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Tour de France 2024

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    Jonas and Pogi are just a class on their own!!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Jonas and Pogi are just a class on their own!!
    Good to see Bernal continuing his comeback 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    edited July 2024
    Philipsen has potentially lost his lead out man... CMON PROJECT 35!!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    F**K SAKE... Why could the peleton just be a little more careful?
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Cav well pissed off but great to see how pleased he is for Girmay 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    stonemuse said:
    Cav well pissed off but great to see how pleased he is for Girmay 
    Not surprised... Missed a great chance, Some of the GC riders seemed way too involved in that, given they were beyond the 5km
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    stonemuse said:
    Cav well pissed off but great to see how pleased he is for Girmay 
    Not surprised... Missed a great chance, Some of the GC riders seemed way too involved in that, given they were beyond the 5km
    Yup
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,030
    Big day today. Real test of the fitness of the Visma riders and any GC hangers on
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Looks like a great stage to watch 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    edited July 2024
    They're all great stages to watch, fuck getting on a bike and riding it.
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    What an attack from Tadej Pogacar
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    What an attack from Tadej Pogacar
    Brilliant, it looks like UAE are doing their utmost to hit Vingegaard before he gets himself settled in to racing at full capacity over the next few weeks.

    TBH, it's amazing that he is as competitive as he is.

    That said, I still think that the Tour really needs a Frenchman to win sometime very, very soon. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Brilliant team work by UAE
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    The way Team Astana are riding at the front of the peloton, it reminds me of the Team Columbia days - Today is the DAY!!
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    Fan bloody tastic
    Cavendish!!!!!
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,030
    YES CAV
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Get the fuck in, yes Cav
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
      Get in there. That was rough.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    I'm shaking!! 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Yesssssss fucking stunning 
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    edited July 2024
    lol! I've been watching whilst taking my Son to squirrels (Lowest level of Scouts) - Have had to stand outside, as I usually help, as couldn't miss that

    Some of the other leaders saw me celebrating and wondered what the hell I was on... That was one of his best wins as well, that wasn't handed to him by any means 
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Brilliant that. Absolutely superb sprinting nous. He's the greatest sprinter we've ever seen.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Great team ride by Astana getting up front so early, but in the end it was all about Cav

    Number 36 is certainly a possibility 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    Sounds like Cav possibly lost his chain on the line? 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Sounds like Cav possibly lost his chain on the line? 
    Yup he did 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    stonemuse said:
    Sounds like Cav possibly lost his chain on the line? 
    Yup he did 
    Nothing was stopping him... Such a shame they're not finishing on the Champs Elysee, he deserve to lead the peloton on to the cobbled streets 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Cav asking Pog not to beat his record … love it lol
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    edited July 2024
    Okay... Im home... I've watched it back properly and I'm an absolute mess

    Its even more special when you think back to that Interview when he was with Bahrain, and thought his career was done... The man was broken, even now its heart wrenching watching him in that mindset, even though it was pre-2021, and you know how the script turns on its head.

    Even then you think back to the final Stage that year, and you think: "That was it that, was the moment" so to see him lose out then, lose out last year with the collarbone... I really was beginning to think he'd end his career with a "What IF

    So to see this now - I was only 50/50 whether I believed he'd do it. However not like that, that was rolling back the years... that was one of his greatest wins!! - He'll keep going, I wont be surprised to see him get 36... But just hope that he gets to end the Tour now on HIS terms, he cant go home like last year now.

    Won't get tired of watching that one back thats for sure... Netflix will love it with Season 3 of Unchained next year, wonder if we might even get a follow up documentary to the separate Mark Cavendish one they produced
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Saw a terrific clip of Cav’s wife and kids passing the cyclists near their buses. 

    His youngest son turned to his mum and said, look it’s Tadej. 

    Pog called him over, chatted, ruffled his hair, and gave him his yellow cycling glasses - great memory for him on the day his dad got the record.  
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,311
    stonemuse said:
    Saw a terrific clip of Cav’s wife and kids passing the cyclists near their buses. 

    His youngest son turned to his mum and said, look it’s Tadej. 

    Pog called him over, chatted, ruffled his hair, and gave him his yellow cycling glasses - great memory for him on the day his dad got the record.  
    Its crazy really listening to the likes of Tadej talking about Cavendish as a legend, and someone they looked up to... In that regard it hard to believe that one of the best GC riders in the world would see Mark in that light, but in reality shows the Age gap, even Bini was saying that he was only nine when he started winning!!