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Men's Tour de France 2022
« on: 29 June, 2022, 12:07:33 pm »
Two days to go and no topic yet?  What’s that all about ???

Those who eschew DingoVision and its ilk may like to know that the schedule for “The *** and Super D Show” may be found here: clicky, from which I deduce that we'll not be getting the entire stage.  Again.  Thus enabling the colemantators to gloat about bits of action that they have seen but which have been cruelly denied to we plebs.  14:45 on Friday for the Prologue.

With riders being more in-and-out than an East End pub full of aging grans and grandads doing the Hokey-Cokey letour.fr still hasn’t published an official start list but it seems the official rider presentation thing starts at 17:30 BST tonight, by which time things might have settled down a bit.  No Thomas de Gendt this year though :'( <== This smiley still ent working properly, admins…

So, who’s gonna come second behind Pogačar?
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #1 on: 29 June, 2022, 12:34:40 pm »
Narwhal fans and French housewives will be disappointed this year - no Julian Alaphillipe, which is understandable because he's only just come back after recovering from injuries sustained in a horrific crash at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

Also not picked by the BELGIAN Quick Step equipe is Mark Cavendish - currently tied on TdF stage wins with Eddy Merckx who, surprisingly enough, just so happens to be a BELGIAN.

Total coincidence, I'm sure.  :demon: :P

Tinfoil millinery/joking apart, Fabio Jakobsen's probably got the nod ahead of Cav due to more consistent results this year.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #2 on: 29 June, 2022, 12:50:22 pm »
So, who’s gonna come second behind Pogačar?

Roglič

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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #3 on: 29 June, 2022, 02:38:57 pm »
Thomas? That would really pi$$ him off.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #4 on: 29 June, 2022, 03:10:18 pm »

Also not picked by the BELGIAN Quick Step equipe is Mark Cavendish - currently tied on TdF stage wins with Eddy Merckx who, surprisingly enough, just so happens to be a BELGIAN.

Total coincidence, I'm sure.  :demon: :P


As was the BELGIAN keeping Cav on the rails whilst another BELGIAN won in Paris last year.  :demon:
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #5 on: 29 June, 2022, 03:18:25 pm »
vinegard's year. :thumbsup:
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #6 on: 29 June, 2022, 03:19:38 pm »

Also not picked by the BELGIAN Quick Step equipe is Mark Cavendish - currently tied on TdF stage wins with Eddy Merckx who, surprisingly enough, just so happens to be a BELGIAN.

Total coincidence, I'm sure.  :demon: :P


As was the BELGIAN keeping Cav on the rails whilst another BELGIAN won in Paris last year.  :demon:

It'S a CoNsPiRaCy!!!!!!!1!!!! ;)
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #7 on: 29 June, 2022, 04:47:45 pm »
vinegard's year. :thumbsup:

Only if Roglič tries to skin himself alive again :demon:
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #8 on: 29 June, 2022, 05:37:48 pm »
Well, they've finally published a start list, including one or two subs per team:

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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #9 on: 29 June, 2022, 07:00:09 pm »
Well, they've finally published a start list, including one or two subs per team:

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Shirley shome mishtake?

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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #10 on: 29 June, 2022, 07:04:48 pm »
Blast!  Should’ve been BATTISTELLA Samuele in the starting lineup.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #11 on: 29 June, 2022, 07:14:19 pm »
Well, they've finally published a start list, including one or two subs per team:

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Shirley shome mishtake?

Schrödinger's substitute.  ;)
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #12 on: 30 June, 2022, 11:00:50 am »
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #13 on: 30 June, 2022, 11:39:44 am »
TV's *** Boulting claims to be in Denmark right now so it looks as though the iTV4 coverage will be returning to pre-Plague-stylee with the colemantators actually on the spot.  The downside of this being no C Boardman, unless he’s changed his stance on travelling the by-ways of France in a shipping container in the height of summer.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #14 on: 30 June, 2022, 09:19:25 pm »
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #15 on: 30 June, 2022, 09:37:15 pm »
TV's *** Boulting claims to be in Denmark right now so it looks as though the iTV4 coverage will be returning to pre-Plague-stylee with the colemantators actually on the spot.  The downside of this being no C Boardman, unless he’s changed his stance on travelling the by-ways of France in a shipping container in the height of summer.
C Boardman appears to be in Denmark at least.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #16 on: 01 July, 2022, 12:45:12 am »
TV's *** Boulting claims to be in Denmark right now so it looks as though the iTV4 coverage will be returning to pre-Plague-stylee with the colemantators actually on the spot.  The downside of this being no C Boardman, unless he’s changed his stance on travelling the by-ways of France in a shipping container in the height of summer.
C Boardman appears to be in Denmark at least.

Hurrah, said Mr Larrington!
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #17 on: 01 July, 2022, 06:42:23 am »
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Oddly it would let me select the same rider in more than one category, which I did not do for reasons of some semblence of reality
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #18 on: 01 July, 2022, 07:21:14 am »
Today's route looks quite tricky, hard to settle and easy to make a mistake.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #19 on: 01 July, 2022, 08:26:25 am »
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Done. 

Wonders whether Geraint is worth a punt this year...   ;)
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #20 on: 01 July, 2022, 03:09:04 pm »
Those new Jumbo Visma jerseys are making me feel :sick: already.
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #21 on: 01 July, 2022, 03:19:37 pm »
Shitverts. Grumble
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #22 on: 01 July, 2022, 03:49:06 pm »
Shitverts. Grumble

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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #23 on: 01 July, 2022, 04:31:17 pm »
Are Ineos trying to be come a BRITISH TEAM FOR BRITISH RIDERS? It certainly looks like it with 50% of the GB Le Tour riders being half of Team IGD!!
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Re: Men's Tour de France 2022
« Reply #24 on: 01 July, 2022, 04:33:20 pm »
Wasn’t that the whole idea back when they were still Team $ky?  FOREIGNS grudgingly admitted as cannon-fodder for the mountains.
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