2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby AUbicycles » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:45 pm
In any case, a bit of humanity and apology would have been fair.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby Grog » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:48 pm
Well if that's true then that's really, really sad.jcjordan wrote:Stories are coming out that Cavendish has had urine thrown on him at the TT
I personally think the guy acts like a bloody idiot and does himself no favours, especially with his public personna with the press (and for many, that IS Cavendish)
But to throw urine??? Some people really are disgusting.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:28 am
There's a yellow jersey joke in there somewhere.jcjordan wrote:Stories are coming out that Cavendish has had urine thrown on him at the TT
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby siennatrack » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:34 am
Maybe he should go back to the track[evolution] and six day races where the crowds love him.jcjordan wrote:Stories are coming out that Cavendish has had urine thrown on him at the TT
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby warthog1 » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:40 am
Yellow and green both sewn up.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby Walsh95 » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:36 am
Probably. but then again hopefully Puerto and Quintana and the like can help the other GC boys crack Froome, Quintana looked pretty bloody good up that HC on stage 9warthog1 wrote:Surely that's the tour over now. Big time gap.
Yellow and green both sewn up.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby queequeg » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:29 am
With nothing to lose, I'd like to see the GC riders just keep attacking. We haven't even reached the mountains yet and you're calling it. Only one way to test Froome, and that is to attack and make him respond. It is so boring watching everyone just cruise the course with the yellow jersey at the front. The peloton should make him earn it every day.warthog1 wrote:Surely that's the tour over now. Big time gap.
Yellow and green both sewn up.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby sogood » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:36 am
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby g-boaf » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:49 am
Perhaps the spectator will be found and get the same treatment. That's utterly disgusting and uncalled for.jcjordan wrote:Stories are coming out that Cavendish has had urine thrown on him at the TT
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Good that the tour is over now (unless something unthinkable happens to Froome), I can catch up on sleep.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby Purt » Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:22 am
ESP 1 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR TEAM) + 0:00
NED 2 MOLLEMA, Bauke (BELKIN PRO CYCLING) + 0:12
ESP 3 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (SAXO-TINKOFF) + 0:29
CZE 4 KREUZIGER, Roman (SAXO-TINKOFF) + 0:32
NED 5 TEN DAM, Laurens (BELKIN PRO CYCLING) + 0:45
POL 6 KWIATKOWSKI, Michal (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 1:19
COL 7 QUINTANA ROJAS, Nairo Alexander (MOVISTAR TEAM) + 1:53
POR 8 FARIA DA COSTA, Rui Alberto (MOVISTAR TEAM) + 2:12
FRA 9 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 2:14
ESP 10 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Joaquin (KATUSHA) + 2:23
DEN 10 FUGLSANG, Jakob (ASTANA PRO TEAM)
IRL 12 MARTIN, Daniel (GARMIN SHARP) + 2:27
Also some interesting links:
Kimmage on Stage 8 (AT) 26:30: http://www.newstalk.ie/player/listen_ba ... ort_Part_4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Kimmage on TT (AT) 27:30: http://www.newstalk.ie/player/listen_ba ... all_Part_1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Some of the same data analysis: http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bi ... l?page=all" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby brentono » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:17 pm
Yes it was a great effort by Sagan in the ITT.warthog1 wrote:Is there anything Sagan can't do?
He has shown ability in the mountains, last year and overall ability in all aspects
of the Tour, a young guy with a big future.
A pisstake was made in the decision of the Officials regarding Cavendish
and the fans seems to be airing their displeasure. But "ones" is not warranted.
Let Sportsmanship live, in this years Tour
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby brentono » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:43 pm
... and sometimes you just get splashed with urine.Some riders actually have negative points.
This arises because the organisers impose penalties for various infractions in a number of ways.
The most common is a fine of so many Swiss Francs.
A harsher penalty is to deduct time from the rider's GC time, or deduct points from their points tally.
If the rider has been particularly naughty, they will be disqualified from the race.
Riders can be penalised in a lot of ways,
e.g. hanging onto a team car, or taking too many "bottles" from the director sportif;
answering the call of nature in front of the public (when you gotta go, you gotta go);
causing another rider to crash, or otherwise riding dangerously in the bunch;
hitching a ride to the finish in the Tour director, Christian Prudhomme's car;
giving spectators the evil eye, and so on.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby find_bruce » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:39 pm
Got it in one - eg Lars Bak and José Serpa lost 5 points (+ a fine of 50 Swiss Francs & a 10-second penalty) for getting illegal tows from their team cars during stage 7. As they haven't earned any points, they now sit on -5igstar wrote:I was looking at the Green jersey points classifications and saw some riders have negative points. Are these penalties or something?
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby sogood » Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:38 pm
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby briztoon » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:31 pm
Having never travelled before this is a new experience. No way would I attempt to drive in France. It's hard enough getting used to everyone driving on the right side of the road, but it appears that indicating to change lanes is optional, the lanes are much narrower, and cyclists don't appear to follow many rules (more likely I'm just on aware of them). Helmets are optional, my guess are those not wearing helmets are locals and those wearing helmets are tourists.
We had one interesting encounter on the drive in from the airport to Lyon. The airport is situated about 25 miles outside of Lyon, and the route in to Lyon passes through some agricultural areas. Our taxi was fast approaching a slow moving tractor and plough heading in the same direction when the oncoming traffic all moved over to the right without slowing down allowing us the overtake the machinery on the wrong side of the road without slowing down.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby ForkinGreat » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:39 pm
I'm really glad that cavendish suffered at least some repercussion from his arrogant selfish act.jcjordan wrote:Stories are coming out that Cavendish has had urine thrown on him at the TT
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He really should have had his face punched in. He's lucky it was only urine and not a stick in his wheel during the TT.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby Purt » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:49 pm
I think I missed something. What did he do?ForkinGreat wrote:I'm really glad that cavendish suffered at least some repercussion from his arrogant selfish act.
He really should have had his face punched in. He's lucky it was only urine and not a stick in his wheel during the TT.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
Postby ForkinGreat » Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:05 pm
Thumped one of the Argos Shimano riders with his shoulder and knocked him off his bike. Totally unnecessary.Purt wrote:I think I missed something. What did he do?ForkinGreat wrote:I'm really glad that cavendish suffered at least some repercussion from his arrogant selfish act.
He really should have had his face punched in. He's lucky it was only urine and not a stick in his wheel during the TT.
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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Re: 2013 Tour de France
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RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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