Tour de France stage 2 York-Sheffield *Spoiler*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Would be great if Yates won this but I suspect it may be a Cancellara v Sagan v Valverde battle.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    I wouldn't be against Fabian or Sagan taking the stage today. Or even young Yates.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,585
    If the Tour makers volunteered hoping to get a load of nice Adidas kit like the Games makers did they will be sorely disappointed! Crowds building now, closed roads have more traffic than they would on a normal Sunday!!
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    oooooh cheeky thumbs up from Bertie.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    TMR wrote:
    I wouldn't be against Fabian or Sagan taking the stage today. Or even young Yates.

    That would be brilliant or maybe allowed a break to mop up the KOM jersey
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    BSE WATCH! FONSECA IN THE BREAK!
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Was that an impostor at the back of the peloton? There are a few rain jackets but he had plain red shorts and I couldn't see a number on his frame.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pretty uninspiring six out front...was hoping they would be caught but looks like the peloton are taking a nature break.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Peleton having a natural break so looks like the breakaway might stick for a while
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Pretty uninspiring six out front...was hoping they would be caught but looks like the peloton are taking a nature break.

    Why would they be caught? They've got all the usual suspects in the break, who would bother chasing?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    How comes you all have images?

    I've got bl00dy Greg Lemond wittering on.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Above The Cows wrote:
    How comes you all have images?

    I've got bl00dy Greg Lemond wittering on.

    Itv4.
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Above The Cows wrote:
    How comes you all have images?

    I've got bl00dy Greg Lemond wittering on.

    ITV.

    Le Monde on tour is possibly the worst thing ever?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    It would be nice if the stages they showed in their entirety actually had some proper racing at the start. These two days have been a wash.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It would be nice if the stages they showed in their entirety actually had some proper racing at the start. These two days have been a wash.

    You're only going to see that in mountain stages.

    I don't even bother turning the telly on til about 14:30 or so.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    So here's a Pit Pony...

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    That looks a little bit like Simon Gerrans.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    I'd love to see TV Tommy have a crack today as well.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    iainf72 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It would be nice if the stages they showed in their entirety actually had some proper racing at the start. These two days have been a wash.

    You're only going to see that in mountain stages.

    I don't even bother turning the telly on til about 14:30 or so.

    Yeah I suppose. I have stopped watching it and will flick it back on now and again to catch some of these fabled ridiculously steep climbs.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    iainf72 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It would be nice if the stages they showed in their entirety actually had some proper racing at the start. These two days have been a wash.

    You're only going to see that in mountain stages.

    I don't even bother turning the telly on til about 14:30 or so.

    The Tour is over too quickly. I want to absorb every second, every possible bit of information; it has to keep me going until next year! ;)
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    How comes you all have images?

    I've got bl00dy Greg Lemond wittering on.

    ITV.

    Le Monde on tour is possibly the worst thing ever?

    Cheers. There's no 'possibly' about Lemond on Tour being the worst thing. It is. He says he's going to go and ride the last 40k or so of the stage. Good luck Greg, 30% remember, hope you've got a granny gear. Then the other one (who's name I don't remember) said he'd make him some nice pasta to recover. Greg does not need anymore pasta.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Poor Eurosport though (think???) they had such a coup getting Lemond too. Maybe he'll grow into it.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Above The Cows wrote:
    So here's a Pit Pony...

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    That looks a little bit like Simon Gerrans.


    :lol::lol::lol::lol:
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  • jamie1012
    jamie1012 Posts: 171
    Why has Liggett decided that he knows Michael Rogers was innocent?
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    jamie1012 wrote:
    Why has Liggett decided that he knows Michael Rogers was innocent?
    Because he likes him I think
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    TMR wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It would be nice if the stages they showed in their entirety actually had some proper racing at the start. These two days have been a wash.

    You're only going to see that in mountain stages.

    I don't even bother turning the telly on til about 14:30 or so.

    The Tour is over too quickly. I want to absorb every second, every possible bit of information; it has to keep me going until next year! ;)

    Agreed. I'm like a dog watching a biscuit
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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    jamie1012 wrote:
    Why has Liggett decided that he knows Michael Rogers was innocent?

    Same way he knew USADA were bribing people to frame Armstrong. The voices.
  • jamie1012
    jamie1012 Posts: 171
    adr82 wrote:
    jamie1012 wrote:
    Why has Liggett decided that he knows Michael Rogers was innocent?
    Because he likes him I think
    You would think that he of all people would learn to just say "he's riding again and that's his right, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt" instead of using words like "vindicated".
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    No news from the roadside today - we caught the Tour within the neutralised section. 'Everyone looked happy' is about the sum of the information I can offer.
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  • jamie1012
    jamie1012 Posts: 171
    Cote de Blubberhouses is even more beautiful than Cote de Buttertubs. What a triumph of language this is turning out to be :lol:
  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    jamie1012 wrote:
    Cote de Blubberhouses is even more beautiful than Cote de Buttertubs. What a triumph of language this is turning out to be :lol:

    From Wikipedia:

    Several suggestions have been made for the origins of the name Blubberhouses:-

    -From the blueberry: Ely Hargrove's History of Knaresborough.
    -From the Blue Boar, a former inn.
    -Early spellings include "Bluburgh", "Bluborrow", "Bluburhouse", (1172) "Bluberhusum". These may come from:-
    Anglo-Saxon burh = "fort".[3]
    -From "Blueberg" = "blue mountain".[4]
    -Anglo-Saxon bluberhūs = "the house(s) which is/are at the bubbling stream",[5] with a later regularised plural; the -um form came from the Anglo-Saxon dative plural case æt bluberhūsum = "at the houses which ...".

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