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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #700 on: 23 July, 2018, 09:58:06 pm »
As if by legerdemain P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nz has tracked down a surplus-to-requirements paranthesis inserted by TV's Evil C Boardman...

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sg37409

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #701 on: 23 July, 2018, 10:11:17 pm »
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 23 July, 2018, 05:57:54 pm
Leinders was recommended to him by a member of his team staff, Stefan de Jongh, who had been doped by Leinders whilst a rider in Rabobank. Michael Rasmussen was doped by him too, and Rasmussen revealed that Leinders ran the doping programme.

Funnily enough, as soon as Leinders was appointed (on a 'consultancy' basis) Froome went from mid-pack nobody to greatest GT rider of generation and Sky went from being nowhere to a non-stop GT winning team (bar Froome's crash out in '14)

I'm sure it's just coincidence.

Leinders was given a lifetime ban 3 years ago as it was deemed he had:

"“possessed, trafficked, and administered banned performance enhancing substances and methods without any legitimate medical need, including EPO, blood transfusion paraphernalia, testosterone, insulin, DHEA, LH and corticosteroids to athletes under his care, and was complicit in other anti-doping rule violations.”

Hi do you have a source for this ?
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #702 on: 23 July, 2018, 10:13:24 pm »
All in the public domain.

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Nick H.

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #703 on: 23 July, 2018, 11:43:29 pm »
Didn't we agree to keep the doping in other threads?

Back to the racing, here's something that Pawel Poljanski of Bora–Hansgrohe tweeted today. "After sixteen stages I think my legs look little tired.”

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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #704 on: 24 July, 2018, 12:36:52 am »
Serves him right for doing one stage more than the rest of the pelican.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #705 on: 24 July, 2018, 06:06:33 am »
Quote from: Porkins on 23 July, 2018, 11:43:29 pm
Didn't we agree to keep the doping in other threads?

Why ask me? I didn't reignite it. Samuel D said the 'A' word and Torslanda asked about ZTP. 
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #706 on: 24 July, 2018, 07:42:22 am »
Quote from: Porkins on 23 July, 2018, 11:43:29 pm
Didn't we agree to keep the doping in other threads?

Back to the racing, here's something that Pawel Poljanski of Bora–Hansgrohe tweeted today. "After sixteen stages I think my legs look little tired.”



I showed this to Mrs T: "Yeah, I've seen that one before. Jiggery-pokery."
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sg37409

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #707 on: 24 July, 2018, 09:05:57 am »
That pic was doing the rounds last year.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #708 on: 24 July, 2018, 10:49:18 am »
I caught up with the Brailsford interview on the ITV4 highlights. I wouldn't argue with any of his comments. The treatment of Froome is disgraceful, and it is only in France that it happens.

DB looks might he might be getting demob-happy. There must be uncertainty surrounding Team Sky, as the sponsor is up for sale.

I can understand the frustration of the French, but they've got the facilities in place for a cycling resurgence, but the football takes all the attention. I hope Bardet can take the short stage.
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rafletcher

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #709 on: 24 July, 2018, 11:19:19 am »
Watching the highlights, Gary Imlach called Brailsford "sanctimonious", but they'd edited out the part where Brailsford talked about his female staffer being spat at. I don't think, as Boardman said, the reaction was all frustration, but there was (justifiable IMO) anger in there too. Frankly the crowd behaviour - pumped up by the press and the likes of Madiot, has been absolutely disgraceful this year.
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woollypigs

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #710 on: 24 July, 2018, 11:23:13 am »
Race + demonstration = pause.

Looks like stuff sprayed at the rides.
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andyoxon

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #711 on: 24 July, 2018, 11:26:41 am »
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There are now a large group of riders back at the medical car, rinsing their eyes out with water.

This is awful. There is usually a farmers' protest during the race but this goes beyond that.
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woollypigs

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #712 on: 24 July, 2018, 11:32:06 am »
Ned and Miller is talking about it could be the police pepper/tear gas spraying the protesters.
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citoyen

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #713 on: 24 July, 2018, 11:33:17 am »
Funny, I had been thinking that the crowds this year seem reasonably tame compared to some occasions in the past. At least no one has been shot at this year...

TV footage suggests the spray has actually come from a policeman rather than a protestor. The protestor was trying to throw a hay bale in the road, the cop tried to spray him but the wind caught the spray and it hit the riders instead.
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #714 on: 24 July, 2018, 12:49:40 pm »
Dunno what they're protesting about, but farmers are usually protesting about something. Possibly supermarket chains pushing prices down below viability.

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It's pissing down in the Pyrenees.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #715 on: 24 July, 2018, 01:14:30 pm »
On the plus side, Super D has just* given Eleanor of Aquitaine her first mention this year :thumbsup:

* FSVO "just"; I'm still an hour behind on the recording.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #716 on: 24 July, 2018, 01:40:44 pm »
Watching a boring bit of bike racing? Worry not, listen to York, P, enthralling us with tales of punch ups on past races and of bikes being hurled, rock star style, into the hotel swimming pool.
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #717 on: 24 July, 2018, 01:53:35 pm »
Farmers were complaining about farm subsidies being reduced.  Apparently the region has recently lost its "disadvantaged" status.
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Nick H.

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #718 on: 24 July, 2018, 01:55:38 pm »
Are they going to stop at Casartelli's memorial? I can't remember whether that was a one-off or a regular thing.
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #719 on: 24 July, 2018, 02:19:40 pm »
The memorial is listed on the TdF-site schedule, but no mention of a stop.
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woollypigs

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #720 on: 24 July, 2018, 02:39:05 pm »
Feck me I just read the above and there is nearly a carbon copy of the Casartelli crash as I type this ....
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Nick H.

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #721 on: 24 July, 2018, 03:00:03 pm »
Commentators are talking about the drop after you go over the edge. It's not the drop which is lethal, it's the barrier. Casartelli hit his head on one of these blocks:



The blocks have been replaced by a solid wall. I'm not sure how that's supposed to help if you hit your head on it.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #722 on: 24 July, 2018, 03:22:20 pm »
(Still 40 minutes behind)

P Gilbert, you utter sillybollocks!
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #723 on: 24 July, 2018, 03:25:41 pm »
Well, at least somebody stopped near the memorial.

Memories of Ulrich going over the edge back in the epoicene.
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andrew_s

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #724 on: 24 July, 2018, 04:00:26 pm »
Quote from: Porkins on 24 July, 2018, 03:00:03 pm
The blocks have been replaced by a solid wall. I'm not sure how that's supposed to help if you hit your head on it.
a) you'll hit a wall with a glancing blow, whilst the chances are that a block will be a square on impact
b) blocks have corners to concentrate the impact
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