Criterium du Dauphine 2018 Spoiler nee chat

RichN95.

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above_the_cows

Ha it's a good job Bahrain is filthy-rich, that €300 won't even by them a new pair of electrodes.

Vino'sGhost

RichN95 wrote:

TwoToeBenny wrote:

A weeks wages to some primadonna footballer!

It's less than Geraint Thomas's weekly wage too.

Thomas is paid more than 6.5Million euros a year????? With the rest of the teams wages team sky would need a bigger budget than formula 1. I'm not sure that could be right.

RichN95.

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

TwoToeBenny wrote:

A weeks wages to some primadonna footballer!

It's less than Geraint Thomas's weekly wage too.

Thomas is paid more than 6.5Million euros a year????? With the rest of the teams wages team sky would need a bigger budget than formula 1. I'm not sure that could be right.

I was referring to what Sky won, not all the teams.

larkim

RichN95 wrote:

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

TwoToeBenny wrote:

A weeks wages to some primadonna footballer!

It's less than Geraint Thomas's weekly wage too.

Thomas is paid more than 6.5Million euros a year????? With the rest of the teams wages team sky would need a bigger budget than formula 1. I'm not sure that could be right.

I was referring to what Sky won, not all the teams.

Thomas is on 1.675m Euros????

RichN95.

larkim wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Vino'sGhost wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

TwoToeBenny wrote:

A weeks wages to some primadonna footballer!

It's less than Geraint Thomas's weekly wage too.

Thomas is paid more than 6.5Million euros a year????? With the rest of the teams wages team sky would need a bigger budget than formula 1. I'm not sure that could be right.

I was referring to what Sky won, not all the teams.

Thomas is on 1.675m Euros????

At least. £2.5m is what I heard (surprised me too)

larkim

Wow! OK, really didn't expect that to be in 7 figures. Maybe I should pay more attention...

ShutupJens

larkim wrote:

Wow! OK, really didn't expect that to be in 7 figures. Maybe I should pay more attention...

Not that surprised by it actually. He is a super domestique that leads the team in spring and races like this, gets some good results in the classics and seems to be universally well liked

rick_chasey

Maybe I’m just desperate to relive the late ‘00s, but I’d love it if michelton Scott put the Yates bros together in a Schleck - Schleck double combo minus the turning around and waiting for the other.

Like going into a hold ‘em round with a pair of kings.

Dorset_Boy

Rick Chasey wrote:

Maybe I’m just desperate to relive the late ‘00s, but I’d love it if michelton Scott put the Yates bros together in a Schleck - Schleck double combo minus the turning around and waiting for the other.

Like going into a hold ‘em round with a pair of kings.

Yeah, but they couldn't sub one in for the other part way through a race then!

larkim

ShutupJens wrote:

larkim wrote:

Wow! OK, really didn't expect that to be in 7 figures. Maybe I should pay more attention...

Not that surprised by it actually. He is a super domestique that leads the team in spring and races like this, gets some good results in the classics and seems to be universally well liked

My expectation was that Froome was on little more than £500k, hence my surprise at Thomas. So my expectations were wrong in the first place, as clearly Froome is on at least £3m from what I've read.

I just didn't expect it to be that lucrative a sport for some reason!

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

Maybe I’m just desperate to relive the late ‘00s, but I’d love it if michelton Scott put the Yates bros together in a Schleck - Schleck double combo minus the turning around and waiting for the other.

Like going into a hold ‘em round with a pair of kings.

I'm the opposite. I want to see them go against each other, and doing it properly, not like the Williams sisters seemingly taking turns to win.

DeVlaeminck

larkim wrote:

Wow! OK, really didn't expect that to be in 7 figures. Maybe I should pay more attention...

Like you I do find that surprising. Someone told me James Shaw had just got a contract for something like 150 or 200k euros from Lotto Soudal up from 60k he was on before and didn't it mention on Eurosprt Simon Yates was on 1.5m euros so there is decent money to be made it seems. I said to my son he's 10 stone and got good natural endurance he should give it a go !

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Maybe I’m just desperate to relive the late ‘00s, but I’d love it if michelton Scott put the Yates bros together in a Schleck - Schleck double combo minus the turning around and waiting for the other.

Like going into a hold ‘em round with a pair of kings.

I'm the opposite. I want to see them go against each other, and doing it properly, not like the Williams sisters seemingly taking turns to win.

Yeah but you don’t have a chip on your shoulder about how having a double GC threat being a tactical power play when done properly and are desperate to have it proven on the road in a big race.

DeVlaeminck

On a wet day if their numbers were covered it could cause some confusion which one was attacking.

larkim

All it might take would be someone from MTS to shout "Go for it Adam" as Simon launches off the front to generate a little confusion. And for them to swap names when chatting in the peloton. Probably insufficient, tbh, but you never know.

timothyw

larkim wrote:

ShutupJens wrote:

larkim wrote:

Wow! OK, really didn't expect that to be in 7 figures. Maybe I should pay more attention...

Not that surprised by it actually. He is a super domestique that leads the team in spring and races like this, gets some good results in the classics and seems to be universally well liked

My expectation was that Froome was on little more than £500k, hence my surprise at Thomas. So my expectations were wrong in the first place, as clearly Froome is on at least £3m from what I've read.

I just didn't expect it to be that lucrative a sport for some reason!

You do know that Greg LeMond had the first million dollar contract and that was over thirty years ago right?

Admittedly it was spread over three years, but still....

RichN95.

Wout van Aert earns a million a year from cyclocross

larkim

TimothyW wrote:

You do know that Greg LeMond had the first million dollar contract and that was over thirty years ago right?

Admittedly it was spread over three years, but still....

So $333,333 per year, worth then about £196,000, say £200,000. Gross up for UK inflation at 2.68 since 1988 and you're at £536k in todays money. Quite some way from Lemond to Thomas, £536k vs £2.5m!

(I know, too simplistic, different eras etc etc - but interesting nonetheless!)

No_Ta_Doctor

I still can't believe Sky didn't go for both Yates bros. Think of the data from identical twins, testing training variations on them with a control!

above_the_cows

I thought they weren't identical.

kingstongraham

No tA Doctor wrote:

I still can't believe Sky didn't go for both Yates bros. Think of the data from identical twins, testing training variations on them with a control!

They aren't identical twins.

above_the_cows

Above The Cows wrote:

I thought they weren't identical.

I have no idea why I wrote that in the past tense unless my spidey sense is trying to tell me one or both of them has died.

kingstongraham

Above The Cows wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

I thought they weren't identical.

I have no idea why I wrote that in the past tense unless my spidey sense is trying to tell me one or both of them has died.

Or they maybe have become identical.

above_the_cows

KingstonGraham wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

I thought they weren't identical.

I have no idea why I wrote that in the past tense unless my spidey sense is trying to tell me one or both of them has died.

Or they maybe have become identical.

Or maybe they also have identical twins that died and are still a little zygote somewhere in their bodies?

No that would be ridiculous, you would never hear of such a thing in cycling.

No_Ta_Doctor

They're bloody identical to me. At least I understand why Brailsford didn't choose them for his sinister cycling eugenics research then

tailwindhome

No tA Doctor wrote:

I still can't believe Sky didn't go for both Yates bros. Think of the data from identical twins, testing training variations on them with a control!

It did occur to me on listening to the 'Brailsford takes all the credit' podcast- maybe they have extensive data on Simon Yates (and Adam) already via British Cycling.

tim000

maybe there are 4 of them . 2 sets of identical twins .

No_Ta_Doctor

tim000 wrote:

maybe there are 4 of them . 2 sets of identical twins .

Devious bastards. "Of course we're not substituting for each other, you can tell us apart"....Adam swaps with Adam Mk2 and Simon swaps with Simon Mk2....

davidof

bobmcstuff wrote:

Ridgerider wrote:

reborn2 wrote:

G had a little word in the shell like of an AG2R rider about drilling it when he had a puncture it looked like...

First puncture...maybe.

Second puncture...naa, buy better tyres

They were already going when the puncture happened, race was on.

They've been talking about this a lot in the French press. Apparently Geraint had a dingdong with Bardet at the end of the race but Bardet and the AG2R management said they neither accelerated nor slowed and they are not going to stop for every puncture like a Sunday club run (funny we never stopped for punctures on our club runs, that was normally the signal to attack :-) )