NorthernSkylark: tour de france

NorthernSkylark 07.04.15	so excited!
Piglet 07.04.15	it's been years since i watched it but i have very fond memories, do you know how hot it is where they're riding exactly?
NorthernSkylark 07.04.15	i think it's about 33 C
KrazyKris 07.04.15	Not been watching any sports for years, so I can only judge from stats and stuff. Hardly any chance Martin's not gonna win the time trial. Cancellara is past his prime in tt and there's not too much competition otherwise. Tour winner is gonna be more difficult to predict, as it seems. It's not gonna be Nibali and Contador might have some trouble after the Giro. And since Froome doesn't have such a dominating team anymore and less time trial km, I'll say Quintana wins.
NorthernSkylark 07.04.15	yeah but nibali has the best team as they showed in the giro. contador was in the giro as the only one of the fab four, so most people wouldn't pick him. really, it is impossible to say till we reach the first mountain stages.
Piglet 07.04.15	pbahhhh 33 degrees is cool enough but i suppose for europeans it must be quite hot
Totengott 07.04.15	''pbahhhh 33 degrees is cool enough but i suppose for europeans it must be quite hot'' It is for us. We hardly get these temperatures here.
KrazyKris 07.04.15	Yeah, on the other hand Nibali himself said that he's not really in good shape. And all in all the team will only be able to help so much. I don't see him on the same level in the mountains as the others, gonna be though for him against all three.
zakalwe 07.04.15	I'd rather watch a group of people watching paint dry. Whoever lasts longest gets to wear a nicely coloured jersey.
zakalwe 07.04.15	That would be France. Every other shop in Paris is a pharmacy. Never seen anything like it.
KrazyKris 07.04.15	zak, actually it's not that much more entertaining to watch some guys kick a ball. And no, the TdF is actually guys riding bikes. Full of drugs of course, but that's not different from most other sports. So it's still about who gets to the finish line first and that's not only determined by the best doping.
NorthernSkylark 07.04.15	i think you have established your skepticism. nobody believes the peloton is clean anymore, but we are still a lot of people with fond memories of the tour and frankly you either grow up with and love it or hate it. and right now rohan dennis is looking very good!
NorthernSkylark 07.04.15	rohan dennis is new 1#!
NorthernSkylark 07.05.15	stuff is going on right now! porte, quintana and valverde are behind the peloton! saxo in front
NorthernSkylark 07.05.15	nibali crash. hope it's not too serious
Piglet 07.05.15	bloody gondor dennis good on him
NorthernSkylark 07.05.15	what a stage today! quintana, rodriguez, valverde and others lost 1½ minutes to the peloton with froome and contador...
Artuma 07.05.15	why does this dopingfest still exist?
TooManyFriends 07.05.15	i can't even believe froome is still around, he's like 500 years old EDIT: chris horner gah i'm dumb
NorthernSkylark 07.05.15	because it is a very entertaining sport, simply put.
NorthernSkylark 07.05.15	eh, contador is 3 years older than him. many people are older than him in the peloton.
Artuma 07.05.15	"i can't even believe froome is still around, he's like 500 years old" because of the drugs, that's right
KrazyKris 07.05.15	Art, you do know that practically every sport is full of guys doping in all ways possible?
Artuma 07.05.15	yeah but cycling is where they most shamelessly do that
KrazyKris 07.05.15	No, that's actually bodybuilding. They are even completely fine with everyone taking whatever they can get their hands on. And have you ever seen female weightlifters or shot-putters? Everything about them screams doping. Cycling is just strange cause of the pathetic attemps to appear cleaner than other sports, that's all.
Artuma 07.05.15	those are just gross agreed. it's just that in cycling they actually try to control it but still all the fucking time athletes get caught
Artuma 07.05.15	ah you just edited that comment to say the exact same thing i did