Interesting start in Spain. Team Time trial followed by a stiff hilly finish in very high temperatures in stage 2. Tomorrow is a mountain stage which is quite early. Pogacar hasn’t raced much but his team is again stout. Vingegaard comes in strong but having won the Giro, you have to question how much gas is in the tank.
This year marks the changing of the guard with Del Toro and Seixas are the young stars.
I start paying attention to football after the Tour ends.
Is any American a contender?
Not for a podium, but 2-3 might pick up a stage win if the team managers give them some rope.
Love the Tour, great way to start the morning. Lance Armstrong does an after race program on Peacock along with George Hincapie, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Spencer Martin, and John Bruyneel. Great insights
So, is Greg Lemond the only “legit” Tour De France winner we’ve had?
Lance Armstrong doesn’t count, right?
Yes, both Floyd Landis and Armstrong lost their titles. Some might say Greg Lemond had a part in that, as he came out hard against them.
He was vehemently anti-doping.
Unfortunately there was a period that if you weren’t doping, you weren’t competing. Doesn’t make it right, but still a consideration for that era.
“During Lance Armstrong’s era, widespread doping prevailed: 20 of the 21 riders on the Tour de France podiums from 1999 to 2005 were directly tied to doping, and 61 of the 70 top-10 finishers during this period were confirmed dopers or suspected of it.”
Armstrong screwed up by his heavy handed cover up. His defiance cost him millions. Titles still would have been stripped, but his reputation would have been better served. His break-up with Cheryl Crow did not help.
As of now, no American contender. Great story about a kid from West Texas in Texas Monthly. He could be a phenom if he developes. We have a couple of super domestics riding who may win a stage.
Yes, I consider Lance the champion. All those guys were doping and not getting caught.
Nah.
Cheaters suck. Accepting cheaters drags us all down into the dirt. It’s pretty evident right now.
Hell, Sorsby would like to buy Lance a beer.
Agreed… Lance was a cheater and, even worse, A FRAUD!
Lance was a cheater that beat a bunch of cheaters. how far down the finisher list do you have to go after him to find someone that wasn’t suspended for PEDs?
Sure… they were ALL cheating (which they weren’t as someone posted above; most does not equall all…)…
But Lance was out there beating his chest ACTING like he was above doping for years and he publicly bashed many people that were whistleblowers against him and even had lawsuits against them even though he was orchestrating the doping the entire time…
Oh… poor Lance Armstrong… boo freaking hoo…
Can’t believe somebody has this clown on a show… it’s about as bad as having Mike Vick on a football show…
Did Sorsby ever get accused of cheating?
Gambling ain’t the same as cheating…
Now, he might’ve had some insider info when betting on IU Football and Cincy basketball so you could argue that’s cheating I suppose…
[W]hen he was in his 70s and close to leading India to independence, he encouraged his 17-year-old great-niece, Manu, to be naked during her “nightly cuddles” with him. After sacking several long-standing and loyal members of his 100-strong personal entourage who might disapprove of this part of his spiritual quest, Gandhi began sleeping naked with Manu and other young women. He told a woman on one occasion: “Despite my best efforts, the organ remained aroused. It was an altogether strange and shameful experience.”
Yet he could also be vicious to Manu, whom he on one occasion forced to walk through a thick jungle where sexual assaults had occurred in order for her to retrieve a pumice stone that he liked to use on his feet. When she returned in tears, Gandhi “cackled” with laughter at her and said: “If some ruffian had carried you off and you had met your death courageously, my heart would have danced with joy.”
That Gandhi?
I could pull up a bunch of other dumb gifs by more admirable folks about cheating if you’d like.
Or you can just admire cheaters.
Excellent day for USA. Quinn Simmons with a 2nd place finish and Sean Quinn with 7th. Top 12 all finish with the same time.
Sean Quinn now 2nd overall, but don’t expect that to last very long.
Lasts a day. Having to recover from that ride in that heat and face Tourmelet tomorrow, good luck with that. It’s a GC day tomorrow
My bad, sprinters day tomorrow
Pogacar sealed the deal barring accident or illness. He blew them away on Tourmelet. Now, how UAE finesses Del Toro to beat out Vingegaard will be the plot to watch. UAE is so strong as a team. The French kid and his team are good but not quite up to the big boys. We’ll see if he gets better or worse in the coming weeks.
BTW, the way, the way Pogacar descends is surreal. The motorcycle following him couldn’t keep up because the driver thought the speed was unsafe.
Today really showcased how much better he is than everyone else. His margin of victory for a mountain stage was incredible.
Sean Quinn dropped to 12th, clearly disappointed. The mountains got him today. Still, not too shabby. A good day for Kuss, a top 10 finish.
Kuss is the best American and, until this year, was the principal domestique for Pogacar. Now, Del Toro is.
I hope Kuss leaves to be a leader of his own team like EF but UAE pays really well.
I thought Kuss had been shepherding Jonas for the last few years?
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