TDF Stage 19: Maubourguet to Bergerac ***spoiler***

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Cheng was delayed today because after pulling the peloton, he accepted the challenge of pulling an elephant.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    What is the fascination with Cheng? I really don't get it, unless it's supporting the underdog?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    OPQS wrote:
    What is the fascination with Cheng? I really don't get it, unless it's supporting the underdog?
    It's not really that he is the underdog, but more that for the first week he seemed to be constantly on the front of the peloton, blowing himself out every day. And he's been struggling through in last place ever since.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    The unwelcoming welcome to the team, from Kittel and Degenkolb, lit the fuse.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    Nice video of OPQS descent of the Tourmalet.

    http://www.beflash.com/opqs/DescentTourmaletASO.mp4
  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    Macaloon wrote:
    The unwelcoming welcome to the team, from Kittel and Degenkolb, lit the fuse.

    Aah - cliquey. Fair enough.
  • cesco
    cesco Posts: 252
    I think Kenny van Hummel was my favourite Lantern Rouge bearer though. When was it, 2009ish?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,400
    Itv highlights particularly ridiculous. Boardman sitting on a sofa in a white coat holding a skull. WTF.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Itv highlights particularly ridiculous. Boardman sitting on a sofa in a white coat holding a skull. WTF.
    But it was a decent spot. Well put together. The Boardman/Boulting dynamic for these pieces has long been based on Dr. Honeydew/Beaker relationship from the Muppets.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,400
    Haha, definitely true. It was quite interesting. But a bit of a WTF moment when they first came on...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Heffalump picture.

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    It looks like that bear. Are sure that bear wasn't alive?
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  • montyburns56b
    montyburns56b Posts: 11
    RichN95 wrote:
    Heffalump picture.

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    Is that Marco Pantani's mother?
  • tailwindhome
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    PANIC OVER

    164. CHNJI Cheng 107 TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO 04h 56' 22'' + 12' 41''

    From Tour website. Better be correct!

    Praise be to the flying spaghetti monster!

    The ditch is set to become the new reservoir for Bergerac and the burgemeester of Bergerac thanks Cheng Ji for saving the city millions of Euros. In Cheng's honour they will erect a gold statue of one of his legs in the town square.


    Is there enough gold in the world for this?!
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    RichN95 wrote:
    Heffalump picture.

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    It looks like that bear. Are sure that bear wasn't alive?


    That elephant is eating a woman!! :shock:
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Milton50 wrote:
    The guy is a tactical genius. He obviously foresaw that there would be a crash in the final 3k so the only way he could lose time and secure the lantern rouge was to ditch it. Quite literally.

    What a pro.

    We all thought that but it turns out it was Roy Curvers. From the Giant-Shimano Twitter feed:

    "Roy Curvers ‏@RoyCurvers 9h
    From all the unlucky guys who crashed today i was the luckiest! Went like a grasshopper in the ditch! #rain #chaos #KeepChallenging #TDF2014"

    Seems like Cheng lost 5 minutes as he was off the back, not in a ditch.....


    GO CHENG!!!!
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Some crash footage from OGE bike cams (around 7 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... xrKg&t=420
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    adr82 wrote:
    Some crash footage from OGE bike cams (around 7 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... xrKg&t=420

    These video things should show more bus footage.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Respect to this guy:
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    Gianni Mura, a 68-year-old Italian journalist, poses with his typewriter after an interview with Reuters during the 124.5km seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycle race between Saint-Gaudens and Saint-Lary Pla d'Adet. Mura, who covered his first Tour de France in 1967 for La Gazzetta dello Sport, is the iconic figure in the race press room. The Italian, who now works for La Repubblicca, has seen Raymond Poulidor in his bath and drunk beers with Felice Gimondi. Almost 50 years after following his first Tour, Mura has not changed a bit. He still dictates his stories to the newspaper after having typed them, usually just outside the press room, fag hanging from his lower lip.

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    Just trying to copy Oleg:

    @Vaughters
    That's how we roll, beeee-atches.
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