Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I feel about the tour a bit like Pog looks. I've had enough. It's all over now, so let's just call it a day.
Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)
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mididoctors
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If it came to a sprint he had 3rd written all over him ... But if he clipped off and Jake looked at kaden etc...... who can say
mididoctors
Über Member
Tiring . I watched pretty much the whole thing ...in the background. There was very little down time Kms ....oh break formed I'll come back in a 100 k ... Those stages are a different era now ... All this holding the break at 2 mins keeps opening the racing. Conversely oh giving the break 3 mins is sometimes enough for the break to stay away now! .,.,the window of controlling to being to close is narrowing
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No Ta Doctor
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It was really noticeable today how Jayco holding the break at around a minute for so long to keep Jegat from nicking 10th opened the race for a load of teams that wanted to get into the break. Feels like that sort of thing has been going on for the full three weeks
MasterDabber
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- Surrey and the Lot in France
I watched the first half of the tour whilst I was in France on France TV, missed a couple of days travelling back then watched on ITV 4. I don't know if it's just me but I've found this years edition very uninvolving but whether that's just a combination effect from a number of things like....
generally drifting away from road racing holding my attention, my personal riding having moved nearly 100% to mtb, no Eurosport, no doubt as to who would win GC etc.
The whole thing has just felt very flat (not the gradients) apart from the occasional nice stage win. The sprints have been dull, Pog now looks like he would rather be anywhere else than at the tour and would like to go home. No yo-yoing on the GC lead. Nah.... all rather boring for me. But that's just my two penneth.
generally drifting away from road racing holding my attention, my personal riding having moved nearly 100% to mtb, no Eurosport, no doubt as to who would win GC etc.
The whole thing has just felt very flat (not the gradients) apart from the occasional nice stage win. The sprints have been dull, Pog now looks like he would rather be anywhere else than at the tour and would like to go home. No yo-yoing on the GC lead. Nah.... all rather boring for me. But that's just my two penneth.
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Super-combativity contenders:
Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), Ben Healy (EF Edudcation-EasyPost), Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies), Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling), and Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racin...for-super-combativity-prize-at-tour-de-france
My vote goes to Healey
Failing that, Arensman
Abrahamsen should have got it last year but didn't. He wasn't quite as visible this year (but did get a stage win)
Simminons has gone in several breakaways but failed to do anything.
Jegat has been notable for being the highest placed rider in dropped groups, meaning "Group Jegat" appeared on the tracker when things split up. Not exactly combative
Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), Ben Healy (EF Edudcation-EasyPost), Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies), Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling), and Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racin...for-super-combativity-prize-at-tour-de-france
My vote goes to Healey
Failing that, Arensman
Abrahamsen should have got it last year but didn't. He wasn't quite as visible this year (but did get a stage win)
Simminons has gone in several breakaways but failed to do anything.
Jegat has been notable for being the highest placed rider in dropped groups, meaning "Group Jegat" appeared on the tracker when things split up. Not exactly combative
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ktmbiker58
Well-Known Member
I really hope he manages to ride today even if he is head to toe in Elastoplast, he was very lucky not to break anything - when I was his age my mum would've been straight on it with her bottle of iodine and cotton wool - I miss those hairy scabs!
DeadCalm
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- The Land of Smiles
Jegat comfortably Super-Combativity for me. Been in as many breaks as Healy and a bunch more chasse-patates from the peloton in pursuit of the top 10.
KingstonGraham
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Been on holiday for a week, did I miss anything?
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Honestly difficult for Abrahamsen ro be as visible as last year, where he rode an incredible 23% of the route in the break, in the polkadots for a fair while. He made four breakaways this year. Healy gets my vote as well
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Not sure it's going to be that sort of race now they've added the Montmartre. Nobody really knows what to expect, or even if there will be a Champagne and smiles for the camera start.
Rumours of a possible race neutralisation (GC times freeze) if it rains though - those cobbles would be an ice rink
😱 That is no way to talk about your mother! Wash your mouth out!
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
They will give it to the random Frenchman. It should be called the Thomas de Gendt award, not combativity.
N0bodyOfTheGoat
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- Hampshire, UK
End of the itv and Ch4 era today, Gary Imlach & co on for one last time live from 1500 BST. 😥
Evil_Breakfast
Well-Known Member
I can, still, remember Richard Keys (and his hairy forearms) presenting the daily highlights show in 1986. ITV raised the bar in 2002; and now -after 39 years - Le Grand Boucle is disappearing behind a paywall.
Sad times.
