Monthly Archives: July 2015

So it would appear that the majority of Team Sky is mortal after all. The first 15 km of the stage were absolute chaos with attacks flying off the front left and right. At one point the group had fractured … Continue reading →

With all respect to the Steve Miller Band, for the main contenders of the Tour de France time is running out and the chances to catch Froome are dwindling. Once again Froome was attacked by the other GC men and … Continue reading →

When the 2015 Tour route was announced in October all of the experts pointed to the third week in the Alps as being decisive (not exactly a stretch there….). Little did we know how decisive Stage 17 from Dignes Les … Continue reading →

First of all let me apologize for not getting a post up last night recapping Stage 16, I just returned from vacation and we all know how that first day back is painful after being away for a week.  Now … Continue reading →

Stage 15 was an odd affair in that it seemed no one other than Peter Sagan really had much of an interest in what was going on. After several riders attempted to get into the break a group of 9 … Continue reading →

This was a hard lesson learned by Thibault Pinot and Romain Bardet as the infighting between the two cost one of them the victory on Stage 14. Pinot and Bardet were in the lead going into the last 500m and … Continue reading →

With temperatures reaching 40C (~98F) the heat was the big story of the day at the Tour De France. There were no big changes to the overall GC standings even with Vicenzo Nibali suffering the unfortunate and extremely rare “double … Continue reading →

The ridiculousness from Sky continues on Stage 12…… This was supposed to be a major sorting out of the GC with 3 categorized climbs before the summit finish at Plateau du Beille. Instead it was a massive breakaway of 22 … Continue reading →

Today went about as I had expected, after much conflict and chasing down of attacks the break finally went off the front and built a pretty massive lead over the Col D’Aspin. It seemed that the big teams were content … Continue reading →

I have written and rewritten this post a couple of times because I am not exactly sure what I want to write about. If you watched today’s stage you saw what happened and there are a multitude of on the … Continue reading →