Tour de france

[kermit16]

Today’s final day is about to start ! It will be almost certainly a day for the sprinters with names like Sagan, Kristoff, Colbrelli, Degenkolb, Demare.
However for most of the rest it will be a largely ceremonial day. They will be drinking champagne and relaxing with most classifications already wrapped up by riders days ago. The ride into Paris Champ-Elysees is about to start. GL

 

[Ricboff]

Adrian Selby@adrianlselby





@Simon_Burnton "I think this might be the greatest individual achievement in Welsh sport,” asserts Matt Dony." I'm pretty sure Thomas is riding with a team.
12:47 PM - Jul 29, 2018

 

[Ricboff]

Congrats to Team Sky-- that's 6 of the last 7. Domination. Congrats to Pinarello, its flagship a brilliant piece of engineering Dogma F10



Congrats to Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France Champion. Did he ever earn it!!!!!!!!!!!!


[FONT=&quot]When I rode it for the first time, 2007, that was insane, just to finish the race and just to be part of it. And now to be riding around winning it, you’ve got to pinch yourself. I think it won’t sink in for a few months. For now it’s a whirlwind. I just seem to be floating around, on cloud nine.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Maybe when I’m like 70, sat in a corner of a pub telling some 18-year-old what I used to be. It’s just incredible. It’s the stuff of dreams.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It’s insane. I stayed off Twitter for most of the race. I didn’t want to get distracted. I went on last night and it was insane to see the response from back home. The amount of well-wishers, compliments from fellow riders and fellow sportsmen from Wales, people I’ve always looked up to, rugby players. It’s insane. I really appreciate all that support. It’s incredible.



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[kermit16]

Well I picked the winner of today’s stage as Alexander Kristoff easily won todays sprint ! John Degenkolb took 2 Nd with Artaud Demare finishing 3 rd..

 

[kermit16]

Recap results,
Yellow Jersey winner was Geraint Thomas Tom Dumoulin took second Chris Froome took Third
Green Jersey for best Sprinter. Peter Sagan
Polka Dot Jersey for King of the Mountain. Julian Alaphilippe
best young rider. Pierre Latour
Team Standings. Moviestar

 

[Ricboff]

Dave Brailsford emotional but immovable as Tour triumph continues legacy


Team Sky chief’s sixth Tour victory is a result of meticulous planning, 60-hour working weeks and a genuine love of cycling

When Dave Brailsford was 20, he left his family home in Snowdonia and headed off to France with his bike, £600, and a train ticket to Grenoble, hoping to become a pro bike rider. Thirty-five years later, he watched a Welshman win the Tour de France, and, uncharacteristically lost in emotion, wiped the tears from his eyes.
Brailsford’s bulging trophy cabinet now includes another Tour de France victory, the sixth since 2012. They have been achieved with three different riders, and it seems there is nothing — media feuds, contract wrangles, internal rivalries, or anti-doping investigations — that can stop him.

Cycling’s Billy Beane has been in the business of making the impossible possible for well over a decade now, breaking down walls, both real and imagined, first at the Beijing and London Olympics in track racing, and then quickly turning his hand to dominating road racing with Team Sky.
There is no doubt that Brailsford, now 54, loves cycling. “He’s great at putting a team together, very good at hiring the right people,” his old business partner Dave Loughran said. “He knows you don’t find a world champion at 18 – he knows that you find them at 11.
“If he wasn’t working for Sky he’d be sitting at the side of the road watching. And that’s why he’ll work 60 hours a week to get success.”
While other team managers lounge around their team hotels, Brailsford still rides his bike, almost obsessively, emerging most mornings during the Tour from his luxury motor home in full Team Sky kit to ride for an hour, or more.


During the 2018 Giro d’Italia’s “big start” in Israel, one of the most striking sights was a lone Brailsford, speeding along a barren desert road to a stage finish in Eilat on the Red Sea.
In many ways Brailsford is a chip off the old block. His father John, a renowned ice climber, obsessive about detail, would drive the family to the French Alps, park his kids on a campsite and then disappear into the Massif des Ecrins for weeks on end.
“He was a blacksmith by trade and he loved it,” Brailsford recalls of his father’s own fascination with marginal gains. “He was a pretty driven bloke. He was always tinkering with his equipment, late at night, trying to get a bit more out of it.”

Like his father, Brailsford spends much of his year away from home on the road with his riders. “I feel very sad, very guilty for being an absent father,” Brailsford said in 2012. “But on the other hand, I don’t know anything else.”

There is little in the history of cycling to compare with Brailsford’s success. When Team Sky was founded, the idea of a British rider winning the Tour itself was fantastical, yet since 2010, Sky has won eight Grand Tours. “It’s about how we make the unbelievable believable,” he has said of Sky’s string of wins, using a turn of phrase that is both ambiguous and provocative.
Now four months since the damning DCMS select committee anti-doping report — revolving around the team’s strategic use of TUEs, its woeful medical record-keeping and the infamous Jiffy bag delivery to Bradley Wiggins — described Team Sky as “unethical”, Brailsford has bagged yet another Grand Tour with a rider who is both well-liked by his peers and by the media.

Fresh success emboldened Brailsford during this year’s Tour and he was more visible and open with the media than at any time during the previous 18 months. Buoyed by the humbling of Wada and the UCI, he has at times talked too much, particularly when musing about the mentality of small town mayors and the French nation’s supposed predilection for spitting.

Much of his renewed swagger was attributable to the collapse of the adverse analytical finding case against Chris Froome on the eve of the Tour which many within Team Sky saw as a vindication and a rebuke to their critics. Certainly, like his friends Alastair Campbell and Sir Alex Ferguson, Brailsford has at times tapped into a siege mentality to motivate his inner circle.
There is no doubt that throughout the 2018 Tour, Team Sky — with the exception of Gianni Moscon — raced smart, while some of their rivals, notably the AG2R team of Romain Bardet, rode like lemmings careering over a cliff. But in France the incredulity remains, if not specifically against Thomas, then against his team, who remain disliked and resented.
Yet any sense of vindication Brailsford may feel conveniently forgets much of what has gone before — the long-winded saga of Sky’s misplaced “zero tolerance” policy, the inept vetting of riders and staff, the allegations of “gaming the system” and the suspicions that dog Team Sky still and that will not, like a return-to-sender Jiffy bag, go away.

This was a Tour in limbo, dogged from the start by a tense build-up and a nagging sense of unease, both over Froome’s presence and Team Sky as a whole. Geraint Thomas’ tears after Saturday’s time trial, affecting though they were, should not obscure the misgivings that still swirl around a team whose unrelenting domination of the toughest of endurance sports shows no sign of ebbing away.

 

[Ricboff]

 

[kermit16]

7 riders from Sky but missing 1 rider ! Gianni Moscon was rightfully disqualified from Tour after punching a rival ! He’s been in trouble before and I’m pretty sure his riding days are over with Team Sky ! Next year will be interesting as to who will be Team Sky’s leader ?

 

[thetout]

Kermit and ricboff. Never paid attention to this event. Read the whole thread. Great insight and input. I'm so clueless I didn't know what a petelon was. Nice to learn new things worldwide. Thanks for this thread I know not many responded but very grateful. Until next year.

 

[kermit16]

Kermit and ricboff. Never paid attention to this event. Read the whole thread. Great insight and input. I'm so clueless I didn't know what a petelon was. Nice to learn new things worldwide. Thanks for this thread I know not many responded but very grateful. Until next year.

Im glad you enjoyed it and we’ll see you the first week next July. The Tour De France is exciting and can prove to be a profitable wagering event as few gamblers understand the many little quirks.

 

[thetout]

This thread has made me do some research on the rules and strategies. Hopefully be more knowledgeable a year from now. Look forward to the new blood taking over.

 

[kermit16]

This thread has made me do some research on the rules and strategies. Hopefully be more knowledgeable a year from now. Look forward to the new blood taking over.

i,found that the rules are a lot easier to master than The strategies! A strong Team can control a race and reel in almost any breakaway. The question is do they want to ? I’ve been wagering on the Tour through all of the Lance Armstrong 7 straight wins to today. It’s tricky at first to understand strategy but it’s so logical once you catch onto it. You will enjoy it next year and Ricboff and I will help you If you need it !

 

[Uscsilb24]

Kermit and others...Any thoughts on the 2019 tour? Is Thomas at +165 terrible value?

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  Geraint Thomas​
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  Egan Bernal​
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  Tom Dumoulin​
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  Jakob Fuglsang​
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  Nairo Quintana​
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  Adam Yates​
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  Richie Porte​
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  Thibaut Pinot​
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  Mikel Landa​
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  Steven Kruijswijk​
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  Enric Mas​
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  Romain Bardet​
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  Rigoberto Uran​
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  Vincenzo Nibali​
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  Emanuel Buchmann​
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  Miguel Angel Lopez​
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  Wout Poels​
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  Alejandro Valverde​
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  Daniel Martin​
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  Fabio Aru​
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  George Bennett​
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  Julian Alaphilippe​
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  Daniel Martinez​
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  Michal Kwiatkowski​
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  Roman Kreuziger​
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[kermit16]

Sorry I’m late as I just bought a new I Pad and was busy getting it set up ! I’ll post more later as I get organized !

 

[kermit16]

Well now I’ve had a problem getting my RX password straightened out !
hopefully I will be able to post later.

 

[kermit16]

Geraint Thomas is not my pick to win this years Tour but he certainly looked impressive in today’s Stage 2. I’ve been thinking his formidable teammate
Egan Bernal will be there at the finish. Geraint simply hasn’t come into this Tour in top form but he sure looked good today.

 

[Michelangelo]

C'mon kermit. Quit frogging around.

 

[kermit16]

Interesting day today but nothing dramatic in the main yellow Jersey race. Julian Alaphilippe won today’s stage with a solo breakaway on the final steep crest.Geraint Thomas lost 5 seconds to his teammate Egan Bernal which seems insignificant but could be a sign of things to come. I think Egan Bernal is the Cyclist to watch in this wide open Tour. Tomorrow is a long but fairly flat stage which will favor the sprinters.

 

[Ricboff]

hope all is well kermit. Agreed, WIDE OPEN for The 2019 Tour de France.

Team Sky (that is now Team INEOS, new sponsor) has dominated this storied race winning 6 of the last 7 and 4 straight. Crazy. However, Froome is done. HUGE legs to replace, as well as leadership. They are vulnerable. Is Thomas The Man to lead Team Ineos for the next 2-3 years? Well management isnt convinced as they are going with two front runners and a 'let's see how it plays out ' strategy. As you said going in his form was just so so,...and his odds to win were stupid low, PASS. Bernal? is he that good? at such an early age? No Columbian has ever won the Tour de France. And, the average age of previous Tour winners is 28.5. This guy is 22 and has never won a Grand Tour. He did CRUISE to victory at Tour de Suise recently. .....the question is , who can steal it away from Team INEOS? Movistar certainly has a trio that can do damage in the mountains: Quintana, Landa, Valverde (they left Carapaz home? he just won The Giro). They are off to a slow start , lol. Fuglsang (Astana)? he seems to be okay after the crash in stage 1

 

[kermit16]

hope all is well kermit. Agreed, WIDE OPEN for The 2019 Tour de France.

Team Sky (that is now Team INEOS, new sponsor) has dominated this storied race winning 6 of the last 7 and 4 straight. Crazy. However, Froome is done. HUGE legs to replace, as well as leadership. They are vulnerable. Is Thomas The Man to lead Team Ineos for the next 2-3 years? Well management isnt convinced as they are going with two front runners and a 'let's see how it plays out ' strategy. As you said going in his form was just so so,...and his odds to win were stupid low, PASS. Bernal? is he that good? at such an early age? No Columbian has ever won the Tour de France. And, the average age of previous Tour winners is 28.5. This guy is 22 and has never won a Grand Tour. He did CRUISE to victory at Tour de Suise recently. .....the question is , who can steal it away from Team INEOS? Movistar certainly has a trio that can do damage in the mountains: Quintana, Landa, Valverde (they left Carapaz home? he just won The Giro). They are off to a slow start , lol. Fuglsang (Astana)? he seems to be okay after the crash in stage 1

Just a quick response regarding Bernal. It’s true he’s very young and perhaps highly surprising to see any Cyclist his age actually being considered a favorite to win the Tour De France. However how often would any 22 year old Cyclist be named co-leader of a Team as awesome as Team Sky or now INEOS ? I think being on a Team like ENEOS will trump his youth.