a thing or two about cyclocross.


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    #366
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    wonder what happened here

    https://twitter.com/albertsecall/status/1022164075080560640


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    #367
    average_runner
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    G to win the ITT and show us all that he is a master of all terrain. Then he will use the winter to teach Sven and co a thing or two about cyclocross.

    <Snip>

    Mod doping speculation can stop here and holidays may be awarded.


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    #368
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    godtabh wrote: »
    wonder what happened here

    https://twitter.com/albertsecall/status/1022164075080560640

    I think a policeman knocked Froome off his bike after the stage as he was on his way down, the policeman claimed he thought it was some amateur that shouldn't be on the road? :confused:


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    #369
    tuxy
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    I don't like Sky like most on here but I hate to see this.
    If something is not done riders being pushed off their bikes could become a regular occurrence.

    https://twitter.com/_CycleGirl_/status/1022182101649567744


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    #370
    godtabh
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    tuxy wrote: »
    I think a policeman knocked Froome off his bike after the stage as he was on his way down, the policeman claimed he thought it was some amateur that shouldn't be on the road? :confused:

    https://twitter.com/ulif/status/1022178702870896646


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    #371
    [Deleted User]
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    No matter who he is they think it's ok to grab or knock someone from a bike going down hill? Idiots.


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    #372
    average_runner
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    No offence mod but i didnt say he was on anything illegal. Please return my post.


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    #373
    happytramp
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    No matter who he is they think it's ok to grab or knock someone from a bike going down hill? Idiots.

    The amount of people liking those posts on twitter is also pretty gross.


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    #374
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    happytramp wrote: »
    The amount of people liking those posts on twitter is also pretty gross.

    Twitter is one of the more toxic places on the net, which say a lot.


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    #375
    CrowdedHouse
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    Liking on Twitter can be a kind of bookmark too

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #376
    mloc123
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    In defence of the gendarme.. Froomes "style" makes it look like he has never rode a bike in his life


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    #377
    Macy0161
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    tuxy wrote:
    I don't like Sky like most on here but I hate to see this. If something is not done riders being pushed off their bikes could become a regular occurrence.
    Hasn't become a common place thing since 75 when merckx (in his version of events) lost the tour due to being punched on a mountain stage.


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    #378
    odyssey06
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    mloc123 wrote: »
    In defence of the gendarme.. Froomes "style" makes it look like he has never rode a bike in his life

    We had the gendarmes screwing up the tear gas yesterday, and then this today.

    Someone could probably script a pretty good Carry On \ Police Academy \ Allo Allo from their antics.

    To cap it all, I expect to see this guy caught up in the final sprint on the Champs Elysees Sunday...

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



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    #379
    dastardly00
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    We had the gendarmes screwing up the tear gas yesterday, and then this today.

    Someone could probably script a pretty good Carry On \ Police Academy \ Allo Allo from their antics.


    It could have been worse for Froome... it if was the Vuelta it would have been a Spanish police officer. Froome would now be in hospital with a few broken bones and a very bad concussion :P


    They take no prisoners! :eek:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3De7vgX3Fs4


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    #380
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Davy B apologises for slagging off the French here but then seems seems to double down!
    “France has given me such a fantastic experience over so many years that I’d never be ungrateful for that. The issue was more security. It’s been quieter, it’s been calmer since we came towards Spain.”


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    #381
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    ...towards Spain [where they have a different approach to doping violations] than that in France.


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    #382
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,457 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Given that the parts of Spain which border France are Catalunya and the Basque country, Dave might have riled up the locals by referring that area as Spain. He's an awful spoofer.


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    #383
    mloc123
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    Last chance saloon today for a handful of people to make any impact on their race. Are riders happy to hold on to top 10 places or will they risk them?


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    #384
    Macy0161
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    mloc123 wrote: »
    Last chance saloon today for a handful of people to make any impact on their race. Are riders happy to hold on to top 10 places or will they risk them?
    Could only see Froome be willing to risk it from the real potential winners tbh. Unless Lotto Jumbo send one up the road...


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    #385
    brocbrocach
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    Dan will try. Dan will attack and gain a minute plus on the GC today but won't win the stage.
    Roglic or Kruisjwijk will fall and drop out.


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    #386
    Izoard
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭Izoard


    Classic quote from Wiggins - the romanticism of Le Tour is long dead....

    Asked if he feared the Tourmalet and its neighbours....

    "They all go uphill, they're all on tarmac. It doesn't matter what name is on them – you go up them on a bike. It's just a name, really, at the end of the day," he said then. "Ultimately, it's about going out there and averaging 400 watts climb after climb."


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    #387
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Moved all talk about today's stage to the stage specific thread.


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    #388
    Lusk_Doyle
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    brocbrocach wrote: »
    Roglic or Kruisjwijk will fall and drop out.

    I really hope that doesn't happen.


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    #389
    brocbrocach
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I really hope that doesn't happen.


    Fingers crossed, yes ... We'll know by Sunday - I was speaking about the TdeF generally, not today's stage of course :o:o:o


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    #390
    cunavalos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Who would have known back in 2009 that the Barloworld Bianchi Procontinental squad would go on to dominate professional cycling 9 years later. Talk about a team of late developers
    HYLuI4z.jpg
    Cummings was probably seen as the best of the anglophiles with the biggest potential

    Season preview from cycling weekly back in the day https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/barloworld-team-profile-70167


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    #391
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    I wonder if Paolo Longo Borghini is related to Elisa Longo Borghini?


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