Le Tour 2012

[SteveN]

In case you are interested. Cav is off to Omega Pharma (bad name for a cycling team). Specialzed are paying a load of money for him to ride thier bikes so I gather and it'll be Boonen for the Classics (which if you like the Tour then please watch them) and then Cav as sprint king for the Tour.

Is that for definite?  Makes sense, a lot of the HTC Team went there and Holm is a personal friend of Cav I believe.

Good news for Cav, Omega don't have a genuine GC contender so Cav should be team leader in the Tour.  Will Bernie be going with him do you know?

[Dave Cooper please]

I thought that was still just speculation.

Chris Froome is handily placed just one second behind the leader in the Vuelta (Tour of Spain - one of the three big tours along with TDF and Giro d'Italia), with plenty of mountains to go. Probably between him and Alberto Contador for the overall winner.

[N'Rexy]

I am pretty certain that the Omega Pharma move is sorted.

And in other news Lance gives up defending himself against drugs charges.

[Dave Cooper please]

I am pretty certain that the Omega Pharma move is sorted.

Fair one. I thought he'd go to either Green Edge or Saxo Bank.

[N'Rexy]

Saxo are a GC team now steak eater is back (Contador for Ad@m), Green Edge are aussie and they can't have their best rider being a POM (their words not mine).

 Oh and they are shit. They fluked Gerrans at San Remo and the rest has been rubbish this season.

[lovejoy]

Not liking the vuelta with Contador and Valverde doing so well it leaves a bad taste and that's not just the contaminated steak.

[SteveN]

Bloody hell, how tough at the end have these last three stages been in the Vuelta?  Clearly designed to produce a Spanish winner, I'd struggle to walk up let alone cycle.

[UK Redsox]

Today in the world of awkward photos ........................

[Dante Lavelli]

Bradley, the mod, must love having Britain’s best designers throwing suits in his direction.
He must be saving himself a fortune.

[TopDeck113]

Route for the 100th Tour announced. Ironic, in the wake of the Armstrong fiasco, that it is tailor made for a drugs cheat like Contador... 

I'd expect Sky to be shifting their efforts from Wiggins to Froome for this one. 

[lovejoy]

Well last years was fairly flat. Also the French have some good climbers too Pinot and Rolland so the hills are no shock.

[UK Redsox]

Twice up Alpe d'Huez in one day !

Wow, that'll be one hell of a stage

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2013/us/stage-18.html

[TopDeck113]

I saw that, too.  The Dutch will be paralytic by the end of the day.

[N'Rexy]

Me too! I'll have to get to the Dutch Corner for that, it'll be mental. Froome vs Contador I think.

[bertlambshank]

Sir Bradley Wiggins.