Men's Road Cycling UCI Tour de France 2018

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17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

 

 

Uuuuh, so nasty.

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Stage 18

Thursday - July 26th, 2018

h. 14:00 (GMT +2)

 

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Trie sur Baise - Pau

171km - Rolling

 

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Timetable

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1 ora fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

 

 

Did I miss something regarding Demare?

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18 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

Did I miss something regarding Demare?

He's being accused left and right of cheating on the mountains by only being able to finish in time by hanging on to cars. Plus organizers made the time limit easier when he was in trouble, but didn't do anything when non-French sprinters were in trouble, of course.  Apart from that Demare did not make himself much appreciated with his bitchfight with Bouhanni when they were in the same team.

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The fact that I use cycling as a relief to my almost chronic insomnia has started having disadvantages

Edited July 25, 2018 by AlFHg

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2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Some moronic policeman thought Froome was a tourist and pulled him off his bike on the descent after the finish 

 

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The Chris Froome hate is getting out of hand xD

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3 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Sounds like a poor loser.

 

As I saw him saying it on TV, I would say that's wrong. He said it with honesty. If anything, he is impressed that the others are that much better than him, but also disappointed that he isn't closer to the top.

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13 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

 

 

 

 

Fan-freaking-tastic. The 678th stage finish in the unavoidable Pau and to add insult to injury, the ASO thought it'd be fun to go through the north, where there is not a single bit of climbing apart from 2 joking hills, instead of going to the south and pick up some leftover parts of the Pyrenees. It's like they hate everyone who likes the Tour de France.

 

A fitting end to this insulting stage would be Demare taking the stage win while holding onto the car.

Edited July 26, 2018 by heywoodu

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Demare has been holding onto cars for the whole tour! If only the thousands of people (teams staff, tv and press reporters in cars, spectators,...) had some mobile devices that you can use to film, we would see dozens of videos around the internet in which Demare is holding onto cars during this tour! Even Greipel accused him (I mean, he presented false data and later deleted the accusation, but who cares, Demare is guilty).

 

However, let's ignore the fact that one of the top guys was caught when he illegally gained dozens of seconds (much more than 20) that could be decisive for the win/podium...let's not complain about the jury in that case because that was not cheating, only a tactical move 

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21 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

However, let's ignore the fact that one of the top guys was caught when he illegally gained dozens of seconds (much more than 20) that could be decisive for the win/podium...let's not complain about the jury in that case because that was not cheating, only a tactical move 

The jury definitely deserves some complaint there: penalizing one rider for that was 100% correct, whereas another top rider got away without any sort of punishment for doing the same thing a few kilometers earlier. And no, nobody is saying the punishment should not have happened (also there's quite a few people saying 20 seconds was too little).

Edited July 26, 2018 by heywoodu