Le Tour 2012

[KLizotte]

@eminva 26190 wrote:

Did you find this on Netflix? I’ve always wanted to see it (and the companion film), but I can’t find them on Netflix.

Liz

I’ve downloaded it as a rental from Amazon to my Tivo.

[DaveK]

@eminva 26190 wrote:

Did you find this on Netflix? I’ve always wanted to see it (and the companion film), but I can’t find them on Netflix.

Liz

It’s not on Netflix instant and I don’t think it’s available on DVD either.

[creadinger]

@PotomacCyclist 26114 wrote:

Great Tour even if we didn’t see too many successful big attacks on the mountains. The crowds and atmosphere on those mountain stages is wild and crazy. The fast descents are heart-stopping to watch. The speeds that the riders reach on the individual time trial stages are amazing.

Congrats to Wiggins as the first British cyclist to win the Tour.

It was a pretty good tour this year, and of course congrats to Wiggins. I was a bit disappointed though that no individual or team was able to even remotely challenge Team Sky this year. It kinda reminded me of USPS and Discovery during Lance’s days. It just made some aspects of the tour a bit boring. Congrats to Vangarden too! The white jersey is a big accomplishment!

I’m looking forward to next year when hopefully Wiggins, Schleck, Froome, and ugh… even Contador can all compete for the GC on more evenly stocked teams. There never really was anyone who could challenge Wiggins this year aside from Froome, his own teammate. That’s kind of ridiculous that no other team even had a challenger.

[vvill]

I enjoyed the Tour this year (Sagan in the first week and then Voeckler later, lit it up for me) but I agree it was a little disappointing compared to some of the previous recent years where we were perhaps a little spoiled with the close results.

I’d be happy to see Wiggins, either/both of the Schlecks (possibly in a team with Jens Voigt?), Froome, Contador, Nibali, Evans (or whoever BMC end up deciding on, probably van Garderen) all competing on different teams. I was sad that Sammy Sanchez crashed out (and right before the Olympics) – he’s one of my favourites to watch in the mountain stages and Euskatel-Euskadi are usually more interesting in the mountains but they were definitely short staffed this Tour. Since there’s no Olympics next year, might Cavendish go to a different team for the green jersey? That would be a great points battle with Sagan taking the hillier sprints and Cavendish the pure sprints.

Next year will be the 100th Tour de France I think? I’ll miss George Hincapie.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought Wiggo looked bored almost the entire time, so I enjoyed when he picked it up a bit and did some lead outs for his teammates. I also loved seeing Tommy Voeckler charge up the Pyrenees…that guy has a lot of heart.

For those that think the Tour is only interesting to cyclists, my wife who doesn’t ride much at all, now wants to do a TdF vacation next year, since she enjoys watching so much. I think I should start training now for a potentially suicidal attempt at the Col du Tourmalet.

[PotomacCyclist]

Even a less competitive TdF is more interesting than not watching any Tour coverage. Part of the appeal for me is the competition, but it’s also the elite performance on the mountains, on the descents, on the individual time trials and on the sprints. It’s just amazing to me how fast they can ride in all of those conditions.

I agree that watching Wiggins on the leadouts was pretty cool. That’s one of the images that I was thinking about during my speed workout the other day. He looks so smooth and efficient when he zooms down the road like that. I also like the secondary competitions, from Voeckler with his stage wins and the King of the Mountains victory to the great sprints from Sagan, Cavendish and Greipel.

Although I started triathlons (and later cycling) because of watching the Summer Olympics in 2008, it was after watching the Tour de France in 2010 that I decided to go out and do my first century ride. (It wasn’t too big a jump in distance for me at the time, but it was farther than anything I had done before.) I get inspired by watching this stuff.

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