Tour de France 2025
Good first day’s racing, but plenty of spills and large time differences already. Got to feel for poor Filippo Ganna (Ineos), first time back in Tde F for a couple of years and caught up in mayhem.
No spoilers on the day please, some of us do late evening catch ups!
It’s hard to look past Pogacar at the moment, but can only hope one or two of the other teams can come up with a plan to beat him. Personally, would love to see Fred Wright win a stage, and a breakaway for Gee would crown a glorious last year and career.
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It is hard for me to watch any of it as we are away in the Van at the moment, so just have to make do with reports and the odd bit I can find on YouTube.
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I have been recording it this year ITV 4 but will see what next year brings as I may have to watch on French tv channels instead as not keen on subscriptions.
Still got yesterdays race to watch and today so will watch tonight as Monday night nothing on for me to watch.
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GB fans are steaming at TNT😡 They have opted to put adverts into live stream. You can only dodge them by using the multi screen option, which might be fine on a huge TV screen, but we only have the smallest screen you can buy. So we’d need binoculars🥴
Great days racing yesterday, these first two days have been more like watching the Belgian Classics. Jonas has been fantastic, playing to a different song sheet this Tour. Poor Lenny Martinez, the “latest hope of France” is having a nightmare start. No helped by all the hype. It was good to see Michael Matthews in the studio following his unexpected health scare. Orla was rocking some kind of Ghengis Khan look yesterday, her outfits and hair are occasionally as interesting as the race!🤭
Sprint day today🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️ Cue chaos🫣
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@SteveL if you should be thinking of signing up toTNT/Discovery, don’t just opt for the £30.99 fee (how much😱) We haggled and get it for £6.99. OH does watch some of the football as well, plus World Student Games are on later this year, and there are some good sports documentaries.
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What about todays stage win by Anna Henderson on the second stage of the ladies Giro, and taking over the pink Jersey as well!
More crashes and abandonments on The Tour today, including the winner of Stage 1, Jasper Pederson. Could it be because of the weather, more intense racing perhsps because of the greater rewards on offer, or "less" experienced riders?
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@nelliethehooker a number of factors possibly🤔 There are more riders in the actual race, as an extra wildcard team was added. The first three stages have been more like Belgian Classics, through narrow urban streets with lots of street furniture, and cross winds. The stakes have been huge as well, winner of anything on Stage 1 got to wear a jersey of course, hence the two KOM contenders bringing each other down at the KOM line. One got the jersey, the other got the Combativity award, and luckily both are still racing. Didn’t see Ganna and Bissiger go down, so not sure on that one. Cocquard was shoved out the way by Philipsson on day one at an intermediate sprint, won by Milan, but he does seem prone to deviating a bit, and that unintentionally brought Philipsson down in a horrific crash yesterday. He was in a very bad way. Cocquard was yellow carded and fined. The mayhem at the finish was the usual fight for space on a bend, but how they all got up I do not know. 🫣 It’s another expected sprint finish today, but one more for the fast finishers who can also climb. Nerves, high stakes, some inexperience, bad luck, inattention, all playing a part. Some of the riders appear really hyped up to deliver.
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