/tdf/ Stage 18

Briançon > Izoard
179,5km
Start : 12:55pm
TV Coverage : 12:45pm

Finish on the horse category. Get hyped, lads!

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>Get hyped, lads!

>Froome wins lol
>Get hyped

Nope.
Fuck Froome. Fuck the Sky machine. Fuck the "marginal gains." Fuck Brailsford.

The doping will eventually come to light, but for now we're just dealing with the same shit all the fucking time.

The Vuelta has been looking better in recent years, the only problem is that the environment they ride through looks *exactly* like the mountains and areas we have in California.

> using pedals
>LAURA ALERT
>etc

Womens TdF starting in 40' btw

Will eurosport cover it?

What my Calibro said.

Listen, Britbongs. We know what we're talking about. We've been there before. We've seen it. Hate us all you want, but you know it's true.

It's on Eurosoprt 1 Germany.

Nice.

I unironically like Sky and Skeletor.

He totally seems like /ourguy/.

Masterfull troll & complete meme.

fuck froome
fuck sky
fuck all brits

I have received some information from a divine intervention this morning. God came to me and whispered "quintana will attack".. he finally will win le tour

What does HC mean?

>quittel

Froome to get a mechanical and lose 1.30m on bardet and Uran.

Uran to win the whole thing

>A Animal

Digits confirm

looks like Dinklage from thumbnail

Do you think Bardet could win the Giro or the Vuelta ?

Movistar customer here
I just called the customer service and they told me they couldn't promise anything
With other words, not today

Only if there one short flat ITT and mountain ITT.

The profile for the womens stage today.

>67 km

is this a joke ? Amateurs do longer race

That's how women's cycling is.

There are probably financial reasons.

What is he thinking about here?

First for Laura having steamy sex with Uran in Paris.

would anyone in this women's race be able to keep up with the guys? honest answers pls

Orgs don't have this much time to spend on TV coverage.

Quite nice on the eyes the womens race.

has the stage been shortened? it should be 178km with col du vars.

No.

Guaranteed you'll see them actually attack on the Col d'Izoard though.

They could probably stay in the peloton on a slow day, at least for a while.

Of course not.

Wout van Aert won GP Ciremi in front of Drucker and Devenyns. I can't wait for him to get on a pro team and ride the classics.

No. The best women are about as good as male semi-pros or good amateurs. This goes for all sports.

and updates if/when he and/or van der poel will switch to the road?

Did they solve the piss problem?

Anyone else experiencing video freezes on eurosport? Audio is fine.

Yeah it seems to be happening to me on the player.

Except gymnastics and figure skating.

>the profile for the womens stage

I think some of the women ski racers could win against the men.

>women in charge of riding a bike

Well, we're mostly talking about performance based sport, not aesthetics based.

>about as good as male semi-pros or good amateurs
Not even that good. Not close. CT level riders (semi-pro) are all way better than the best female pros.
They are about my level (and worse in some terrains), and I only ride 5-6000km a year.
Just look at the stravas of female pros.

Oh noes! D:

No they couldn't. Neither in xc or alpine, and it wouldn't even be close. Lindsey keeps trash talking but she wouldn't have any hope of even scoring points in men's races. Men are simply so much stronger than women.

you're wrong

At least there are no spooky Skellys

Should Quintana start in womens racing?

yeah, female pros are much healthier looking.

FDJ lose another one

>uphill crashing
Wow that's quite something

Maybe not, but I would love to see her race against the men. It's so boring to watch the women's races because she blows away the entire field.

lel, the state of FDJ

There was also a crash at the neutralized depart.

Even though the level is lower, a good race is a good race and I think it's cool the way they did it so we get a peek at the last climb before the Tour gets there.
Sometimes the level is just so high in the mens races that it makes the race more boring, womens races are less predictable a lot of the time so can be decent entertainment.

SHE IS IN THE RACE TODAY GUYS
NOT A DRILL

avg speed wise the elite women tend to be around the level of male juniors. It's a very different style of racing, with fewer domestiques, so not a great comparison to men's racing, but it's something.

btw, FDJ already lost 6 riders:
Arnaud Démare
Mickaël Delage
Jacopo Guarnieri
Ignatas Konovalovas
Thibaut Pinot
Arthur Vichot

Too bad there isn't team TT this year. This would be fucking hilarious if the whole team would DSQ because they don't have at least 4 riders left.

I agree that it would be interesting to see her try it.

The few women's races I've seen have all been quite interesting and provided good racing. And in a sport like cycling it doesn't matter that they aren't as fast as the men as long as the race is interesting. Something like women's soccer is atrocious to watch because you can see from the game that a bunch of 15 year old guys could win then.

Yes, now that we've finally established men are better than women at sport, let's enjoy the race!

Nah, it would be a shit show and she will get hurt on a difficult downhill course.

Karsten Braasch vs. the Williams sisters:
theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,543962,00.html

>that descent by Primož Roglič yesterday

Vos could easily keep up with a men's race and get in a breakaway.

she'd be nowhere near competitive, especially now, post injury
she has only one a single race last season and that is against women

Name this band

Isn't it French national team kit?

imho the biggest problem with women's football is that they try to copy the men's game too match. especially in regards of pace and physicality. i think the women's game would be better off concentrating on tactics and technical ability instead

yes, there is a french national team racing

eh, why though?

not enough sponsors probably

>and this is the room where I keep my trophies.
>where do you keep yours user?

Pavel Sivakov has signed with Sky, then.

>women's sports

It's getting sexy lads

Oh, they showed her right now.

NICE BACK

>HNNNNNNNNG

Izoard is a very good name for a mountain desu

Wew

there has been a disturbing lack of fan abuse this year, let's hope that changes today

this

as much as women's sport in general is a meme, this is actually pretty good for the spectators isnt it?

twice the cycling on the road, less waiting, more action etc. maybe they should have every stage where the finish has a women stage first

Just saw it.
If she was a male cyclist her record would be unparalleled.

>Separate wiki page for career achievements
>Only 30

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Marianne_Vos

>can't even fully screenshot her road achievements, and then there are other sections for Track, Cyclo cross, Track and MTB.

just to be clear here

we're watching this ironically right?

I dislike Froome's thoughts on not attacking the maillot jaune.
>“Oh no, guys. I had a mechanical incident, wait-up 4 me. 'kay?”

Mechanic problems are part of the race like injuries are a part of football, take his argument to its extreme and what? just postpone the race because each team isn't at its strongest?

yes, mate.
like you, we all hate girls.
like you, we all wish it could be just us boys together forever.

YEah.

I'm also just stroking my dick ironically.

I wouldn't mind, t b h. Speed is not what makes races interesting.

She's pretty much female Merkcx.

i love womens lad
i just feel embarrassed watching them try sports

i mean standing on a mountain in searing heat for 5 hours to watch 15 seconds of biking doesnt seem too fun

but i guess it would mean twice the logistics, cameras choppers and motorcycles going back and forth

>starting the thread at 9

Come on lads, this is getting a bit too much

>tfw when we haven't arranged a marriage between her and Tom Dumoulin to create perfect cycling babies.
>Not having an entire Dutch team composed of Dumoulin-Vos sons.

The rape would be monumental.

These are the comfy times, American's are still sleeping.

Not speed itself, but being on the edge of human capability.
And the women atm are far from it. Most could lose a few kg.

This from a piece on the etape, 12,200 starters:

'Almost 1,000 riders gave up. The fastest Etape rider, Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen, completed in a time of 5 hrs 15 minutes, around the predicted time the autobus of sprinters and strugglers will take to avoid being cut off and ejected from the race.'

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/20/how-feels-tour-de-france-col-dizoard-etape

waiting for the next

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>Aru

you mean they're not on edge of female capability? What makes you say so?
Women never could be as skelly as male climbers. Lowest BF% in females is higher for about 5-6% than in males.