Tour de France 2015

Bardet looked sad :(

I agree entirely, but everyone said before hand that the first week had plenty of pitfalls and whilst no-one was going to win the race there, they might lose it.

Yup first week killed it for the not so sharp favs. Some grew stronger over the weeks but time gap was already too large to fight back

Poor Quintana

True. It's been a pretty good edition in my opinion. Probably the best since 2011.

Pinot really needs to work in his descending. I've beaten him down the tourmalet!

With all the shit he took, all the attacks, covered in piss, spat at and constantly booed Froomey is one resilient fella.

Well I had before this years tour not sure now.

^Kept his head down one might say

God, what a boring race. After Sky's dominance killed it off on the first climb and with Froome's out-of-this-world climbing, we didn't get anything like the tense, nail-biting head-to-head race up the big mountains we were all hoping for before it started :(

You really found that boring?

Ah well, amazing stage but just a cup of earl grey it is then

Gutsy, nail biting rides from Hesjedal and Quintana but happy for Pinot and Froome

Is this sarcasm?

Quintana was faster in the mountains than Froome on aggregate, so in what sense was Froome's climbing out of this world?

in the french newspaper sense perhaps?

Christ, Froome looks utterly fucked on the podium there.

tense nail-biting head-to-head race up the big mountains

Yeah super boring

jeez, some people..

Or, "the state of this thread :(" as I put it earlier

Any news on Cav?

I don't know what's going on. Are you joking or do you think every GT ends is a head to head up a world famous climb?

great lead-out tune from itv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUxPWnrXNk

I'm not sure what race/tour you were watching. It's been one of the most fun and interesting tours I've watched in a long time. There was proper racing from almost the first stage with many of the favourites gaining or losing time early on. Quintana bided his time and gave it everything to try and win today and fell short . If you can't admire that or see how much racing there was in this tour then I suggest you go back to watching over paid prima donnas kick a round ball around a field.

cav looks to within the time limit

Thanks, I was wondering what that was

not yet - Sagan only just got in during the yellow jersey presentation.

ah good! thanks