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It's all kicking off in the TT at tour de suisse Pinot has lost the lead and Thomas and spilak are exactly tied for the lead on the road with dumullin still a threat http://live.cyclingnews.com/
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Too bad for Ger(r)aint there. I can hardly bear to watch time trials anymore and almost skipped this.
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Jun 21, 2015 16:49
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The tour of Suisse trophy is a gravity bong. Huh Thomas is having a nice podium pout.
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Jun 21, 2015 16:59
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Paddyb posted:The tour of Suisse trophy is a gravity bong. Huh He looks well hosed off.
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Jun 21, 2015 17:14
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As far as I understand the team leaders being banned from sleeping in motor homes thing, is: a) they (the tour organisers) arrange the hotels for the entire tour, it brings money into the local economy and b) it means that the teams are at least on some sort of level pegging that way. c) what would happen if every team decided to start putting riders up in team motor homes, the logistics of finding enough places for every team to park their huge rear end motor homes would be another expense and alienates the entire viewing public to a further degree than is already the case. d) doping I genuinely don't know, having only read a few articles about it, so I'm interested in what you guys think?
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Jun 21, 2015 22:19
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Most of them are likely to be chain hotels, bar the low wages paid to the staff the money will not stay in the local economy. I think you are right on the other counts. Possibly doping control will want to know exactly where a rider is staying for unannounced testing, it is a lot easier for the team staff to hide a rider when the testers turn up to a bunch of team trailers than an actual assigned to the rider room in a building.
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Jun 21, 2015 23:38
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It's almost TDF time isn't it. Guess I'll see you all in a month when this garbage is over.
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Jun 22, 2015 03:05
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idk why but im finding it hard to get hyped about the tour for the first time in ages (even when we knew wigs and froome were gonna win). Nibbles had his turn, quintana is really just the 'enemy of my enemy' pick and not much else, gently caress froome and if bert wins it will be a massive piss rip. i guess what im saying is is that we need another oscar pereiro deal, including a landis style meltdown from someone (froome lol). Also, 10 days to hit proper mountains? wtf. and hitting up the massif central and no ventoux? wtf Finaly 870 euro for that cancellara scrap LMAO
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Jun 22, 2015 07:10
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Box Hill Strangler posted:idk why but im finding it hard to get hyped about the tour for the first time in ages (even when we knew wigs and froome were gonna win). Feeling the same way. Its been so bad the last few years. We need total chaos and mayhem, arrests, doping busts, all of it. I would love it if a French rider is in contention.
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Jun 22, 2015 08:16
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Pinot looks in great form, but even with the lack of time trialling I can't see him beating Froome, Nibali, Bert or Quintana. I think the first week will be interesting - bets on at least one of those four crashing out before we hit the mountains?
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Ted Ed Fred posted:As far as I understand the team leaders being banned from sleeping in motor homes thing, is: I think it's a mix of A and B with the proviso that I'm sure there's some kickbacks going on. The way it works is the organising block book hotels and then they get visited and are ranked 1 to 5. Teams are then assigned hotels so they stay in the same number of lovely and good hotels over the tour though before a major mountain stage you might have 1 GC contender in a chateu and one on a mattress on the floor. The organisers though already allow the big teams to have their own catering vans because the food in some of these places simply isn't good enough for athletes. If they really cared they'd start bypassing towns that didn't raise standards or have a financial incentive for hotels ranked higher. The size of the vans isnt a big deal. You can actually sleep quite a few people on a dedicated sleeper coach and the beds are better then many of the rooms the guys stay in currently. As for doping it probably makes it easier for control as the riders are in a much more compact space and they will be there longer giving them a bigger window and also making it easier for any potential whistleblowers to see any mischief.
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Crystael posted:Pinot looks in great form, but even with the lack of time trialling I can't see him beating Froome, Nibali, Bert or Quintana. I think the first week will be interesting - bets on at least one of those four crashing out before we hit the mountains? Very likely, there's a long cobbled stage in the first few days. If they all stay upright though we could have some amazing 5/6 way battles in the mountains so I'm really looking forward to it even though it means concealing my iPad in theatres so I can watch it.
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Well with the way ASO and the UCI are butting heads we may not have a tour in 2016 http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/cyclingnews-exclusive-the-fight-between-aso-uci-and-teams-for-the-future-of-pro-cycling
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serious gaylord posted:Well with the way ASO and the UCI are butting heads we may not have a tour in 2016 We'll have a tour. Remember the UCI forbade everyone to ride paris-nice once and they all just ignored them and rode it anyway.
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nicki-srensen-admits-to-doping-during-his-career Wonder who else will be in it?
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Not that much unknown stuff in it really I guess, but a bit damning for Contador - linkquote:ADD report says that Bjarne Riis has admitted that he knew riders on his team were doping.
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Jun 23, 2015 13:34
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It's all kicking off down south in the States over this Confederacy stuff.
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Jun 24, 2015 17:17
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Meanwhile in the Netherlands, the police have found another way to become unpopular:quote:Dutch police set to bring Tour de France peloton to a halt in strike action
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Jun 24, 2015 19:13
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It's about high loving time they actually did something tangible tho, they've been without a collective agreement for going on 4 years.
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Jun 24, 2015 19:31
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I hope there's also a proper tractor parade like Gent Wevelgem.
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Jun 24, 2015 20:09
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Labor disputes and other protests are a historic part of the Tour.
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Paddyb posted:I hope there's also a proper tractor parade like Gent Wevelgem. The races just havent been the same without the tractors.
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Jun 24, 2015 22:36
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Fair enough too. Never cross a picket line!
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Jun 25, 2015 02:41
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Galibier is gone. Going up the Croix de Fer instead http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/galibier-cut-from-tour-de-france-stage-to-lalpe-dhuez
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Jun 25, 2015 12:56
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GrimSqueaker posted:Labor disputes and other protests are a historic part of the Tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sSprvMMXg If Froome tried to throw a punch, he'd break his wrist.
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Jun 25, 2015 14:25
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Kittel is out. Maybe Cav will win some stages this year, but my money is on Kristoff.
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Premature ejacula- posted:Kittel is out. Kristoff is fast but his squad is bringing mountain helpers for Joaquim Rodriguez instead of a sprint train. Andre Greipel will have Jens Debusschere and Greg Henderson leading him out. I think the flat days will be between Cav, Greipel and Kristoff and the tougher-to-reach sprints will be between Degenkolb, Sagan and maybe Kristoff depending on whether he can re-find the form he had this spring or not.
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serious gaylord posted:Galibier is gone. Going up the Croix de Fer instead
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Jamsque posted:Kristoff is fast but his squad is bringing mountain helpers for Joaquim Rodriguez instead of a sprint train. Andre Greipel will have Jens Debusschere and Greg Henderson leading him out. I'm looking forward to the extended flat stages. That's a good bunch of sprinters and they should be beating each other to pieces every day. Curious to see if Good Cav shows up.
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Also, you forgot this sexy red devil:
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Paddyb posted:Also, you forgot this sexy red devil: Did you see MTN at the Dauphine? They brought THREE sprinters and managed one third place. Farrar is old and slow, EBH has never been fast enough on the true flat sprints and MTN are just a crappy b-tier team in general. Their time to shine at Le Tour is going to be breakaways on the mountain stages.
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Jamsque posted:Did you see MTN at the Dauphine? They brought THREE sprinters and managed one third place. Farrar is old and slow, EBH has never been fast enough on the true flat sprints and MTN are just a crappy b-tier team in general. Yeah the sprinters are the worst part of their team strangely enough. Daniel Teklehaimanot was great in the Dauphine. I really just had to post that beard
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Etix have loaded their team for the sprint at the tour. Renshaw, Trentin and Stybar all going. They better win a few stages with that team.
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Should we have a new thread?
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serious gaylord posted:Etix have loaded their team for the sprint at the tour. Renshaw, Trentin and Stybar all going. They better win a few stages with that team. With no Kittel to contend with and Cav on good form this year I think they made the right decision. Honestly they could have gone even farther and left Uran at home, I don't expect he'll do much in the mountains given the quality of riders he'll be up against.
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kimbo305 posted:Should we have a new thread? no, that will encourage those who dont actually watch cycling to post in it. which usually ends up being rather irritating.
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Lance can't melt steel beams!
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Pimp Cauldron posted:no, that will encourage those who dont actually watch cycling to post in it. which usually ends up being rather irritating. Agreed
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I'm going to be at the time trial in Utrecht next week, probably a bad idea as they expect hundreds of thousands
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Pvt Dancer posted:I'm going to be at the time trial in Utrecht next week, probably a bad idea as they expect hundreds of thousands Make sure you cross the road in the middle of it and try to sue the rider for killing you.
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