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I really quite like the crop of French riders at the top this year. In fact now that Nibali and Contador are sinking out of contention, I'm having a hard time coming up with a GC contender that I'll be annoyed about if they do win.
Naturally I'm backing Froome because British and I'd like to see a defending champion actually defend. However I'd be happy for any of them to win. Not only that but watching all the other little stories unfold like Cav chipping away at Merckx, Sagan being Sagan, the photo finishes, McLay, I'm already excited by what has, so far, been quite a boring Tour. Yes, I know that Sky are going to try and boring their way into a win but with the likes of Avermaet, Voeckler, hopefully Cummings and some others, I'm think we're going to see some passionate racing.
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Boring tour so far? It's only been 5 stages, most of them flat sprint stages. Do you want pave carnage every year? To me that is a bit boring. I'd rather see more stages like yesterday.
If you look at the profile, there will be plenty of excitement in week 2 and 3. I don't think Sky are 'boring' their way to a win, they're just aware that it's back loaded into the final week - so they're staying out of it.
dan
okay so there or thereabouts.
Hoping he does well, know he and Bardet and Barguil are dark horses but I'd really love it if Pinot won it, had a bit of a soft spot for him since his win a couple of years back when Marc Madiot was going mental in the car shouting encouragement to him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmyyEOeVTs