2018 Tour De France (Spoilers)
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Re: 2018 Tour De France (Spoilers)
Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
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Spinners wrote:Brucey wrote:
Froome was initially awarded a time of 40"50' (i.e. faster than TdM's winning time) but when I looked at the VT again, Froome's on-screen clock stopped when he was short of the finish line for some reason.
As a timekeeper, I reckon he shouted out his number whilst still about 8m short of the actual finish line - a common 'cheat' used by testers
Nope. A gendarme walked past the finishing-line photocell a second or so before CF went over it. Hell, if you haven't an excuse to use your pepper spray, you do what you can.
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thelawnet wrote:Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
Obviously.
In his years as a track rider he lived in Newton le Willows in a terraced house with Ed Clancy,about three miles from where I live,for the train connection into Manchester and the velodrome
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reohn2 wrote:thelawnet wrote:Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
Obviously.
In his years as a track rider he lived in Newton le Willows in a terraced house with Ed Clancy,about three miles from where I live,for the train connection into Manchester and the velodrome
GT's spoken accent is not obviously Welsh, it has articulation of Manchester accent,
along with much nondescript English... [perhaps his Television interview voice?]
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Debs wrote:reohn2 wrote:thelawnet wrote:Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
Obviously.
In his years as a track rider he lived in Newton le Willows in a terraced house with Ed Clancy,about three miles from where I live,for the train connection into Manchester and the velodrome
GT's spoken accent is not obviously Welsh, it has articulation of Manchester accent,
along with much nondescript English... [perhaps his Television interview voice?]
He has not lived in the Principality for many years
Maybe he now speaks Globish, a sort of world standard English
Et Francais, mais oui!
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At last true-born Briton wins The Tour. Congrats, "G"!!
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Debs wrote:reohn2 wrote:thelawnet wrote:Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
Obviously.
In his years as a track rider he lived in Newton le Willows in a terraced house with Ed Clancy,about three miles from where I live,for the train connection into Manchester and the velodrome
GT's spoken accent is not obviously Welsh, it has articulation of Manchester accent,
along with much nondescript English... [perhaps his Television interview voice?]
It's a typical Cardiff accent.
There's rather a lot of different (native) accents in Wales....... live here long enough and you can spot the difference in accents between Cardiff, Barry, Valleys, Swansea etc as well as identifying the stereotypical "Welsh" accent many English people might recognise......
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Re: 2018 Tour De France (Spoilers)
Debs wrote:reohn2 wrote:thelawnet wrote:Mr. Thomas lives in Monaco. For the roads, obviously.
Obviously.
In his years as a track rider he lived in Newton le Willows in a terraced house with Ed Clancy,about three miles from where I live,for the train connection into Manchester and the velodrome
GT's spoken accent is not obviously Welsh, it has articulation of Manchester accent,
along with much nondescript English... [perhaps his Television interview voice?]
I'm still trying to figure out how we got from Monaco to his accent
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Hi,
Vuelta starts soon
Vuelta starts soon
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do the post tour crits still happen?
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mig wrote:do the post tour crits still happen?
Don't see why they shouldn't do; Chris Froome was asking 50000 euros a go appearance money in 2016 though, so maybe they have priced themselves out of the market....
cheers
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GT did a crit last Wednesday according to today's TV.
You'll never know if you don't try it.
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Brucey wrote:mig wrote:do the post tour crits still happen?
Don't see why they shouldn't do; Chris Froome was asking 50000 euros a go appearance money in 2016 though, so maybe they have priced themselves out of the market....
cheers
Traditionally they were a source of income that made up for the scant monetary rewards from the Tour. These days there are bigger pots on the Tour itself so they will be less enticing for the tired riders.
Convention? what's that then?
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