I am really worried about Roubaix, as far as its effect on the group. 15 sections is SO extreme.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 July 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
I think there's gonna be carnage
― gbx, Saturday, 14 July 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
yeah there can’t not be
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 July 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
Quite finish that one! Grunewagen is so yoked it’s no wonder he finishes the way he does. Hats off. Greipel and Gaviria declassified to 92nd and 93rd place for headbutting shenanigans. Apparently Greipel’s incident happened in the last km against Arndt, not to do with Gaviria: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-greipel-gaviria-relegated-in-separate-incidents-during-sprint-in-amiens/Sagan & Dekenkolb get 2nd and 3rdKittel not happy:
The peloton in general appeared agitated today, Kittel among them. He’s typically measured and humble but when your day starts with a boss publicly slamming your work ethic, your men are held-up in a crash and the team is managing divided goals with zip on the board ... shit one. https://t.co/D4FKLpElul— Sophie Smith (@SophieSmith86) July 14, 2018
#TDF2018 Unfortunately @tonymartin85 won‘t start tomorrow in stage 9. A spinal fracture (vertebral compression fracture) makes it impossible to continue @LeTour. Speedy recovery, #panzerwagen! #raceasafamily— Team KATUSHA ALPECIN (@katushacycling) July 14, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Katusha’s director came for Kittel publicly in l’equipe soooooo that bus prob sucks a ton right now
Stinging line by Katusha DS Konyshev on Kittel in @lequipe: "We're paying him a lot but he's only interested in himself. Before the Cholet TTT, he played with his phone during the briefing to make me realise I didn't have his attention" #TDF2018— Peter Cossins (@petercossins) July 14, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
Wow what a mess. Just saw the finish.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
I did listen to that Lance TDF podcast & he said the finish was so narrow with tight corners that the finishers would be lucky to have even 1 leadout, let alone 2. So it played out kinda that way & became the free for all we saw. And possibly why Sagan jumped early. I guess he still has that tendency at times.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
that being said, idk if i can hang with lance’s podcast. the sound of his voice just triggers me to what an on-the-record confirmed dickbag he has been. and it has such a heyyyy morning “radio” show vibe.i did lol when he deliberately pronounced Chatres as SHART
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
I listened to the lance and didn’t think it was that good plus him and his cohost are pretty annoying. unsubscribe
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
oh god is Craddock really going to ride across 22km of cobbles today
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 15 July 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
that will be brutal. don't envy him
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
already claimed the first victim
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
greenpath’s bike looked split in two :O
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
crashy
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
what the hell is going on
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
amazing stage. talk about a jour sans for bardet
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
yeah that was really something
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
christ on a bike that was roughi think this pic sums it up nicely
War hart heute. #TDF2018 pic.twitter.com/ePesRfHi4Q— Moritz Cassalette (@MCassalette) July 15, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
And how about this for a photo: Oliver Naesen coming right over the top of Rafal Majka 🙈🙈🙈
Pic of the day! Hope you're OK @majkaformal https://t.co/8vSinYa0Ow— Oliver naesen (@OliverNaesen) July 15, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Until now I had really processed how nuts the second and third weeks are. There’s only one more sprint stage other than the champs élysées. A couple of barrodeur rollers but no real respite.
Despite the early finish I still fell asleep with 20kms to go. Crazy stage.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah the mountains will be a pain train from the off. I can’t imagine going through today & then hitting week 2 with *a* rest day
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Just caught up with today's stage, good god almighty. But yeah, well deserved for Degenkolb. Phew.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
bike racing!!!
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Suggestion for some good rest-day listening: journalist/author William Fotheringham in convo with Cycling Weekly on the 20th anniversary of the Festina Affair. Good stuff!! https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-93r7s-95058e
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Just caught up with the highlights. The helmet filth stencils on rider’s stubbly heads are quite something.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 16 July 2018 09:21 (six years ago) link
classy ride from DVA
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
Solid stage all around. Alaphilippe in excelsis for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Ok stage, alaphillipe was very much in character, nibbles comment about wind and team sky going very postal matched perfectly to the lack of action from fave group.Commenter on twitter noted 8 y/o basso quote about when the lieutenants pull 420 watts for huge periods, no one can do anything meaningful in getting clear.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Sky, as ever, have enough money to have domestiques that would be leaders in lesser teams. Geraint Thomas is a case in point, I reckon he’s the equal of Porte at the least. The Yates brothers avoiding sky was a smart move, easy to get complacent pulling in 150k euros a year or whatever sky domesiques get.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
Alaphillippe, damn son. Joyous effort, he is a delight to watch. And VanAvemaet! Way to hold onto the yellow, dude. Amazing effort. Love seeing BMC pulling it out any way they can in spite of everything. Bummed about Uran timeloss :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
Crazy short stage has electrified the action some but even though Sky is chillin back 3 mins on last climb they have SIX riders there.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Nieve’s pedaling style at 6.5km left is fucking beautiful. Id enjoy seeing dumoulin get to him, but nieve looks SOOO nice.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
nice finish
― gbx, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Just caught the end of that passing through Hong Kong. That was pretty amazing. Thomas may have more time on Froome than Froome could take back on the TT, but I’m also not sure Froome can attack Thomas unless he is chasing down someone close on GC or Thomas cracks.
Interesting times.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
Thomas finally kicked his bilharzia. Good for him.— Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) July 18, 2018
― gbx, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
Ha when i saw thomas get to dumoulin so fast, i was like, man, nieve is about to get hit by a missile. I was surprised he paused with dumoulin a little.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
i like how Wiggins has come back to haunt Froome in the form of Thomas.
the dominance of Sky is very very frustrating though, and bad for cycling. Before this Tour I thought Movistar could challenge them.. but alas. Not even close. Quintana will be happy if he finishes top 5 in this Tour, or so it seems.
― Ludo, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Why is Sky so dominant (is it just money?), and why can't other teams compete? Isn't this just about having the right training schedule? Is there a stat on how much each team member gets paid on all teams?
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
mostly money
as ed said upthread, sky has domestiques that would be team leaders elsewhere but the pay at sky is good, as is (i hear) the benefits (like not medical bens but top quality training / nutrition / mechanics / etc)
― gbx, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
I mean, former rainbow kwiatkowski is an _embarrassingly_ big talent as just one of your climbing leadouts. Such a complete racer. Not only winning worlds, but classics and monuments i mean hes outsprinted sagan at e3 and msr aside from dumping him into siena, which u could at least expect.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
somehow had not unsubscribed from the lance thing and found myself listening to their stage 10 episode. he is a TOTAL fanny, and seems utterly unrepentant to boot ("I mean, according to wikipedia, I've never won a stage of the tour")
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
I was sure he'd at least displayed some contrition in the past but he's acting like he's been robbed on this thing, not like he was the one doing the robbing
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
the finish of la course was unsane
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/VkbyFDrF9kM
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig post stage interview yesterday i think is really really sweet.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
amazing. good on her
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
woman's cycling is so, so good and gets such a raw deal
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
i like how Wiggins has come back to haunt Froome in the form of Thomas
Heh. Just seen it (was out cycling all day). I reckon Thomas attacked so early to make sure he went before Froome did. Similarly, I think that's why he attacked again just before Froome bridged across to him and Dumoulin.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
tomorrow will be fun
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
That it will. But yeah I'm getting kinda bored with all these other Sky riders, however great they are, being "Hi we're just this glomp at the front of the peloton who don't seem to have any fun and to hell with you if you don't want to see anything interesting happening. Thanks for the cash, fuck you." (Not that the rest of the field are genteel souls doing it for the charity and fun of it but jeez.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
welp, final day ( no sprint spoilers, i’m watching live)i like this stage when they all chat together & relax. will be sad to see them gohttps://i.imgur.com/lyV8REY.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 July 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
Lol @ Thomas’s podium speech trying to remember all his teammates, Dumoulin had to remind him of Kwiatkowski 😂
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 July 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
probly not the best thread to post this, but this interview of this past tdf participant/temporary champ is a good human/racing interest story. Landis is a weird hybrid of traits imo. So weird that i find i can't easily and quickly draft a consistent response or comment. For now i'll write "here's an ok, non-asshole person who made some _incredibly_ bad/weak/asshole-y moves in a situation that would test the living fuck out of anyone, but he seems to have reserved his core humanity. which should never be assumed as an outcome." landis and kimmage are a match made in hell amirite.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/paul-kimmage-talks-to-floyd-landis-he-won-the-tour-de-france-then-lost-it-for-doping-and-it-almost-cost-him-his-life-37164135.html
― Hunt3r, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
Post Tour feels <3From Instagram earlier today:https://i.imgur.com/M7QB6zO.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/LvPoQIV.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
miss u Spartacus
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
<3
― Madchen, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 06:03 (six years ago) link
Aw <3
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
this cover of kraftwerk got to me 2 weeks too late, but i still like how it goes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfVI2nVxo5k
and of course it's 3 years old, but it's a new cover to me.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 10 August 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link