Originally Posted by divingbboy: “Fantastic that they picked such a glamorous spot for today's finishing line.”
I'm trying to picture where it is. When they showed Jill Douglas at the line with the Slovakians, it looked nothing like where I remembered near Meadowhall.
Originally Posted by deivu74: “I'm trying to picture where it is. When they showed Jill Douglas at the line with the Slovakians, it looked nothing like where I remembered near Meadowhall.”
It's not at Meadowhall the shopping centre, it's on the road towards the city centre that goes past Meadowhall Retail Park, and stops pretty much outside Sheffield (Motorpoint) Arena...
Originally Posted by sheff71: “It's not at Meadowhall the shopping centre, it's on the road towards the city centre that goes past Meadowhall Retail Park, and stops pretty much outside Sheffield (Motorpoint) Arena... ”
Yeah which is a pretty big dual-carriage road (isn't it?) but it looked tiny with Jill Douglas. Maybe she wasn't at the finish.
Originally Posted by deivu74: “Yeah which is a pretty big dual-carriage road (isn't it?)”
As far as I can judge from the TdF map, this is the finish in StreetView, looking in the opposite direction to that the riders will take. But I don't know Sheffield so I bow to any superior knowledge that someone else might have. https://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=shef...,66.74,,0,7.97
Originally Posted by grassmarket: “Tinkoff looking a bit feeble, if they can't get up a Cat3 in Yorkshire they're not going to be much use to Contador in the Alps.”
They were useless in the Dauphiné when Alberto was off at the front chasing Froome.