Tour de France 2018 **SPOILERS**

[cisamcgu]

Too many cooks ?

Many hands make light work ?

 

[smutchin]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

 

[Slaav]

Quickstep team looks an all rounder bunch. Stages for Gaviria, Terpstra, Alaphilippe; Jungels for a top ten GC.
Lampaerts for a long range attack?

The Mitchelton team announced the other day looked a bit lightweight in the mountains in support of Adam Yates. He'll have to fly solo a lot of the time I suspect. Nieve is his main wing man but he's approaching the twilight years.

Movistar have 3 leaders in Quintana, ValvPiti and Landa. Can't see that going tits up...

Why did Landa leave Sky again? I had the impression that he was being groomed as a No 2 or 3 and would get fully supported cracks at a GT?

 

[rich p]

Why did Landa leave Sky again? I had the impression that he was being groomed as a No 2 or 3 and would get fully supported cracks at a GT?

I suspect he thought Valverde would have given up on GC ambitions and he could swap leadership with Quintana.
At Sky he was always going to play second fiddle to Froome who wants to take the penalties, free kicks and throw ins. As Thomas has found out.

 

[rich p]

I also read an unsubstantiated rumour that Quintana was being courted by Astana.

 

[brommers]

I doubt even Valverde fancies his own chances at overall victory, so it will be interesting to see which of the other two gets his support.

Neither

 

[Adam4868]

Valverde has the seniority,Quintana has the ability(I think !) and Landa has......big eyebrows ?
It's only gonna be Quintana barring a crash.

 

[smutchin]

After Cinderella outfit Fortuneo-Samsic had their bikes taken away from them a couple of days ago, the BH fairy godmothers have stepped in, so Warren Barguil will be going to the ball after all...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fortuneo-samsic-sign-deal-with-bh-after-split-with-look/

 

[rich p]

After Cinderella outfit Fortuneo-Samsic had their bikes taken away from them a couple of days ago, the BH fairy godmothers have stepped in, so Warren Barguil will be going to the ball after all...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fortuneo-samsic-sign-deal-with-bh-after-split-with-look/

He's probably ambivalent about that given his poor form this year.

 

[Too Tyred]

Has anyone seen the official guide anywhere? I'm looking for the one with the three pairs of socks but I can't find it anywhere.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I always lose socks too.

 

[brommers]

Breaking News - UCI have cleared Chris Froome

 

[brommers]

He wouldn't say it of course, but I reckon Geraint Thomas was hoping that Froome would get banned.

 

[LarryDuff]

Has anyone seen the official guide anywhere? I'm looking for the one with the three pairs of socks but I can't find it anywhere.

The 3 socks were only available for online orders.
They are very nice too especially the polka dot ones.

 

[Mark Grant]

I'm sure my local Tesco had the mag with the socks a couple of weeks ago.