Tour de France

(21-07-2013 01:58 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  Barring a complete disaster in Paris it's job done. Unless of course someone breaks the unwritten rule of the Tour and attacks the leader on the final stage...

Yup, congrats to Chris Froome and team Sky, a worthy winner.

The first Kenyan to win the Tour

His dad is English, his mum is kenyan the daughter of brits that went out to kenya to run a plantation. So he's prety much British but one of those colonial ones. Is girlfriend is also a welsh born south african.

***Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya,[2] to Kenyan-born mother, Jane, and father Clive, a former field hockey player who represented England at under-19 level.[7] His mother's British parents emigrated from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England to Kenya to run a crop farm.***

So who do we think is the best Wiggins vs Froome

I would go Froome because this tour has been a killer with all the mountain stages. the fact Froome is a Mountain man who can put together a decent time trial

(21-07-2013 07:55 )HannahsPet Wrote:  So who do we think is the best Wiggins vs Froome

I would go Froome because this tour has been a killer with all the mountain stages. the fact Froome is a Mountain man who can put together a decent time trial

To be honest, I'm afraid to say I'm a little skeptical about this magnificent performance. Until this year he has been up there but not the very top and now he blows everyone away also constantly dogged by illness.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Froom...nal_career

You'll excuse my skepticism, I use to watch Tour every year for years, then one by one all these people kept getting done for drugs, culminating for me in the entire festina team being removed for drug taking, not to mention Lance Armstrong.

Superman efforts will always raise an eye brow. Seems that Brittish cyclist seem to be super cyclist on track and road coming from no where.

Until this year he has only been a domestic for other riders. he showed last year he was well in his comfort zone on the stages in the mountains in fact if he had been given permission to go for it he could well have beaten wiggins on sevrel of the stages to win the yellow jersey

and he is 28 now which is the perfect age for a tour cyclist

Do you think team sky would get away with anything drug related they must be the most scrutinised team in cycling from other countries the media and other teams dont like it because when dave brailsford said he would win the tour de france in 5 years they laughed but he did it in 3

someone siad it best the other day Cycling only had bad science ie drugs but when someone ie brailsford brings in good science then they dont like it

So what do Sky do next year?

Can they have two leaders in one team. It could be that Wiggins or Froome move to another team.

All the France teams will be moaning again about a Brit winning the tour. Didn't they complain last year that Sky were using tyres that were too round

(21-07-2013 14:19 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Do you think team sky would get away with anything drug related they must be the most scrutinised team in cycling from other countries

Armstrong was suppose to have been tested beyound tested.

Froome would have won last year if he hadn't had to work for Bradley so Froome's the better victory for me.

(21-07-2013 14:53 )Charlemagne Wrote:  All the France teams will be moaning again about a Brit winning the tour. Didn't they complain last year that Sky were using tyres that were too round

No brit anywhere near winning in it's entire history then two in two years.

(21-07-2013 19:32 )tuesdayslump Wrote:  

(21-07-2013 14:53 )Charlemagne Wrote:  All the France teams will be moaning again about a Brit winning the tour. Didn't they complain last year that Sky were using tyres that were too round

No brit anywhere near winning in it's entire history then two in two years.

Why the cynicism. Its a team sport. Without the rest of the team Wiggins, Froome and all previous winners would not have achieved anything. The teams are built and developed with the sole purpose of winning. They concentrate on nothing else.
Its a shame that the first thought of many is to presume drug enhancement must be responsible. They should be applauded as worthy winners. If at a later date they have been found guilty of using drugs then they should be condemned....not before. Until that time I congratulate the likes of Froome for their achievement.