Onderwerp: Tour de France 2015

again second for Sagan :( Hope Tinkoff will show something in mountains, otherwise whole team is there only on holiday, have not seen helping them Sagan, neither Contador except few moments.

He knew it by signing in Tinkoff .. he would have had to attack behind the winner instead of rolling each attack.
With a small group they would probably lose less time in the last climb and win the step.


G. Thomas descended in car where what ?? the guy finished 30 seconds after falling into a ravine .. not to mention its level in the mountains .. It's really strange.
Sky should engage Cancellara , he would do miracles in the mountains :D

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Apparently not a ravine ;)

And Barguil should be disqualified! In other sports this kind of ridicules behavior is completely unacceptable, others are in danger because of him. And it doesn't matter if he didn't do it on purpose, that would make it even worse.

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An interview with G. Thomas from a german TV:

Sie sind mit dem Kopf gegen den Pfahl geknallt. Wie geht es Ihnen?
You bounced with the head against a post. How are you?

Thomas: Ich fühle mich ganz gut im Moment. Ich nehme an, der Arzt wird mich gleich nach meinem Namen und mein Geburtsdatum fragen.
I'm feeling fine at the moment. Probably the doctor will come to ask me of my name and my birthday.

Und können Sie sich an ihren Namen erinnern?
And you remember your name?

Thomas: Chris Froome.

(Gelächter)
Laughing.

Source

Van Garderen out of GC today, will that be the only suprise?

Excellent ride of Geschke today. I really like him, even I'm a Lotto-Jumbo fan.

Was a good win!

I think Froome has somekinda super villain cable connected to Quintanas back wheel whenever he attacks. Never gets more than 3 meters away.

Until the last 2 days ... he was breaking but made it :)

It is a great tour this year, it could have been a bit more exciting if Froome wasn't so much stronger in the first part of the tour. But that's how it is, the best over 3 weeks wins and this year that is the case.

Only down side this year are those idiots spitting and throwing piss at Froome :S

Well thats what you get when you have the best team, best finances, best training and so on and also yourself being damn good. People want the outsiders to win, not the ones with best options in life.

Correct. I think it's a correct analysis.

Is this behaviour common in your countries too ? I thought it was only french behaviour to hate winners and be kind with loosers, but apparantly, no ?
That's interesting, strange and sad to like and support mediocrity instead of successes...

how to be supporter of alpha male ?you disqualify as a man..of course chris froome is not alpha male but is number one
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I think it's a universal thing and very human.... Everyone blames the French now for spitting and shouting against Froome, but it's no surprise. Together with some insinuations about doping (where do they come from by the way?) and a very biased media it's a dangerous cocktail. Great chance that Froome is the most clean grand tourwinner seen the many controls.
Human behaviour in this is very sad. On the bottom I think it's a kind of jealousy. Most of the people wouldn't be able to do what Froome does for a single week.

It's not only in sports, it's in professional life too or against people who have more money, etc...

One of the things I don't understand in the Tour is that French people or media (?) seem to be dwelling (?) with some really suspicious figures like Virenque and with some French riders like Bardet - Pinot, but in the same time Frrome is suspicious...