Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[No Ta Doctor]

Tour-adjacent news, Jonas is riding the Vuelta. Pog ain't.

Told you all, Visma bullied him out of it. It's the long game *taps nose knowingly*

 

[DeadCalm]

Anybody got an idea how much the rights are and the itv production cost is ? Total ?

Thinking of arranging a whip round?

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

He is 65 so maybe retirement now. Maybe when one door shuts another will open for Ned, and shut for Carlton with any luck.

Ned has been doing some professional darts for itv at least this year.

Maybe Gary will be offered a spot on one of the remaining cycling shows, if he's not planning on early retirement.

 

[mrushton]

But he wanted (and got) the Giro+Tour+Worlds.

Something Jonas will never have along with Flanders and Strada Bianchi. Probably not bothered but those sort of races and the stage in Paris are prob not for him.

 

[Pblakeney]

Told you all, Visma bullied him out of it. It's the long game *taps nose knowingly*

Sacrificing Le tour to win the Vuelta. Genius, gotcha.

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Sacrificing Le tour to win the Vuelta. Genius, gotcha.

Trading 🥇 for 🥉?
#JustSayin

 

[Animo]

He is 65 so maybe retirement now. Maybe when one door shuts another will open for Ned, and shut for Carlton with any luck.

Ned does the darts for Itv so he's not completely out of work.

 

[mididoctors]

The bbc news bulletin i saw was understandably dominated by Euros, other sport stories were cricket (fair enough) and some furriner winning one leg of a car race in Belgium, with plucky brit coming in 2nd. Meanwhile the culmination of an event with half a million spectators on the roadside in Paris alone didn’t get a mention.
Mainstream media won’t be interested unless we get another Sky-like team with a publicity machine and cav/wiggins characters to capture the imagination. Nice lads from Bury or the Borders riding for overseas teams won’t do it.

Post Brexit ...yeah I'm.going there ...there's been a anti cycling lobby suppressing pro cycling narratives

 

[mididoctors]

Thinking of arranging a whip round?

Looks down back of couch

 

[Dorset Boy]

Looks down back of couch

In a cashless house, there's not much point in looking down the back of the sofa!

 

[geocycle]

Watched Gary and boys. Great show as normal and loved the final montage. The guy flying down the mountain straight into a 2CV was very relatable!

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Watched Gary and boys. Great show as normal and loved the final montage. The guy flying down the mountain straight into a 2CV was very relatable!

Such is the goodwill; that I, among others (I like to think), are willing to overlook the inclusion of the Armstrong/Virenque footage.
This is important.
It's not about 3 weeks in July; it's about kids watching Onley/Healey (as a proxy), and being inspired.
British (grass-roots) cycling is dying on it's arse; and sticking Le Grand Boucle behind a £32 paywall perpetuates the problem.

 

[mididoctors]

Such is the goodwill; that I, among others (I like to think), are willing to overlook the inclusion of the Armstrong/Virenque footage.
This is important.
It's not about 3 weeks in July; it's about kids watching Onley/Healey (as a proxy), and being inspired.
British (grass-roots) cycling is dying on it's arse; and sticking Le Grand Boucle behind a £32 paywall perpetuates the problem.

I liked they left it in and had Lance lying through his teeth.... Then switched to new tune for the cav sky era

 

[Dogtrousers]

Such is the goodwill; that I, among others (I like to think), are willing to overlook the inclusion of the Armstrong/Virenque footage.
This is important.
It's not about 3 weeks in July; it's about kids watching Onley/Healey (as a proxy), and being inspired.
British (grass-roots) cycling is dying on it's arse; and sticking Le Grand Boucle behind a £32 paywall perpetuates the problem.

Is it?

A genuine question because I've never had any involvement with cycling sport. I mean I know there are clubs that run time trials, and there are crits and so on but they've never crossed my path. I know they existed when I was a youth, but I was (and still am) highly unathletic and not a clubby person so they never interested me. I know they exist now because I see club trains out and about. But the only competitive athletes I know are triathletes and runners so I've genuinely got no idea if it's thriving or, as you say, dying on its arse.

(But to stay on topic - loss of free to air competitive cycling will only harm it, however its doing)

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

I liked they left it in and had Lance lying through his teeth.... Then switched to new tune for the cav sky era

I accept, and understand, your position.
And I appreciate the, underlying, point the ITV production team were making.
We are all, trying, to make sense of the -wider- ripples that this creates; beyond our own -individual- annual 3 week experience.
It really does feel like a bereavement.