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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #625 on: 22 July, 2018, 12:14:40 am »
But Sagan is paid more than Froome – or anyone! – so probably sees little appeal to living like a monk in the mere hope he can be a grand tour GC winner (something I ultimately doubt anyway).
I think he did give the weight loss for better climbing a go a few years back, and found he lost flat road form whilst not gaining very much on the hills. You may remember Tinkov slagging him off as an overpaid prima domma.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #626 on: 22 July, 2018, 12:19:42 am »
The last few decades taes us back to Eddy.  No more to be said.

Eddy may have won more races but I don't recall him ever performing a vigorous song-and-dance routine with Mrs Merckx, doing a post-race interview with a pair of motocross goggles round his neck or doing a wheelie across the finish line, the great square  ;D

I'm almost annoyed by the marked improvement in CP Sagan's English in recent years.  I haven't heard him say "crazy" once this Tour :demon:
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #627 on: 22 July, 2018, 12:21:07 am »
Berlitz coaching?
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #628 on: 22 July, 2018, 12:32:35 am »
He seems to be suffering a bit from Racing Driver Syndrome these days; thank the team, thank the sponsors, chuck in one or two "for sure"s and a "there is still a long way to go" or an "anything can happen" and move on to the next journo to tell them exactly the same thing.

Mind you, if anyone asked me the same questions in Slovak I couldn't even reply "Two BEERS please; my friend is paying".
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #629 on: 22 July, 2018, 01:57:29 am »
His English is fine although he much prefers Italian. And now he’s promised to learn more French. Another reason to hate the good-looking jammy git.

Crazy is still in his veins and his vocab.

Of course he sounds a bit different in his mother tongue.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #630 on: 22 July, 2018, 02:07:51 am »
Going back to Nibali’s crashing out, I thought Johan Bruyneel of all people said it well here.

Not that I expect Prudhomme to care until ASO gets sued (as Bahrain–Merida are threatening, to their credit). The man is all that is wrong with the old guard impeding the modernisation and professionalisation of the sport.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #631 on: 22 July, 2018, 08:47:43 am »
What a scandalous cock-up...for a GC contender and winner of all 3 tours to be forced out by a broken bone on a stretch where lots of extra security was promised...his season has been ruined by failure to manage an entirely predictable crowd of drunks...what a fucking shambles.
It was an ordinary fan with a camera, rather than a runner or drunk. The camera strap was swinging about, and snagged Nibali's handlebar.

(from here: https://twitter.com/diegoalvarez12/status/1020035493734559749 )
I know this is 'old news' comparatively but thats why your camera strap goes round your neck, hence why its called a neck strap, am I making too much sense here?? Or am I just overthinking?

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #632 on: 22 July, 2018, 09:04:33 am »
Looks like the camera strap caught a shifter, and two gendarme motorcyclists were in very close proximity to the cyclists, making the congestion worse.  It seemed that the main issue was that, although there were 'barriers in place', the crowds were not kept adequately behind them, at a safer distance.   0:23+ on this   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy53dpft2Qk
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #633 on: 22 July, 2018, 09:40:15 am »
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...thank the team, thank the sponsors, chuck in one or two "for sure"s and a "there is still a long way to go" or an "anything can happen" and move on to the next journo to tell them exactly the same thing.
Marginal gains innit?  Expend no more than the absolute bare minimum of energy on activity not directly related to the winning of races including all that tedious answering the same damned question asked by 20 different journos.  :)
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #634 on: 22 July, 2018, 01:23:14 pm »
Some top bridge action at the start of today's stage :thumbsup:

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #635 on: 22 July, 2018, 01:35:39 pm »
A question to the collective.
T $ky jerseys. One chap is wearing one with the $ky logo in black letters on white where’s the rest of the team have the $ky logo in white letters on a black background. What’s that all bout then?
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #636 on: 22 July, 2018, 01:57:28 pm »
A. Schleck: To know who's the leader of a team you look at the rack on the mechanic's car. The one on the right at the front is the leader's, because it can be got at the fastest. Just now it's Thomas's bike so he's leader.

Jaja: Bollocks.

Le Petit Thomas: And anyway the mechanic sits at the back.

A. Schleck: Piss.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #637 on: 22 July, 2018, 01:58:19 pm »
@beardy Is that Luke Rowe? So that is the team captain. Or does it have red stripes on the arms, then that is the Polish champ.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #638 on: 22 July, 2018, 02:08:26 pm »
@wooly, it’s the latter. Ta.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #639 on: 22 July, 2018, 03:17:04 pm »
Heh, TV's G Imlach pronounced Millau, 'Miaow'.  ;D


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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #640 on: 22 July, 2018, 03:18:12 pm »
A. Schleck: To know who's the leader of a team you look at the rack on the mechanic's car. The one on the right at the front is the leader's, because it can be got at the fastest. Just now it's Thomas's bike so he's leader.

Jaja: Bollocks.

Le Petit Thomas: And anyway the mechanic sits at the back.

A. Schleck: Piss.

TV's D Friebe noted this a couple of days ago. DKUATB, A Schleck!

Edit: And pity poor dead *** Boulting, having T Skujins in the break today.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #641 on: 22 July, 2018, 03:54:26 pm »
Oi Millar.  They're not 'windmills'.  They're not milling anything.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #642 on: 22 July, 2018, 04:16:34 pm »
What happened to C P Sagan?. The green jumper doesn't show up in any of the chase groups on the itv4 display thingy.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #643 on: 22 July, 2018, 04:22:54 pm »
He rode for Majka then dropped back once Majka was launched.

---o0o---

Bardet: Gravillons! Piss!

Martin (or anyone else): Wot, no potholes???

---o0o---

Majka: Piss!
Sagan: Piss!
J-P Sartre: Pipi.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #644 on: 22 July, 2018, 04:28:50 pm »
Got it, ta. Mind you either S D Millar or N C Boardman or both were saying it more like Mijka was there to slow the second group down to give C P Sagan a chance. When Sagan got gapped Mijka then gave it beans for his own cause.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #645 on: 22 July, 2018, 04:34:58 pm »
Jaja & Cie were being charitable, then.

Speaking of Majka's beans, Jaja said "the wind'll clobber him" about a minute before it did. He's not dead yet, though.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #646 on: 22 July, 2018, 05:16:21 pm »
And so much for ITV4’s pack of Alaphilippe fanboiz tapping him FTW again :demon:
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #647 on: 22 July, 2018, 05:45:19 pm »
Stage 15: Millau > Carcassonne

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #648 on: 22 July, 2018, 06:39:02 pm »
Can't disagree with that, Croft.  Was only saying same to Tors in the shop yestre'en.  Tors. said he would love to see Peter win a Grand Tour - and so would I, though I suspect he may be a good climber "for a sprinter" and not quite have the dancing-on-the-pedals ability of the specialist.  I think Cav. once won a "mountain" stage in the Tour Of Britain, though I'm not sure.  He could certainly climb (as they all can) when compared with a club cyclist.  But the specialists are special - though less special than Eddy!

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #649 on: 22 July, 2018, 07:31:29 pm »
Sky's Gianni Moscon kicked off the tour. Moscon was suspended by Sky for six weeks for a racist slur against a French rider last year.


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