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Outside of the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl, this is my favorite sporting event, and this year marks the 100th anniversary (started in 1903, but 10 races missed due to war)
The first three stages are on Corsica, where the race has never been, so that should be interesting. Stage 18 in the Alps sees the famed Alp du Huez climbed twice, which sounds strange, and should also be interesting.
Wiggins is not even riding in this Tour, and second place from last year, Chris Froome, is the likely favorite. Another strong contender is the winner of the Tour of California, Montana native Tejay van Garderen, who won the white jersey in Paris last year. The field seems fairly wide open, I don't know is on what team this year, so I'll go with Froome.
And the Sagan/Cavendish rivalry in the sprints is great for the Tour.
Outside of the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl, this is my favorite sporting event, and this year marks the 100th anniversary (started in 1903, but 10 races missed due to war)
The first three stages are on Corsica, where the race has never been, so that should be interesting. Stage 18 in the Alps sees the famed Alp du Huez climbed twice, which sounds strange, and should also be interesting.
Wiggins is not even riding in this Tour, and second place from last year, Chris Froome, is the likely favorite. Another strong contender is the winner of the Tour of California, Montana native Tejay van Garderen, who won the white jersey in Paris last year. The field seems fairly wide open, I don't know is on what team this year, so I'll go with Froome.
And the Sagan/Cavendish rivalry in the sprints is great for the Tour.
I'll be watching
July always means limited sleep for me. Annoyingly here (Aus) it starts at 10pm live. First half of the tour I normally catch the previous stage the next night, but 2nd half I try to watch it live
Going for Cadel Evans of course, want to see Orica GreenEdge win a stage.
Agree the Sagan/Cavendish battles will be interesting
Those mountain stages look even more gruelling this year, & are very late stages
Used to race bikes, was friends with a couple of guys that were in the TDF, worked at a pro bike shop in college, so my credentials are pretty solid in the bike world. More than likely I will not watch any of the Tour, might check online 2-3 times over the next month just to see what is going on and that is it. The TDF is just not interesting anymore.
If they let the riders race without helmets and took away their radios so that they could not be told what to do by their coaches I might watch again. But I doubt we will ever go back to pre-90's style of racing again. It was much more fun to watch guys like Fignon, LeMond, Roche, Sean Kelly than it is to watch the current crop of 120 lb horse jockeys duke it out.
The doping scandals did not turn me off, they've been doping in the tour since it began 100 years ago. If you ever thought they raced clean in European pro cycling, I've got a bridge to sell you.
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