Well what can you expect from a needy, narcissistic, pitiful, selfish, spoiled hypocrite?Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Ooooh Graham, get a bottle of something fizzy cracked open, as Mark Cavendish has postponed his retirement for another year!
Well what can you expect from a needy, narcissistic, pitiful, selfish, spoiled hypocrite?Ooooh Graham, get a bottle of something fizzy cracked open, as Mark Cavendish has postponed his retirement for another year!
There's a few comebacks come to mind
Roglic on the move as well. Looks like Bora.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Tour De France spending first three days in Italy next year
Finishing with a Monaco-Nice time trial, due to Paris hosting the Olympics.
The first half of the fourth day is in Italy too.Tour De France spending first three days in Italy next year
Finishing with a Monaco-Nice time trial, due to Paris hosting the Olympics.
I've no idea why the biggest cycling race in the world, the Tour de France (which means the circuit of France), starts and then spends three and a half days in Italy. Personally, I think it makes it a laughing stock; La Vuelta rarely leaves Spain.
For what it's worth the 1998 Tour de France started in Dublin, although as the worthy winner was riding a Bianchi Graham will no doubt tell us what a magnificent race it was (and on this occasion he'd be right)
Even better the year it started in Yorkshire and came past the bottom our road!
I think the French are a bit blase about their Tour and having a few days in Italy sprinkles a little glamour and fairy dust on the fraught crash-crash opening days.The first half of the fourth day is in Italy too.
I've no idea why the biggest cycling race in the world, the Tour de France (which means the circuit of France), starts and then spends three and a half days in Italy. Personally, I think it makes it a laughing stock; La Vuelta rarely leaves Spain.
For what it's worth the 1998 Tour de France started in Dublin, although as the worthy winner was riding a Bianchi Graham will no doubt tell us what a magnificent race it was (and on this occasion he'd be right)
The 1994 race started in Lille and I saw the start of Stage 4 Dover - Brighton which was an odd affair. The previous day's Stage 3 was a 66 km TTT (Calais to Eurotunnel) and then Stage 5 was a jaunt round Southampton but by that evening it was all back to Cherbourg for Stage 6 on the following day. Still I'm sure the riders enjoyed the train journey in a tunnel and a trip on a boat.
I'm not as big a fan of cycling as many on here... but i've come to accept that Tour De France often has a few days outside of France....
But it seems a very odd choice to spend so much time in Italy which has its own Grand Tour.
But it's all about towns paying ASO for the financial benefit...ooops I nearly wrote honour there... of having the start and/or finish of a stage.
If 21 Italian towns paid enough ASO would happily have the entire Tour in Italy!
On its way to Ilkley I believe.
I came to the opening stage when it was in Yorkshire, the finish being in Harrogate.
Harrogate was packed and i was a good 800mtrs from the finish, so i missed the big crash in the sprint.
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