Tour de France 2012

This sounds like a job for Super hippy.

I'll merge him with the doping thread.

Two words: Operacion Puerto.

Damn, I really thought it was Doping Pricks?

Fucks sake - Froome should have just gone

This.

Can't question his loyalty after this though...

https://twitter.com/lioneljbirnie/status/225972633592791041

His q ring makes me nervous.

Euphemism? :)

Liggett; "And Froome is saying, come to me Brad, come to me".

Obviously the truth about those two is now common knowledge.

Yep, too many armchair know-nothings on twitter and farcebake moaning about Froome being held back.
Cobblers, in addition to what dubtap just said, it would have looked pretty fucking pathetic for Froome to chase down Valverde and still not manage to pip him on the line. Or for him to sod off and suddenly Nibbler comes back and catches Brad...

Both less likely than Mr Burns being dragged off his bike or puncturing.
He could've and should've gone for the stage.

I blame the Aussies. Fat bastards sitting there with there Castlemaine XXXX all day in the heat waiting for their bum-faced leader to skulk by. Can't handle their drink and revert to their criminalistic ways.

Aussies are too lazy to get off their deck chairs to hassle riders.

https://twitter.com/lioneljbirnie/status/225972633592791041

Any relation?

I'd have a look at Valverde's performance in this Tour before you start awarding wins to Contador.

Fucking bollocks.

Boo!

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Any relation?

Nope. Well, maybe very distant.

The thing that bugs me most about the whole Froome thing is that we have this attention seeking WAG distracting not only him but us too. So now we're talking about his partner almost as much as we're talking about the cycling, tactics and incidents of the tour itself. The more attention we're giving her the more she demands attention. Doesn't anyone see that she's trolling the tour?

wiggo documentary > victoria pendleton documentary
wiggo > pendleton

By about a foot.

THat says everything about yesterday's finish!

"Let me go up the road! I can win this!"

"What, and let you put 1m30s into me? Not fucking likely!"

Those pictures are a bit out of context as the second was taken at the finish line but the first was a few minutes earlier.

The thing that bugs me most about the whole Froome thing is that we have this attention seeking WAG distracting not only him but **us **too.

Er, speak for yourself.

Shocker: WAG on twitter more interesting than Tour.

She's tweeting on full throttle this morning. She claims that it was Wiggins call for Froome not to ride up the road yesterday.

Couldn't agree more with this from Vaughters yesterday: 'Whoa. Yikes. Either work for wiggins or attack him. Two feet in or two feet out.'

I, for one, will be hoping Froome never wins a thing.

I also hope that after the debacle of a "team player" fighting his team that Froome gets a good sharp lesson in what a team is by having no support and therefore winning nothing in future.

Bugger the Froome tweets. More importantly, Tommy V - cunt or not cunt?

I lean toiwards cunt, gurning, mugging for cameras, being a bit sneaky.

Can I declare my love for Pinot and TJ?

Or are they all >6w/Kg merchants?

It's funny how all these "Pro Froome" types on FB and twitter didn't even know who he was three weeks ago.

Think about his racing history, look at Bradley's. Look at how they compare since being teammates.

No doubt he's a good rider, especially in the mountains, but that's why he's working for Bradley.

She's tweeting on full throttle this morning. She claims that it was Wiggins call for Froome not to ride up the road yesterday.

Couldn't agree more with this from Vaughters yesterday: 'Whoa. Yikes. Either work for wiggins or attack him. Two feet in or two feet out.'

I, for one, will be hoping Froome never wins a thing.

His missus sounds like she has bigger balls than him. As we've worked out about fifty pages ago - he's contractually obliged to do this. It's what he agreed to do... If he doesn't like like it then he should certainly piss off to one of the cowboy outfits currently languishing with the the other also-rans at the bottom of the pile.

If she'd been mine, I'd have binned her.

I also hope that after the debacle of a "team player" fighting his team that Froome gets a good sharp lesson in what a team is by having no support and therefore winning nothing in future.

I agree, boss.

And I'm sure all those talking about this "boring" tour wouldn't think it was boring if they were British and had spent the last 30 years watching it as some kind of strange foreign thing where maybe there'd be some plucky Brit finishing 2nd to last.

Of course I'm biased, much as the Aussies can't stand seeing Tubbs destroyed by a British team, my job security largely depends on the success of GB riders this year.

Even though you're a grumpy steak of piss with dodgy bugger grips and even dodgier taste in music and fashion, #COMEONBRAD

I also hope that after the debacle of a "team player" fighting his team that Froome gets a good sharp lesson in what a team is by having no support and therefore winning nothing in future.

Agree with this one.

Look forward to seeing what he'll say after the tour though. I honestly don't think Froome will go on to much if he leaves Sky.

Will probably be quoting this around this time next year when he's in yellow jersey