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Apparently Nibali is blaming Froome for the crash on twitter, love to know how he came to that conclusion, looked like Martin clipped the wheel in front of him to me.
clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZ4oL8lrT8 can't see how anyone could blame Froome |
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Nibali was having a go at Froome at the end of the race and Froome charged onto the Astana bus to have it out with Nibali who apparently apologised
Eurosport later showed Froome getting on the Astana bus bet little Nibali couldn't believe it LOL |
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Good points. Sagan has way more talent than Wiggins who wouldn't have stood a cat in hell's chance of winning without Froome wet nursing him up the mountains. if a future Tour has a similar profile to that of 2012 then, as you say, I don't think it would need radical changes for Sagan to be a serious GC contender.
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Greipel hits the front but..... Caaaaavendish!!!!!!!
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Greipel's turn to go too early.
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Hurrah for Cav !.......
![]() I get the feeling that he's not aiming for the green jersey these days and just wants a couple of stage wins if he can get them He doesn't seem bothered much with the intermediate sprints and doesn't appear to go all out for points at the finish once his chance has gone |
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Huge well done Cav a couple more to pass Bernard Hinault's 2nd place of stage wins
pretty epic for a sprinter to win all those stages |
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Luca Paolini of Katusha tested positive for cocaine in sample from 7 July.
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Maybe Cavendish will be better served without a train.
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Cav was very impressive. Won by nearly a bike length.
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Good points. Sagan has way more talent than Wiggins who wouldn't have stood a cat in hell's chance of winning without Froome wet nursing him up the mountains. if a future Tour has a similar profile to that of 2012 then, as you say, I don't think it would need radical changes for Sagan to be a serious GC contender.
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Maybe Cavendish will be better served without a train.
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I presume a train only works if the lead out are nearly as good as the final sprinter. Otherwise the train can't keep him in position.
To me it seems more like a Kierin, where it's about placing yourself in the right position. Yesterday's finish was quite technical though wasn't it. Narrow, twisty and uphill. |
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I presume a train only works if the lead out are nearly as good as the final sprinter. Otherwise the train can't keep him in position.
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Watched Greg lemond slaying the badger the, other night, and in many ways it reminded me of sky not letting froome have a go in 2012.
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More unusual is whinging about it.
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We're off on Eurosport....
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Seems a bit odd to have a team time trial tomorrow so late into the race
There had to be a possibility that a really unlucky team might not have 5 riders left.............
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There had to be a possibility that a really unlucky team might not have 5 riders left.
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Indeed. What would have happened then?
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Can I just say that whoever created those Alpecin adverts deserves to be dragged out into the street and shot.
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Can I just say that whoever created those Alpecin adverts deserves to be dragged out into the street and shot.
![]() but in general all adverts that are dubbed from German or whatever into English, like car adverts, seem faintly ridiculous to our ears........I think they have a very different style of 'advert language'! |
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Actually Santa, any one of those chateaux would do for me, I'm not fussy.
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but in general all adverts that are dubbed from German or whatever into English, like car adverts, seem faintly ridiculous to our ears........I think they have a very different style of 'advert language'! |
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Catching up on the Welsh language commentary on S4C - it's like being on holiday! I'm picking up quite a bit of Welsh already. "Stage win", "Rest day", "Peleton" . And people say it's difficult. Easier to understand than Sean Kelly, on the whole.
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