Le Tour

[Massimo Giovanni]

C'mon Froomie, G, Cav, tear up the mountains, sweep down the Tors and bring the Yellow, Green Polka and White jerseys back to the UK.
Love Le Tour, great action, specatular scenes and unbelievable (often TOO unbelievable) feats of sporting greatness.
Viva Le Tour.

 

[Firestorm]

And Astana start the ball rolling with another drug related controversy.

 

[Billy is the best]

Good win by Cav today. The overhead view of his sprint to the finish showed what a great bike rider he is.
I was lucky enough to see the Tour de France yesterday. The worlds greatest free sporting spectacle.

 

[Pubey]

the speed before the end sprint was just amazing. great stage today, been a good tour so far. Shame for gun-wielding farmer Tony Martin.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Terrific stage win by Cavs today, looking forward to the mountain stages and seeing what Quintana can do.

 

[Pubey]

Massive stage from Froome happening right now. Quintana, Contador and Nibali all dropped

 

[Ricey]

Great ride by Froome and Porte to take Quintana in the final 300m.

Froome is certainly making up for last year.

 

[Billy is the best]

For me this was the best stage ever for english riders in the TdF. I can not remember a better performance from a uk rider. Well done christoper Froome.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Steve Cummings wins for MTN-Qhubeka, 3rd british stage win of the tour. :thumbsup:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Froome hangs on to get TdF win #2 :thumbsup: Tremendous ride by Quintana today though, I'll be very happy when does win Le Tour, it's surely just a matter of time.

Interestingly on the itv coverage they said, Quintana was quicker over the mountains than Froome, and it was effectively the crosswinds on stage 2 that split the peloton that won the tour for Froomey.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

That was a very tense final climb. Every year the bar seems to be set higher and this years tour has been a tad unbalanced away from the sprinters and individual stage winners IMO.

 

[Billy is the best]

That was a very tense final climb. Every year the bar seems to be set higher and this years tour has been a tad unbalanced away from the sprinters and individual stage winners IMO.

This years Tour certainly favoured the climbers, for me i prefer to watch the battles in the mountains. Quintana proved he is a great rider today and will be a future Grand tour winner. Froome battled well although he appeared to be suffering he was still able to take time from the other pre race favourites.