Tour de France 2015

Who's going to tell Nico?

Not Chris by the looks of things.

What have you got against Africans*, you racist.

*And a ginger septic, a scouser, some Belgian and an Aryan.

Detachable stem camera?

As suspected, no Marcel Kittel this year. Which is a shame.

Okayyyy...

Wonder what milieu that photographer usually works in...

must be inside the Lotto Soudal budget-froome wagon.

Lotto-Soudal channeling Celebrity Squares

after the exploits of the garmin team bus last year lotto have decided to go with a ford transit

Kittel not pulling any punches on his website, he wanted to ride but the team didn't select him as they didn't think his form would hold.

marcelkittel.de/en/

So Froome admits to missing an out of competition dope control, he's always moaning about all the others not being tested, or missing out of comp controls, there's only one reason you "forget" it's cos "you're sailing close to the wind" or you're on the juice, practice what you preach IMO, I'm going for Contador or Quintana.

You've just broken my irony meter.

Doping is still rife in the pro peloton, they all micro dose on EPO, and the ones that say their clean are liars, it makes no odds I love the sport always have, always will, you can't ride 100 miles a day at 40kph average on bread n water.

's fine - they got spaghetti and gelz these days.

That made me smile, alphabeti spaghetti, SIS gels and, EPO, HGH, Actovegin, CERA, Pluro Fluro Carbon, Steroids, the list goes on and on................

I read this on the Beeb, to be fair he doesn't really say he forgot? but this is a bit odd all the same, surely the authorities in question can get hold of him/manager etc and not have to reply on hotel staff?

"The authorities showed up at seven o'clock in the morning and the hotel wouldn't give them access to our room. They also refused to let them call up to the room," said Froome, whose attempt to win this year's Tour begins in Utrecht on 4 July.

Fucking likely story! You mean to tell me a chamber maid can tell the U.C.I to piss off!! They haven't got phones in the hotel room, "morning Mr Froome, sorry to disturb you, the U.C.I. Are waiting in the lobby!"

Bro, do you even posh hotel?

Hah, you try walking into the Dorchester or Claridges and seeing how far you get :)

Maitre'd probably took one look at the dodgy UCI blazers and told them to do one.

ok then, he was freebasing dilaudid while intravenously attached to six hookers. Now go and do your breathing.

^^^ "They also refused to let them call up to the room"

Christ. What a whinge. Not as bad as Millar's palava last year but still quite bedwet-y

Only thing he's finished this year is Game of Thrones and he's pissed about not going to the Tour.