Tour de France 2021 - Spoilers

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Seems Cav is in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57557400

Contrary to reports a few days ago saying he was out, would love to see him win one more stage, or more.
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Hi,
I wish him all the best.
But not having a major tour win since 2016 with his other health issues I think he will struggle due to all the new blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cavendish
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote: 21 Jun 2021, 5:00pm But not having a major tour win since 2016 with his other health issues I think he will struggle due to all the new blood.
Was that meant literally?

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Hi,
Jdsk wrote: 21 Jun 2021, 5:16pm
NATURAL ANKLING wrote: 21 Jun 2021, 5:00pm But not having a major tour win since 2016, and with his other health issues, I think he will struggle due to all the new blood.
Was that meant literally?

Jonathan
"new blood" as per Cambridge / Oxford dictionary.
No other meaning implied :)
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Thanks

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Froome included as well, not as team leader though.
I've watched him being interviewed and he seems modest and very determined to get back to his old form. I'd love to see it but very much doubt it.
We're off to Brittany to see the first 5 stages. We've booked a gite and plan to cycle some of the way to watch each stage. This may have to change as I've put my back out and haven't tried getting my leg over. :oops: and we may have to drive to each stage.
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francovendee wrote: 24 Jun 2021, 8:05am Froome included as well, not as team leader though.
I've watched him being interviewed and he seems modest and very determined to get back to his old form. I'd love to see it but very much doubt it.
We're off to Brittany to see the first 5 stages. We've booked a gite and plan to cycle some of the way to watch each stage. This may have to change as I've put my back out and haven't tried getting my leg over. :oops: and we may have to drive to each stage.
Froome now reminds me of Greg Lemond in the years immediately after his last Tour win, obviously past his best but hoping against hope for a return to peak form. It ain't gonna happen. He might win a stage if he gets far enough behind on GC for the peloton to let him go, but that's about it.
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Can you guess what happens next?
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TrevA wrote: 26 Jun 2021, 4:00pm Can you guess what happens next?
That was horrific. I'd have shattered like a bone china teapot dropped on a stone floor.
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I hope every injured rider, every injured spectator, everyone who suffered any losses as a result claim off that idiot.
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Postboxer wrote: 26 Jun 2021, 6:42pm I hope every injured rider, every injured spectator, everyone who suffered any losses as a result claim off that idiot.
Agreed, but that would be some claim - did you see the state of some of the bikes - just snapped like twigs.
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Postboxer wrote: 26 Jun 2021, 6:42pm I hope every injured rider, every injured spectator, everyone who suffered any losses as a result claim off that idiot.
The ghost of David Duffield speaks.
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Hi,
Poor old Froomey :(
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Opi and Omi have been conspicuously absent from the debate about the crash.
So far the only Opi and Omi I've found on the internet are a couple of elderly Texan blackberry farmers. They don't look like the ring leaders of a gang of race saboteurs, but their silence is deafening, so I'll not let them off just yet.

https://www.omisblackberryfarm.com

edit: Apparently Opi and Omi means Grandma and Grandpa in German so I think the blackberry farmers can be let off.
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That was one hell of a SMIDSY, must be a world record!
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