Tour de France

^I wouldn't count on it. There's some lumpy stages coming up including a spin up the Col de la Colombiere on Saturday then Mont Ventoux in both directions in the same stage next Wednesday!

Those aren't the last of the mountains either.

I hope he is in with a shout in Paris but it will be tough going.

(30-06-2021 20:38 )Charlemagne Wrote:  

(27-06-2021 13:06 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The Tour de France organisers have statted that they will sue the girl who caused the first mass crash of the peloton by holding a sign up in front of a rider and causing him to crash into the most of the peloton.

However on seeing what she did she did a runner.

There's a report on a French News Channel which says that a girl has been taken into Police custody. She is accused of involuntarily causing injury and putting the life of others at risk.

ASO have dropped the complaint against her.

^ Good, she was just a silly individual who wasn't paying attention to the races. And there's been worse examples of bad spectator behaviour.
They did sod all when bottles of urine were thrown at Sky riders a few years ago.

^ASO & UCI are more concerned with the length of rider's socks than with their safety.

There's been a quite sickening witch hunt against "placard woman" On Twitter. Personally I fall to see what could be gained by making an example of her. If you race on public roads then occasionally the public will get in the way.

Shit happens

Stage 7 From Vierzon to Le Creusot. A hilly 249.1km, which is the longest Tour stage for 21 years.

The winner of the stage is Slovenian Matej Mohoric of Team Bahrain Victorious

First day in the Mountains and it's wet.

Let's hope everyone keeps it upright.

Stage 8 Oyonnax to Le Grand Bornand. 150.8km mountain stage.

^into the alps they go. shit's about to get real.

Today's lumps

Apart from the GC situation with so many of the favourites out of the running, I'll have to rank the first week as one of the best I've seen. Every day had some amazing racing, & great stories to match.