TdF 2013-Stage 21 ** SPOILERS*** Versailles / Champs-Élysées

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  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    Watching the side on replay, looks like Cav's rear wheel was bouncing off the ground...
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Good effort :lol:

    I if knew you all loved horses so much I would post them more often, along with the giraffes, elephants and tigers.

    Hope you enjoy the spectacular later. I sure am excited to see what they will do.

    Good lad.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    NapoleonD wrote:
    That was the most exciting sprint finish since the 2011 worlds IMO

    Seriously on Nos you'd have thought it was two guys talking about the weather....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    See? Greipel is not afraid of Cavendish. Just like it says in the cycling mag.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    And we have a new king on the throne.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Did Cav hit a pothole just before the finish? His bike did jump a bit on the slo-mo
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Glad Kittell won it.....good to have a change for once.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited July 2013
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again


    Cav has won with worse. Just not the fastests in the bunch here.
  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    doug5_10 wrote:
    OPQS fell apart on Place de la Concorde

    They went a little to early, burned up everyone before the home straight, Steegmans needed to be there still.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Glad Kittell won it.....good to have a change for once.

    AGREE!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Gutted. Absolutely gutted.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Will Cav have a big kick up at OPQS now? Especially if they sign GC guys? Argos performance was like HTC with Renshaw and Cav.


    Great sprint, Cav definitely lost wheel
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Kittel is just a monster.. Great win for him... 4 stage wins is massive!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Well done Froome.

    Well deserved.
  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    Lichtblick wrote:
    See? Greipel is not afraid of Cavendish. Just like it says in the cycling mag.

    Why would he be afraid of him?
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    German's strolled it up the champs elysees again,some things never change eh 8)
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Gutted. Absolutely gutted.

    You'll get over it, trust me.
  • jamie1012
    jamie1012 Posts: 171
    Congrats to Froome!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    When I organise the route we will be starting with a Friday night prologue on the Champs Elysees.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Big congrats to Froome.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • poppit
    poppit Posts: 926
    Needed a Wiggo to hold them all off coming up to the last couple of bends.
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  • Give me more
    Give me more Posts: 487
    Fantastic from ASM and Kittel. Great stage finish
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Not for the first time I have to say that IMHO it was a bad idea to have the last stage at night.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    edited July 2013
    Jo Burt ‏@VecchioJo
    DQ that pothole!!

    Michael Hutchinson ‏@Doctor_Hutch
    Omega Pharma Quickstep party tonight might not exactly fly.



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    That's enough arm chair cycling. Now go hit some miles.

    True dat!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Excellent race this year, big congrats to Froome and Sky!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Not for the first time I have to say that IMHO it was a bad idea to have the last stage at night.

    Why?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • kaacp
    kaacp Posts: 93
    Excellent finish and I was cheering for Kittel. Great performance.
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    ddraver wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Rubbish lead out from quickstep again

    I don't want to take anything from Kittel or ASM, but THAT!

    How can a classics team struggle so much to put a lead out together, when you compare that to what Sky "scraped together" out of a GC team last year you do have to wonder....

    Well.......yeah.......I have to agree........

    Cav? Will he have the grace of a good loser? Remember Kipling's words.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Not for the first time I have to say that IMHO it was a bad idea to have the last stage at night.

    Why?

    No lights? They don't usually race at this time of night? They've had all day presumably doing nothing much? A stunt to please the crowds which does not suit the actual riders?