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Originally Posted by Stagger

I agree, the french cheer their men, as do the dutch so how is it a crime to cheer a British lad?

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of course they do, it's not, and I didn't say it was. I said 'it is not ALL about nationality'.
Which means if the price of having a Brit / Sky winner of the TDF every year was a boring Tour, then personally I wouldn't want to pay it.
Being English and following road cycling, you have had to find your heroes from other countries - whether Roche and Kelly, or Millar, or Ulrich, or Voigt, or Jalabert or Hinault. That has made it a sport sans frontieres, in a refreshing contrast to other sports.
People followed cycling because they loved it, not cos they were 'shouting for England'.
Now that you can shout for England, there's nowt wrong with that at all. But it's not the most important part of following cycling, for me.

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Originally Posted by The devil's own

what I am doing is saying the tour isn't the be all and end all of cycling.

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yes, well said.

Wiggins having a storming TT, boring???

I wish I could average 50kph on the flat.
Great to watch.

Awesome...

Why's he got two CD's stuffed down his shorts? Or are they afterburners!

Chapeux Bradley

Never thought i'd see the day. Genuinely never thought it'd happen but there it is!

A 3rd Cav win would just top it all off.
Sky as a team have been head and shoulders above every other team.
Lets hope they can keep em together and raise the bar even higher.

I went through a spell of cynicism with the Tour... the endemic drug taking just turned me off what is a real spectacle.

I may be being very naive, but I believe him and I take a good deal of pleasure seeing Bradley Wiggins win... chapeau mate...:thumbup:

... don't fall off tomorrow eh?!