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Tour de France 2023 ***spoilers*** Warning in OP

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    #212
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120793465#Comment_120793465

    Hopefully. Flights booked last Friday, I'll be on the Angliru in a Clonard jersey 😁



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    #213
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    UAE spaffing away energy with the entire team riding for Yates. Should have cut a deal with Jayco to unload the jersey in return for help closing down the break.



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    #214
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Doc07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120793902#Comment_120793902

    Yes it’s the same lads, I only understand about half of it but I like them, casually chatting away about Ineos their use of Ketones , not a hope you’d hear that on a mainstream feed. I also love that they get the cyclists names wrong all the time or mix up between team members.



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    #215
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users Posts: 8,569 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Its a tough gig commentating on a sporting event where so little happens for so long but they do a good job alright on TG4 and its good to listen to the cupla focail



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    #216
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120794552#Comment_120794552

    3 climbing bikes and 3 aero bikes per rider I’d imagine, super excessive but I guess if you’re insistent on using a climbing bike for mountain stages and aero for flat/sprint ones then you need at least a spare bike for each and then a reserve if there’s a crash



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    #217
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 38,171 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    We might get get attacks here I think.



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    #218
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,238 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    You'd think Adam Blythe had never watched Pog before the way he is talking about him



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    #219
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Surprised to see UAE so far back here, would’ve expected them to be right up the front alongside Jumbo but they seem to be sitting in behind a fair few teams



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    #220
    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,727 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Comms are having a huge go at them all day long. Madness at what they did all day.



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    #221
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 8,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Blythe thinks mvdp isn't bothered. Thinking about tomorrow. I don't buy that. If he had the legs he wouldn't have been dropped.



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    #222
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Wout’s going out the back here



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    #223
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795616#Comment_120795616

    That'd be the "infernal pace" effect...

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



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    #224
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,187 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    What are they at? This seems like madness

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #225
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,888 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    I love the Tour de France and perhaps my standards are unrealistic...but should bans be extend to broadcasting, I'm trying to enjoy this year's tour , but Alberto Contrador Is on Eurosport on the back of a bike...

    A hard watch and requires me to have selective amnesia to watch..



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    #226
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Are the two of them going to drill it down the descent? Nut jobs



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    #227
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,187 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    This is pure madness

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #228
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    What a clusterfuck of a final 3km, Pidcock just aimlessly attacking doing nothing, Wout having to pull like a dog, Lafay being allowed to just go in the final km, Pogacar sprinting at the end



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    #229
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,238 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Cofidis win a TDF stage! The end of the world is nigh!!!



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    #230
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,811 ✭✭✭griffin100


    Brilliant, loved that. Perfectly timed.



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    #231
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795742#Comment_120795742

    But not in France... maybe we'll be ok :)

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



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    #232
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 25,707 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Wow that was some gap Lafay pulled out.

    The French fear of no stage win put to bed early.



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    #233
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    That was great craic, delighted for Cofidis



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    #234
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Jonas should have been up there helping the lead out to be fair but Lafay showed his form yesterday staying with pog and vingegaard, great win.



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    #235
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,187 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Great finish. Benoot really let Wout down there.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #236
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795792#Comment_120795792

    Nah its on Vingegaard imho, if UAE had a rider up for that sprint other than him you can bet anything Pog would be in the lead out.

    Im a big fan of Vingegaard but bad form from him not to help the lead out.

    Post edited by Dcully on


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    #237
    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,727 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795777#Comment_120795777

    100% - buck stops with Jonas on that loss.

    Will say though a late steal like that is epic.



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    #238
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,187 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795803#Comment_120795803

    Maybe you’re right. But he doesn’t seem to have a real racing brain. He’s a safety first rider.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #239
    Morris Garren
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Morris Garren


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120795792#Comment_120795792

    I think Benoot was boll1xed and Keldermann, not known as a big rouleur, was stuck at the front - I'd prefer to give huge credit to Lafay, a real classy win and textbook 'last km heroic attack' that so often fails these days. Surprised Bettiol didn't follow him as he was the other likely candidate for a last gasp victory from that motley crew in the finale



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    #240
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    What a great day, real treat for viewers. Brilliant move and win for Lafay, bet that hurt like all day holding that gap. Alphaphillipe losing a lot of time so early, his group were moving a lot slower and would've been hurt by that fast finish.



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    #241
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120794718#Comment_120794718

    Overnighting is an added expense I imagine that's unnecessary. If the truck can fit 48+ bikes, then why not. Can have different set ups for each rider too.


    Security would be the big reason I'd imagine not to.



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