Tour de France 2016- SPOILER ALERT

Wobbie

at least there's Cav!

polaris_x

Brutal ... Quintana's got no form ...

Wobbie

good Tour.

would have loved a fignon/le mond showdown but those don't happen anymore.

a buddy of mine texted "if you crash at 61 mph, you better hope it's fatal"

well done, boys.

polaris_x

sorry ... outside of sagan ... was a horrible tour ... no drama whatsoever ... team sky is essentially the yankees/red sox of cycling ... don't see them losing a tour unless they fold ...

Wobbie

polaris_x said:

sorry ... outside of sagan ... was a horrible tour ... no drama whatsoever ... team sky is essentially the yankees/red sox of cycling ... don't see them losing a tour unless they fold ...

I take my drama from the individual stages.

agrre about Sky, tho.

I miss the doping days

Riverrunner

GC was certainly not very exciting. I saw one headline that said Froome won the tour of circumstances. But I did think it was a good tour as far as individual stages - 3 photo finishes, breakaway excitement, Froome running up Ventoux.

Wobbie

those photo finishes were insane! how the hell would they have figured those out in the olden days?

speaking of which.....they used to do 500km stages and stop to smoke cigarettes

Riverrunner

http://outsideonline.com/2099916/how-tour-de-france-diet-has-changed-over-decades?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

"Guzzling alarming amounts of alcohol was the norm. Beer, wine, and brandy were considered safer to drink than water from questionable roadside wells or springs."

Sounds funs.

Riverrunner

Landis is in the public eye again. Towards the end of the article is his opinion on doping in cycling and whether it is different now. http://cyclingnews.com/features/hell-always-have-paris-floyd-landis-returns-to-the-tour-de-france/

Wobbie

fuckity fuck fuck! are my two favorite sprinters out of the tour in the same day?

and, has froome already won this thing?

Wobbie

https://youtu.be/mgwZsxukSL8

Wobbie

bump. where my peeps?

this sucks ass

Riverrunner

Yes, it sucks.  I'm not even that interested in watching the TDF at the moment.  But that may change.  Just hope Froome doesn't have it wrapped up.

HesCalledDyer

July is my favorite month for sports.  Baseball hits mid-season & the All-Star Game, Wimbledon, and the Tour.  But I haven't watched the Tour in years.  Couldn't even name any teams or riders except Sky, Ag2r, Froome, & Cavendish.  And that prick Contador if he's still around.  I feel like the sport has gone entirely too political - like Formula One - and I've lost interest in recent years.  Would this be a good year to try to get back into it?  The last year I really paid any attention was when Cadel Evans won and the Schleck brothers were on the podium.  That was a damn good Tour.

Wobbie

"hey, wobbie"

"what?"

"that was one hell of a stage today"

"true that'"

Wobbie

"one more thing"

"what's that?"

"screw this 'tour etiquette'"

Wobbie

interesting development....