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TOUR DE FRANCE 2014
TOUR DE FRANCE 2014
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Contador out
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Spartacus out
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Round up of all the stages so far on ITV4 on now.
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It was more than that. Great programme. Catch it later on ITV4 or tomorrow if you're a cycling fan and missed it tonight.
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Yes. Excellent programme. With the way the favourites have been hitting the deck I might chance a small interest on Richie Porte.
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I just wish I'd have gone with Nibali @15.5 on the opening stage when David Millar was bigging him up so much on ITV4 in the pre-race chat. Could have greened up so long ago at excellent odds - but yes, Porte is still in with a chance.
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To clarify: Wish I'd gone for Nibali as race winner on the first day @15.5
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Don't we all.
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haha! Yes, I suppose we do!
I really hope Richie Porte manages to do it now! |
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Very well done in holding them off, Gallopin.
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Great gesture by Le Tour organisers in taking Jens by surprise the other day in presenting him with 6 Yellow jerseys for his kids in honour of his terrific contribution to the wonderful race over the years.
You can read about it here - and see a picture of Jens having the jerseys presented to him: http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/hardlyserious/the-day-i-got-six-yellow-jerseys |
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Cracking finish to this stage with just over 5km to go.
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Wow, how unlucky is that for Bauer?!
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Brilliant finish though.
Well done Alexander Kristoff. |
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Poor old Bauer. He's obviously gutted.
All those miles at the front to have victory snatched away from him in the final few seconds. |
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Great comments by Jack Bauer after the end of the race - just shown on the highlights show.
What a bloody shame - 3 seconds to glory! |
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Just watched the highlights show again.
Just such a shame that Jack couldn't get the win after all that effort. |
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Big round-up show on ITV4 now seeing that it's a rest day.
These are always good. |
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round up was excellent - especially the Christophe Bassons interview. Did anyone see it?
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Yes, I saw it, BigH - and very good was the interview.
What a vile piece of work that Armstrong was/is. I also caught half of a new documentary about Armstrong on BBC4 a few weeks a go and that was also very good. I'll check if it's still available on the iplayer later. Go Tommy Voeckler! |
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Early start on ITV4 today for the last mountain stage.
Starts in 5 mins. |
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Oh, and the Armstrong programme isn't available on the iplayer at the moment but no doubt they'll repeat it again in the near future.
It's well worth watching when they do. |
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What a fantastic Tour it would have been this year if Froome and Contador hadn't had to abandon mid-race.
With those two and Nibali in such top form I reckon it would have gone right to the wire. |
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chapeau Nibali but he's no Marco Pantani
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...and i see someone brought along an actual bear!
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Haha! I saw it!
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today's random animal: a facking elephant!
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http://bit.ly/1AiCxMy
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http://bit.ly/1lG5cS1
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Hahaha!
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How good will next year's tdf be??? Nibali, Contador, Froome & Quintana. All backed by super-powerful teams and all up for it. Has the potential to be one of the best tdfs ever.
Downside for me this year has been the obvious cheating by certain members of the peloton (mentioning no names Tinkoff) |
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Aye Marychain.
I can't wait to see Quintana again. I kept up with what was going on in the Giro through the BBC site (no Sky or Eurosport here) and as he won it, it looks like he made the right decision about leaving out Le Tour from this season's agenda. It will be great if the four main contenders are at their peak for next year's race. |
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I think he probably would have won the Tour this year (especially without Froome/Contador) but MS clearly just wanted to win any Grand Tour this year and doing what they did meant they could also give Valverde one final crack at the tdf.
I went out there this year and did the Etape du Tour on the Tourmalet/Hautacam stage (8hrs 14 of hell  )and then also climbed Port de Bales two days later and watched the stage won by Mick Rogers live. It was brilliant. I'm already making my plans to go again next year. |
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Great stuff, Marychain!
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One last time to see Jens take the front in Le Tour shortly.
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whilst its an absolute b'st'rd(altho rewarding) climbing the Tourmalet marychain thought the descent was magnificent.
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Go Jensie!
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Cracxking stuff! Horner goes on the attack after jens!
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Brilliant that Jens won first place the points in the final sprint of this year's Tour.
And just to back up what the commentators were saying about how it wasn't a 'ceremonial honour' that Jens went to the front and he still has the real power to do it, this is what he wrote after Stage 17: http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/hardlyserious/pretty-good-for-an-old-man "And when we started climbing the first climb, the Col de Portillon, Rodriquez just flew by us like, “Oh my God!” But then the group got bigger and bigger. At one point my teammate Frank Schleck joined in and so then I just took some big pulls to get over the first climb, before I faded. But boy what a way to start the day! After the stage I told our coach that I wanted to see my data for the stage and I was averaging something like 380 Watts over the first hour of racing and over that first climb. When I saw that it was like, “Hey! That’s pretty good for an old man!”" |
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Haha! The bell clanger man was puffing a bit!
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