....starts tomorrow! Bradley Wiggins in with a shout. And Mark Cavendish aiming to aid Wiggers (by not trying for every Sprint Win he might stand a chance of!) http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/ Tomorrow's Prologue is a 6.4km time trial, so there's a fair chance of our man wearing the Yellow Jersey on Stage 1.
Looking forward to it. Wiggins is in with a real shout, providing he doesn't break his collar bone. A British double would be superb, especially this year.
I know nothing about The Tour De France, or cycling in general. But I have a huge about of respect for anyone that is taking part(Obviously not the ones who drug inhance there performance)
It's never been the same since Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and Mario Cippolini used to lock horns. The Tashkent Terror was always good for a pile up.
Worth watching everyday and recording so you can watch it again i still have last years on my computer
I don't follow cycling the rest of the year, but this is special - the most visually spectacular sporting occasion in the world, and the best TV commentary in any UK sport by miles and miles. Liggett and Sherwen are legends in my eyes.
This could be a useful link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/int...e-france-2012-interactive-guide?newsfeed=true
Keep an eye out for someone on a yellow bike, it could be a ringer. Oh, and another link...TDF Stage by stage. i still can't find that site that showed the live Garmin stats, like speed, Heart rate and altitude with a map showing their positions. [video=youtube_share;c7T_8do5Ask]http://youtu.be/c7T_8do5Ask[/video]
Cheers Dutch! I'd forgotten(!) the Official TdF site. If you do find the Garmin stats, I'd be interested to see them. Is the ringer on the yellow bike possibly DMD on a Giant?
Love Le Tour. Lived in the Savoie region of the French Alps for a year and used to drive a lot of the Alpine routes as part of my job. Got to see the centenary race come through Albertville for the sprint and at the stage finish in Alp D'Huez. I'll be glued as usual.
Boasson Hagen fastest so far (by mere hundredths of a second); but Wiggins, Cancellara and Evans to go yet!
Good result for Wiggins that , Cancellara is a prologue specialist and never lost in the TdF prologue , what you have to look at is the time gaps to other overall contenders
