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I'm looking forward to tomorrow's time trial.

 

Wout Van Aert is a beast! Congrats also go to Vindegaard for clinching Le Tour!

 

And blow up that damned red cottage.

While being forced to watch those commercials, on USA, on Mute!
I couldn’t think of any of those adds being of any interest to cyclists of followers.

Today though for the time trial, they didn’t have a replay so I had to go to the alternate channel. No adds and I don’t know the carrier other that it’s listed as “Tour de France (World feed)”
But damn those people are so boring, while watching those voices turn into a continuous drone and you find your eyes closing.
The comms are mostly Brit’s and French.

Now I’m a Brit. But I missed the USA team with the Chis’s, Bob and old Phil Liggert and all.

They’ll be back for tomorrows final.

Thinking, a couple of years back Mrs Scouse and I went to the top of the Arc de Triomphe to watch the sunset down the Champs-Élysées, sneaking up a bottle of wine.
That! Would be a great place to be tomorrow.

 

I had to fast forward to get over the boorish commentary. These comms sucked the life out of this time trial.

“-Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) claimed the stage win, his third of this year's Tour, with yellow jersey and teammate Jonas Vingegaard in second and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) taking third.

-Overall there was no change in the top four, with Vingegaard set to claim the overall victory on Sunday ahead of Pogacar and Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers).”

My Welsh dad would have been proud of Geraint.

 

Viking also sponsors a lot of programming on PBS. I just can't escape that damned commercial.

 

I’m FFing one as I type.

 

They're on the Champs now.
@Minnman. I fast forward through the Viking commercials, thankfully. I did add Alpecin to my Amazon wishlist, though.

 

Cleopatras needle there. The other is on the banks of the Thames in London. The French and the Brits “Borrowed” them from Egypt. Built a couple of submarine type things, slid them in and towed them away.

OK carry on.
Just 18 miles to go. Well I’m running about 10 minutes back so I can slip over viking.

 

Pretty good tour. There was a new winner. I missed who got the combativity prize. I hope it was Geschke. I'm looking forward to next year.

 

That was the best possible place for him. He was never going to better the top three. He just kept grinding.

 

Start a thread when it comes up.

 

My wife likes to call it "her" obelisk since its been on the top of her list of things to see when we finally get to Paris since we first started watching the Tour 20+ years ago.

Wout got the combativity award.

 

Oops my history lesson was a tad off. Yes two Cleopatra’s needles. One in London (one in Central Park NY.)

The obelisk in Paris is a different one from Luxor. A giant sundial.

htps://worldinparis.com/the-luxor-obelisk-in-paris

 

Excellent! Good man, looking forward to it.

 

Nice to see this thread pick up after a few years. I'll be on the Vuelta thread.

 

I stopped playing on the TdF thread a couple of years back. It didn’t matter who won the stage, there was always a couple of guys who wanted to talk about how he only won because he was a doper. Glad I came back this year to a good clean fast and tough race.

 

I'm sure there is still doping going on but it does seem like the races are a lot more fairly-contested these days. And it seems like more guys are trying for both GT GC wins and cobbled classics, which I really like.

 

Good update on the promotion/relegation situation.
https://inrng.com/2022/09/uci-world-tour-13-september/#more-41642

 

Belgium finally has a sensible tactic that makes the best possible use of having two great team captains with specific skill sets and they immediately win the championship. Makes it even more unfortunate that they ruined a prior opportunity due to needless infighting.

But the biggest story must be the weird-ass manner in which Mathieu Van der Poel torpedoed his own championship chances.