Just curious as to why if you are British you would be rooting for an Australian riding for an American team...as opposed to a Briton riding for a British team?Yes it's been awful weather so far. Great TT by Thomas and apparently the first Welshman to be in yellow! Would love to see Porte win it but cannot see past Froome again.
Now another kick off to Tram Sky saying their ski suits were breaking the rules!
It's not about whether he is British or not, personally cannot stand Team Sky if that's okay with you? Don't watch F1 either, support England in cricket but technically I am Scottish and dislike rugby. I think Germany are a Great footballing nation. Personally I think it's okay to appreciate non British talent particularly in an individual sport.Just curious as to why if you are British you would be rooting for an Australian riding for an American team...as opposed to a Briton riding for a British team?
Do you root for Ferrari in F1? South African in the cricket? NZ in the rugby? Germany in the football?
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Interesting...thanks.It's not about whether he is British or not, personally cannot stand Team Sky if that's okay with you? Don't watch F1 either, support England in cricket but technically I am Scottish and dislike rugby. I think Germany are a Great footballing nation. Personally I think it's okay to appreciate non British talent particularly in an individual sport.
I think Porte is a great rider and should be destined for GC but didn't get much of a chance playing second fiddle to Froome and co and hopefully that American team can give him that opportunity.
Personally I think it's okay to appreciate non British talent particularly in an individual sport
Mark Cavendish does not seem to be doing that great so far. I'll always be rooting for him in the sprints. I'd like to see him get a few more stage wins.
But they don't really represent their countries except in the world championships so I cannot understand the arguement. Riders move from team to team regularly and therefore for me cycling isn't about what country you come from it's about what you bring as a rider. You don't sit at the side of the road and cheer England do You?Interesting...thanks.
Personally I can't fathom it tbh.
Its just that I am English so anybody English I want them to win coz they're representing the country. After England comes British...so in the Euros last yr...I was willing Wales to do well apart from against us, & more so once we were out.
I can see how it does get slightly confused by commercialism - like "Team Sky" (/ Williams in f1) only fly the flag in a small way...but I still prefer them to foreign teams.
For me it's a bit like Arsenal fans dumping England for Sanchez's Chile in a head to head.
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Agree to a certain point but the individual takes the plaudits, the team take second fiddle on that aspectIt's not really an individual sport really is it? The team element is huge.
He's had glandular fever in the last few weeks and has only been in training for 6 weeks. Can see him winning one or two tops. Sagan should win the green jersey easily. Kittel, Demare and Mathews to fight it out for the podium.
Got to love random attacks, totally no sense to them but trying to stretch the field a little. They just run out of juice at the last 10k and disappear in the pack.Whats this Belgian loony doing?
van Keirsbulck attacked from the off & absolutely nobody followed him......he's escaped to over 12 mins now......looking likely hes gonna end up riding about 200K by himself, only to be heartbroken in the final push....
I dont know much about it, but whats up with that in a race? Unless people are saving their energy and will hammer him at the end?
cos the stage is over 200K long mate......and now hes got to ride it all by himself.......if a few riders had gone with him, they can work together & it makes life a little easier......but hes on his bill and so cannot take turns to rest in the slipstream of other riders.
The longer he goes though, the more interesting the tactics in the peleton become......
Sky trains hit the front now....looks like they not letting him stretch it any further than 13 mins.
Who?:jawdrop:cooorrrrrrrr.......look at the tits on her.....
Breakaways are a funny one, generally they rarely succeed particularly in this case with 200km to go. It can stretch the pack however as its usually a bid to speed up the peloton, Team Sky are bossing this race in the Peloton so it might get others to try and speed this up to catch the pack. He isn't a threat to the overall GC so you are not going to see the main contenders chasing him down with urgency but equally he cannot keep up that pace indefinitely against a 70 strong peleton so he will be caught.Ah so he's going to be hammered and watch them all fly past him.
Who?
Suspected as much, unfortunately read the thread just too late to tune into ITV4+1.:-o...Ha ha....I had just noticed a rather fit female cycling fan in the tour crowd just after my previous post about todays highlights......
.....it was a highlight of sorts.
Kicked off the tour. And rightly so. Boardman and that twat Millar defending him on itv4 was laughable.
Demare should have been relegated for cutting up bouhanni. Shambolic sprint.
Yep not the first time he has been shafted at the end but this was blatant! Absolutely ridiculous that he cut off his path and the elbow come flying out. Shame such a great rider but this cannot be acceptedDoes anyone else get the feeling that the rest of the riders have it in for Cavendish?
I think they have been very annoyed that he was winning so many sprints.
I hope he's able to continue with the tour, but it looks doubtful.
I have to say "well done" to the officials for disqualifying Sagan.
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