Le Tour 2018

[jimharri]

Even ITV4 having a little dig; "(Team Sky) 3 different winners in 7 years; some people may draw sinister conclusions...."

 

[scousemanc]

Well done Geraint, you won the Tour de France! Also a double olympic gold medalist. What a truly great sportsman and a really nice bloke. The Sky team will be interesting next year.

 

[discopop]

Even ITV4 having a little dig; "(Team Sky) 3 different winners in 7 years; some people may draw sinister conclusions...."

If you can get past Carlton Kirby and his ramblings then Eurosport knock ten tons of shit out of ITV4 coverage wise and informed input with Kelly, Brian Smith and Flecha.

Made up for Froome grabbing a podium the guy is a class act with the utter crap that’s been hurled at him from the cheese eating surrender monkeys.

 

[Gray]

Froome won that stage, was nearly 2 seconds quicker?

A French farce, we all saw the times on the screen but all of a sudden Froome loses.

The French really do not like us.

 

[RabidCity]

I told you that 6/4 for Thomas was the price of the century.

Well done, enjoy your winnings.

As a gambling man, I still don't think 1.5/1 was great value at that mid stage. There was a lot of tough stages to go, and he clung through it, including today at the time trial.
I guess the Giro told too hard on Froome to challenge him in the end.

 

[bluemoon32]

Great stuff and a great day for Cardiff

 

[big gaz]

Well done Geraint, years of dragging others over the mountains you can now bask in the joy of being a true Welsh legend.
Like some others what happened to the timing clock because on the box it looked like Froome won the stage.

 

[chesterbells]

Even ITV4 having a little dig; "(Team Sky) 3 different winners in 7 years; some people may draw sinister conclusions...."

Maybe, but itv coverage has overall been overwhelmingly positive.
In this sport, given its history, it would almost be bizarre if they didn't raise this even once, as we all know a sizeable number of the public will have this going through their minds.

To my eyes, the main "difference" in Thomas recently, apart from avoiding the awful crashes he's been dogged by for years, has been his new found ability not to get dropped at the top of major climbs, and even to find something left in the tank to put in an acceleration to the finish - that aspect has certainly changed, so if there is gonna be doubt it will be around that aspect...

 

[discopop]

What an absolute super edition this years Tour was, top effort by all the riders, to see them continue to get up after serious offs and go again marks them down as proper hard men of sport. Chapaeu lads and Geraint

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Thoroughly enjoyed the Tour and G’s win. My highlights were G’s win on Alp D’huez and Froome keeping a smile on his face when Doumolin was awarded the time trial.

The Frenchies will be seething for another year, at least!