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Been a great Tour  , Even had snow ploughs involved

if you no you  cant finish on podium,come in 20 mins behind in 1st stages ,then field will let you go later in tour to grab a few stage wins and commentators will tell world what a brilliant rider you are, qintanna,nibili,yates all no chance and dotting up in stage wins,makes formulae one and wrestling look kosha,

bloke loses 21 stages and dots up on the bridle

a bit disappointing in the end. the columbian kid looks good - too good - may well dominate the tour for the next few years but it'll be really boring - getting a time cushion early in the race then conservatively defending the lead in true brailsford fashion

Best Tour de France for 30 yrs - had the lot

#chess on wheels

It was great until it was cut short by climate change.

cost me a stage win as had both Barguil and Yates and helped in outright

Won a massive £44 on the outright market equating to just over £2 a day

but did slightly better on the stage wins

Bardet wins KOM by act of god!

agreed - was further 40 pts to be had yday on last climb - he deffo got lucky but hav ya eva seen weather like that - blazing hot 3km up the road and a landslide further down

We'd of rode through it when I were a lad.

nee chance......

me mutha wuda given me a good hiding covered in clarts

G riding into form for the Vuelta?

was right decision by way and wot made me laugh yday
was Uran kicking off at otha riders on descend when they werent "trying"
afta race had been stopped when he had behaved like that 4 3 weeks

funny lot these bike riders

Too early to say for G - Never seemed right these past 2 weeks but one things for sure can see some replacements
incoming to Ineos cos current team is way below their normal strength and thats wot made this years tour much
more enjoyable cos they werent allowed to control off the front ala days gone by

Carapaz coming in next year, so just the 4 GT winners in the team. Dunno what was wrong with Kwiato & Moscon.

they were terrible - brad commented that Vivianni a flat track bully was blowing em away helping Ala out ffs

Sir Dave will be binning them 2 at earliest

Kwiato aint become useless overnight. Think there was some sort of bug going round earlier but it maybe stayed in their system longer.

Froome back on a bike - all be it on one leg - dont rule out him coming back for no5 next year cos he is a freak - wot he did last year in giro was encroyable and probs cost him victory in tdf itself - almost impossible to do 2 back to back in main tours nowadays

agreed again - he was on my radar for stage wins if Ineos eva sent one up front in breakaway but neva happened once this tour - that said a few weeks later....... you know the rest

bad accident which will take some recovering from and he'll be 35 next year. hard to imagine bernal won't win multiple tours

Grear Tour Pinot was a Massive runner , Small Sagan and Krisoff tomorrow and Ew Griepel Has a breakaway ever survived on The Champs ?

Couple of Quid on the Shark today

Vincenzo Nibali         34    1.74         Back    27-Jul-19 02:49    27-Jul-19 02:49    57.42
Vincenzo Nibali         36    2.00         Back    27-Jul-19 02:49    27-Jul-19 02:49    70.00
Vincenzo Nibali         40    0.12         Back    27-Jul-19 02:49    27-Jul-19 02:49    4.68
Vincenzo Nibali         38    2.14         Back    27-Jul-19 02:49    27-Jul-19 02:49    79.18


was on Bardet when Quin beat him , I had actually be saying to my mate is there ever a more disapointing rider then Quintana, the night before

Used to be Decent thread on Cycling every Year , Swinging Pick and Marychain decent posters not seen them for a while .

Late start today

Bernal is extraordinary ......is it due to coming from the Andes (2,600metres) and his blood is adapted to lower oxygen levels so he excels on climbs.

Unfair advantage ? ....

Should his red blood cells be reduced to the average cyclists?

(Like reducing the testosterone in Casta Semenya)

Egan Bernal became the youngest rider in 110 years to win the Tour de France when he crossed the finish line on stage 21 in Paris on Sunday evening.

With the race leader not challenged on the final stage, 22-year-old Bernal became the first Colombian winner.

Final general classification standings:..........



1. Egan Bernal (Col/Ineos) 82hrs 57mins 00secs

2. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos) +1min 11secs

3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/Jumbo-Visma) +1min 31secs

4. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 56secs

5. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/ Deceuninck-Quick Step) +3mins 45secs

6. Mikel Landa (Spa/Movistar) +4mins 23secs

7. Rigoberto Uran (Col/EF Education First) +5mins 15secs

8. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +5mins 30secs

9. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +6mins 12secs

10. Warren Barguil (Fra/Arkea-Samsic) +7mins 32

what about the blood cells of those who beat him on every mountain stage,