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Tour de France 2016

ForeverAddickted
ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
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Today marks the start of Tour De France 2016 with riders currently less than 40km from the finish of the first Stage at Utah Beach in Normandy.

Chris Froome to do it again or it is finally Quintana's year?
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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,651
    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    Although just hope that Mark Cavendish gets the yellow jersey today...

    Dont see it happening (Reckon Kittel will win) but wouldnt care what happens for the rest of the Tour if he does win
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,651
    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    Have only hear Ned Boulting so far, he's usually pretty good.

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    man_at_milletts said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    Have only hear Ned Boulting so far, he's usually pretty good.

    Yeah he's usually the side-kick of Boardman's during the Highlights show... He does know the Tour
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    I can only ever watch the TofF on Eurosport. Just doesn't seem right on any other channel.
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,595
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    I can only ever watch the TofF on Eurosport. Just doesn't seem right on any other channel.
    Eurosport won't be an option in a couple of years ;-)

    I'm not a huge cycling racing fan but I love watching the TdF every year. Am not up to scratch with any of the runners and riders this year. Still looking forward to it.

  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    DRAddick said:

    Red_in_SE8 said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    I can only ever watch the TofF on Eurosport. Just doesn't seem right on any other channel.
    Eurosport won't be an option in a couple of years ;-)



    Why not? Have I missed something?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    DRAddick said:

    Red_in_SE8 said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    I can only ever watch the TofF on Eurosport. Just doesn't seem right on any other channel.
    Eurosport won't be an option in a couple of years ;-)

    I'm not a huge cycling racing fan but I love watching the TdF every year. Am not up to scratch with any of the runners and riders this year. Still looking forward to it.

    Very few Brits... Froome / Thomas / Rowe / Stannard (Team Sky) ... Cavendish / Cummings (Team Dimensions) ... Adam Yates (Orica) ... McLay (Fortuneo)
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,413
    man_at_milletts said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    Have only hear Ned Boulting so far, he's usually pretty good.

    Charlton fan is Ned

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  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Said it before on here but no form of racing, horse, dog, car, athlete, boat, etc comes close to the last 5 km of a stage sprint finish on the TofF when all the sprint teams are involved.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    Said it before on here but no form of racing, horse, dog, car, athlete, boat, etc comes close to the last 5 km of a stage sprint finish on the TofF when all the sprint teams are involved.

    Yeah one of the best sights in the whole of Sport!!
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Cav will win this.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    edited July 2016
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    Cav will win this.

    He's got Hagan and Renshaw with him so that's some lead-out for him.

    Kittel is still the worry but he's replaced Cav at Quick-Step who was rubbish there so time his old team keep with tradition.

    If Cav does win though he'll go one stage behind Hinault in the all-time list though
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    Wish Sky would get out of the way... They've nothing to do with Cav / Kittel / Griepel and will just get in the way!!
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,651
    Yellow jumper for Cav.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    CAVENDISH!!!!!!!!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    What a day to finally beat Kittel!!
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    edited July 2016
    What a killer finish by the Manx missile

    Great commentary by Eurosport as well
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,345
    brilliant. cav is so good to watch

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    Apologies to all... I've probably killed a lot of dogs and have broken a lot of windows... Have never known my voice to go so high pitched for that Sprint!!
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Somebody knocked at the door with 3km to go! Thank god for the pause button.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,866
    I'm hoping Thomas can save a bit this year and get a podium finish.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,345
    cav's little girl was super cute holding her flowers aloft like a trophy
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,651
    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Glad to see it's in ITV4 live.

    Contador took a nasty bounce on the road earlier.

    Yeah but disappointed they've got rid of Leggett and Sherwen from the commentary team!!
    Have only hear Ned Boulting so far, he's usually pretty good.

    Yeah he's usually the side-kick of Boardman's during the Highlights show... He does know the Tour
    Yep, and Miller knows what he's talking about too.

    Enjoyed that coverage, I'm glad, now I've kicked Sky into touch it was worth it.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,029
    rina said:

    cav's little girl was super cute holding her flowers aloft like a trophy

    Nice that she was allowed to go up there with him
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,651
    Looks to me to be a bit of an open race this year, but I fancy
    Aru to get on the podium. He's got Vincenzo to help him along.
  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,973
    At last some good news!
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,295
    Froome needs a two minute lead over Quintana going into the last week to be able to win it. Anything less and the Colombian will win it.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,866
    Why do you think that @Tutt-Tutt?

    I don't know enough about the end of the race, I think it's got more challenging climbs in it than I can remember but if Thomas doesn't burn himself off early, Sky could have Thomas and froome together on the end and that could be bad for quintana.

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