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June 29, 2015 at 8:45 pm #1033158
Powerful Pete
ParticipantShould be a good race.
Nibali will be racing as Italian champion. Quick video of the race here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajF9OmKb6N4
June 29, 2015 at 10:13 pm #1033161
Steve OParticipantAnother year gone by and no women, at least I cannot find any reference on the TdF home page.
http://www.bicycling.com/racing/kathryn-bertine-2015-women-s-tour-de-france
June 29, 2015 at 10:23 pm #1033162PotomacCyclist
ParticipantI think they will continue La Course, which is the one-day women’s event on July 26th.
I hope that La Course grows in popularity and that they do manage to organize a multi-stage women’s Tour de France in the very near future. I think they need to do a better job promoting La Course.
June 29, 2015 at 11:22 pm #1033164Participant@Steve O 119211 wrote:
Another year gone by and no women, at least I cannot find any reference on the TdF home page.
Well, why not do better?
Giro Rosa? Starting on 3 July… Currently THE woman’s pro stage race. 
http://www.girorosa.it/programma.html
FWIW excellent racing (except when Vos is there… she is the female Cannibal).
June 29, 2015 at 11:43 pm #1033165PeteD
ParticipantWill be interesting:
Yellow Jersey — If everybody but Nibali can keep from crashing it will make for interesting days in the mountains. Astana looked great as a team at the Giro, but Aru doesn’t have the abilities that Nibali has. Froome looked good at the Dauphine, and Contador coming back into form after the Giro. Quintana is the wildcard — he “raced”, i.e. showed up, at the Spring Classics, and Movistar sent a token team to the Giro, but no one knows what real form he has, and again Valverde looks astounding on the heels of the Spanish RR championships.
Green Jersey — Pretty much Sagan’s to lose. Pure sprinter days will be Cavendish against the field – Gripel / Kristoff / Degenkolb / Coquard — No Modolo, no Kittel, and an injured Bouhani. I do wonder if Degenkolb or Kristoff will be able to get away and pick up some intermediary sprints, since there’s a high likelihood that Tinkoff-Saxo will not be able to help Sagan in the later stages.
Mountains Jersey — I expect that to go to someone like Pinot, or Teklehaminot, unless it goes to the second place GC. Today’s polka-dot jersey is more about who can get into the break on a medium mountain stage the most and sweep up the Cat2/3 climbing points on multiple stages.
Interesting stages:
1 – Look for a Yellow Jersey on the back of Tony Martin – pan flat 13.8k, but Dumolin could surprise, and don’t count out Fabu.
3 – Mur de Huy. Mur de HUY!
4 – 11.5km of cobbles late in a 223km stage. This is why Quintana was racing on them early in the season.
8 – Mur de Bretagne!
9 – TTT – OGE has the edge, but Movistar also has a big chance to put Valverde or Quintana in Yellow for the rest day.
10 – Look for Contador / Nibali / Froome to attack with 7k to go on the climb into La Pierre-Saint-Martin. 167km stage will make for some really great racing.
11 – Col d’Aspin, Tourmalet, and an uphill finish. Prime breakaway stage — the last 10k up the Cote de Cauterets should be really interesting.
12 – Another monster mountain stage. Either they’re all together at the bottom of the Plateau de Beille, or someone like Nibali attacks on Port de Lers and holds on to the top of Plateau de Beille.
16 – Col de Manse is always a dangerous event coming into Gap.
17 – Romain Bardet won this exact stage during the Dauphine – Should be interesting to see how the GCs handle it the second time around.
18 – Probably one of the prettiest stages – the ride along from Gap to the Col de la Morte is extremely beautiful, then add on the Col du Glandon as the race really enters the Alpes, and the amazing Lacets de Montvernier.
19 – With the removal of the Galibier from stage 20, this is now the Queen stage – The Col du Glandon up to the Croix de fer, then the Mollard and then a finish up La Toussuire is going to be a rough day of racing.
20 – 110km, because the Telegraphie & Galibier were removed, expect excitement on Alpe d’Huez.
21 – This year – along the Ave. de New York accross to the Eiffel Tower, then back around to the Louvre… and around the Arc de Triomphe. Well deserved sprinters stage for whomever is left, because there is nothing for the sprinters since stage 15.J’aime la grande boucle!
Finish Line in Gap:
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Staring down towards Dutch Corner:
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Having a Beer at Dutch Corner:
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Expect to see a lot of this:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]9004[/ATTACH]June 29, 2015 at 11:58 pm #1033117
ShawnoftheDreadParticipant@Steve O 119211 wrote:
“Moreover, having women run on the same course at the same time as the men doesn’t affect the race in any way. In fact, Boston officials accommodate the more than 20,000 official entrants by staggering the starting times.The elite women start running about half an hour before the men do, meaning that a woman actually crosses the finish line in Copley Square before a man does.”
These three sentences make no sense when put together. One would think that “at the same time” and “half an hour before” are not the same thing.
June 30, 2015 at 12:00 am #1033166ParticipantNice analysis by PeteD. Very curious to see Quintana race and Contador after the Giro win. Along with Nibali they are not afraid to attack and go for it.
Belgian cobbles will mean an attack by Nibali and/or Valverde to put the pressure on Froome and Quintana.
I don’t see Valverde with the staying power for a grand tour.
If Quintana loses time on the GC he will go for the polka dot jersey and win it.
Exciting Tour to look forward to…
June 30, 2015 at 12:35 am #1033167ShawnoftheDreadParticipant@Powerful Pete 119219 wrote:
Nice analysis by PeteD. Very curious to see Quintana race and Contador after the Giro win. Along with Nibali they are not afraid to attack and go for it.
Belgian cobbles will mean an attack by Nibali and/or Valverde to put the pressure on Froome and Quintana.
I don’t see Valverde with the staying power for a grand tour.
If Quintana loses time on the GC he will go for the polka dot jersey and win it.
Exciting Tour to look forward to…
My daughter wants to know, as we constantly heard both pronunciations during last year’s race. Is it NIB-uh-lee or ni-BALL-ee?
June 30, 2015 at 12:37 am #1033168hozn
Participant@PotomacCyclist 119212 wrote:
I hope that La Course grows in popularity and that they do manage to organize a multi-stage women’s Tour de France in the very near future. I think they need to do a better job promoting La Course.
Do you mean like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_de_France_F%C3%A9minine ? There have been multi-day women’s stage races in France for decades. Or do you mean ASO organize it? Or maybe you mean a race that they air it on US cable?
June 30, 2015 at 12:44 am #1033169TwoWheelsDC
Participant@PeteD 119217 wrote:
19 – With the removal of the Galibier from stage 20
I don’t understand this…when I *ahem* rode Galibier, the tunnel was closed and it wasn’t really a problem. I mean, it could’ve been that it was 35 degrees and snowing at the summit (at the end of June!), but traffic wasn’t THAT heavy…
Nothing like the Alps to make you feel small….
June 30, 2015 at 1:06 am #1033172vvill
ParticipantLooking forward to seeing Contador, Quintana, Froome and Nibali duke it out. Not super interested in the sprint stages.
June 30, 2015 at 1:10 am #1033174Participant@ShawnoftheDread 119220 wrote:
My daughter wants to know, as we constantly heard both pronunciations during last year’s race. Is it NIB-uh-lee or ni-BALL-ee?
Listen to the real thing – Italian national TV radio broadcast of the Sheffield stage…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTTxw0Qc4A
June 30, 2015 at 1:27 am #1033176ShawnoftheDreadParticipant@Powerful Pete 119227 wrote:
Listen to the real thing – Italian national TV radio broadcast of the Sheffield stage…
That was all Greek to me.
June 30, 2015 at 2:02 am #1033178Participant@TwoWheelsDC 119222 wrote:
I don’t understand this…when I *ahem* rode Galibier, the tunnel was closed and it wasn’t really a problem. I mean, it could’ve been that it was 35 degrees and snowing at the summit (at the end of June!), but traffic wasn’t THAT heavy…
Nothing like the Alps to make you feel small….
It’s not the tunnel up by the Galibier, it’s the tunnel down the Lauteret right at the Lac du Chambon. So the riders couldn’t descend down the Galibier to the Lauteret down to Bourg d’Oisans, which would make it pretty much impossible to finish the stage on Alpe d’Huez.
Couple miles up the road (D1091) here…
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]9006[/ATTACH]So it’d be a really long long route through Briancon… or back across the Col de le Croix de Fer… Though it would have been interesting if they went up to Villiard Reymond and the Col du Solude back into Bourg d’Oisans.
June 30, 2015 at 2:23 am #1033179Participant@PeteD 119231 wrote:
It’s not the tunnel up by the Galibier, it’s the tunnel down the Lauteret right at the Lac du Chambon. So the riders couldn’t descend down the Galibier to the Lauteret down to Bourg d’Oisans, which would make it pretty much impossible to finish the stage on Alpe d’Huez.
Couple miles up the road (D1091) here…
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]9006[/ATTACH]So it’d be a really long long route through Briancon… or back across the Col de le Croix de Fer… Though it would have been interesting if they went up to Villiard Reymond and the Col du Solude back into Bourg d’Oisans.
That makes a lot more sense…that’s what I get for half-assedly reading the article while doing other things.
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