2013 Tour de France

[singlespeedscott]

OGE! Woo hoo!

Allez Gerro!

They should be able to hold yellow for a few days now. At least until Stage 8 with the Col de Pailheres and AX-3-Domaines. Maybe even after that, fingers crossed.

[Joeblake]

Remember the Oarsome Foursome rowing team?

A name for our cycling team -

Orica-GReen Edge - OGRE!!!

Joe

[Marto]

Fell asleep on the couch at 12:10am, just after they announced OGE were starting at 12:20am EST. Bugger. Great to see the reply this morning, though. Well done!

[Joeblake]

Remember the Oarsome Foursome rowing team?

A name for our cycling team -

Orica-GReen Edge - OGRE!!!

Joe

Joe

[im_no_pro]

Being so early in the tour, and thinking OGE was mostly a sprint team, I took last night as an opportunity to catch up on sleep (4ish hours the previous two nights in a row). Now I wish I had stayed up and been a real zombie today.

Congrats OGE and Gerrans! I am absolutely stoked about this! Think the mainstream media will finally mention the TDF now?

I was planning to do this but was still up when it started so changed my mind at the last minute. Glad I did.

[im_no_pro]

Ok so I got bored over a late lunch and came up with this.... which of course will make no sense unless you know the song

[warthog1]

57.8km/h

[ldrcycles]

57.8km/h

[find_bruce]

57.8km/h

I don't understand why you are shocked - I can maintain 57.8 km/h - downhill with a tailwind

[Joeblake]

SO glad to see Stewie O'Grady up on the podium. All the years I watched him plugging away at the front of the peloton riding for other teams, and now he's representing Oz (again). One of the country's all time great sportspeople.

Joe

[Zynster]

I'm so looking forward to watching Gerro in yellow tonight!
Maybe he can pull off a hat trick!

[MichaelB]

I'm so looking forward to watching Gerro in yellow tonight!
Maybe he can pull off a hat trick!

Or Impey or Gossy takes the win for a hatrick

[find_bruce]

Good grief, cyclingnews reports that Tony Martin has been fined for having world champion rainbow stripes on his bike in the team time trial - apparently being the current world champion in both the individual and team time trial is not enough.

[Mulger bill]

What an amazing final kilo the lads put in. No one can deny them the right to wear those podium grins.


Onya Stewie, still got it mate!

[snark]

The big question from stage 5 - how on earth does Anthony Tan still have a role in television?

[find_bruce]

I'm still laughing at Ligget describing the teams as cannonball & quick stop

[Gerry.M]

The big question from stage 5 - how on earth does Anthony Tan still have a role in television?

Why so? (I didn't watch much of the coverage last night btw)

[ningnangnong]

The big question from stage 5 - how on earth does Anthony Tan still have a role in television?

Glad I'm not alone with this opinion!

[im_no_pro]

The big question from stage 5 - how on earth does Anthony Tan still have a role in television?

Im sitting here watching the recording, finally clicked on this thread now I have seen the result. As im clicking, im watching Tan thinking 'How is this nob still on TV?' Then first thing I see is your post

[JohnJoyner]

Didn't see last night, but from previous tours, he is very annoying.
Was there specific examples?

[igstar]

Daryl Impey needs to finish 8 places ahead of Gerrans to take over the Yellow Jersey. Do you think OGE would allow that to happen before the stage 8 and thus etch their place in history by having the first African rider in yellow? I'd like to see that, it would be a good thing for the sport the OGE profile.

[bigfriendlyvegan]

Daryl Impey needs to finish 8 places ahead of Gerrans to take over the Yellow Jersey. Do you think OGE would allow that to happen before the stage 8 and thus etch their place in history by having the first African rider in yellow? I'd like to see that, it would be a good thing for the sport the OGE profile.

Nah, Froome will be the first, he's Kenyan, no matter what his passport says.

[KL.]

Is anyone annoyed with the commentators speaking mostly in mph, miles, and yards rather than kph, K's or Kilometres, metres?
There are only 2 countries in the world that still use mph and they are the US and England...

Thanks KL

[find_bruce]

Daryl Impey needs to finish 8 places ahead of Gerrans to take over the Yellow Jersey. Do you think OGE would allow that to happen before the stage 8 and thus etch their place in history by having the first African rider in yellow? I'd like to see that, it would be a good thing for the sport the OGE profile.

According to cyclingnews that might happen sooner than you think

Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) retained his overall lead ahead of teammates Daryl Impey and Michael Albasini, which according to directeur sportif Matt White was the team's goal. "A main objective today was to keep the yellow jersey," White said. “Whether it stayed on Simon’s back or went to Daryl didn’t come into consideration at all. Our normal plan was to lead out Gossy [Matt Goss] for the sprint. With Impey as last lead-out, there was a good chance he would take over the yellow jersey from Simon if the sprint played out as we hoped.”

[singlespeedscott]

As far as I am aware the US is the only nation left in the world still using a "variation"of the imperial measurement system. You have got to remember that Phil a and Paul are getting on