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Giro d'Italia / Tour de France

Perfect for Froome today really. He will have the advantage in the time trials
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Perfect for Froome today really. He will have the advantage in the time trials
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I thought he rode well today. I'm thoroughly impressed with Adam Yates, I'm thinking Quintana must have a plan for later in the race as he can't ride on Froome's wheel in all the mountain stages. At some point Movistar have to attack SKY.
 
When they sent Valverde up the road I thought that was it but it was odd.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
When they sent Valverde up the road I thought that was it but it was odd.
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Maybe it was the hail and they didn't want to risk it.

On another note it's great to see 3 British riders in 3of the 4 main jerseys.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Perfect for Froome today really. He will have the advantage in the time trials
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There is nobody there to touch Froome. Quintana does nearly all his work on his own, Froome has a very professional, well organised and very powerful team behind him.
 
Or indeed Contador. In the 2 Tours they have competed against each other, Quintana has been clearly stronger than Froome in the final week but has always had a deficit to make up. There are 4 big stages in the Alps to come (plus Ventoux) and he'll definitely put him under pressure there.
 
You would think Froome will have a decent advantage with the time trials so Quintana has to go for it at some point.

On the spectators, some of the raging cockwombles deserve it. Witness the twat dressed in green who almost knocked Rui Costa off his bike. A quick slap is needed sometimes.
 
I agree Johnny, not like they can calmly ask them to be careful with that flag whilst you're running alongside me in that moment. As for the TTs, one is definitely a mountain TT and even the longer one isn't a pan flat traditional roulers type parcours so although I would expect him to lose time it might not be that much. Having said all that Froome looks in formidable form and his team are massively outperforming the similarly-budgeted squads of Movistar and Astana.
 
Astana have disappointed over the last 2 stages, I thought they'd be really strong. I'm really enjoying this race though, little bit for everybody.
 
Yeah me too. Aru a big disappointment and not sure where Movistars numbers are, they should have had guys around Quintana on the final climb today, especially as they did no work all day.
 
thehistorymakers said:
i am not saying people haven't done it before, but it was still a punch and violent behaviour.
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That bonehead shouldn't have been running on the road in the first place, let alone just in front of a cyclist. It is actually forbidden and the police here will nick you for it if you go too far.

If there was even the slightest problem with what Froome has done he'd have been pulled up for it by the tdf or even by the police. He hasn't been and he won't be because these dimwits are frowned upon heavily in the sport. They're a danger to themselves and the riders.
 
Bit on the shaggies said:
That bonehead shouldn't have been running on the road in the first place, let alone just in front of a cyclist. It is actually forbidden and the police here will nick you for it if you go too far.

If there was even the slightest problem with what Froome has done he'd have been pulled up for it by the tdf or even by the police. He hasn't been and he won't be because these dimwits are frowned upon heavily in the sport. They're a danger to themselves and the riders.
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Thousands of people run next to the cyclists and they don't get punched. Froome did get fined for it, so he was seen to be guilty of it.
If it wasn't one of Murdoch's SKY team, people in the UK would be saying, what many say outside the UK and have been interested in the TdF for a long time before the SKY team was invented. It was violent behaviour.
 
Don't bother playing the all Brits are Sky fanboys new to cycling THM. I don't particularly like Sky (their grip on the Tour isn't good for the sport, in the same way US Postal weren't) and would rather Quintana won this year than Froome. The reality is, as has been pointed out a number of times by different posters, cyclist lashing out at fans has happened numerous times down the years and is a fairly regular occurrence. The only reason you've highlighted this is because of your obvious dislike (and I guess suspicion) of Froome and Sky.
https://youtu.be/O0W__FNIGwA

There's Bertie smacking someone on Alpe D'Huez a couple of years ago for example.
 
Pompey Wolf said:
Don't bother playing the all Brits are Sky fanboys new to cycling THM. I don't particularly like Sky (their grip on the Tour isn't good for the sport, in the same way US Postal weren't) and would rather Quintana won this year than Froome. The reality is, as has been pointed out a number of times by different posters, cyclist lashing out at fans has happened numerous times down the years and is a fairly regular occurrence. The only reason you've highlighted this is because of your obvious dislike (and I guess suspicion) of Froome and Sky.
https://youtu.be/O0W__FNIGwA

There's Bertie smacking someone on Alpe D'Huez a couple of years ago for example.
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Nothing to do with it, Donegal. If i saw a cyclist punch a spectator, I would say it was violent behaviour, which ever team he rode for. The inconsistency, isn't with me, it's with the people saying he didn't punch him and it wasn't violent.
 
I am completely consistent in my view that he shoved him out of the way, and he was right to.

In the same way as Contador has done it before, in my time watching I have seen Pedro Delgado do it, Indurain do it, Armstrong and Ullrich do it.

So Froome got a telling off. Big deal.
 
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