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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 10:51:46 AM

Title: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 10:51:46 AM: The 2014 Tour de France to start in Yorkshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20724621
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: lovejoy on December 14, 2012, 11:26:20 AM: Hopefully a stage finish down south. I bet it rains.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 11:32:59 AM: Quote from: lovejoy on December 14, 2012, 11:26:20 AM
Hopefully a stage finish down south. I bet it rains.

2/3 stages I think, finishing in London.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: Chris Jameson on December 14, 2012, 01:04:56 PM: Quote from: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 10:51:46 AM
The 2014 Tour de France to start in Yorkshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20724621

Starting in the Republic, it's downhill from then on.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: Simon Ward on December 14, 2012, 02:02:12 PM: Looking forward to it already!
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 03:14:50 PM: Quote from: Chris Jameson on December 14, 2012, 01:04:56 PM
Quote from: maidstonevillain on December 14, 2012, 10:51:46 AM
The 2014 Tour de France to start in Yorkshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20724621

Starting in the Republic, it's downhill from then on.

That will favour Wiggins then. he's not too good on the climbs.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: TopDeck113 on December 14, 2012, 06:06:58 PM: Great news. I'll be there... no doubt watching the peleton whizz past in a cloud of Yorkshire drizzle.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 18, 2013, 11:44:52 AM: Lived in Harrogate for 16 years and it's the first time I can remember something genuinely exciting happening in the town, brilliant news that it stages the first finish.
Title: Re: Eeee by Eck it's t' Grand Depart
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 10, 2013, 04:23:29 AM: Are the pharmacies in Harrogate well-stocked?