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*Tour de France - Stage 21* Sunday 26th July
*Tour de France - Stage 21* Sunday 26th July
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He went out to do that just in case it was his last TDF. Ironically it was as illness forced him out of the Tour in his retirement year.
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Good, you remember it too -- wasn't it an amazing effort?
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Yes remember that effort by Millar. Remember him talking about it as well saying he knew he wouldn't win but just wanted to go out and punish himself for a lap or two. He had the peloton worried for a bit though.
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Many thanks Marychain for your insights all through le tour, much appreciated - take the maillot jeune
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The young jersey?
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Erm yep that's it lol
  need more training, it's my first day  |
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There's a pretty good write up of that attack in Millar's book if I remember correctly. Today is always a good day for the old gimmers to have a run out ahead of the peloton
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Me and the missus went to Paris for a long weekend when we were expecting our eldest, back in spring 2003. We did all the usual, Montmartre, Le Louvre, walked up Les Champs Elysees and went up L'arc de Triomphe. When we were buying the tickets the guy on the desk saw the other half was expecting and told us to get the secret lift to the top, instead of walking up the 284 steps. We told the next guy we wanted to take the lift and he started to say "Il n'ya pas un ascenseur..." until he saw the bump and then he said "Ahhhhh....il ya un bebé!!" and let us into the secret lift.
The view from the top is stunning. We were up there at dusk, and watching the lights come on is amazing. You are right in the middle of and right above the most mental roundabout in the world. The traffic is ridiculous. To your right is Eiffel Tower, behind you is the Arc de Defense, to the left is Montmarte and Notre Dame and in front of you is the needle at Place la Concorde, Le Louvre etc. Seeing all that as it goes dark and the lights come on all over Paris is an astonishingly beautiful sight and I would recommend it to anyone. |
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Cav 4.2 wow, that is a big price
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Whoever keeps pushing it out seems to think that people are going to abandon their projects of seeing Cav on the premises and trading 3s into Evens.
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Froome is not "loving it"
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Porte not loving SKY evidently, leaving them at the end of the year to a team yet to be selected.
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BMC isnt it?
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Great "goodbye" ride on Alpe d'Huez for Froome by Porte yesterday
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Very likely, certainly not in the realms of just being a rumour, but we'll know by August 1.
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Bell...
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Got to hand it to the Gorilla there. Out and out power won the day. Fantastic sprint by Coquard there as well.
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See the scrapping between Demare and Sagan? How they didnt crash...
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Kristoff went too early,
Manxman out of position and struggling to even get on the premises (was still matched at 3.0 though after going out to 4.8 IR), Coquard the lightweight using his cunning, Sagan Raving... EBH needing more, but the Gorilla flexed his muscles like a heavyweight with an exclamation mark! |
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As soon as Cav finished the journos all came up and said that he had told them last night he was sick! So that'll probably be why the price looked odd, some people knew.
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You know how in the British Open golf major championship, the winner -- as Zach Johnson was recently -- is described as the 'Champion Golfer of the Year'; well the sprinter that wins on the Champs, should be described as the Champion Sprinter of the Year, since this is essentially the World Championship for Sprinters.
Would've been nice if they did their jobs and published that as news. I mean, how could they not publish that? Journos not publishing news, there's something. Saw one Tweet a few hours ago that he was sick, but thought it was to do with his Chicken Pox reference in regard to his whinge on climbing red spots. Certainly would've been a good lay for those that had the nerve because those things can go the other way and a rider wins, but the fact is they went too far by pushing him out into 4.8 -- the safe money was a conservative lay. |
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Nice words by Froome -- credit to GBR -- credit to SKY.
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Very dignified and polite words from Chris Froome there.
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Well done all you forum guys. Some classy folks on here. That final stage summed up what was a pretty shocking tour for me. A couple of small stake stage wins scant consolation for a pretty shocking overall performance. Next up on here will be Clasica San Sebastian. I'll get a fred up over the next few days. I won't be doing the
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Well done all you forum guys. Some classy folks on here. That final stage summed up what was a pretty shocking tour for me. A couple of small stake stage wins scant consolation for a pretty shocking overall performance. Next up on here will be Clasica San Sebastian. I'll get a fred up over the next few days. I won't be doing the
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Well done all you forum guys. Some classy folks on here. That final stage summed up what was a pretty shocking tour for me. A couple of small stake stage wins scant consolation for a pretty shocking overall performance. Next up on here from me will be Clasica San Sebastian next Saturday. I'll get a fred up over the next few days. I won't be doing the *full preview threads for the Tour of Poland. I need a break and will go away and have a think and a rest before the Vuelta which starts in just under a month. We've also got the World Champs and Il Lombardia before the end of the season, and the Eneco Tour which is generally a pretty good spectacle.
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Froome was like... you can spit on me, you can throw urine on me, but I am British, a gentleman, and indeed such an honest rider that it is the only way I can respect the Yellow Jersey. Delightful.
Obviously it has been great to have had MaryChain1 driving the forum by putting up such great threads for each stage, basically having all of the relevant foundation data in one convenient spot, and it's been really refreshing to witness people reaching out and thanking him for his generous efforts. Shows the good cheer of the cycling forum posters in comparison to the yobs and mugs on other forums on BF, who perhaps would not have appreciated the huge amount of work MC has devoted. Good stuff guys. I know that even though I might have copped a loss on a stage here-and-there, knowing you had done well MC was some consolation. Cheers MC -- thanks for keeping us all involved! |
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thanks for all the input everyone over the course of the tour. always a kean mix of well informed views. will be back for the vuelta
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Yes thanks for everything Great Banter and insight and Big thanks to MC for tour stages work ,will keep an eye on forum
G luck to everyone and hope we are all here in 12 months  |
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MC,
Not a massive fan on the cycling or the Tour, but this year I have read you opening posts on a morning and its got me dragged in to watching it more and more this year. Your words and wisdom outshine anything else on the whole forum, good work and thanks for your efforts. |
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Thanks wildcat and everyone else. It's great this forum has been buzzing for the tour. Roll on the Vuelta! Had a look at the route today, looks like it is going to be a beauty!
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thanks for making these threads MC and everyone else who contributes, you guys helped me make a few hundred quid this tour which was great. cheers, and cya next year
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Did you end up taking some insurance against Froome at that point of the race?
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