La Course 2017: Stage 1 Briancon - Izoard ***Spoilers****

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well that was not my time when I road that route...
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  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    So that's what you get when there is zero public interest and the roadsides are essentially empty ... some of the dullest TV I've ever seen ...

    Not the fault of the riders but even they looked a bit non-plussed about it all ...

    The men's race later might even be less exciting, but it will seem more exciting with the crowds and hype ...
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,608
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Well that was not my time when I road that route...

    I think we can all relate to that feeling!

    There must be a special scale version of the Alps that get saved for the pros. I guess the miniature Glandon they used yesterday is accessed by turning right rather than left at the end of the lower barrage in Allenmont!
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Great post finish interviews - Annamiek viewing that as "an uphill finish"; one hell of an final kick! And Lizzie completely forgetting the format of the pursuit which follows "oh - that thing."
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!

    What did she say? We didn't get an interview with her on Eurosport NL.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Boels that one up Dolman.
    20kms on the front, nose in the wind for Lizzie, wet nursing Megan Guarnier.
    Not saying she would have won, but it could have been close.

    Unfortunately, ITV seemed to have found the female equivalent of Kirby.
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  • professeur
    professeur Posts: 232
    edited July 2017
    type:epyt wrote:
    So that's what you get when there is zero public interest and the roadsides are essentially empty ... some of the dullest TV I've ever seen ...

    Not the fault of the riders but even they looked a bit non-plussed about it all ...

    The men's race later might even be less exciting, but it will seem more exciting with the crowds and hype ...

    It'd be nice if they could squeeze the two races closer together, but I guess that may be logistically difficult.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Well ridden etc., but sad that what ended up as an uphill TT was how women's cycling was represented at this years tour. They'd do far better to pick a medium mountain stage (or several!) where we'd see the type of racing they can really do well.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!

    What did she say? We didn't get an interview with her on Eurosport NL.

    First, she should have had confidence in her own chances and wasted energy riding as a domestique as Gaunier put her hand up to lead and then that it was great to have a MTF but the organisation needs sorting out as it felt like an afterthought.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pross wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!

    What did she say? We didn't get an interview with her on Eurosport NL.

    First, she should have had confidence in her own chances and wasted energy riding as a domestique as Gaunier put her hand up to lead and then that it was great to have a MTF but the organisation needs sorting out as it felt like an afterthought.

    It did seem a bit rinky dink.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • wiggofan
    wiggofan Posts: 30
    edited July 2017
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!
    As usual blaming others when things don't go to plan. Hard for me to disagree with Jonathan Vaughters' assessment of her on Twitter during the missed tests saga last year:

    Jonathan Vaughters‏@Vaughters

    @timross21 "As a person, she's horrible. Not nice at all."
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Blazing Saddles wrote:

    Unfortunately, ITV seemed to have found the female equivalent of Kirby.

    Jo Rowsell? I thought she did OK for someone new to the role.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Plain stupid, like I said.
    MG dropped, comes back, they have a little chat and Lizzie goes back to work.
    Too many chiefs at Boels and today, the wrong one was calling the shots.
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!

    What did she say? We didn't get an interview with her on Eurosport NL.

    https://twitter.com/itvcycling/status/8 ... 3955025920
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Pross wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:

    Unfortunately, ITV seemed to have found the female equivalent of Kirby.

    Jo Rowsell? I thought she did OK for someone new to the role.

    Unless I'm going deaf, that wasn't Jo Rowsell.
    Wasn't she on Eurosport?
    If it was, she sounded totally different to normal. :?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    imatfaal wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Lizzie as blunt and to the point as ever!

    What did she say? We didn't get an interview with her on Eurosport NL.

    https://twitter.com/itvcycling/status/8 ... 3955025920

    Blocked outside UK, unfortunately.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Hmm, I'd seen her name mentioned so assumed it was her. If it wasn't I don't know who it was but they seemed OK and knew their riders so definitely not Kirby level!
  • poppit
    poppit Posts: 926
    Pross wrote:
    Hmm, I'd seen her name mentioned so assumed it was her. If it wasn't I don't know who it was but they seemed OK and knew their riders so definitely not Kirby level!
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    Si Clarke is in the break. Who'd bet against him taking back the 2hr 36 he's let Froome get on him? I certainly wouldn't!
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    gsk82 wrote:
    Si Clarke is in the break. Who'd bet against him taking back the 2hr 36 he's let Froome get on him? I certainly wouldn't!

    Why is he in the women's race?
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Pross wrote:
    Why is he in the women's race?


    Gender doping ?
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Surely Cannondale are trying "something" by getting numbers up the road?
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    larkim wrote:
    Surely Cannondale are trying "something" by getting numbers up the road?

    I suspect it's more that they're trying to make it look like they're doing something.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    poppit wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Hmm, I'd seen her name mentioned so assumed it was her. If it wasn't I don't know who it was but they seemed OK and knew their riders so definitely not Kirby level!
    Sarah Connolly and Rochelle Gilmore on ITV4


    Ah. Connolly. A mouth and ego the size of the Grand Canyon, that one
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    poppit wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Hmm, I'd seen her name mentioned so assumed it was her. If it wasn't I don't know who it was but they seemed OK and knew their riders so definitely not Kirby level!
    Sarah Connolly and Rochelle Gilmore on ITV4


    Ah. Connolly. A mouth and ego the size of the Grand Canyon, that one


    Nice to know it wasn't just me.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    gsk82 wrote:
    larkim wrote:
    Surely Cannondale are trying "something" by getting numbers up the road?

    I suspect it's more that they're trying to make it look like they're doing something.

    You do both realise you're in the wrong thread don't you?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Above The Cows wrote:
    The Canyon Sram kits this year are a bit rubbish compared to last year.

    They re new just for this race

    (Do you not follow Tiffany Cromwell or PFP on Instagram? ;) )
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    The Canyon Sram kits this year are a bit rubbish compared to last year.

    They re new just for this race

    (Do you not follow Tiffany Cromwell or PFP on Instagram? ;) )

    No I leave that to you :wink:
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    It's basically been just that for three weeks or so (interspersed with wistful Bubba van Neuwkerke pics)
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