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Yes, potentialy HUGE stage today. Relatively short, almost continually either climbing or descending. Could be carnage. And it looks like I'm going to be stuck in work all day and possibly into the evening. :(
Could be a late night because I'm recording Eurosport and I'm going to watch every minute of this "as live" tonight.
I shall be attempting to successfully avoid the results again. Worked well yesterday and meant I got the fun of the slow sprint for the line half hoping Jens "Shut Up Legs" Voight would catch Tommy "French Housewives' Favourite and Harry Enfield lookalike" Voeckler, and half hoping TV would hold out.
Cracking stage. And Nibali's descending. Crikey.
Likewise. That slow sprint (10% gradient, IIRC) was brilliant. :D
Oh, and that helicopter shot of the peloton riding up the multiple ridge-topping switchbacks on the Col du Grand Colombier, with the lakes and valleys in the background, was awe-inspiring. I love the fact that the TdF is in HD. 8-)
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Tour de France Highlights on ITV4 11:00am
2012 Stage 10. Action from stage 10 of the world's most famous cycle race, a 194.5km journey from Macon to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine. Presented by Gary Imlach, Chris Boardman and Ned Boulting, with commentary from Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen
Tour de France on ITV4 12:00pm - 5:00
2012 Stage 11. Coverage of stage 11 of the world's most famous cycle race, a 148km journey from Albertville to La Toussuire-Les Sybelles, where Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins will be looking to further extend his lead. Presented by Gary Imlach, Chris Boardman and Ned Boulting, with commentary from Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen
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Highlights 7-8
Booo! Wonder if I can convince Mel we need an HD telly for next year's TdF?
I loved the overhead shot as they started the Colombier descent and crossed what looked like a couple of cattle grids and Evans (ex MTBr that he is) bunny hopped them at speed.
http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/#tv-schedule
eurosport feed + incisive commentary, all the way.
itv4 for the highlights show later.
Tour de France Highlights on ITV4 11:00am
Tour de France on ITV4 12:00pm - 4:00
Mega stage highlights last night :-) but no telly for the next two nights :-(
Wonder what the radio coverage is like...
Smudge if you find the TdF on the radio, please say as I keep missing it due to childcare of an evening.
Only thing I can find is the last hour and a half of stage on 5-live.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cp89g
Better than nowt I suppose!
eurosport live coverage started at 10am today.
Cheers Bax, We use Linux at work so speakers have been disconnected by admin... I'll try 5 live though on Dab here at work this afternoon, cheers Smudge.
David Millar - get in! If you caught the footage of him lying on the deck afterwards, deep in the red zone, there's no doubt that he worked hard for that.
Of course, Scottish media have much more important sporting news to run with, the same long, dull, boring, irrelevant, drawn-out farce of a story that they've been running with for the last 3 or 4 months...
Interesting point made that not one of the British winners was born on the British mainland.
Froome - Kenya
Cav - Isle of Man
Wiggins - Belgium (yes, really)
Millar - Malta
British parents all, of course, and IoM is UK, just an interesting wee snippet more than anything else.
of course, and IoM is UK
Since when?
My bad. You're right, not UK, but British Isles.
Of course you're not the only one to get confused. "Team GB" presumably has no Northern Irish or Manx participants allowed in it either. Yet somehow it does!
I remember the endless fun when studying abroad of explaining the difference to European students between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the British Isles, Great Britain, the United Kingdom...
All in vain as one person asked me if Scotland was a nice town in England.
Entente apathetic...
That was cracking. Got back to work from the gym just in time to watch the last 1/2 an hour. Great stuff. Got no work done!
Millars tactics were spot on - he did say "I was going to counter ANY attack that came. I decided that at the start" and so he did!
Great stuff.
Pity about the dodgy sprint finish from thingy though
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Cycling Weekly (@cyclingweekly)
18/07/2012 09:53
This is what the Tour riders face today - http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/tour-de-france/533495/tour-de-france-2012-stage-16-preview.html
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Another Tour, another rest day scandal, another rider associated with Bruyneel. When will it end? :(
My sister is a km from the top of the Aubisque and has a KoM cap from the caravan for me :)
The whole Schleck thing is regrettable, but that's two positive tests so fa - we're a long way from Festina. What's interesting is whenever people are caught at the Olympics no-one thinks it's the death of athletics or weightlifting or whatever or 'when will it end'.
Fact of the matter is, while people are paid for sport, and the incentive to cheat is there, it will never end. There will always be someone willing to take the risk. What cycling is doing right is testing really really well these days, and catching what is hopefully a large proportion of those willing to take the risk (compared to, say, tennis, which has pitiful testing, and hardly at all outside of tournaments).
I must say I really can't believe that schleck would actually dope himself. It's just mad. I think that it is more likely he was spiked (possibly by his own team?)
However it's undeniable that he failed the test. Absolutelly gutted for him.
"tubular tyres, solid tyres" said Paul Sherwin talking about the danger of tubs coming unstuck on long decents when braking heats the rims up.
Obviously he (knew he) didn't mean "solid" - just not tyre and tube as separate items.
I'm just surprised that racers still use tubs, it's years since this -
http://www.mavic.com/en/history/1973/1979/The-Module-E
and lots of tyre development since.
I'm just surprised that racers still use tubs
I believe the huge (tiny) weight of lugging around a bead and a hook for the rim, together with slightly less chance of certain types of punctures is appealing enough at the pro level. If you puncture, you're throwing the wheel and tyre away as one anyway, so why worry about the convenience of a clincher for changing?
But pros don't care about repairs at all.
I'm just surprised that development of tyres and rims haven't done away with any weight advantage.
How many 'normal' amateurs still ride tubs?
But the biggest tyre story (apart from the tack attack) of the Tour so far has been Tony Martin running 'clinchers' on both the TT stages because he thinks they are slightly faster, and puncturing on both occasions.
If any of the teams were considering moving away from tubs this will surely have changed their minds.
More exiting (term applied loosely) tyre news, Europecar (i think) are using tubes which seal themselves if punctured. They have deemed the increased weight not to be a problem.
Actually I'm not to sure increased weight would be a problem, aren't all the bikes quite a bit under the legal weight anyway? The teams usually have to add weight to the bikes to make them legal, so heavier tubes not likely to be an issue...
Maybe only for the sprinters - the additional weight at the rims might make them split-secondly slower to accelerate. If I am remembering my science correctly.
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