Tour de France 2013 - the Route

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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oneof1982 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    According to the esteemed Cycling Weekly, Wiggo's just confirmed that he'll prioritise the Giro next year but be at the Tour to support 'a team mate'

    Cue the shouts of Sky and Wiggo 'dishonouring' the maillot jaune by not defending it :roll:

    Outrage blah blah blah....told you he was useless..... blah blah blah......SKy blah blah blah ........boring blah blah blah.......wouldn't have one last year blah blah blh
    ah...ah a. :evil:


    Great, so now that's out of the way.... :lol:


    Wishful Thinking Post of The Day
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    OCDP, no doubt you're right...
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    yeah, how many times will the Wiggins/Froome relationship be compared to Hinault/Lemond ?? blah blah
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    edhornby wrote:
    yeah, how many times will the Wiggins/Froome relationship be compared to Hinault/Lemond ?? blah blah


    Richard Moore loves it...does wonders for promoting 'Slaying the Badger'...

    Can you imagine next year's shenanigans...if Froome has so much as an off-day...he'll have been knobbled by Wiggo!
  • brettjmcc
    brettjmcc Posts: 1,361
    I know Route details won't come out till next year, but anyone care to try and take a guess for Stage 5 (Cagnes-sur-Mer > Marseilles) for me?

    I may have an opportunity to be down that area in the Var region... and if I could swing taking the bike...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oneof1982 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    According to the esteemed Cycling Weekly, Wiggo's just confirmed that he'll prioritise the Giro next year but be at the Tour to support 'a team mate'

    Cue the shouts of Sky and Wiggo 'dishonouring' the maillot jaune by not defending it :roll:

    Outrage blah blah blah....told you he was useless..... blah blah blah......SKy blah blah blah ........boring blah blah blah.......wouldn't have one last year blah blah blh
    ah...ah a. :evil:


    Great, so now that's out of the way.... :lol:


    Wishful Thinking Post of The Day

    The best thing I saw on that was a certain member of the Twitter Taliban saying what a horrible doper Wiggo was, not like that lovely Contador...

    Are they freaking serious?!?!?!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    On paper, it seems a reasonably balanced route.
    Clock kms about right, as is the amount of climbing.
    My concern is how those mountains are stacked, both in profile within the race.
    An uber flat week 2 will make or break this edition. I fear it may well be the latter.
    Some of the mountain stages are very short, Ventoux excessively long.

    I am pleased to see less of the old faithfuls and more novel ascents.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Wiggo interview

    http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0 ... 89,00.html
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Going along the lines of froome here - A bit of an anti climax regarding the route. What the **** is it with prudhomme and his downhill finishes esp the Bageres de Bigorre stage (wasted lets keep our GC positions stage) Obviously they didnt learn anything from the Vuelta. we have the usual pish boring 7 straight days of sprints (sleeping pills to the ready) ... We will never see the 2 days of mountain top finishes in the Pyrenees & 3 summit finishes in the Alps or vice versa in the tour again. Looks like another Sky (marginal gains all peaking at the same time) fest again :roll:
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Going along the lines of froome here - A bit of an anti climax regarding the route. What the **** is it with prudhomme and his downhill finishes esp the Bageres de Bigorre stage (wasted lets keep our GC positions stage) Obviously they didnt learn anything from the Vuelta. we have the usual pish boring 7 straight days of sprints (sleeping pills to the ready) ... We will never see the 2 days of mountain top finishes in the Pyrenees & 3 summit finishes in the Alps or vice versa in the tour again. Looks like another Sky (marginal gains all peaking at the same time) fest again :roll:


    but Gazzetta, surely the return of 'The King' means that Sky wont win again? Sorry, I get confused.
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Going along the lines of froome here - A bit of an anti climax regarding the route. What the **** is it with prudhomme and his downhill finishes esp the Bageres de Bigorre stage (wasted lets keep our GC positions stage) Obviously they didnt learn anything from the Vuelta. we have the usual pish boring 7 straight days of sprints (sleeping pills to the ready) ... We will never see the 2 days of mountain top finishes in the Pyrenees & 3 summit finishes in the Alps or vice versa in the tour again. Looks like another Sky (marginal gains all peaking at the same time) fest again :roll:


    but Gazzetta, surely the return of The King means that Sky wont win again? Sorry, I get confused.

    RR excuse my ignorance but is Sean Kelly getting back in the saddle 8)
    Maybe am from the old school of watching Hinault,Fignon tours were you were guaranteed classic mountain stages (yes i know pills were being popped back then too) maybe they could have followed the vuelta's ideas with shorter more compact stages esp the Pyrenees.looking at the 2 stages there it looks really poor for the 100th edition.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    SK back again..that would be awesome....
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Of course people will be asking Wiggo, Froome and Brailsford about next year but there is a whole winter of training ahead. Any talk now of who is doing what is just that - talk.

    All this talk of Wiggo for Giro and Froome for the Tour could all be just gamesmanship for all we know. It will I'm sure all come down to the numbers/stats in training as to who leads where and when.
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Looks like another Sky (marginal gains all peaking at the same time) fest again :roll:
    Yes damn them and their "let's peak at the right time" malarky. :mrgreen:
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  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    If the organisers are wanting a "spectacular" Alpe d Huez stage then i hope they are going to barrier off more than the usual last 2kms - All day pissheads "look at me am on tv" morons running alongside preventing anyone attacking. Beginning to think that the ASO think that there is only one mountain in the Alps now.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Going along the lines of froome here - A bit of an anti climax regarding the route. What the **** is it with prudhomme and his downhill finishes esp the Bageres de Bigorre stage (wasted lets keep our GC positions stage) Obviously they didnt learn anything from the Vuelta. we have the usual pish boring 7 straight days of sprints (sleeping pills to the ready) ... We will never see the 2 days of mountain top finishes in the Pyrenees & 3 summit finishes in the Alps or vice versa in the tour again. Looks like another Sky (marginal gains all peaking at the same time) fest again :roll:


    but Gazzetta, surely the return of The King means that Sky wont win again? Sorry, I get confused.

    RR excuse my ignorance but is Sean Kelly getting back in the saddle 8)
    Maybe am from the old school of watching Hinault,Fignon tours were you were guaranteed classic mountain stages (yes i know pills were being popped back then too) maybe they could have followed the vuelta's ideas with shorter more compact stages esp the Pyrenees.looking at the 2 stages there it looks really poor for the 100th edition.

    Yeah, but that was different. That was when doping was still quaint, if a bit cheeky - like a 10 year old lad smoking at the village fete.
    Not like now... with all their injecting brains with ELO and transfirming bullocks blood and what not.
    S'not right.
    No class.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    declasse is, I believe, the word :)
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Stupid Telegraph today in the printed paper had them going up Mont Ventoux three times.

    I'm just a keen fan, and even I had to :shock: at that. I don't believe it. Nope, just do not believe it.

    How can a sub on a sports desk let that one through to print, eh?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited October 2012
    No Andy:
    blogger-image-773924818.jpg

    But he was there
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    What the hell Prudhomme is thinking having Contador on that stage, I have no idea. Busted during the 2010 Tour FFS.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Not like now... with all their injecting brains with ELO and transfirming bullocks blood and what not.
    S'not right.
    No class.

    ELO ?? Is that what they call Blue Sky thinking then ? :wink: Certainly counts as Strange Magic
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Every race organiser wants him. Everyone. They are not stupid - they are there to make money, and they know that Contador will make them make more money.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Every race organiser wants him. Everyone. They are not stupid - they are there to make money, and they know that Contador will make them make more money.


    When Prudhomme starts with talking about doping for the first 5-10 minutes of the presentation, it doesnt sit well at all.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    so the wiggmeisters had a look at the route and ruled himself out riding for frume.

    should be good
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    PeteMadoc wrote:
    oneof1982 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    According to the esteemed Cycling Weekly, Wiggo's just confirmed that he'll prioritise the Giro next year but be at the Tour to support 'a team mate'

    Cue the shouts of Sky and Wiggo 'dishonouring' the maillot jaune by not defending it :roll:

    Outrage blah blah blah....told you he was useless..... blah blah blah......SKy blah blah blah ........boring blah blah blah.......wouldn't have one last year blah blah blh
    ah...ah a. :evil:

    A lot can happen between now and July, but yeah, blah blah blah

    So can anyone recommend a good campsite near Annecy, needs to be child friendly.

    there are loads round there, just avoid the ones where brits get gunned down in a hail of automatic gunfire
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    He does stand out there does nt Wiggo.....

    Were they called up or did they suggest that favorites should "nominate" themselves..?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    Is Wiggins wearing the mod version of a Cone of Shame?

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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    frenchfighter wrote:
    No Andy:
    blogger-image-773924818.jpg

    But he was there

    [exasperated] Where are you guys getting all this info and that picture? I had a lengthy rummage around the letour link posted earlier, but couldn't find it! [/exasperated]

    In that photo, I guess, Wiggins Evans Cavendish ???brown shoes ???blackjacketwhiteshirt ???Froome??? Contador.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Wiggins looks like the villain from a Tom Baker era episode of Doctor Who.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    edited October 2012
    Lichtblick wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    No Andy:
    blogger-image-773924818.jpg

    But he was there

    [exasperated] Where are you guys getting all this info and that picture? I had a lengthy rummage around the letour link posted earlier, but couldn't find it! [/exasperated]

    In that photo, I guess, Wiggins Evans Cavendish ???brown shoes ???blackjacketwhiteshirt ???Froome??? Contador.


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