Tour de France 2012

He was pretty much an unsupported sprinter on a GC team. That was the problem, innit?

I think the lead out train did brilliantly do give Cav the wins they did considering they were concentrating on, and winning, the GC. Cav said from the start he wasnt going for the green jersey.

I said a few pages ago that it was wishful thinking to hope for Wiggo to lead cav out for a sprint win in paris and that's almost exactly what we got. I expected Wiggo to be safe in the bunch. Amazing tour, amazing final stage.

Did you follow any of the tour dicki?

;-)

every single nail biting buttock clenching thrilling moment my dear boy

and then some

thanks to this thread ... useful insight good links to news articles

Fignon 1st & Lemond 3rd, 1984 (Renault)
Hinault 1st & Lemond 2nd, 1985 (La Vie Claire)
Lemond 1st & Hinault 2nd, 1986 (La Vie Claire)

Obviously also Riis and Ullrich in 1996, except that there was some doping involved. Riis hasn't been officially stripped of the win yet, though, has he?

"I feel honoured to be singing the same songs as the pros"

"I smashed it through the first verse"

If Cav had not been involved in a couple of crashes he could have won five stages, even without the support of a train.

He didn't get green jersey success this year because that takes a team effort and the team were focussed entirely on Wiggins and his GC position.

cough Zabel cough, splutter Kelly in 89 splutter.

Obviously also Riis and Ullrich in 1996, except that there was some doping involved. Riis hasn't been officially stripped of the win yet, though, has he?

Riis stripped himself of it pretty much. Apart from Landis and Contador, I'm not sure if anyone has been stripped of a jersey. They could start with Virenque's 7 x KoMs in my opinion.

Dan Francis is a fucking chancer. He's not even riding those stages at the same time as the race.
I rode in the 2007 opening stage on the back of the peloton.

Sorry:

COME ON LISA!!

Come on, Bart!

^ You see, this is where the marketers would say that the logo really 'works', 'cause people are playing around with it ...

Not so. It's still stupid and ugly, and any logo would have got the same attention.

cough Zabel cough, splutter Kelly in 89 splutter.

What happened in '89 Bill? I was 7 and didn't have a telly. Some wall fell over... the rest is a blur.

Have Zabel and Kelly won Green in the same year as their team mates wore yellow?

Wouldn't Cav have to go into some breakaways for that to ever happen for him? He's a pure sprinter so a bit er... high maintenance within a team compared to Sagan (for instance)?

If Cav had not been involved in a couple of crashes he could have won five stages, even without the support of a train.

There was black friday when he punctured at the crash and was a minute back from the peloton when a team around him would have got him back. Greipel won that stage, he rolled in about 8 minutes back or more.

There was also that stage in the Languedoc with that short climb and Cav got dropped. A team might have got him back, like Lotto did for Greipel. Greipel won it.

While 3 stages is an excellent return, Cav has been averaging 5 up until this tour. I think he has an eye on Merckx's stage wins and wants to be multiple green jersey winner, both will be more difficult with Sky. He also reacted angrily when a journalist asked him how if felt to be a domestique, and described his role in the team as being like 'playing Wayne Rooney in defence'.

Thought this was a lovely picture.

NEWPORT, WALES - JULY 22: Sir Chris Hoy (L),Ross Edgar (C),Geraint Thomas (2R) and Peter Kennaugh (R) members of Team GB Track Cycling watch the finishing stages of the Tour de France during their Training Session at Newport Velodrome on July 22, 2012 in Newport, Wales. (via Photo from Getty Images)

Just finished rereading the TdF 2011 thread.

The post that stuck out the most:

https://www.lfgss.com/post2281686-1645.html

Lol, clowns!

Ha ha, I thought Murdoch would have pulled the plug.
Good job I didn't put any money on it!

Ha - goes to show what I know. At the same time, I would like to know who predicted he was capable of winning the tour last year.

I did.

Unless someone can prove I didn't.

Tremendous day. Unforgettable agony watching it, but a finish you hardly dare dream of. Was glued to every minute of this Tour. Bereft now. Wish I could have been on the Champs-Élysées. Arise, Sir Wiggins.

i wish there was some honour we could call for that doesn't include the fucking queen

king of the world ?

Thought this was a lovely picture.

NEWPORT, WALES - JULY 22: Sir Chris Hoy (L),Ross Edgar (C),Geraint Thomas (2R) and Peter Kennaugh (R) members of Team GB Track Cycling watch the finishing stages of the Tour de France during their Training Session at Newport Velodrome on July 22, 2012 in Newport, Wales. (via Photo from Getty Images)

Love that!