Giro d'Italia / Tour de France

[nimrod]

on hols so kept tabs by the pool. can't say I'm delighted but well done to froomey for having the nerve to go. no easy jaunt!

 

[Johnny75]

on hols so kept tabs by the pool. can't say I'm delighted but well done to froomey for having the nerve to go. no easy jaunt!

It was a bloody great stage nimrod. Froome showed true class and blew the field away at the top of the climb instead of on it like he has before. Quintana, Martin and Adam Yates all looked good on the climbs but the big stage tomorrow (cheers for the heads up Paddy) looks to test everybody after today.

Looking forward to it as this could be the decider.

 

[thehistorymakers]

Unless Froome falls off, it's already over. Sky are in a different league!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Dunno. He only has a few seconds on Quintana. I can see Movistar trying to remove Froome's mates tomorrow. The climb to Arcalis is fucking horrendous.

Watch out for Bastille Day on the Ventoux though. That is where it will be won and lost for me. The Morzine stage is going to be too late in the piece.

 

[nimrod]

It was a bloody great stage nimrod. Froome showed true class and blew the field away at the top of the climb instead of on it like he has before. Quintana, Martin and Adam Yates all looked good on the climbs but the big stage tomorrow (cheers for the heads up Paddy) looks to test everybody after today.

Looking forward to it as this could be the decider.

yes, tomorrow looks a killer. obviously not over yet though you'd expect froome to be in form having targeted this and realistically froome in form I'd expect only one realistic contender at present, that being Quintana. I always hope for more but so be it. I've not looked at the stages beyond tomorrow but hope Quintana can avoid this being a procession which for me takes away from the race.

 

[thehistorymakers]

I think Mikel Nieve was prolific today, he set a blinding pace that wore down Sky's competitors. His team gave everything for Froome. Froome had to score the goal after all the build up, which he did fantastically.

 

[thehistorymakers]

They have just shown a video, of froome lashing out at a Columbian spectator. He has apologised on social media, but it was violent behaviour by Froome. I know the spectators get close, but there is no excuse for punching anyone like that.


http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/09/chris...ng-stage-eight-of-the-tour-de-france-5996972/

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't know enough about cycling to comment, but what I do know is that any article that includes the phrase "the Nairobi born" has an agenda.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The pillock running beside almost wrapped his flag in the cyclists wheel spokes. Needed twatting really.

Anyway, looks like Contador is ill today with a fever and he is already struggling to stay with the peloton.

 

[thehistorymakers]

Contador calls it a day.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I thought he would. Sad really but if you are ill, what can you do on a brute like today's stage?

 

[thehistorymakers]

I thought he would. Sad really but if you are ill, what can you do on a brute like today's stage?

I listened to his interviews, eyeryday before and after each stage. After the fall, he had defeat all over his face. Like you said, it was a very hard fall and I think he realised he couldn't compete anymore.

 

[thehistorymakers]

The pillock running beside almost wrapped his flag in the cyclists wheel spokes. Needed $#@!ting really.

I have to disagree with that, Paddy. 1000's of spectators run next to cyclists on the TdF every year. They wave their flags and move at the last moment. It is part of the tour. If every cyclist hit a spectator like that, because he was too close, it would be a free for all. I find it hard to understand the logic of an intelligent man like yourself, supporting the use of violence against spectators.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I get very frustrated with the way a lot of the spectators act. In an ideal world I would prefer barriers on the climbs. They only do it to try and get on TV and it wasn't like he was punched. He was shoved away.

 

[Pompey Wolf]

Cyclists lashing out at fans on climbs is a fairly common occurrence. This is only 'news' because it was Froome.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Precisely. I have seen it many times in my thirty years of being a TDF fan.

 

[thehistorymakers]

Pissing down the finishing post.

 

[thehistorymakers]

Fuck me hailstones the size of marbels now. Froome and Quintana break. This will be an epic finish.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Great win by Dumoulin but the GC fight is still on the mountain

 

[thehistorymakers]

Dumoulin wins the stage. Froome couldn't get away from Quintana, but it's Quintana who has to make up time.