Tour de France 2021

3 stage wins and 2nd of GC, same as last year.

Team Ineos too

Anybody got a list of Mitch Dockers cycle podcast Pyrenees beers/breweries please?

Did anyone watch the Jonathan Vaughters documentary about what it was like to secretly be the most fabulous rider in the peloton? Think it was called Behind the Cancellara

This was one of the breweries https://brasserie-paystoy.com/en

Froome was five and a half minutes down in a discipline he used to be able to dominate.

Is he going to bother next year? Is he going to have a contract?

Is it a coincidence that his recent downturn in confidence and expectations started around the same time as the protests about the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, and the attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, or is it a subtle protest from Froome, undermining the attempted sportswashing of an Apartheid state?

If they're both racing then MVDP>WVA. If MVDP isn't racing then I'm happy to revel in WVA's chiselled jaw and shapely thighs.

Is he going to have a contract?

Yes. He has a 5 year contract I believe.

What if AREPIDDERS is racing?

Is it evening finish again today?

It’s due to finish at about 6pm U.K. time.

Nice. Ta.

Radio4 had a nice little profile on Are Cav last night, ended with Lefevere saying if he wins today he should retire

What do you think he’ll do after cycling? I can’t see him leaving the sport but not sure I see him as a pundit.

He might make a good DS? He knows so much about every stage finish that he’d be great to have in the car. I suspect it would require quite a pay cut though.

Didn’t he have a bash at motorcycle racing?

Maybe it's time the 'are Cav' joke was retired.

not until Boris is replaced by a compassionate liberal Tory like Cameron

these are the gesture politics we need

Speaking of retiring, who do we think might not be at next years TDF, or other grand tour?

andre greipel

Half the Ineos team.

Fingers crossed for Valverde

Froome

No idea on contracts but I’d say,
Greipel- strong chance
Rowe and maybe Thomas
Valverde - 50/50
Froome - no chance

Not disinformation is: Andre Greipel has a contract for next year but will retire at the end of this season.