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Whether you're into football, athletics, tennis, golf or cricket, join the dicsussion on our Sport forum.

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 20:47

a thread about a thread that hasn't happened yet. Drugs help, apparently.

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Kleptronic · 20/08/2015 20:49

Can I have a go in your time machine, please?

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 20:51

it's not a machine. It's the drugs that provide the powers of prediction!
Dr cough, ariadne cough....

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Kleptronic · 20/08/2015 20:59

Oh I see. No wait, I really don't.

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 21:07

sorry Kleptronic, it's an attempt at a push-start for DrTwo or ariadne to get the pre-race tension built with the commencement of a thread for the Vuelta. They may have other more pressing things to do in their lives right now, but the crowds are building around the crush barriers, eating ice cream and waiting for the roll out.

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Kleptronic · 20/08/2015 21:29

Ah! I see it now! Sorry Maillot I really shouldn't geg in where I know nowt. Thanks for being gracious in the face of my ignorance :)

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VeryPunny · 20/08/2015 21:32

Most of the contenders also did le Tour, no? So they'll all be equally knackered. Would love for Froome to do the double....

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 21:34

The maillot rojo (red jersey) is the equivalent of the Tour de France's yellow jersey.

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 21:36

yes they did - Bertie, The Valve, Quintana, Froomey, the cheating Italian who's name I can't bring myself to type.

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CarpeJugulum · 20/08/2015 21:37

Most of them surely if previous hints have been anything to go on. Nothing proven of course...

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 21:40

I mean the bit in the Tour where Froome had a mechanical, Cheating Italian looked round, saw him in trouble, and attacked. And denied it later.
Though yes he rides for a team that is v heavily under suspicion for the more recognised form of cheating.

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FelixFelix · 20/08/2015 21:40

Hello!

I am going to try and watch but not sure how successful I'll be. I hardly even watched any of the tour I've missed out on loads this season.

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CarpeJugulum · 20/08/2015 21:42

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that bit. Did mutter loudly at the TV for that bit.

Thank god for ITV4 highlights...

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MrSlant · 20/08/2015 21:50

In our house (well someone else's house in Portugal but we stopped enjoying our holiday every day for the tour of course) when a certain Italian had a puncture 800m in to the Alpe d'Huez the cheer scared the birds for about a 50 mile radius.

Hola, ¿que tal?

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 22:14

Evening MrS! and v impressed with keyboard skills.

Do we think the good Dr or the sadly abandoned ariadne might get a sniff of road tyre and climb aboard the big red Skoda?

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MrSlant · 20/08/2015 22:18

I was rather proud the proper question mark worked out .

Well as I was MIA for most of the tour I don't think I dare comment on others being absent . How was your accidental brush with the earlier stages?

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 22:21

Utterly fab m'dears - put some photos up on the Tour thread, from Pyrenees stage, getting a bit close to the big red car for some gendarme's comfort too! When he was haraunging me I almost heard myself say, "But I'm British!"

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MrSlant · 20/08/2015 22:42

Being harangued by a gendarme is pretty cool though!

I will go and have a look at your pictures.

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 22:54

but they have guns and tasers so it's a bit risky.....

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MrSlant · 20/08/2015 22:57

I know, exciting! I'm always pointing out the guns to my boys when we are on holiday in the hope they behave a bit better. There you go though, didn't work for you eh?

I like your pictures, especially the one where you were leading the peloton . Did the UCI check your basket for a motor? Although now I am pining for next years holiday because we didn't get to France this year.

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DramaAlpaca · 20/08/2015 23:00

Evening all

Looks like this is our Vuelta thread, then!

Roll on Saturday!

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 23:04

Noooo DA! please? I was just prompting a bit! We can be really slick and have this as the 'sign in' thread prior to the main event!

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MaillotRojoPan · 20/08/2015 23:13

Saturday's TTT, on the beach!

His name is Nairo and he races on the sands

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MrSlant · 20/08/2015 23:27

Earworm!

I like it, if they all have to do it then it's fair right? Makes for more interesting tactics for once and is making twitter more fun.

As long as Spartacus gets through it all I don't mind.

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CarpeJugulum · 21/08/2015 11:39

Seen the Tour four times now, three times in France and once in Yorkshire.

Hoping to do a mountain stage once DS is a bit older and can pee alfresco!

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MrSlant · 21/08/2015 18:01

You lucky thing Carpe. I've seen it once but I don't talk about it often because Pan has a limit set on the amount of times I'm allowed to say 'whilst we were on the Alpe d'Huez watching the tour' per year. Damn it, there's another one ticked off . Where did you see it in Yorkshire?

Just seen that the cyclists have all complained and the Vuelta TTT has been made to not count toward individual cyclists times only the team places because of all the sand. Not sure what I make of that yet.