Star of Besseges st 1 *spoiler*

specialgueststar
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edited February 2013 in Pro race
Very nice part of France - Beaucaire . Belgiums enjoying a bit of 'warmth'

Jules gets a third

5 more stages to come - nice season opener this one

1 Michael Van Staeyen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise 3:24:23
2 Frédérique Robert (Bel) Lotto Belisol
3 Justin Jules (Fra) La Pomme Marseille
4 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling
5 Benjamin Giraud (Fra) La Pomme Marseille
6 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar
7 Yannick Martinez (Fra) La Pomme Marseille
8 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Argos - Shimano
9 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Accent Jobs - Wanty
10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cyclin
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    edited January 2013
    Yannick Martinez another with a Tour riding father and a bronze in worlds rr 1974

    and of course his talented brother Miguel - Olympic Gold MTB and Cyclo Cross world champion

    Family rides must be interesting
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Another good placing for Jules. La Pomme seem to have a particularly good squad for 2013
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    Haha, Frenchie you make me laugh! I've read your views on him and his crime, however I must say, If I had a drunken, abusive step-dad that battered and raped my mum, then I'd probably take a spade to his head as well.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Is that a Lotto continental team or riders from the main one ?
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.
    /


    Is that not you imposing your own pre conceived ideas on the situation? He was only mentioned because of his win at GP Marseille and obviously has hit the season with good form :wink:
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    I'm thinking of starting a fan club for him
    "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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  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    I'm thinking of starting a fan club for him

    He could have a cracking 'signature' victory salute... swinging an imaginary spade with a mad grimace on your chops cerainly beats shooting pistols.

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    I'm thinking of starting a fan club for him

    He could have a cracking 'signature' victory salute... swinging an imaginary spade with a mad grimace on your chops cerainly beats shooting pistols.

    :lol:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    I'm thinking of starting a fan club for him

    You go right ahead. May take up some of your time away from replying to me only if you are going to post something annoying to read.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope we don't start pointing out Jules all the time. He is a convicted killer.

    Pozzo, Voeckler and Rolland are all riding.

    photos:
    http://www.steephill.tv/2013/etoile-de- ... /stage-01/

    I'm thinking of starting a fan club for him

    He could have a cracking 'signature' victory salute... swinging an imaginary spade with a mad grimace on your chops cerainly beats shooting pistols.
    One thing's for sure - Di Luca is going to have to give up his nickname
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  • LutherB
    LutherB Posts: 544
    Digger Barnes? :)
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    I hope we don't keep pointing out all the time that Jules is a convicted killer.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Some people are so blase about murder when not faced with it in reality. The same people that would faint if they got into a fist fight.

    There is no excuse for murder in this case - even if he was defending himself or his mum, he could have taken the guy out then got the police to take him away.
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Some people are so blase about murder when not faced with it in reality. The same people that would faint if they got into a fist fight.

    There is no excuse for murder in this case - even if he was defending himself or his mum, he could have taken the guy out then got the police to take him away.

    Your making things sound easy Frenchie?!

    He was just a kid.

    Also, if it's anything like Britain - conviction rates are not great for Domestic Violence, for various reasons including stockholm syndrome type symptoms of the victims. Also over here at least, the punishments are relatively minor. I see battered women every day through my work - shaking off their eveil husbands is not an easy task I can assure you. If I saw somebody viciously attacking my mother, I wouldn't be relying on the police to solve the issue, thats for sure.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I know it isn't easy to judge. I am just super anti-murder.

    And no he wasn't a kid. Child soldiers are kids.
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  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    edited January 2013
    I'd also like to go publicly state for the record that I am also anti-murder. In my opinion it should be banned, as should the sale of all shovels, spades, pitchforks, hoes, strimmers, etc. Nasty, nasty business murder.

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I know it isn't easy to judge. I am just super anti-murder.
    It wasn't murder though, it was manslaughter. There's quite a difference. If it was murder, he'd still be in prison.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    I'd also like to go publicly state for the record that I am also anti-murder. In my opinion it should be banned, as should the sale of all shovels, spades, pitchforks, hoes, strimmers, etc. Nasty, nasty business murder.


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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    frenchfighter wrote:
    There is no excuse for murder in this case - even if he was defending himself or his mum, he could have taken the guy out then got the police to take him away.
    You know nothing about it FF - saying something like that is rubbish unless you are fully acquainted with all the facts. I hasten to add that I know nothing about it, which is why I'll only comment on his cycling ability.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    be glad when stage 2 is posted so we can move on! :)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    RichN95 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I know it isn't easy to judge. I am just super anti-murder.
    It wasn't murder though, it was manslaughter. There's quite a difference. If it was murder, he'd still be in prison.

    Don't go quoting facts you murder apologist you. Frenchie was all over this guy until he re-read the story and decided he was a cold blooded murdering bar steward.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Jeudi 31 Janvier
    2ème étape - 157 Km
    Nîmes - Saint-Ambroix - Les Fumades
    Arrivée
    1 Bryan Coquard (Europcar)
    2 Van Staeyen (TopSport)
    3 Planckaert (Crelan-Euphony)
    4 Van Dijk (Accent Jobs)
    5 Van Genechten (Lotto-Belisol)
    6 Cyrille Patoux (Roubaix-Lille Métropole)
    7 Nicolas Vereecken (An Post-Chainreaction)
    8 Benjamin Giraud (La Pomme Marseille)
    9 Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R-La Mondiale)
    10 Frédérique Robert (Lotto-Belisol)

    Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise)
    conserve son maillot corail de leader au classement général.


    One of Kelly's riders up in 7th
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    No one's posted this yet, so cop a load - from inside the peloton on yesterday's stage (including a chute)

    http://www.kinomap.com/player/p6jmxp?mapPosition=bottom
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Thanks RR - hadn't seen that.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    winner - first year pro and trackie (silver omnium London 2012 _ from wiki!!)

    van Stayen has come to race! 1st and 2nd
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pozzo looks like he is 15
    pozzovivo_ag2r.jpg

    And this guy looks pretty pleased
    coquard_besseges.jpg
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Boring trackies. :wink:
    Second in the U23 worlds RR, too, don't forget.
    Speed without doubt, but maybe will struggle with endurance, as stages get longer as the season progresses.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Boring trackies. :wink:
    Second in the U23 worlds RR, too, don't forget.
    Speed without doubt, but maybe will struggle with endurance, as stages get longer as the season progresses.

    oh aye - and 1st Plouay amateurs and only 20
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    today's winner also has the best name for Viz-stylie sniggers

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