Tour de France Stage 9 Gerardmer - Mulhouse *Spoilers*

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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Woohoo!

    http://www.omegapharma-quickstep.com/en ... duct/id/81

    There are 4 of them. I think Mr Chasey might be interested in the 4th one
  • andi1363
    andi1363 Posts: 350
    Martin looks like he's not trying. The chase group going through and off with pain faces not catching him. Not going to bother watching anymore :(
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  • tommasi
    tommasi Posts: 40
    Miles better than a sprint stage.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Above The Cows wrote:
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    It's a bit much. Maybe they do not know what connotations 'flower power' has:

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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    andi1363 wrote:
    Martin looks like he's not trying. The chase group going through and off with pain faces not catching him. Not going to bother watching anymore :(
    He IS the world time trial champion, one would assume he would do alright in a solo breakaway?
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  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It's a bit much. Maybe they do not know what connotations 'flower power' has:

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    It's his nickname according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%8 ... cyclist%29
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Ha well, flowerman or little flower are the ones to go with as they come directly from the Polish. Have not heard flower power as a nickname and doesnt sound like one. Should not be either!
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cannot post a photo of Tony as he has kineo tape, black sunglasses, black socks and a skinsuit on.

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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    edited July 2014
    He's been copying Sagan's ropey shirts he came out with recently

    Edit: Not Ted, Kwiatkowski
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Ha well, flowerman or little flower are the ones to go with as they come directly from the Polish. Have not heard flower power as a nickname and doesnt sound like one. Should not be either!

    Why should it not be? Don't be soft.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Paul 8v wrote:
    He's been copying Sagan's ropey shirts he came out with recently

    Edit: Not Ted, Kwiatkowski

    I quite like it, show's he's got a sense of humour.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
    I think he may have thinking of flower power also having associations with drugs
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Tony Martin showing Wiggo the way. Once again Germans school the English at sport: Mind and Matter.

    Cheng has the Dao, Martin rides on Jung & Freud.
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  • menchovʹsstabilisers
    menchovʹsstabilisers Posts: 122
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx

    The SS were always keen to attack whereas hippies are too passive and spend too much time staring at the Sky.
  • rob churchill
    rob churchill Posts: 272
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
    I think he may have thinking of flower power also having associations with drugs

    But not exactly performance enhancing drugs.


    Unless there's a protour for competitive giggling, talking sh1te, and eating mars bars.
    I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    rob churchill wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
    I think he may have thinking of flower power also having associations with drugs

    But not exactly performance enhancing drugs.


    Unless there's a protour for competitive giggling, talking sh1te, and eating mars bars.

    They're three separate events.
    1) The Spoiler threads
    2) British commentary
    3) Peloton chocolate consumption
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It's a bit much. Maybe they do not know what connotations 'flower power' has:

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    Maybe he has plans to be a Mayor of San Francisco and live in the Haight Ashbury/Castro part of the City. ??
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  • rob churchill
    rob churchill Posts: 272
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    rob churchill wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
    I think he may have thinking of flower power also having associations with drugs

    But not exactly performance enhancing drugs.


    Unless there's a protour for competitive giggling, talking sh1te, and eating mars bars.

    They're three separate events.
    1) The Spoiler threads
    2) British commentary
    3) Peloton chocolate consumption

    :lol:
    I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Hmm,
    Flower Power: connotations of peace and love and hippies. NOT ACCEPTABLE
    Panzerwagen: connotations of war, destruction, millions of lives lost to German aggression. ACCEPTABLE.

    Help me here, FF, I'm struggling with this...

    xx
    I think he may have thinking of flower power also having associations with drugs

    Whereas Manx Missile or Pistolero is fine :)
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Macaloon wrote:
    Tony Martin showing Wiggo the way. Once again Germans school the English at sport: Mind and Matter.

    Cheng has the Dao, Martin rides on Jung & Freud.

    I suspect Martin is more strongly influenced by Nietzsche's Übermensch. His TTing also draws heavily on Heidegger's Sein und Zeit.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Ummm wasn't Jung Swiss and Freud Austrian?

    Sorry.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Just saw the result.

    :|

    Not so good for JdvB.

    Weren't Europcar able to use their superior numbers to chase the farmer?

    Good tour for Germany. And then the World Cup.
    _
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Good news for Team NetApp - Endura with Tiago Machado in 3rd overall.
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    That's the kind of thing I'd like to see Wiggo trying for OGE - ITTs, TTs and epic breakaways.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Interesting. Looking at riders' strava, today's so-called mountain stage had less climbing than the York-Sheffield stage
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    There were so many uncategorised climbs in that stage though, I rode out to Blubberhouses from Harrogate and I don't think there was one flat bit of road at any point!
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    andi1363 wrote:
    Martin looks like he's not trying. The chase group going through and off with pain faces not catching him. Not going to bother watching anymore :(

    Ah and so it starts :roll:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,098
    Chapeau Tony Martin. That took guts. I think one of his legs is twice as good as both of mine.
    2 very good stages in a row. Looks like this thing is hotting up nicely. Wonder how Nibali will react tomorrow...
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    andi1363 wrote:
    Martin looks like he's not trying. The chase group going through and off with pain faces not catching him. Not going to bother watching anymore :(
    I know, right? Who is this "Tony Martin" person? Why have we never heard of him until now? It's not like he's ever done anything like this before, is it? Came right out of nowhere! Who does he think he is, some sort of world champion time-triallist or something? Totally ridiculous!

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