Le Tour - Team Line Ups

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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,598
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it....

    Thomas is on the start list for the national tt tomorrow.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,598
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it....

    Thomas is on the start list for the national tt tomorrow.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    gsk82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it....

    Thomas is on the start list for the national tt tomorrow.
    He'll have to get on a plane then.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it...
    You might be right, but I still think it's Castroviejo.

    It is.

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    This year's pre-Tour doping story has been announced.

    Jamie Rosen of Movistar is provisionally suspended for bio passport issues (from his time at Caja Rural). While he wasn't in Movistar's Tour team this raises more difficult questions for Sky to answer. :wink:
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Blazing Saddles wrote:

    Ag2r:

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    Ay jay deux arrrgh
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Are AG2R all exactly the same height?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Timoid. wrote:
    Are AG2R all exactly the same height?
    Yeah, it works a treat with the spare bikes :-D
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  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it...
    You might be right, but I still think it's Castroviejo.
    its Froome, they were all posting stories on their Instagram accounts, they were testing the suspension bikes
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    edited June 2018
    Démare Sprint/points

    Gaudu Grimp
    Guarnieri Power
    Le Gac sprint/lead out
    Ludvigsson tt/roule
    Molard Grimp
    Sinkeldam tough guy
    Vichot What was that ? Over there....there...
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    WANTY

    MARTIN Guillaume

    DEGAND Thomas
    DUPONT Timothy
    MINNAARD Marco
    OFFREDO Yoann
    PASQUALON Andrea
    SMITH Dion
    VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    RichN95 wrote:
    gsk82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it....

    Thomas is on the start list for the national tt tomorrow.
    He'll have to get on a plane then.
    He has done, he's riding right now and is fastest through the first split
  • me-109
    me-109 Posts: 1,915
    Topper harley wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it...
    You might be right, but I still think it's Castroviejo.
    its Froome, they were all posting stories on their Instagram accounts, they were testing the suspension bikes
    Is that a packet of 20 Benson & Hedges in his hand or a high-volume nebulizer? (Someone had to say it)
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Me-109 wrote:
    Topper harley wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Isn't that Froome on the right?
    I couldn't really make his face out. But now you mention it...
    You might be right, but I still think it's Castroviejo.
    its Froome, they were all posting stories on their Instagram accounts, they were testing the suspension bikes
    Is that a packet of 20 Benson & Hedges in his hand or a high-volume nebulizer? (Someone had to say it)
    yes, its Benson& Hedges...after everything he went through with his mum that's what he's do :shock:
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,115
    davidof wrote:
    meursault wrote:
    Movistar line-up for the 2018 Tour de France

    Nairo Quintana (Col)
    Mikel Landa (Esp)
    Alejandro Valverde (Esp)
    Andrey Amador (CRC)
    Marc Soler (Esp)
    José Joaquin Rojas (Esp)
    Imanol Erviti (Esp)
    Daniele Bennati (Ita)

    so that's 2 teams of 4 riders then?

    Now I read Landa as saying the team leaders are: Quintana, Soler and Valverde. Pity they have 8 rider teams this year, that leaves one of Movistar's sub-teams a rider short.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    According to Gazzetta... Sky = Froome, Poels, Thomas, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Rowe, Castroviejo & Bernal with Puccio on standby as a sub
  • narbs
    narbs Posts: 593
    r0bh wrote:
    According to Gazzetta... Sky = Froome, Poels, Thomas, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Rowe, Castroviejo & Bernal with Puccio on standby as a sub

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    A shock inclusion in the Eurosport line-up as they announce Bradley Wiggins will be doing a weekly podcast for them. (Alongside Molly Weaver and Adam Green, whoever he is)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    No Cummings for Dimension Data.

    Presumably lurking around the back of the peloton for 90% of the race doesn’t add enough value to 8 man teams / bad year of form with health problems doesn’t help.

    (Says the Internet forum person).
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Dimension Data's team: Mark Cavendish, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Mark Renshaw, Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, Serge Pauwels, Julien Vermote, Tom-Jelte Slagter

    They made a nice video to announce it (borrowing the England football team's idea): https://twitter.com/TeamDiData/status/1 ... 9175908352
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    That's a good video that.

    A couple more stages for Cav, maybe?
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,554
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    That's a good video that.

    A couple more stages for Cav, maybe?

    Nah, we all know Cav's finished. :shock:
  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    Renshaw and dish back together, get in there!
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Doug Ryder: "we're a sprint team today and we're going to focus on the one days and the stages in the Tour and going forward we're going to change our focus to a GC team to try and win and podium with an African rider"

    Who would that be then?
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    kleinstroker wrote:
    Doug Ryder: "we're a sprint team today and we're going to focus on the one days and the stages in the Tour and going forward we're going to change our focus to a GC team to try and win and podium with an African rider"

    Who would that be then?

    Froome :wink:
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Above The Cows wrote:
    kleinstroker wrote:
    Doug Ryder: "we're a sprint team today and we're going to focus on the one days and the stages in the Tour and going forward we're going to change our focus to a GC team to try and win and podium with an African rider"

    Who would that be then?

    Froome :wink:

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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    Merhawi Kudus for GC or Teklehaimanot?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    M.R.M. wrote:
    Merhawi Kudus for GC or Teklehaimanot?
    Teklehaimanot is 29. A bit late for him I'd say.
    Kudus can yet break through, but DD haven't picked him for either GT so far this season.
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    M.R.M. wrote:
    Merhawi Kudus for GC or Teklehaimanot?

    Can Teklehaimanot TT?
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    Doubtful. Probably will have to be a new signing no one knows yet.
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