Le Tour 2015

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1:05 the gap

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Can’t do it. Should have gone sooner.

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1:15 the gap now. 10 second win bonus so Quintana needs another 1 minute and 14 seconds. Inside 2km though. Not going to happen.

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Another horrible Brit cunt wins the Tour.
Balls of a sport.

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110km was too short for that stage. Needed another big climb to really have a realistic chance that Froome could be caught.

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Pinot went out to 5/1 to win that stage halfway up Alpe d’Huez.

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Quintana ascended Alpe d’Huez in 39:22, the 23rd fastest ever, behind the following.

  1. 1995: 36:40 Marco Pantani 22.58 km/h
  2. 1997: 36:53 Marco Pantani 22.45 km/h
  3. 1994: 37:15 Marco Pantani 22.23 km/h
  4. 2004: 37:36 Lance Armstrong 22.02 km/h
  5. 1997: 37:40 Jan Ullrich 21.98 km/h
  6. 2001: 38:03 Lance Armstrong 21.76 km/h
  7. 1995: 38:04 Miguel Indurain 21.75 km/h
  8. 1995: 38:04 Alex Zulle 21.75 km/h
  9. 1995: 38:06 Bjarne Riis 21.73 km/h
  10. 1997: 38:20 Richard Virenque 21.60 km/h
  11. 1995: 38:34 Laurent Madouas 21.47 km/h
  12. 2006: 38:35 Floyd Landis 21.46 km/h
  13. 2006: 38:35 Andreas KlĂśden 21.46 km/h
  14. 2004: 38:40 Jan Ullrich 21.41 km/h
  15. 1994: 38:55 Richard Virenque 21.28 km/h
  16. 2006: 39:00 Carlos Sastre 21.23 km/h
  17. 2003: 39:08 Iban Mayo 21.16 km/h
  18. 2004: 39:12 Andreas Kloden 21.12 km/h
  19. 2004: 39:14 Jose Azevedo 21.10 km/h
  20. 2006: 39:14 Levi Leipheimer 21.10 km/h
  21. 1997: 39:20 Francesco Casagrande 21.05 km/h
  22. 1997: 39:21 Bjarne Riis 21.04 km/h
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Froomey is such a nice, mannerly chap. I’d say his mother in law was delighted when her daughter brought him home.

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Greg Lemond talking bullshit.

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The race was won in the first few days. Sky weren’t that strong, the latinos should have attacked Froome a lot more.

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What did my all-time favourite cyclist say to annoy you?

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I haven’t followed it that closely but am I correct in saying Quintana has been quickest around France? Froome essentially won the race in the wind and rain on the North Sea in Zeeland over in the Netherlands.

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More or less. Froome gained time in the team TT as well.

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Was just looking there. Froome was 11 seconds better than Quintana in the prologue, 4 seconds better in the team TT but 1:28 better on the first road stage in Holland the day the peloton broke up. Interestingly Froome only took a minute off him the first day in the Pyrenees the day he “obliterated” the field.

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He is actually a very nice man. I’m delighted.

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You can wear your Sky jersey with pride today, Flatly. Believe in better.

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