Chris Froome Runs up Mont Ventoux

incroyable wrote:

A farce as Chris Boardman describes it.

Tour de France has always been a farce, riders taking drugs, Armstrong rising across the fields, etc, it's a bit like the Wacky Races really.

no motor wrote:

Froome was given a neutral bike but couldn't even ride at walking pace on it - obviously the neutral bikes don't have motors in.

It didn't have the right pedals on it so his shoes couldn't clip in. It was a complete shiet show out there.

old tymer wrote:

incroyable wrote:

A farce as Chris Boardman describes it.

Tour de France has always been a farce, riders taking drugs, Armstrong rising across the fields, etc, it's a bit like the Wacky Races really.

Cycling does have a terrible doping past, but I guarantee that it is now cleaner than Track and Field. Both of which, of course, are way cleaner than American professional team sports that barely even pretend to monitor doping.

old tymer wrote:

Tour de France has always been a farce, riders taking drugs, Armstrong rising across the fields, etc, it's a bit like the Wacky Races really.

I've always felt that way about marathons. Olympic medalists tackled. Cuban women taking the subway in Boston. Mexicans taking a wrong turn in NY. Kenyan sliding at the finish line in Chicago and cracking his head. Bombs going off in Boston.

old tymer wrote:

incroyable wrote:

A farce as Chris Boardman describes it.

Tour de France has always been a farce, riders taking drugs, Armstrong rising across the fields, etc, it's a bit like the Wacky Races really.

Ahahaha! A farce indeed

You forgot about a bobble-headed British woman setting a record that even doped Kenyans and Russians can't approach.

roller marathon derby wrote:

old tymer wrote:

Tour de France has always been a farce, riders taking drugs, Armstrong rising across the fields, etc, it's a bit like the Wacky Races really.

I've always felt that way about marathons. Olympic medalists tackled. Cuban women taking the subway in Boston. Mexicans taking a wrong turn in NY. Kenyan sliding at the finish line in Chicago and cracking his head. Bombs going off in Boston.

Chris Froome: Yet another legendary Kenyan: Obama, Lupita, Froome......

I may have been imagining it, but it seems the fans were booing Froome when he accepted the yellow jersey. Obviously not everyone at the finish could know what went on during the stage, but I can't believe people think Froome should be punished for being in a crash caused by a fan and a moto. Starting to fear for his safety on these roads. One of these fans might do something to try to sabotage his tour (maybe that was the case today).

i chose D2 wrote:

Perhaps the moto drivers should just be instructed to run over any fans in the way.

wccelder wrote:

At work at the moment, but I will try to find the video from the giro (maybe Suisse?) this year where a moto rider did just that. The driver had a cold look on his face too, he had no regrets running the guy down. You could tell he had enough that day.

Like that makes it okay to run the guy down?

NO IT DOES NOT.

Paul Sherwan wrote:

I may have been imagining it, but it seems the fans were booing Froome when he accepted the yellow jersey. Obviously not everyone at the finish could know what went on during the stage, but I can't believe people think Froome should be punished for being in a crash caused by a fan and a moto. Starting to fear for his safety on these roads. One of these fans might do something to try to sabotage his tour (maybe that was the case today).

They weren't booing, they were saying Froooooooome

um no. They were booing. Never heard them yell Froooooooooome at any other gc presentation if what you claim is true. Team Sky is considered the evil british empire and French fans were ticked he was awarded nearly 2 minutes. And on Bastille Day.

They weren't booing, they were saying boo-urns

um no wrote:

um no. They were booing. Never heard them yell Froooooooooome at any other gc presentation if what you claim is true. Team Sky is considered the evil british empire and French fans were ticked he was awarded nearly 2 minutes. And on Bastille Day.

Bastille Day nothing. Chavanel was responding way worse than Quintana was. Where did Pinot, Bardet, and Barguil go? The french had no presence in the stage today.

Coach Brailsford wrote:

But did he look relaxed?

And... was he wearing trainers?

um no wrote:

um no. They were booing. Never heard them yell Froooooooooome at any other gc presentation if what you claim is true. Team Sky is considered the evil british empire and French fans were ticked he was awarded nearly 2 minutes. And on Bastille Day.

Not sure whether they were or they weren't, but Froome fans do shout Frooooooome, just like the cricket fans shout Rooooooooot and the golf fans shout Luuuuuuuuuuke.

Of course they bent over for a brit team. Will Vanderlei de Lima be given his Olympic Gold? No, he ain't a brit.

All That wrote:

Of course they bent over for a brit team. Will Vanderlei de Lima be given his Olympic Gold? No, he ain't a brit.

I see what you're saying, I mean, there's nothing the French like more than a British winner of the TDF.

I mean, the French authorities and public, it's what they dream of every year.

trollism wrote:

Not sure whether they were or they weren't, but Froome fans do shout Frooooooome, just like the cricket fans shout Rooooooooot and the golf fans shout Luuuuuuuuuuke.

I'll have to rewatch it. I thought I heard whistling too. Maybe I'm wrong. But I noticed it while watching and wondered.

trollism wrote:

All That wrote:

Of course they bent over for a brit team. Will Vanderlei de Lima be given his Olympic Gold? No, he ain't a brit.

I see what you're saying, I mean, there's nothing the French like more than a British winner of the TDF.

I mean, the French authorities and public, it's what they dream of every year.

Every country bends over backwards for the brits. How does the crooked Lord HaHa Coe get put in charge of international athletics? He's a brit. How does bobblehead radcliffe stay out of prison? She's a brit. How does the doping cheater mo stay on the track? He's on the brit team. We need to Brexit england off the damn planet !!!!!