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choddo

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5 hours ago, Plissken said:

I've read that farmers in that area have just lost their status as a deprived community and with it associated Government and EU funding.

 

Some pics.

 

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Jesus. Didn’t see that on Eurosport! Saw someone getting sprayed but they were up on their feet giving some grief.

 

Phil Gilbert is hardcore.

 

and Alaphilipe is an absolute loon.

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metallicfrodo

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Could be a very exciting stage today, very short at 65km with 3 cols to climb, including the last mountain top finish of the tour. I think this is the make or break stage for Thomas, if he comes over this with his lead in tack (or at least with +30 seconds of it in tack) then I think he will win the tour. He's good enough in the TT I think to be able to hold that over Froome or Dumoulin. I know we have one more tough mountain stage to come but it's a downhill finish and it's the kind of stage that Sky can control. If G does take the win with Froome and Dumoulin behind him with no new time gaps we will have seen a tour won on the basis of who didn't crash in the first week.

 

If Thomas falls away and Froome and Dumoulin maintain the same time gap then the timetrial is going to be amazing as we will have two of the best TTers in the world (especially deep into a GT) going up against each other, and I think that over that length of course Dumoulin on a perfect day has the ability to take more than 11 seconds out of Froome. Either way I think we could see a closer tour than the 8 seconds when Lemond beat Fignon. 

 

Anyway all that is probably a bit premature with today's stage, and friday's stage to come.

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Yeah. Dumoulin should win today but not by enough to beat G, considering G is pretty good at TTs anyway. 

I'm predicting (today's results) 

Dumoulin

Roglic

Froome

Thomas

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metallicfrodo

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Well I was completely wrong about Roglic with regards to the TT, in the end I think his inexperience, and the effort he put in yesterday cost him.

 

Great ride from Thomas, I never thought he could get through a GT without a bad day but he proved a lot of doubters wrong. He was helped slightly by Froome and Dumoulin having both ridden the Giro but I don’t actually think we ever saw him in trouble and I wonder if he truely ever had to go deep at any stage. To take the overall and two amazing mountain stages is an incredible achievement.

 

His palmares is very very impressive now (not that it wasn’t before). But there isn’t any type of race he hasn’t won now in road cycling and he’s a multiple world and Olympic champion on the track too. The boy from Wales done good.

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I wasn't sure where to put this but it's an absolute tragedy. She looked immense on the track and is only 27 and it's such a shame to have her career cut short in this way. It can be easy to forget just how dangerous cycling and the consequences of accidents can be devastating.

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idiwa

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Just seen that Paul Sherwen has died aged 62 at his home in Uganda... farrrk :(. I first stated watching TDF back in 1987 listening to Paul and Phil with Paul being the voice of reason to Phil's Murray Walker outbursts. 62 is way too young. I've not seen any details of how he passed so no idea if it was ill health or an accident.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62

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Gotters

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Hopefully nobody steps in and funds another mega squad like Sky with domestiques capable of winning grand tours.

 

I'd love to see a more open Tour De France with multiple contenders and lead switches and 1 team not able to totally control and shut down the race at will.

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idiwa

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On 20/03/2019 at 20:04, Dapple said:

The 'ethos of cycling' ship sailed years ago, didn't it?  Is there a difference between Ineos' involvement and that of Astana, Katusha or Bahrain?

 

Gasprom Rus Velo too. 

 

Aparently Sky will be rebranded for Tour of Yorkshire at the start; which sounds like a hell of a lot of work to nail in a month. 

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On 18/03/2019 at 18:13, JohnC said:

I'm not sure the financial levelling will work out. It's set to be bought by Jim Ratcliffe and become Team Ineos. The team's budget will be increased.

 

On 19/03/2019 at 23:14, choddo said:

Team fucking Brexit Fracking Ineos. As if there could be anything further from the ethos of cycling.

 

Dirty money.

 

Wow, they looking for some carbon offset while they pollute the fuck out of the planet - Sky was not great but this is a whole new level of evil scum overlord :( 

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choddo

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On 20/03/2019 at 20:04, Dapple said:

The 'ethos of cycling' ship sailed years ago, didn't it?  Is there a difference between Ineos' involvement and that of Astana, Katusha or Bahrain?

 

I don’t even know what Katusha do. Are they an oil company?

 

Obviously Kazakhstan is a largely oil funded govt.

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'The cycling project was launched in the very end of 2008, when on December 22 a Team Katusha was launched in Moscow. The team was practically organised by the Russian Global Cycling Project foundation, which itself is funded by Russian businesses such as Gazprom, Itera and Rostechnologii.'

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