Tdf Stage 2 *Spoiler*

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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Jez mon wrote:
    [In the interview I saw he just looked a bit grumpy, as I might, if someone shoved a microphone in front of me and started asking silly/repetitive questions before going into the office...

    Except that dealing with the press is part of his job. No need to be a **** about it. He should be used to it by now.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    stunning place this Citadele
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Jez mon wrote:
    [In the interview I saw he just looked a bit grumpy, as I might, if someone shoved a microphone in front of me and started asking silly/repetitive questions before going into the office...

    Except that dealing with the press is part of his job. No need to be a **** about it. He should be used to it by now.

    He wasn't exactly being a ****, just giving short, not especially verbose, answers and his job, first and foremost is to win races, I like the fact that the Team Sky media training doesn't seem to have worked 100% :lol:
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • skavanagh.bikeradar
    skavanagh.bikeradar Posts: 1,097
    Ha! No both him and Wiggins are liable to say something off message. Good fun for us.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Jez mon wrote:
    ...and his job, first and foremost is to win races

    I said part of his job, I didn't day it was the most important part. There's no need for it, the Tour has only started he's not under massive pressure or anything. Perhaps it's the new diet he's on, low carbs makes me grumpy :P
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    To be fair, the new lady Eurosport have got in doing the interviews is even worse than the Ron Jeremy lookalike they had last year. And that's some feat.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

    Somebody wake me up with 500 metres to go please.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Ned Boulting seems to be copying my PTP strategy. Harumph!
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    I'm enjoying it TBH. I stopped watching ITV4 yesterday and watched the rest of the stage on Eurosport on Cycling Fans - just couldn't take any more of P&P.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    edited July 2012
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    I'm enjoying it TBH. I stopped watching ITV4 yesterday and watched the rest of the stage on Eurosport on Cycling Fans - just couldn't take any more of P&P.

    Yeah don't get me wrong, even Harmon and Kirby is a dream team compared to P+P!

    It should just ALWAYS be Harmon and Kelly. The End.

    (PS. the best bits are always when Harmon says something that he considers factual and then asks Kelly to agree, only for Kelly to say rather Bluntly in thick Oirish accent: 'No'.)
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    How are you supposed to talk about cycling for 4 hours on a day like today?
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Morkov not left the back of the trio for a good 20k or so.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    afx237vi wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    How are you supposed to talk about cycling for 4 hours on a day like today?

    Just pictures is fine. :wink:
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  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    Only three weeks of it to go :lol: You need a strategy. Start with Eurosport (HD if possible), as it starts first, then when adverts come on, change to ITV 4. When adverts come on ITV4, change back. Ensures minimum advert watching, and a regular change of mindless chatter. :idea: (chateau factor high this pm.)
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    oneof1982 wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    Only three weeks of it to go :lol: You need a strategy. Start with Eurosport (HD if possible), as it starts first, then when adverts come on, change to ITV 4. When adverts come on ITV4, change back. Ensures minimum advert watching, and a regular change of mindless chatter. :idea: (chateau factor high this pm.)

    I'd rather watch the Sidi advert than flick to ITV4 and listen to P+P. :lol:

    ITV4's commentary is at its very best when the TV is set to 'mute'.
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    afx237vi wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    How are you supposed to talk about cycling for 4 hours on a day like today?

    Its was the patronising of sportive riders and discarding their energy gel wrappers that started it today...
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  • disgruntledgoat
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    emadden wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    emadden wrote:
    Eurosport commentry beginning to grate .... (excluding Sean)

    Are Harmon and Kirby doing it together again, Jeez they talk some sh*t. Kirby especially. Almost as bad as P+P useless historical facts about anything and everything. Erm....I'm here for the cycling?!

    How are you supposed to talk about cycling for 4 hours on a day like today?

    Its was the patronising of sportive riders and discarding their energy gel wrappers that started it today...

    I take it littering is OK if you're getting paid?
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  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    and the full packet of fig biscuit 'trouser moment'
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    This stage is Hors Categorie on the Chateau front.
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    I take it littering is OK if you're getting paid?


    His point was correct, but it was so damn patronising... "you are not cool" x 2 :D

    he justifies the pros doing in because apparently there is a "big clean up team" that follows behind (note this is complete BS - On some mountains there are local municipality refuse collectors, but no "travelling team". They usually place garbage bags every 100m or so and collect them after the stage once all the camper vans etc start to move away)
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  • brettjmcc
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    Can anyone with sound tell me why Cadel is being paced back to the peleton. I was away from my desk for a bit and have to have it on mute...
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    He does seem to reserve special disdain for Sportive riders...
    Can anyone with sound tell me why Cadel is being paced back to the peloton. I was away from my desk for a bit and have to have it on mute...

    Could be a puncture, a crash or a pee. Take your pick.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Brajkovic reckons he is lucky :roll:

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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    brettjmcc wrote:
    Can anyone with sound tell me why Cadel is being paced back to the peloton. I was away from my desk for a bit and have to have it on mute...

    He went for a natural break
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    brettjmcc wrote:
    Can anyone with sound tell me why Cadel is being paced back to the peloton. I was away from my desk for a bit and have to have it on mute...

    Possibly for the same reason you were away from your desk, thought to be a comfort break.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    and the full packet of fig biscuit 'trouser moment'

    I thought that was quite funny. Admitting to soiling himself live on air :)
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Do we know what Cav going to the Team Car earlier was all about yet?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    brettjmcc wrote:
    Can anyone with sound tell me why Cadel is being paced back to the peloton. I was away from my desk for a bit and have to have it on mute...
    :lol:
    Possibly for the same reason you were away from your desk
    A couple of cigarettes and a doughnut? Standards are slipping. He'll be spending a hour on facebook and having a nap next.
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