Le Tour 2018

[foxy boxing]

The Barnes sisters,  Alice and Hannah celebrating their team time trial gold medals at the UCI world road Championships. Congratulation girls.

[foxy boxing]

The women's time trial is today at the UCI road world Championships and it looks like it will be between the Dutch pair Annemiek Van Vleuten and Anna Van Der Breggen, with Ellen Van Dijk hoping to make it a Dutch clean sweep of the medals.

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a Dutch threesome in the Women's individual time trial at the UCI World Road race Championships in Innsbruck, Austria

dutch threesome

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Great time trial win for Rohan Dennis of Australia at the UCI world road race Championships, he was head and shoulders better than any of the other cyclists on the day.

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It;s the Women's Elite road race tomorrow at the UCI World Road Race Championships tomorrow in Inssbruck, Austria and the Dutch are heavy favourites to win and have any of four riders that could easily win the race. Van Vlueten, Van Der Breggen, Van Dijk or Chantel Blaak. other rider to watch out for are Amanda Spratt of Australia, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio of South Africa and Denmark's Cecille Ludwig.

 

while in the Men's Elite road race on sunday the yates brothers Adam and Simon will hope to perform well while other favourites include Richie Porte of Australia, Italy's Vincenzo Nibali and France's Julian Alaphilippe.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Valverde a World Champion at 38

 

Good race that. I was knackered just watching that brutal last climb.

[foxy boxing]

Great win for Valverde finally getting the World Championship jersey after so many podium places. And such a dominating rid by Van Der Breggen for her win yesterday.

 

on a side note, how hot did Rochelle Gilmore look in that white dress commentating. Thwooarr.

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Geraint Thomas's trophy that he got for his tour de france win was stolen after it was put on display at the cycle show in Birmingham. it was put on display by team sky's bike manufacturor Pinarello at the NEC. Lance Armstrong even offered to give him one of his now defunked one!

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Simon Yates to be crowned world tour champion as he will finish top of this years cycling rankings adding to a great year for him and an amazing one for British cyclists with geraint Thomas fourth in the rankings and Chris Froome ninth. Simon Yates finishes ahead of the usually all conquering Peter sagan.

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Rachel Mckinnon has become the first transgender woman to win a world title, she was born a biological male but identifies as a woman. policies concerning transgender women in sport have changed drastically over the years. Tansgender women must test below a specific level of testosterone for more than one year before being able to compete.

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Great Britains women won team pursuit gold at the track cycling world cup in Canada.

 

Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Ellie Dickenson beat Italy in the final on day one.

 

there was also a silver medal for Oliver Wood in the mens scratch race.

 

Wood also took bronze in the mens team pursuit alongside Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Kian Emadi.

 

Ryan Owens, Philip Hindes and Jason kenny won bronze in the team sprint

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Great Britains Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker win Madison gold at The UCI track world cup and Jason Kenny also won gold in the mens keirin. Laura Kenny also won gold in the women's omnium.

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Laura Kenny and Emily Nelson claim Madison gold on the final day of the track world cup in Berlin. it added to the gold they won for the team pursuit. there was also silver in the men's team sprint for Great Britain and for Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart in the Madison.

 

Just also want to pay my respects to Paul Sherwen who died at the age of 62 and commentated on many Tour De France races as well as other cycling races.

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Olympic gold medallist cyclist Dani Rowe (formerly King) has retired.

 

as well as winning team pursuit gold at London 2012 the 28 year old claimed  three world titles and two European titles

 

she also won a Commonwealth gold bronze for wales earlier this year.

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The broadcaster Sky are pulling out of professional cycling and will no longer sponsor the British team managed By Dave Brailsford.

their sponsorship has made the team the most successful cycling team in modern cycling history and it's likely that who ever sponsors the team from next year will probably not have as bigger budget or spending power that Sky had to help it dominate the Tour De France in the last few years.

[UniFox21]

Not technically the 2018 le tour but seems relevant enough. The while era of cycling was tarnished with drugs and doping, the fact the top 10 all doped says a lot, and shows how far the sport has moved on

[foxy boxing]

Chris Froome is out of the Tour De France 2019 after a training ride accident.  Froome suffered a fractured right thighbone, fractured elbow and fractured ribs when he tried to blow his nose while travelling at high speed. what a terrible accident at the worst time for Froome. hope he comes back stronger after he has recovered, such a huge blow.

[yorkie1999]

13 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

Chris Froome is out of the Tour De France 2019 after a training ride accident.  Froome suffered a fractured right thighbone, fractured elbow and fractured ribs when he tried to blow his nose while travelling at high speed. what a terrible accident at the worst time for Froome. hope he comes back stronger after he has recovered, such a huge blow.

I've sometimes suffered the odd headache from blowing my nose too hard but to fracture half the bones in your body takes some serious blowing.

[Izzy]

2 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

Chris Froome is out of the Tour De France 2019 after a training ride accident.  Froome suffered a fractured right thighbone, fractured elbow and fractured ribs when he tried to blow his nose while travelling at high speed. what a terrible accident at the worst time for Froome. hope he comes back stronger after he has recovered, such a huge blow.

Apparently he's in intensive care. Sounds pretty bad 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48617835

 

 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

2 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

Chris Froome is out of the Tour De France 2019 after a training ride accident.  Froome suffered a fractured right thighbone, fractured elbow and fractured ribs when he tried to blow his nose while travelling at high speed. what a terrible accident at the worst time for Froome. hope he comes back stronger after he has recovered, such a huge blow.

On the plus side at least he won't be spending 3 weeks this summer getting piss thrown in his face.

[UniFox21]

Always horrible to see or hear of high speed crashes on bikes. Hopefully he recovers and the accident doesn't cut short his career.  

 

 

 

[fuchsntf]

On 13/06/2019 at 13:52, SouthStandUpperTier said:

On the plus side at least he won't be spending 3 weeks this summer getting piss thrown in his face.

Conspiracy...I bet a jealous Frenchman,doped his hanky!!!

[EastAnglianFox]

Cavendish left out of the Dimension Data team for this years tour...ouch!!

 

Going to be strange with both him and Kittell not appearing.

[EastAnglianFox]

Struggling to be interested in the sprinters stages this year, no Cav, Kittel or Gaviria.

 

Had he been picked this could have been the year for Cav to pick up another couple of stages but only he really knows how fit he was.

[foxy boxing]

I know what you mean the sprinters stages won't be the same and we all know Peter Sagan will win the green jersey again(yawn). I wish some other rider would step up and challenge him. yes he's a fantastic bike rider and is great to watch but what's the point if there is no competition, same with team Ineos/sky there needs to be completion.