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You don't have to win a bike race to be a winner, but he is a winner
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Jul 22, 2017 16:36
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lol at them not even putting a timer up for Froome
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peanut- posted:lol at them not even putting a timer up for Froome The race center on the official website still has Bardet as the last rider to finish, lol
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Jul 22, 2017 16:37
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Landa's gonna turn into a leading sprinter overnight. It won't be as hard as usual because most of them are dead.
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Jul 22, 2017 16:38
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Sky should embrace being the supervillains of cycling and go for the second tomorrow.
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Jul 22, 2017 16:39
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Well he had no competent competition, and at least Sky didn't get two podium spots
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Jul 22, 2017 16:39
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serious gaylord posted:Sky should embrace being the supervillains of cycling and go for the second tomorrow. That would probably cause the French to abolish the Tour, soo... 
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Lenin Riefenstahl posted:You don't have to win a bike race to be a winner, but he is a winner
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Jul 22, 2017 16:42
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I'd totally be cool with sky pulling that. It would make tomorrow interesting at least.
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Jul 22, 2017 16:42
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Tsaedje posted:Well he had no competent competition, and at least Sky didn't get two podium spots Reminds me of Nibalis win a few years back. Froome didn't really have to do anything except defend in the mountains given his competition.
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oliwan posted:I don't know, maybe you could leave this thread, find out, and never come back? Sure. It's been fun.
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Lenin Riefenstahl posted:You don't have to win a bike race to be a winner, but he is a winner 
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https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/888827514092740610
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Jul 22, 2017 20:00
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Possibly the worst Tour of my lifetime
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Jul 22, 2017 20:04
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every year is the new worst tour
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Jul 22, 2017 20:23
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Can't wait for the Vuelta though.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:26
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To be fair he was carrying the entire nation of france today.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:07
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The inside of his left knee looks vile.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:30
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Easier to pull a TT rider up a hill than teach a climber to TT.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:56
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Theres more salt in l'equipe tomorrow than the entire peloton sweat out over the tour.
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Jul 22, 2017 22:11
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serious gaylord posted:Reminds me of Nibalis win a few years back. Froome didn't really have to do anything except defend in the mountains given his competition. Nibali at least managed to win 4 stages Nibali at least managed to be fastest of his team in the final TT (or any TT for that matter) He had over 7 minutes advantage at the end. He crushed the competition. Froome rode the best Tour of all participants, he was never dominant but always consistent. None of the others ever gave the impression they could do something. I really wish a good Dumoulin would have participated. Sky probably would have had to try something in the mountains.
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Jul 22, 2017 23:43
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2011 is still the last, good, tour de france.
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Box Hill Strangler posted:2011 is still the last, good, tour de france. Cannon
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Box Hill Strangler posted:2011 is still the last, good, tour de france. 
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Box Hill Strangler posted:2011 is still the last, good, tour de france.
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This tour could have been a lot worse. At least it teased with the possibility of someone taking over from Froome, even though they never did anything about it. He didn't have like a half an hour lead from the first week or anything. But too many sprint stages too, and why have a sprint stage yesterday?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:01
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I eagerly await the oncoming doping scandal that no one saw coming.
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Jul 23, 2017 06:00
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So froomes on 4 wins, 1 behind big mig, merckx, hinault and anquetil. He's easily going to get a 5th and quite frankly has a 6th and 7th in him with the strength of sky.
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Jul 23, 2017 07:39
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Quite frankly, Chris Froome is the greatest cyclist the world has ever seen.
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Jul 23, 2017 08:13
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I've only watched the Tour in the Sky era. What makes it so boring now as opposed to when guys like Hinault, Armstrong, or Indurain were dominating?
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Jul 23, 2017 08:31
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We aren't 5 years old anymore
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Jul 23, 2017 09:10
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It was boring too. The most exciting tours are those when the old guy is retiring and we're yet to find out who we will watch winning for the next seven years.
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Jul 23, 2017 09:17
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Some of Armstrongs tours were just as boring, but most years there was someone (usually named Jan Ullrich) who wasn't content with second place trying something stupid and/or cool in the mountains. The whole "overpaid team with """"superior training methods"""" that only focusses on one race per year" was just as annoying though
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Pube Factory posted:I've only watched the Tour in the Sky era. What makes it so boring now as opposed to when guys like Hinault, Armstrong, or Indurain were dominating? Armstrong had people like pantani, riis and ullrich to deal with. The main thing though is we had a brief period with some cool and good tours like 2010 and 2011 where andy schleck went on a huge massively long range attack to try and win outright rather then have people just simply trying to defend podiums as we do now. Last few years people simply haven't been willing to risk a place to try and better their position. There's a bunch of old pros who are always surprised about how froome is almost never attacked if the other GC guys manage to isolate them as they'd rather to work with him to real in someone who might be threatening their 4th place
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Jul 23, 2017 09:59
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The world tour points system seems to incentivise that kind of riding hard to defend an otherwise meaningless 8th place or whatever.
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Jul 23, 2017 10:16
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Since Sky, the best tour to actually watch has been the Giro, so let's be thankful there's still a cool three week race not constantly ruined by one team. It'll get good again in a couple of years when Froome's declined enough and not been replaced yet.
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Froome's not really even the problem. The team being able to outlast all the others and have him constantly shepherded around while other teams are down to solo riders is the problem. He was pretty much only ever on his own for the TT stages, and he's the strongest of the GCs at those by a large distance. Tom could provide an interesting foil for him.
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There's no women's race on the Champs-Elysees this year? That's rubbish, watching their annual loving massive crash is usually the highlight of Sunday.
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peanut- posted:There's no women's race on the Champs-Elysees this year? That's rubbish, watching their annual loving massive crash is usually the highlight of Sunday. Think they finish in Marseille this year
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