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Post by tedchippington on Jul 8, 2012 21:16:14 GMT 1
Not rhoys.. But Bradley
Maillot Jaune in best sporting event on earth ( after league one play offs)
When was the last time an Englishman was yellow jersey and odds on to keep it in the tour de France ? Unreal times for cycling
Off topic I know but I can't help myself
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Post by Offtopic on Jul 8, 2012 21:17:38 GMT 1
Cycling? Seriously
Next you will be trying to tell me how great Curling is
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Post by johnny_b on Jul 8, 2012 21:19:03 GMT 1
It's shite and off topic, you were right. move it. bicycle riding round France? Surely it's just a holiday.
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Post by rothwellterrier on Jul 8, 2012 21:21:28 GMT 1
Cycling? Seriously Next you will be trying to tell me how great Curling is You are so not bothered by it to post. Well done :rofl3: Good luck to Wiggo. Have to say after watching the superstars of the euro championships roll around and dive, it nice to see some proper hard barstewards put themselves through hell. |
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Post by buckers on Jul 8, 2012 21:24:18 GMT 1
Some of the finest athletes on earth them cyclists. What they do is gruelling!
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Post by justanothertownfan on Jul 8, 2012 21:24:41 GMT 1
If our football team were as fit as cyclists, and followed team instructions like a cycling team. We'd be European champions by now.
Tour de France is the worlds best sporting event ever.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Jul 8, 2012 21:24:44 GMT 1
its like any sport, the more you understand what's going on the better & more exciting it is...I love it, C'mon Team Sky
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Post by Offtopic on Jul 8, 2012 21:26:15 GMT 1
its like any sport, the more you understand what's going on the better & more exciting it is...I love it, C'mon Team Sky 3 pipe problem doesn't have a clue about football but still seems to enjoy it Throws your theory out of the window |
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Post by terrier263 on Jul 8, 2012 22:00:40 GMT 1
fair point but he aint english, hes Belgian !!!
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Post by johnny_b on Jul 8, 2012 22:07:07 GMT 1
its like any sport, the more you understand what's going on the better & more exciting it is...I love it, C'mon Team Sky I understand Formula 1 and speedway but I'd be hard pushed to find any more boring sports than those, bar a bunch of bicyclists pedalling round France. |
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Post by farsley terrier on Jul 8, 2012 22:34:19 GMT 1
great watching cycling. 6 hours or so of seeing blokes sitting on bikes - with the odd spectacular crash along the way. Love the french countryside...only one problem with it....the french.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Jul 8, 2012 22:39:06 GMT 1
its like any sport, the more you understand what's going on the better & more exciting it is...I love it, C'mon Team Sky I understand Formula 1 and speedway but I'd be hard pushed to find any more boring sports than those, bar a bunch of bicyclists pedalling round France. there are races in races, everyone has a job to do (certainly not all the same), tactics....all sorts of stuff I felt the same as you til I knackered my knee ligaments one summer bout 15 years ago & a was off work with nowt to do. A mate got me into it, told me what exactly was going on & now I love it |
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Post by tonywal on Jul 8, 2012 22:46:26 GMT 1
It's been awesome so far the sporting directors are tactical masters.
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Post by bluebeard on Jul 8, 2012 23:35:31 GMT 1
I thought The Tour De France was boring!! that was until i saw it in the Pyreenees and its a fantastic event.
Seem it 3 times in total in the Pyreenees and it gets better evry year, pity i wont be there this year.
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Post by ozterrier on Jul 9, 2012 4:52:17 GMT 1
Shaping up to be a terrific contest. Looks like it'll be between the 2 favourites - Wiggins and Cadel Evans. Sky look to be the far superior team - so it'll take a mammoth effort for Evans (who is the better rider IMO) to ride into Paris wearing the yellow jersey.
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Post by Berty of Cleck. on Jul 9, 2012 8:45:08 GMT 1
Cycling? Seriously Next you will be trying to tell me how great Curling is Anyone who reaches the top of ANY sport, deserves recognition and congratulations. They put in hundreds of hours of dedication into their sport. I can't wait for the Olympics. |
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Post by 52bob on Jul 9, 2012 10:02:59 GMT 1
I like his response to the implication that he was taking drugs:
The three-time Olympic champion, his generation’s most outspoken proponent of clean riding, exploded at the implication. “I say they’re just f------ w------. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives.
“It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of s---, rather than get off their arses in their own lives and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something. And that’s ultimately it. C----."
Michael Owen he is not.
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Post by TerrierArmy on Jul 9, 2012 12:41:14 GMT 1
Finish line today is in Besancon, our French twinned town!
Oh well done Wiggo on that speech..
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Post by Berty of Cleck. on Jul 9, 2012 16:55:15 GMT 1
Great performance by two Britts today.
1st and 2nd.
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Post by tonywal on Jul 9, 2012 17:13:49 GMT 1
Wiggins at his best today but I feel it's a bit of dilemma for Team Sky with Froome being so strong.
Interesting week in the mountains coming up.
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Post by unclegrumpy on Jul 9, 2012 17:21:05 GMT 1
The Tour, undoubtably the sporting spectacle of the year. What strikes me is how gloriously smooth the French roads are, which put our rutted cart tracks to shame. By the way Besancon is twinned with Kirklees, wherever that is  |
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Post by fredcarno on Jul 9, 2012 18:42:15 GMT 1
As much as I like the Tour De France, I am far more excited about Otiums account of doing the course in record time backwards on a unicycle.
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Post by foxtrot555 on Jul 9, 2012 18:51:57 GMT 1
Maybe they should be collecting for the French air ambulance on the way round.
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Post by rothwellterrier on Jul 9, 2012 20:17:48 GMT 1
Wiggins at his best today but I feel it's a bit of dilemma for Team Sky with Froome being so strong. Interesting week in the mountains coming up. I'm not sure its much of a dilemma for them Tony. Wiggins was always the leader and for him to win was always the stated aim. It just so happens in froome they have a guy that looks as though he could well end up on the next step down in the podium in Paris. He is the back-up plan should anything happen to Wiggins. After this showing froome will probably get a leader role for sky in one of the other grand tours. It was in last year's vuelta that he began to show what he is capable of. |
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Post by Shaggy on Jul 9, 2012 20:40:02 GMT 1
As much as I like the Tour De France, I am far more excited about Otiums account of doing the course in record time backwards on a unicycle. I must say it's been very silent from DATM's own Walter Mitty lately. |
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Post by farsley terrier on Jul 9, 2012 20:43:12 GMT 1
interesting how clean france is compared to our shithole, despite them paying less tax than us and being on strike 51 weeks a year.
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Post by Shaggy on Jul 9, 2012 20:48:04 GMT 1
Do the cycling fans on here think Brad can hold onto yellow into Paris? Be a bloody big ask.
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Post by PaulDaltonFanClub on Jul 9, 2012 20:50:16 GMT 1
As much as I like the Tour De France, I am far more excited about Otiums account of doing the course in record time backwards on a unicycle. I must say it's been very silent from DATM's own Walter Mitty lately. Is there something we have to do to call him, like Batman? A massive light in the sky with an outline of a penis or something? :thumbup: |
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Post by DutchTownFan on Jul 9, 2012 20:55:01 GMT 1
Do the cycling fans on here think Brad can hold onto yellow into Paris? Be a bloody big ask. Doubt anyone can challenge him. Nibali & Evans main rivals, but can't see them beating him by enough up the big climbs. Still another time trial to come as well. Froome won't challenge as he is a team mate, his main helper even. Menchov & vdBroek will try in the mountains, but won't be allowed to get away. |
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Post by liversedgeterrier on Jul 9, 2012 20:56:46 GMT 1
Great event - is it not the single biggest watched sporting event in the world??
Superhuman these guys.
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