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Offline tenacious1

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« on: June 30, 2015, 10:49:58 AM »
To honor us 'Mericans the French have decided to start the race on July 4.

I haven't been following the lead up closely but had a conversation with a friend Sunday. His take is that it will be a battle between Contador and Nabali. Even though Contador won the Giro he appears to be in great form as does Nibali. I'm guessing Froome rather than Nibali will be Contador's big challenger.

There are only two TTs and one is a TTT. The other is Stage 1 and is less than 20km. This just might help Quintana.

TJ -- is in good form but doesn't appear to have any teammate to help him in the mountains. Froome dropped easily and often in the Dauphine. Talansky finished 4 minutes behind TJ at the Dauphine.

I miss Phinney.
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Re: TdF
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 01:35:04 PM »
Quote from: RandMart on June 30, 2015, 12:56:10 PM
That cost him the Dauphine; a little help to stay with Froome on that last climb would have been so nice

With Alpe D'Huez on the penultimate day? It could be EPIC

That's exactly what my friend said.

BMC should have hired Horner.

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Re: TdF
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2015, 12:30:02 PM »
Jersey picks:

Yellow - Contador
Green - Sagan
Polka Dot - Some dude I've never heard of
White - Quintana

Cool stage-by-stage guide:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2015/jul/01/tour-de-france-2015-stage-by-stage

My pick for early stage carnage:
Stage 3, which includes cobbles and the climb of the Mur de Huy at the end.  :eating-popcorn-03:
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Re: TdF
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2015, 01:53:59 PM »
Yellow:  Contador
Green:  Sagan
Polka dot:  Quintana
White:  Pinot

And I read that Froome missed an out of competition test...
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Re: TdF
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2015, 05:19:07 PM »
I've not followed a single thing on the lead up to TdF this year.
No clue who's in/out/team/fitness/doped up.


should be fun.

"Who's that?"
"Which squad is this....stupid new colors and sponsors confuse the hell outta me."
"Who's this guy?"
"Where's (fill in any name) this year?"
"Banned?"


 :pissed:  :panic:


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Re: TdF
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2015, 05:45:00 PM »
Quote from: RandMart on July 01, 2015, 05:27:10 PM
http://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/3bpe52/official_2015_tdf_drinking_game/
"Drink whenever Phil Ligget screws up a rider's name.
Drink whenever Phil and Paul talk about the scenic French countryside(includes tourist sites, old castles, and landmarks). Finish your drink if that "beautiful" old church doesn't actually look very special."

"Yeah I don't want get blackout drunk before 9 am..."

Exactly this !!!
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Re: TdF
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2015, 05:57:38 PM »
 :bow2:
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Re: TdF
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2015, 06:13:06 PM »
Word has it that Jens will be Jensing on NBC Sports during their coverage.
The dream trio is almost complete:

Bobke
Jens
Horner

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Re: TdF
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2015, 06:36:53 PM »
Quote from: ctjim on July 01, 2015, 06:13:06 PM
Word has it that Jens will be Jensing on NBC Sports during their coverage.
The dream trio is almost complete:

Bobke
Jens
Horner



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Re: TdF
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2015, 10:06:46 AM »
Quote from: wherestheportojohn on July 01, 2015, 05:19:07 PM
I've not followed a single thing on the lead up to TdF this year.
No clue who's in/out/team/fitness/doped up.


should be fun.

"Who's that?"
"Which squad is this....stupid new colors and sponsors confuse the hell outta me."
"Who's this guy?"
"Where's (fill in any name) this year?"
"Banned?"


 :pissed:  :panic:




I must admit to being out of this year too.  Just too much going on to pay attention to everything/everyone.
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Re: TdF
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2015, 02:44:17 PM »
Quote from: ihop on July 02, 2015, 10:06:46 AM
I must admit to being out of this year too.  Just too much going on to pay attention to everything/everyone.

Same here. But I might as well make some predictions guesses.

Yellow -- Froome.  (I don't care how in shape Pistol Pedro is, I'm not rooting for him.)
Green -- Sagan -- because he was a beast last year. No one came near his points total.
Polka Dot -- Quintana
Yellow -- Kwi-a-cow-ski  (I'm too lazy to go look up the spelling)

Top American rider -- Talansky because he'll have more help in the mountains than TJ.

It's kind of awesome to see that Quintana is the designated leader for Valverde's team. Does this make Valverde road captain?

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Re: TdF
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2015, 05:46:25 PM »
Stage 1 is a 13.8 km TT on pancake flat terrain. The map shows the route has a lot of cornering.

Who's your favorite for the fastest ride and the yellow jersey?
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Re: TdF
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2015, 06:54:06 PM »
stage 1


Sagan....or the Manx missile....I'm gonna miss Kittel. 💔
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Re: TdF
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2015, 06:55:53 PM »
Wait.
No.
It's a time trial...not a sprint finish.

I change my vote to (fill in a name)


But I'll still miss Kittel.  :preen:
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Re: TdF
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2015, 01:33:58 PM »
...off to find out what happened to Kittel.
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Re: TdF
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2015, 01:37:26 PM »
 :drooling-5:   (I got distracted while I was looking for Kittel.)

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Re: TdF
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2015, 01:46:58 PM »
http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/07/news/the-biggest-names-not-at-the-tour-de-france_375972

So...Kittels been sick.

For tomorrow's TT, I think it will be either Tony Martin or Rohan Dennis. I'm guessing Dennis.

No Wiggins. No Phinney. Cancellara did not take the Swiss TT title a week or so ago -- trained for the road race so he's not in top TT form.
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Re: TdF
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2015, 09:35:39 PM »
 :heartbeat: let me be the first to volunteer to comfort and rub down Fabian  :lambie:
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Re: TdF
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2015, 09:41:48 PM »
You're such a giver!
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Re: TdF
« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2015, 08:00:17 AM »
I love all the mountain stages this year, in particular stage 19 which will take down to the wire.
I picked Nibali last year but I'm a bit nervous with all the doping on Astana.
Yellow - Contador
Polka dot - Quintana
White - Quintana
Green - Cavendish

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