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Incidentally, my money would be on vingegaard for the TDF. He was a league above the others in the last 3 days the the CDD. On the Friday, the rest of the field appeared to give up, preferring to fight over the places.
As for Pogacar, he has barely raced since he had surgery on a broken wrist a few weeks back; his form must be questionable. I guess he could ride himself in to the tour.
The big issue; will Cav ride and will he bag himself a record ( on champs Elysee maybe) before retiring?
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He's already on Astana's start list. I guess there's a chance he won't for covid or whatever, but fingers crossed.
 
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Incidentally, my money would be on vingegaard for the TDF. He was a league above the others in the last 3 days the the CDD. On the Friday, the rest of the field appeared to give up, preferring to fight over the places.
As for Pogacar, he has barely raced since he had surgery on a broken wrist a few weeks back; his form must be questionable. I guess he could ride himself in to the tour.
The big issue; will Cav ride and will he bag himself a record ( on champs Elysee maybe) before retiring?
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I'm hoping he does it on stage 3 in Bayonne, as i'll be there!
 
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The big issue; will Cav ride and will he bag himself a record ( on champs Elysee maybe) before retiring?
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Who else is going to be there? Groenewegen retired from the CDD quite early I think. Bennett rode it, so I presume he's doing the Tour. Ewan?
 
Philipsen
Jakobsen
Bennett
Ewan
Pedersen
Groenewegen

Among others. Not gonna be easy for Cav I suspect. But man's a survivor.

oh and Sagan...

Startlist for Tour de France 2023

Competing teams and riders for Tour de France 2023. Top competitors are Tadej PogaÄar, Jasper Philipsen and Mads Pedersen.
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For some reason I though sagan hung up his cleats last season. I wouldn't have classed him as an out and out sprinter unlike Cav, cipo, Abdu, Griepel etc.
As for this tour Jakobsen and Philipsen have to be up there.
 
Cid said:
Philipsen
Jakobsen
Bennett
Ewan
Pedersen
Groenewegen

Among others. Not gonna be easy for Cav I suspect. But man's a survivor.

oh and Sagan...

Startlist for Tour de France 2023

Competing teams and riders for Tour de France 2023. Top competitors are Tadej PogaÄar, Jasper Philipsen and Mads Pedersen.
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Add in Biniam Girmay and Van Aert for the messy sprints.

Here's a list of sprinters who are going and those that are not going to the Tour. Only half go the top ten sprinters this year are going.

Best sprinters in Tour de France 2023

The best sprinters on the startlist of Tour de France 2023 are , and .
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Can’t believe how much that has affected me. So very sad.
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Yeah, likewise. I know he's a world tour rider, not just someone going for a ride when they can, but still in a very real sense feels like a death in the community.
 
Terribly sad news. I gather the finish was at the end of a descent, which is madness.
I still get the shivers when I remember casartelli back in the '90s which was shown live on television.
RIP.
 
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Terribly sad news. I gather the finish was at the end of a descent, which is madness.
I still get the shivers when I remember casartelli back in the '90s which was shown live on television.
RIP.
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Had it on in the background (the end of the race, don't think they covered the crash), 100km/h ish down there, not 'technical' as such, good surfaces etc, just very fast. Don't think there's the slightest justification for putting that kind of descent at the end of a stage really, particularly given terrain.
 
Didn't know Nibali was riding XCM.

Not bad coverage really, given logistics. Looks like a bit of mare being a camera bike person though.
 
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What a great British RR on a cracking course. was kind of rooting for James Knox but also super pleased for Fred Wright and a nice tribute to Gino Mader.
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As a South Londoner I'm biased but yes a thrilling race. I thought either 3 could win, what a psycho drama.
Beautiful win Fred.
 
Saw "The Last Rider" this afternoon... A Greg LeMond documentary, which ends up mainly about the 1989 Tour.

Worth watching if nothing else for the footage.. several things I didn't know about it and Fignon either.

Still spent the film wanting Fignon to win. :facepalm:
 
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Saw "The Last Rider" this afternoon... A Greg LeMond documentary, which ends up mainly about the 1989 Tour.

Worth watching if nothing else for the footage.. several things I didn't know about it and Fignon either.

Still spent the film wanting Fignon to win. :facepalm:
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Have you read Fignon's book, We Were Young and Carefree? Worth a dabble if you can pick it up cheap.
 
I'm probably not going to watch this much but to try and install some interest in a Grand Tour I'm going to put two £1 bets on each day as I still have Remco (and Ilkay Gundogan) money in my account.
It'll usually one of my fave riders and either a bookies fave or a decent outsider.
Stage 1 is Ala @ 14/1 and Biniam @ 33/1
 
Catching up on Giro Donne, 4.4km TT opening stage should be fine, right? Nope. Torrential rain, flooding, crashes, cancelled.
 
Does anyone know if a Freeview channel has the Vuelta highlights this year? I think ITV4 have done it in previous years, or it may have been Quest. However neither did the Giro this year, although it was on S4C.
 
Remco wins San Sebastian in a sprint with Pelle Bilbao. What a champ!
Good field with Ayuso, Healy, A Yates, Vlasov all blown away.
 
Was on a forum and someone reckoned that Ineos are so desperate to get Remco and Quickstep are so desperate to keep hold of him that Sir Jim of Monaco is thinking of just buying the whole Quickstep outfit.
For me this is almost as bad as Man United somehow buying Man City.
 
So a thing that happens quite often at work is that someone comes in with a broken bike and says 'I've got this event on Sunday and it's really important so I'll need you get this back to me asap' and it usually turns out to be just some sportive or something. A young Spanish-accented guy came in on Sunday with a Dura-Ace S-Works Tarmac and said my bike's 8 months old and my di2 front mech has stopped working and I've got this event on Sunday, can you help me? Only it turns out that he's the Chilean national champion, and the event is the Worlds Elite Men's road race.

Anyway a quick call to the Shimano distributor later and my colleague in the shop that's the di2 wizz has fitted him a new warranty front mech which turned up this afternoon. Delight all round. He's staying in Edinburgh, naturally those of us who use it have followed him on Strava and he's been busy doing training rides all around which obviously are on roads we all know well, including knocking out a KOM this morning which was the foulest windy rainy day imaginable so he probably wasn't even really trying, and he only had the big ring to do it with too. Apparently he's going to try for an early breakaway on the day.
 
Are the wold championships on BBC? I think they're on GCN but ion Hatch and Blythe are commentating then BBC is an option.
 
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