Tour de France 2022

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niemeyjt · #11 Post by **niemeyjt** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:09 pm

There is a certain irony that protesters block a bicycle race in the name of climate change.

Bayleaf · #12 Post by **Bayleaf** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 7:15 pm

niemeyjt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:09 pm There is a certain irony that protesters block a bicycle race in the name of climate change.

Is that what caused a big pile-up yesterday?

niemeyjt · #13 Post by **niemeyjt** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:14 pm

No - today in the French Alps - Megeve.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... rt-nielsen

rabbit · #14 Post by **rabbit** » Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:44 pm

Superb ride by young Pidcock. First tour and he wins on The Alpe on Bastille Day. He was clocked at 105kph! He is a sure future Tour winner

MAD87 · #15 Post by **MAD87** » Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:42 pm

rabbit wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:44 pm Superb ride by young Pidcock. First tour and he wins on The Alpe on Bastille Day. He was clocked at 105kph! He is a sure future Tour winner

Was he booked for speeding?

ajm · #16 Post by **ajm** » Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:15 pm

MAD87 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:42 pm
rabbit wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:44 pm Superb ride by young Pidcock. First tour and he wins on The Alpe on Bastille Day. He was clocked at 105kph! He is a sure future Tour winner
Was he booked for speeding?

Probably on the wrong side of the road as well. Good day for Fred Wright

Liz · #17 Post by **Liz** » Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:39 pm

Agreed, good lad!

Blaze · #18 Post by **Blaze** » Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:43 pm

Okay, so who spotted the mankini ??? It was there, as usual, a lime green monstrosity worn by a man with a mime green wig

He was there just before the barriers started ....
Tough race in the heat with some familiar spots - I hoped Vingegaard would get it, but Pogacar had that extra spurt at the end.

manonthemoon2 · #19 Post by **manonthemoon2** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:09 pm

They finished at Cahors today where our daughter lives.

Liz · #20 Post by **Liz** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 10:48 pm

We were in Cahors yesterday morning for a hospital appt for Fixit. Lots of car parks already shut so I dropped him at the door and went to find a parking space (amazingly a shady one nearby!!!!) The town looked so neat and clean.
Today Fixit had to be at the eye clinic in Montauban, so we drove part of the Le Tour route near Sauzet on the way, hooting and waving to the folk already on the roadside - well they hadn't seen a Morris Minor woodie before!
Coming back, I opted to bypass Cahors even tho the riders were hours away, and stay on the autoroute to Cahors nord, then dropped down towards Cahors taking a wiggly turn west to access the main valley road home. A tad longer but we kept moving.
Enjoyed watching the route up from Lauzerte to Cahors, all my home territory.

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