Le Tour De France.

[penelope2]

Well done Chris Froome and Team Sky, mind you I was getting a bit pee'd off with the showboating in Stage 21.

[retrocop]

Great to see GB excel at a new sport to us. Sadly the French people did not show their sportsmanship and widened the gap between the so called Entente Cordiale. They are becoming beyond contempt just because we beat them at what is almost the French sport. Disgusting behaviour with spitting and urine throwing.
Us British get beaten frequently at our national sport by some upside down ex cons but we take it like GENTLEMAN. Vive le difference

[retrocop]

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//Almost a French national sport//
I retract that. They haven't won for 30 years!!!

[Pete65]

You have proof of the nationality of the transgressors?

GB did not win the Tour.
The Tour is for trade teams, not national teams.
Froome, born in Kenya and has represented Kenya in international sport and has never lived in the UK. British?
Shades of Zola Budd!
Team Movistar, beat Team Sky by 57 minutes to win the team award.

[retrocop]

db
Just got back home from visiting relations for the weekend.From 1600hrs onwards all the men were glued to the box to watch it. I have never been interested in the Tour de France or any other velocipede sport.Thought it was a bad show for relatives to ignore guests in favour of the TV. :-(. I believe Frome was born in Africa? I thought Sky said this was the second win for Frome and 3rd win for GB in 4yrs. Don't really give a flying fig at end of day but had slight smugness at rosbifs (I thought) beating the Grenouilles especially after the urine and spit incidents et al. One French spectator admitted that the French do not like the British and I can't say that was a new revelation to me either.

dont

[vulcan42]

// Team Sky is a British professional cycling team that competes in the UCI World Tour. The team is based at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, England, with a logistics base in Deinze, Belgium and an operational base in Quarrata, Italy. Wikipedia
Founder: Dave Brailsford //

[mastercraft]

I think today's final stage of the Tour was a major anti climax.

The clock should have been ticking until the end of the stage.

Cyclists have been hurtling down mountain roads in pouring rain for years, how can you count today's stage as being more dangerous?

[retrocop]

Pete65
Only proof I have is from the little interest I have paid that
the media both in the papers and a flashback today accused the perps of being French immediately followed by a Frenchman who said there was an ongoing, almost hatred, between us.

[Pete65]

Probably true, Retrocop.
Vulcan, I accept that Team Sky are based in Britain.
It is a trade team, not a national one.
A nine man team, 5 British, if we include Froome, an Irishman, an Aussie, a Dutchman, and a Czech.
The two directeur sportifs, one French and one Dutch.
More of an international team?
Italian bike frame, Japanese transmission.
Owned by News Corp of the USA and partly by Sky Italy.
British?