Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***

[gavroche]

I doubt Froome would get £500,000 for playing football

I doubt any footballers could ride a bike in a competitive way for 3 weeks and be a winner.

 

[brommers]

I doubt the Tour de France will ever be subject to a TV rights bidding war worth £5bn.

Alistair Browning Vs. Chris Froome up Mont Ventoux

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Where does your 7 comes from? Nobody has ever won 7 Tours. 5 is the target to beat.

7 was mentioned a few years ago by Froome/Brailsford as the target/potential number of wins

 

[smutchin]

I wonder what you'd need to do to be able to win the TdF seven times...

 

[gavroche]

7 was mentioned a few years ago by Froome/Brailsford as the target/potential number of wins

I like Froome but I can't see him being the first to win 7 as he will be 35 by then. Too old. Look at Contador, he can't keep up with younger riders anymore.

 

[Beebo]

Food for thought:
Win the TdF, 3 weeks of hard work: £500 000.
Play / Don't play 1.5 hours of football a week: anything from £200 000 to £500 000.
What a mad world we live in!

So how do you monetise a product which charges the fans nothing to watch.
If you can answer that then you will be a popular man.

 

[gavroche]

So how do you monetise a product which charges the fans nothing to watch.
If you can answer that then you will be a popular man.

I don't understand your question.

 

[Beebo]

I don't understand your question.

The point is that the tour can only pay out what they bring in. Cycling is free to spectators so doesn't raise much money so can't pay big prizes.
Football tickets cost loads. The sport brings in a huge revenue so can pay huge salaries.
If you can work out how to charge the spectators then you can pay the riders more.

 

[SWSteve]

The point is that the tour can only pay out what they bring in. Cycling is free to spectators so doesn't raise much money so can't pay big prizes.
Football tickets cost loads. The sport brings in a huge revenue so can pay huge salaries.
If you can work out how to charge the spectators then you can pay the riders more.

Also, with the Tour being largely on FTA TV, the bidding can only go so far...

surely no one would out a massive tourism advert behind a paywall

 

[themosquitoking]

So how do you monetise a product which charges the fans nothing to watch.
If you can answer that then you will be a popular man.

I know the answer. Pm me for details, it'll cost you though.

 

[hoopdriver]

I wonder what you'd need to do to be able to win the TdF seven times...

I think we know the answer to that one...

 

[hoopdriver]

I like Froome but I can't see him being the first to win 7 as he will be 35 by then. Too old. Look at Contador, he can't keep up with younger riders anymore.

I don't think he'll win seven either, but...
1- There is no reason for believing he will decline with age at the same rate as Contador
2- He has Team Sky/Brailsford behind him. This last win had much to do with the strength of his team. They could effectively buy him a couple of wins by surrounding him with high priced GC talent to shepherd him along - bearing in mind that by any reckoning Froome is a very strong and tactically clever rider to begin with.

 

[rich p]

FWIW, which is nearly nothing, Froome said he'd like to win 6, just after he'd won his first IIRC.

 

[MacB]

FWIW, which is nearly nothing, Froome said he'd like to win 6, just after he'd won his first IIRC.

Maybe he just needs a dose of curable cancer

 

[mjr]

I like Froome but I can't see him being the first to win 7 as he will be 35 by then. Too old. Look at Contador, he can't keep up with younger riders anymore.

Horner.