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Offline Dave Cooper please

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2018, 02:24:01 AM »
Not quite right Jon as the Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile which has just finished was 10 stages and close to 1000KM long.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2018, 08:15:53 AM »
Beeb article on the lack of a Women's TdF

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44831758

I haven’t read the article, but seriously a women’s TdF? The longest women’s stage race at present is about 4 stages and around 250 miles in total, I’m all for equality but the suggestion is ludicrous and poorly thought out.

It's not a campaign for a three week women's TdF Jon

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2018, 09:50:25 PM »
Having watched the finish of today's La Course on the TdF highlights show, I'd say the more we see of women's road racing the better.  Brilliant!

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2018, 09:59:00 PM »
Beeb article on the lack of a Women's TdF

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44831758

I haven’t read the article, but seriously a women’s TdF? The longest women’s stage race at present is about 4 stages and around 250 miles in total, I’m all for equality but the suggestion is ludicrous and poorly thought out.

Erm, Giro Rosa?

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2018, 10:41:34 PM »
Beeb article on the lack of a Women's TdF

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44831758

I haven’t read the article, but seriously a women’s TdF? The longest women’s stage race at present is about 4 stages and around 250 miles in total, I’m all for equality but the suggestion is ludicrous and poorly thought out.

Erm, Giro Rosa?

Is the exception to the rule, it’s the longest stage race on the tour by a very long way.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2018, 06:33:42 PM »
Great day for G, bad day for Cav.

No real surprise with Cav, not enough miles in the legs over the past two years. Big surprise that Kittel didn't make the cut, looks right out of form.

Should be fun watching Sky manage Thomas and Froome now.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2018, 09:42:38 PM »
Great day for G, bad day for Cav.

No real surprise with Cav, not enough miles in the legs over the past two years. Big surprise that Kittel didn't make the cut, looks right out of form.

Should be fun watching Sky manage Thomas and Froome now.

Once the high mountains arrive there will only be one winner you’d think.
Is Quintana just a lazy bastard or completely devoid of any tactical ability whatsoever?

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2018, 05:13:00 PM »
Quintana is finished as of today.

G is the first man to wear yellow on Alpe d’Huez and win the stage (Armstrong did but was disqualified for being a ******)

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2018, 09:44:18 AM »
G is on fire with two stunning stage wins. However, his individual time trial is his achilles heel, so Sky aren't going to abandon their strategy with Froome as the main man anytime soon. Thomas would need at least another five minutes lead for them to do that.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2018, 10:21:54 AM »
French TV ratings are way down, spectators are copiously booing Sky riders and there are even some twats trying to land punches on them or push them off their bikes. While I do not condone this behaviour, it is fair to say that the Sky team are seen as moneybags cheating c***s who are ruining the Tour which is now a one-team race where nobody else can compete.

I don't follow cycling so I wouldn't have a clue. What do you think? Lazy, French-bashing responders need not post.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2018, 01:18:29 PM »
French TV ratings are way down, spectators are copiously booing Sky riders and there are even some twats trying to land punches on them or push them off their bikes. While I do not condone this behaviour, it is fair to say that the Sky team are seen as moneybags cheating c***s who are ruining the Tour which is now a one-team race where nobody else can compete.

I don't follow cycling so I wouldn't have a clue. What do you think? Lazy, French-bashing responders need not post.

The comments of Bernard Hainault pre the tour haven’t helped and it’s easy to see why the French hate Team Sky who are completely devoid of a French rider in the team at the tour, France also haven’t had a tour winner since Hainault in 1985 so they probably feel it’s long overdue. That said there’s only Bardet as a French GC contender so not sure really who else they think might win it for France. Personally I’ve never been a fan of Froome, there’s still a load of doubt surrounding him and his emergence from the depths of nowhere on the tour of Poland to tour winner via bilharziasis and asthma.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2018, 06:32:24 PM »
If Sky was French, would we see these reactions? I’m just interested. Not liking them because they are the best is fair enough, but trying to attack riders seems wrong

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2018, 10:00:07 AM »
Of course it is wrong, and the twats that do it should get their collars felt.

I don't think it is so much the lack of a French challenger but more the belief that Sky are as bad as US Postal. People believe that Sky are drug-ridden, and the argument that Sky have the best finance/riders/preparation doesn't seem to convince when you see them flying up slopes generating more power than a small motorbike.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #28 on: July 23, 2018, 01:02:49 PM »
According to Dave Brailsford it’s a French cultural thing.

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Re: Le Tour 2018
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2018, 01:20:28 PM »
Team Sky enfant terrible Gianni Moscon has been excluded by the tour organisers for hitting another rider. Moscon was banned for 6 weeks I think a while back for racial abuse of another rider, sounds like a nice bloke.

 


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