The Official 99th Tour de France thread, 2012.

[Stat Brother]

Brett Lancaster just abandoned

How many riders left - have not been able to find the list in the daily L'Equipe that shows all the riders and strikes out and adds a reason for abandons.

My freakin useless doms, wouldn't even be able to unwrap a breakaway, and they don't even have the decency to abandon.

 

[Pantani]

How is that a Cat 3? Is that as difficult as the one two days ago? I think not.

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

My missus laughed at me when I suggested I might put Dumoulin as a left field risky pick for today. I put bloody Hinault in instead - that's the last time I let her mockery affect my choices!!!

 

[teaboy]

That wasn't even a hill! I'm about to stand up, and expect at least 3 KOM points for that elevation based on that...

 

[Stat Brother]

At least the highlights (if there are any) has an interview with Big Jens.

 

[teaboy]

Getting interesting on the front now!

 

[Stat Brother]

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1,103,000 audience peak last night for the highlights.

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...and an average 662,000 had already watched the stage live.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

The French draw equal with the Brits stage wins in the 2012 TDF

 

[teaboy]

Well, that was exciting.

 

[Stat Brother]

I comes to something when we were about 1000 more animated for the ITT.

On well, at least we know Wed and Thurs won't be so pedestrian.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I comes to something when we were about 1000 more animated for the ITT.

On well, at least we know Wed and Thurs won't be so pedestrian.

They need a rest, bless em, cycled round a lot of France you know...

 

[teaboy]

TTs are AWESOME!! I'd love to see a Prologue, a long (50+km) ITT and 2 20km TTTs (1st one in the Alps, 2nd one 3rd week) That'd mix things up a bit!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

good to see the riders up close today,really brings it home to you what these guys do,day in,day out

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[Horton's halftime iceberg]

good to see the riders up close today,really brings it home to you what these guys do,day in,day out

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Great pictures, are you heading up into the high mountains Wednesday-Thursday, if so you lucky beggar our favourite place to watch it down there...

 

[1066familyman]

Big withdrawal list today, including Chavanel, Hutarovich, Lancaster and everyone's favourite cheapest dom - Bernadeau. And those are just the one's I know about.

So boring today I think I skipped through the whole live programme in under an hour.

Our fantasy league is getting really exciting though with only just over 30 pts separating the top 4.

I'll enjoy the rest day tomorrow and then really looking forward to Wednesday and Thursday's stages.

 

[Stat Brother]

'every cell in my body was in pain'

 

[Stat Brother]

good to see the riders up close today,really brings it home to you what these guys do,day in,day out

Great shots, although I fear there is something wrong with your camera.



Above the tree line?




It's all blue.





Is that a special filter or is your camera busted.

 

[Stat Brother]

Stage 15:-

1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 3:40:15
2 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Sharp
3 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 0:00:12
4 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank
5 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quickstep 0:00:21
6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:01:08
7 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol Team 0:11:50
8 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Sharp
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale
10 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

Our fantasy league is getting really exciting though with only just over 30 pts separating the top 4.

Got to do some serious thinking about the last few stages. It's difficult to pick.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Great shots, although I fear there is something wrong with your camera.



Above the tree line?




It's all blue.





Is that a special filter or is your camera busted.

LOL

hot day forecast for wednesday,cooler thursday

but as you know,the mountains have a climate all of there own