Tour de France 2017

Yadda yadda Brailsford yadda Wiggins yadda corticosteroid yadda Edmondson yadda Froome alien yadda jiffy bag yadda.

Just summarising every Cycling News article for the next three weeks.

Really hoping Cav can spring a surprise or two and creep towards that Merckx tally of stage wins.

Surely even a single stage win would be pretty unprecedented after the year he has had?

Froome and Sky also have questions to answer over Cardoso's positive test.

^ Hah!

I think it would be a major surprise, but Cav has got street smarts and he has a strong team around him so never write him off. Plus the race is quite sprint heavy.

I'm praying to Ghaia

Well you see everyone was going to quit doping, then Sky came along and re-created the doping arms race that was over and so everyone started again. Russian doping? All down to Brailsford, in every sport ever.

Would be great for him to pick up a stage, can't assume he will stick around beyond the first week. Last year everyone thought he'd lost his touch, and I remember hoping for a stage win. Look how that turned out.

I could be wrong, but I don't think there's an obvious dominant sprinter this year. Kittel is the most likely candidate but he's never recaptured the form he showed in 2013/14.

The sprints could be relatively open with the likes of Demare, Bouhanni and even McLay making a positive impression.

Greipel will win at least one stage though. That's almost guaranteed.

Which makes DE's decision to leave Coquard at home even more idiotic.

Word.

what a twat

bakelants that is. not you andy!

I've been called worse.

Team presentation just now awesome crowd/party here, fuckspencive shit beer tho

In how many consecutive GTs has he now done it?

I'm not sure of the exact number, but he's won a stage in every GT he's started since the 2008 Giro.

I just did some research, by my calculations he's won at least a stage in 12 consecutive GTs that he's started.

Three teams in white jerseys ffs

Saying what we're all thinking

Oh right, yeah

I could be wrong, but I don't think there's an obvious dominant sprinter this year

they'll have to pick the bones Sagan leaves behind is my prediction, I think he will be smarter and possibly faster than ever.

He's not fast enough to consistently beat the likes of Cavendish, Kittel and Greipel.

He'll win the green jersey again though.

Didn't someone try the footy jersey style rider names on the back like Sky a while ago and fall foul of UCI?

IAM tried it and the UCi banned their first version. They came back with something else very similar..
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/uci-blocks-iam-cyclings-personalised-jerseys-153396

Also MTN-Quebeka tried names once I think...

It's certainly a great streak. Let's hope he manages to prolong it in July.