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While everyone was aghast at Contador: Machado fell, abandoned and got back on his bike, what was up with that?
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I keep this in a separate screen: http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/live/aso/ it's very informative and gives that little bit of extra.
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Jul 14, 2014 14:32
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...and he's out.
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Jul 14, 2014 14:58
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Hegay posted:gently caress this sucks, this is a big loss for the tour TBF, I was already thinking both Contador and Froome peaked too early in the dauphine after the stage on the cobbles. Everyone was focused on them (and Talansky) due to their display there.
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Jul 14, 2014 15:04
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Jurgen Van den Broeck said that Contador tried to pass him during the descent taking some risks and then fell a pothole.
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Jul 14, 2014 17:05
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:LeMond thinks its carbon rims causing all these crashes. I'm curious, how?
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Jul 14, 2014 17:17
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Machado is my rider of the day: He fell, gave up, spend time in the ambulance, got out of the ambulance, stepped on his bike and got riding again. He finished the stage, but missed the time limit by 10 minutes.  ...but then the jury showed clemency and said "You will live and ride another day!"  I am gonna root for him the rest of the tour now that Ted King is gone.
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Jul 14, 2014 21:13
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strangemusic posted:Wow. At this rate is the finish going to be two guys on the Champs Élysées? the 1998 edition was the last tour in my memory with so many high profile people dropping out, but let's not revisit *that* clusterfuck.
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Jul 15, 2014 19:20
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Tom Simpson famously died on the mont ventoux, plenty of specators died and I know of a frenchman who died on a resting day whilst taking a swim.
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Jul 15, 2014 20:22
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African AIDS cum posted:A spectator was killed I think by a police moto? At the stage I went to in 09 Yep: 2009: 18 July, Stage 14: A spectator in her 60s was struck and killed by a police motorcycle while crossing a road along the route near Wittelsheim.
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Jul 15, 2014 21:24
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Well this tour is getting weird now.
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Jul 16, 2014 15:06
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he's 13:55 off the group ahead edit: cut-off time is in percentages if i recall correctly so it depends on how fast the other guys are going.
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Jul 16, 2014 15:12
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Yeah i have to say it irks me slightly the green jersey is sort of 'most average rider' now well, the mountains classification is pretty much the breakaway jersey.
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Jul 17, 2014 07:25
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The Deadly Hume posted:Didn't the Giro have an extra points competition (not to be confused with the combination) which was basically based on stage finishes only or something? (It doesn't anymore as far as I know.) Man, there were so many weird jerseys in the history of the sport, I remember a red jersey for the best intermediate sprinter for instance.
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Jul 17, 2014 10:48
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They're gonna pass Andrei Kivilev's former home today isn't it? The true winner of the tour in 2001 (haha) and the fatality that got the UCI to finally make helmets mandatory.
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Jul 17, 2014 14:22
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Nope, never. Although the area had some interesting goings on in the past 10-15 years.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:55
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Sagan: Memories of Erik Zabel in 1999.
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Jul 17, 2014 16:38
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Hobo Erotica posted:I thought they might be. Do you know why though? And is there any move to change it? Like just a little pen sized micro camera type thing under the seat. because UCI.
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Jul 18, 2014 07:33
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serious gaylord posted:Bit rich of old Oleg when hes packing Contador off to Real Madrids 'medical' centre to recover in time for the vuelta. He basically admits in his tweets that his riders are doping. All this made me look up Filippo Simeoni and Christophe Bassons, both cyclists who got intimidated by Armstrong during races for saying he was doing dope.
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Jul 18, 2014 10:26
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Pocket posted:Hehe well him aside, the French broadcast has more to offer. They have moto-journos and interviews with key staff, for example interviewing the Tour doctor when everyone was wondering about Froome. Swiss TV doesn't get this in depth coverage, either due to a lack of access or people on the ground. Basically I feel the overall package is better on France2. The Belgian TV does roughly the same, but doesn't have the motar-commentators during the french races. They have pre-recorded interviews, answer incoming questions, discuss general news, refer to other races going on at the same time and their insight in the race is pretty good as well. Acevedo & Navarro out. DONT TOUCH THE PC fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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Jul 18, 2014 13:31
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 LeMond and co just saw a rock fall down and hit a car. Ouch.
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Jul 18, 2014 13:56
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Watching at work, since no one will turn up on a day like this and i can spend my day reading the forums and watching the stream.
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Jul 18, 2014 14:37
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The Deadly Hume posted:I think there's concessions if the temperature's over a certain point like 30°. Don't know what the letter of the law is though. Yeah, the commentary talked about this during the race yesterday, because of the high temperatures the rules were changed a bit to allow riders some refreshments.
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Jul 19, 2014 10:00
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Smirr posted:The trailer was Belgian I think, so probably not family. Man, that's gotta suck. Yeah, the belgian TV had a motard nearby and he confirmed the trailer was belgian and that Demare was back on his bike but struggling.
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Jul 19, 2014 13:46
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serious gaylord is a massive poulidor fan.
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Jul 19, 2014 16:38
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John Degenkolb continues to win my heart by stopping by the belgian radio commentator and sending his regards to the belgian tv commentator :-)
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Jul 20, 2014 13:45
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Frank Hoste telling how he screwed Sean Kelly out of the green jersy in 1984 and bought a stage in 1986 is just the best.  Much more interesting thant the stage so far. 
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Jul 20, 2014 14:01
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Jack Bauer is not related to Steve Bauer, as I once thought before. :-)
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Jul 20, 2014 14:51
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scaevola posted:They like Peraud since he's an engineer, falling into the typical education equals intelligence cliche. Matteo Trentin has a degree as well. David Millar, however had a great quote about cyclists: quote:“They give off the image of exceptional men but in fact they are very, very ordinary. Simple people without much education, who aren’t fun to eat with, who don’t get into intellectual discussions. All they have in life is cycling. Without that, it’s finished. I think he and Adam Hansen are the most fun to hang out with. DONT TOUCH THE PC fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Jul 20, 2014 15:44
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Punc posted:It happens all the time thou. I never got that, surely you get some money for coming in second, even on a stage in the TdF? This is why the talk by Frank Hoste about striking a deal was so much fun, he was like "yeah i got a 1,000,000 b.francs bonus for winning a stage from my sponsor, I could strike a deal with someone". :-)
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Jul 21, 2014 08:18
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Smirr posted:Speaking of quintessentially Italian Italians, earlier today Filippo Pozzato retweeted a quasi-pornographic picture that some rando had tweeted at him. Luckily I work in the Italian Sex Joke Picture factory, so I was fine. What's it like working for Berlusconi?
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Jul 22, 2014 17:17
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Smirr posted:Exhausting *fans air towards crotch* Anyway, here's a link to Pozzato's twitter https://twitter.com/PippoPozzato obviously Despite African AIDS cum's opinion of David Millar, he did have a point about that.
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Jul 22, 2014 18:07
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Jul 22, 2014 20:43
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African AIDS cum posted:Yes. He was convicted of doping offenses and got a year in prison in 2004 (later undone by appeal) but he was widely known as a doping doctor. yeah, since the mid-late nineties there were plenty of rumours about his involvement in doping. Him and Bernard Sainz.
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Jul 23, 2014 09:25
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peanut- posted:The TV director seems to take a lot of joy in showing Richie Porte dropping off the back every day. He does, also van den broeck as of late.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:39
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Badfinger posted:Cannot believe Frank Schleck is in the top 10 GC, even with all the abandons. This tour is weird, also suddenly frank van den broeck will turn up as the winner in 10 years.
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Jul 23, 2014 18:28
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tarbrush posted:It's been interesting to watch Sagan take green whilst not winning a stage and loving up every actual sprint. Shades of Erik Zabel.
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Jul 28, 2014 08:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H65GYfd2e84 amazing stuff, as usual.. one day this will be brought to us live. :-)
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Jul 28, 2014 20:02
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Clugg posted:Sometimes it can be fun to finish with an ITT: since we're heading towards the vuelta, this isn't even the closest finish, the 1984 vuelta had a difference of 6 seconds.
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