Procycling Game of Thrones

rob churchill

I can't take credit for this, Richmond Racer started it on twitter - but I think it deserves an airing on the more flexible medium of BR (not to mention with the rather better informed cognoscenti round here).

Link names from the world of procycling with their counterparts in GoT - by physical similarity, personal qualities, lack of body parts, whatever works. Comme ça;

Surdave...


...and Varys



or in a less literal vein;

That scary one in red...



...and this bloke


(and Stanis Baratheon is every rider he ever worked with)

Lanterne_Rogue

I feel excluded from this because I don't really 'do' fantasy. I tried it once or twice, but just never got into The Hobbit.

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RichN95.

It was done in this thread (mostly referencing Sky politics):

viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12970454

Some of my best work in that. One quote from me

Wiggins is more Stanis really - Baratheon establishment but now pushed to the sidelines and the direct enemy of the Froome Lanisters. Baelish would be Geraint Thomas. He plays both sides while plotting to claim it all for himself.
Boasson Hagen is Sarah Lund from The Killing, but in Game of Thrones. All anyone could talk about a few years back but now looks like he has wandered on to the set of a completely different show.

yorkshireraw

Genius.

I had Valverde as Stanis - in thrall to the dark arts but can't help but admire his battle-smarts.

RichN95.

YorkshireRaw wrote:

I had Valverde as Stanis - in thrall to the dark arts but can't help but admire his battle-smarts.

The thread was almost all about Sky.

My other contributions

RichN95 wrote:

Contador is Daenerys Targayen. The last surviving member of the toppled House of Bruyneel now joining forces with powers from the east, still thought of by some loyalists as the 'True Monarch/Champion'.

Above The Cows: Who's Jon Snow?

RichN95: Jason Kenny. The Starks are the GB track team - once key to the Brailsford seat of power but now shorn of it's male and female figureheads and alienated with hopes of survival resting on a couple of young girls.

And of course, Joffrey:

ddraver

Thus far we had -

Chris Hoy = Khal Drogo

Pippo (or IMO Kittel) = Jamie Lanister

Nicole Cook = Cersei

Sagan = Theon Greyjoy (unless he finds some form)

Anna Mears/Kirsten Wild = Brienne

Laura Trott/PFP = Arya

Lizzie A = Denarys

Jaques Anquetil = Petyr Balish

and in my opinion...

Lance Armstrong = The Hound making Bruneyl Tywin Lanister and making Verbruggen Mad King Aerys

rob churchill

ddraver wrote:

Thus far we had -

Chris Hoy = Khal Drogo

Pippo (or IMO Kittel) = Jamie Lanister

Nicole Cook = Cersei

Sagan = Theon Greyjoy (unless he finds some form)

Anna Mears/Kirsten Wild = Brienne

Laura Trott/PFP = Arya

Lizzie A = Denarys

Jaques Anquetil = Petyr Balish

and in my opinion...

Lance Armstrong = The Hound making Bruneyl Tywin Lanister and making Verbruggen Mad King Aerys

I think Anna Meares was going to fight Kirsten Wild to see who gets to be Brienne, but yeah. I would add that Gregor 'the Mountain' Clegane,



could be played by;