The Tour de France starts today. This will be the 100th time it has been run. Chris Froome is possibly favourite to win, and has a strong Sky team around him. He will face competition from Contador, Evans Rodriguez and Valverde: http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france
Recently got a roadie bike to help get shut of a bit of accumulated timber. Just tootling around Riplingham, Newbald and Cave and I'm f*cked. TDF has that for breakfast for best part of a month. Still if the drugs don't work I might do Lands End to John O'Groats next year. In a car.
Can't wait for this afternoon. Cav and his first ever yellow jersey today for me. Then he'll lose it tomorrow, much better suited to Peter Sagan.
Bit of an anticlimax...hopefully the birds at the presentations will be of suitable quality to compensate.
Chris Froome, Richie Porte and Edvald Boasson Hagen - Team Sky - finished on the same time as the winner, Marcel Kittel of Argos-Shimano. Brilliant pantomime with the Orica-GreenEdge Tour bus stuck under the Finish banner until the leaders were a mere 10km from the Finish!
I checked the crashes back on slow frame and luckily not on single rider's head came into contact with the floor, especially not directly on top of the helmet. I was concerned because the helmets are only designed to stand one blow and then must be disposed of, and I'd noticed they had no spares. Unfortunately, all of the injuries were in areas not covered in polystyrene. :- ( I did chuckle at the confusion though.
I believe he broke his collar bone, but I'm not 100% sure. I reckon Sagan's going to have his best tour yet.
They're going to make a decision today if he rides... Despite my comments on the nobheads I see on the roads when I'm in London, I genuinely enjoy the Tour and watching Pro's racing either in Tours or on tracks. If I'd had ONE of his injuries I'd so be bedridden for weeks! Mental start though, as predicted by a few. That bus...lol, but the carnage after...bloody hell.
Typical Tour, eh? "Oh, this stage is Cav's, you know?!" Most of the top sprinters down in the crash. The 3km 'Finish'/'not Finish' chaos was just a beaut! As was the cause of it - that stupid jammed bus.....
Link, for those who don't have Sky/Eurosport (and would like to follow the Tour): http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/#live
Anyone know how/why Nigel Mansell got involved in road cycling? He's with British Racing Youth or some such.
Possibly via this, Dutch?: http://www.ukyouth.org/latest-news-hidden/item/434-nigel_mansell_cycling.html
Interesting, but how/why was he president in he first place? Not knocking it, it's good to see. It just seems an interesting career move.
Stage 2: Bastia - Ajaccio (156km). Won by Jan Bakelants, with Peter Sagan 1 sec behind! Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) finished on same time as Sagan. Yellow Jersey now worn by Bakelants. Boasson Hagen, Cadel Evans, David Millar all 1 sec behind the Yellow.
