Tour De France 2013

[davymcfc]

Lot of people out in Paris by the looks of it. Really big event.

 

[MCFC1993]

Sipping on some champagne, well happy for Froome, posing for a few pictures, a great year for him and moment for him.

Unfortunately I feel he'll be overlooked for SPOTY behind Murray.

-- Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:29 pm --

And Froome had Richie Porte doing the same for him this year. Wiggos team wasnt 3 times stronger at all, the course was easier, more TT in it and suited to Wiggo but last year was a step into the unknown, Wiggo was the first and therefore will always be special. This year, they have all the experience from the previous years win and less focus and pressure on Froome, it is a team sport, on and off the road.

Agree to an extent, only thing I will say is that Froome was outright winner this year and I think he would have won it last year if Wiggo wasn't team leader.

Hmmm, Wiggo did win the TTs by quite a lot. I know Froome stayed with him on a couple of climbs but if he was in another team, i still think Wiggo would have won, that course was suited to him not Froome, Froome had never won anything before but it would have been close though. This years course Froome beats Wiggo everytime and on the margin of victory is more dominant than Wiggo was.

As for the achievement, i'd say to go from riding 4km pursuit gold to winning the tour, is like going from 1500m to the marathon (and quite a bit more distance)

I guess we'll never know, i'm just glad 'us' british have won it back to back. I hope one of them is up for it again next year!

And I wouldn't put the bottom bit past Mo Farah.

 

[chesterbells]

Been a fantastic tour, really enjoyed it.
Gonna be a great finale (even if they wheel out Jean Michel Jarre later on, as rumoured)

Be interesting to see how wiggo fares in the Tour of Poland next week.<br /><br />-- Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:25 pm --<br /><br />

Sipping on some champagne, well happy for Froome, posing for a few pictures, a great year for him and moment for him.

Unfortunately I feel he'll be overlooked for SPOTY behind Murray.

-- Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:29 pm --



Agree to an extent, only thing I will say is that Froome was outright winner this year and I think he would have won it last year if Wiggo wasn't team leader.

Hmmm, Wiggo did win the TTs by quite a lot. I know Froome stayed with him on a couple of climbs but if he was in another team, i still think Wiggo would have won, that course was suited to him not Froome, Froome had never won anything before but it would have been close though. This years course Froome beats Wiggo everytime and on the margin of victory is more dominant than Wiggo was.

As for the achievement, i'd say to go from riding 4km pursuit gold to winning the tour, is like going from 1500m to the marathon (and quite a bit more distance)

I guess we'll never know, i'm just glad 'us' british have won it back to back. I hope one of them is up for it again next year!

And I wouldn't put the bottom bit past Mo Farah.

As Martin Samuel observed recently, nobody question the dramatic later-career upturn in form of the likes of Mo Farah or Kelly Holmes - which is often seen, with very good reason, as the cue to be suspicious

 

[Shands]

Been a fantastic tour, really enjoyed it.
Gonna be a great finale (even if they wheel out Jean Michel Jarre later on, as rumoured)

Be interesting to see how wiggo fares in the Tour of Poland next week.

-- Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:25 pm --

Hmmm, Wiggo did win the TTs by quite a lot. I know Froome stayed with him on a couple of climbs but if he was in another team, i still think Wiggo would have won, that course was suited to him not Froome, Froome had never won anything before but it would have been close though. This years course Froome beats Wiggo everytime and on the margin of victory is more dominant than Wiggo was.

As for the achievement, i'd say to go from riding 4km pursuit gold to winning the tour, is like going from 1500m to the marathon (and quite a bit more distance)

I guess we'll never know, i'm just glad 'us' british have won it back to back. I hope one of them is up for it again next year!

And I wouldn't put the bottom bit past Mo Farah.

As Martin Samuel observed recently, nobody question the dramatic later-career upturn in form of the likes of Mo Farah or Kelly Holmes - which is often seen, with very good reason, as the cue to be suspicious

Clearly Martin Samuel has never stumbled upon The Clinic then!! :)

 

[Shands]

Kirby managing to shoehorn in a mention of Tommy Voeckler there, why not eh Carlton why not.

 

[Rascal]

Clearly Martin Samuel has never stumbled upon The Clinic then!! :)

Thanks to a link you posted i have.

It makes the Cellar look full of sane rational people :)

The conspiracy theories on there are brilliant. Loved reading the Froome thread through the Tour. If he won he doped, if he got dropped he was hiding his doping, if team Sky rode well it was because they doped, when Porte had the bad in the wind it was hiding the dope.

Basically its like they are all on dope (weed type). And i feel a little sorry for them that a sport they obviously care deeply about has become so tainted to them they are deeply hurt and can no longer enjoy or get excited about.


Come on Cav, hope the flat didnt take too much out of him

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Kirby managing to shoehorn in a mention of Tommy Voeckler there, why not eh Carlton why not.

Whats up with Dave Harmon? Harmon Kelly was my dream team, Dave called the action, Kirby did the tweets/texts, filling in and describing of the landscape etc I dont mind Carlton, he's a little excitable and French (thus loving Voeckler) for me ;-)

 

[chesterbells]

Kirby managing to shoehorn in a mention of Tommy Voeckler there, why not eh Carlton why not.

Whats up with Dave Harmon? Harmon Kelly was my dream team, Dave called the action, Kirby did the tweets/texts, filling in and describing of the landscape etc I dont mind Carlton, he's a little excitable and French (thus loving Voeckler) for me ;-)

Was wondering that myself.
Been following itv4 for 3 weeks, put on Eurosport tonight & Harmons gone

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Clearly Martin Samuel has never stumbled upon The Clinic then!! :)

Thanks to a link you posted i have.

It makes the Cellar look full of sane rational people :)

The conspiracy theories on there are brilliant. Loved reading the Froome thread through the Tour. If he won he doped, if he got dropped he was hiding his doping, if team Sky rode well it was because they doped, when Porte had the bad in the wind it was hiding the dope.

Basically its like they are all on dope (weed type). And i feel a little sorry for them that a sport they obviously care deeply about has become so tainted to them they are deeply hurt and can no longer enjoy or get excited about.


Come on Cav, hope the flat didnt take too much out of him

Its funny, I only read it for the the first time the other day, i went from being angry at the first few posts to laughing after a few more, went to babes on bikes and forgot about it... oh and dont run down stoners, we arent all mad conspiracy theorists, or thats what MI5 on behalf of lizards have told me to say anyway.

Come on Cav.<br /><br />-- Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:52 pm --<br /><br />

Kirby managing to shoehorn in a mention of Tommy Voeckler there, why not eh Carlton why not.

Whats up with Dave Harmon? Harmon Kelly was my dream team, Dave called the action, Kirby did the tweets/texts, filling in and describing of the landscape etc I dont mind Carlton, he's a little excitable and French (thus loving Voeckler) for me ;-)

Was wondering that myself.
Been following itv4 for 3 weeks, put on Eurosport tonight & Harmons gone

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He was on Eurosport earlier in the year, strange one. ITV4 heathen

 

[Shands]

Kirby managing to shoehorn in a mention of Tommy Voeckler there, why not eh Carlton why not.

Whats up with Dave Harmon? Harmon Kelly was my dream team, Dave called the action, Kirby did the tweets/texts, filling in and describing of the landscape etc I dont mind Carlton, he's a little excitable and French (thus loving Voeckler) for me ;-)

Was wondering that myself.
Been following itv4 for 3 weeks, put on Eurosport tonight & Harmons gone

He said prior to the Giro that he was taking time off but would be back for the Tour, which obviously he wasn't. Depression has been mooted.