Tour de France 2017

That was only stage 12.

9 (well, 8) more yet.

I still fancy Froome to be the strongest at the end.

I am indeed. I quoted that fact a few weeks ago and got slapped down. Just passing it on.

Indeed. 2015. Froome was in yellow after Stage 3 but then Tony Martin won Stage 4 and was in yellow until Stage 6 (where he crashed) and so no-one wore the yellow jersey in Stage 7. Froome won it back after that and kept it to the finish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tour_de_France

"fuck it, I've worked hard for you and you've shat the bed,

This is me in every single job I've ever had.

The ITV footage was an extended version of the cycling hub tweet, you see him tip the bottle up and see the back of his head go down as if he's taking a big old swig, there's no way he's pouring it on his head, but you can't see his face, so I guess there's enough doubt?

how much do you think Contador wishes he'd just retired when he was (relatively) on top?

Looks a shadow of himself and other riders must be getting less afraid of taking him on which will just heap the ignominy higher.

I hope Landa does a Froome on Froome and then The Cound goes fucking mental on Twatter and then Landa's Mrs gives her a virtual kick in the box by pointing out the hypocrisy of it all and she just has to STFU whilst alternately shrieking Judas at phone and TV.

All the while, Wiggo is watching it unfold, family sat around the TV, smiling serenely and eating pork scratchings.

CSI: Lufguss

I guess we'll never know if a Frenchman took a refreshing sip of Evian atop the Peyresourd from a perfectly chilled bottle, beading with condensation as a woman in the background trains chic...

This is just a fucking viral marketing campaign, and you're in on it, aren't you?

https://twitter.com/LeGruppetto/status/885609712053604356

Yes, I'm part of big water 🤗

Someone might have spat in that bottle of water, disgusting, filthy, cheating French cunt.

I'm sticking to my pickle jar of stale, warm piss thank you very much. Brexit!

Quatorze Juillet tomorrow though. Has to be Pinot. Or Rolland. Or CallmeJane. Or Voekler.

Who I REALLY want to win it is Tsgabu Grmay though as it's by far the best name in the peloton (Jobby Bungels excluded) and it sounds like someone made off with half his vowels.

Eggs-actually. Fabian walked so no-one would see his decline = legend.

Hanging around the arse end of GC like a wet fart = fail

I'd like to believe he thought he still had a win in himself but it's probably just cold, hard millions of dollar wafted under his nose to lessen the scent of failure that did it.

Still. At least he didn't hype himself up by saying he was going to prove you could still do a Giro/Tour double then fuck up both of them... What kind of cunt would do that?

I still fancy Froome

I Confess thread

Seriously though does anyone "on 'ere" actually like team sky or want froome to do well?

Someone aptly described Froome as the Coldplay of cycling. I think that about sums it up.

Who admits to liking Coldplay? And yet that Chris Martin cunt is a millionaire..

Sooner support Sky than sit through another fucking Nationwide Building Society poem.

I think froome is a pretty challenging athlete. He's hard to like, because he seems pretty professional (taps arm makes motion of smack use - amirigt?). Yet. He works on his weaknesses.
Fat - nope not now
Can't descend /terrible skillZ - nope
Doesn't know what to do to animate a race - looks at Olympic race where he went nuts downhill (but fell and failed,).

So what's the beef from the internet?
Mild sexism/full on misogyny against his wife
He's not a boy
He looks weird climbing
He's mild mannered
He's got a team of winners around him.
He does things in a calculated way.
Hes not always romantic.

It's his fucking job. He's doing quite well at his job isn't he?

He also looks like a gnome. And everyone loves Wiggo too much, even tho he blatantly mystery packaged.

I can never get my head around this- easy potential for taking on something that you shouldn't have in your system surely?

He just shares a lack of engaging personality a la Lewis Hamilton.

Being excellent at what you do just isn't the full package. He does have shed loads of die hard fans though

EDIT

You are right about him working and improving on weaknesses, he has made great changes.

Rooting for the winners is boring.

In a few years time when Froome has failed a few times an not won a thing then he'll be loved. Not before, we don't like winners here.

^ boom

Who admits to liking Coldplay?

I like Coldplay. I've never pretended to be cool enough to pretend not to.

It was a good stage today though. Looks like we might actually get a race, which is nice.

I find them very impressive, as a team they're very strong and the fact that they had 4 at the front today when other teams' best climbers were being shed says a lot.

But I never want them to win.

Always the domestique, never the team leader...