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I can't quite believe this: I rushed home from work in order to catch the last 30kms of the Tour today, and in order to catch up on what happened earlier, I read the cycling news ticker.
Imagine my amazement when I read this:
What planet are they on?
"The epitome of team riding"? Huh? They've had a different "leader" (or set of leaders) every day so far. I've spent the entire tour - not to mention the entire season - shouting at the screen about their poor groupage, and the fact that Andy, Fab and Frankie have, at various times, not had any other riders with them.
If you want to see team riding and solidarity, just look at Sky! *swells with pride at how well my team are doing, but tries not to make a big thing of it on the blog...*
Talking of the Tour, Angi on Twitter has been posting pictures of flowers, amusingly captioned as being various jerseys. (You have to be a bit of a botanist to "get" some of the jokes!) Then today I saw this on the screen:
Good, huh?
The Burros de France we're a real highlight; loved seeing them gambol alongside the cyclists, as they were riding past.
ReplyDeleteRe: solidarity. No, I think not. If anything, since the news about Frank first broke out (which I still think was handled poorly, and designed to maximise the humiliation), it seems they have been trying to absolve themselves of having anything to do with him, and throwing the man under a bus.
Chris Froome and Bradley are being very diplomatic in their post-race interviews--but I do sense some understandable tension there. I can't see Froome domestiquing forever, particularly as the helpers have generally had better form at this Tour, like Tejay Van Garderen.
Hey Figgy,
ReplyDelete"Throwing the man under a bus" does just about sum it up, doesn't it? Poor Frankie, and now the B sample has come back positive as well, so he is now struggling to find out how he ingested this stuff.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/schlecks-b-sample-returns-positive_230824
Can you imagine trying to remember every single thing that you ate or drank, five days ago? Poor man.
Lovely piece from Chris Horner (I am starting to like him!) here:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/chris-horner-every-time-you-take-a-drug-test-you-worry_230775
In it he comments on how difficult it is to control what they eat and drink: he says quite openly that he dreads testing, because, for example, during this Tour so far he has taken proabably 30 bottles from "guys at the side of the road".
And they could have contained anything. Anything. As a GC rider, Frankie would normally be supplied with bottles and food by the domestiques, but as we know, there have been many times when he's been alone on the road, and it's easy to imagine a set of circumstances where he'd take something from a spectator, from a spectator in a team jersey who looks like a soigneur (just think how many team jerseys you see at the roadside), or even (god forbid) another rider.
Scary stuff.
Coug
PS your comment about Froomey prompted such a long response that I put it in a new post!