Not even a podium

insect is not a sport

>who cares about podiums
Most athletes, top 3 is a big deal in a lot of sports

So youre last in your land. Disgusting

back then, only the winner would get a medal and it was made of silver

Hahahahahahahaha

Back when?

>It's a COLOMBIAN and not a BRIT that won the Tour
great
>He's in a BRITISH team that was SOLELY made for the purpose of making a BRIT win it
Oh nonononon how could you let that happen ahahah what a failure

first modern olympics

Congrats on being 100 years behind the rest of us then

keep being happy about not winning lmao

>Britains beat rider is out injured
>Still win multiple stages, have a Brit in second and the winner is riding for a British team
It was a disappointing tour for British riders and it was still better than France have done in decades

thanks I will, keep being mad about not winning lmao

this is how the losers find comfort
>at least we did better than a country who haven't won it since 34 years

I know you're just trying to defend yourself here, but this really is a very sad cope.

you made this thread, this is your way of coping with defeat.

Yeah I'll just have to comfort myself with 6 of the last 8 winners while you've never even seen a Frenchman win

I did no such thing, that was my first post here.

>France : three stages plus polka dot
>UK : two stages
Why are brit such brainlet ?

this sport is so tainted by doping that I wouldn't feel any stupid pride about having a frenchman with it

2nd place plus British team winning > polka dot jersey

>I wouldn't feel any stupid pride about having a frenchman with it
I don't believe you, desu.

Biggest cope in this thread so far

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this is the truth, the winners keep losing their titles

>Egan my boy, frogs are losers and cowards by nature, don't fear them
What did based Froome mean by this?

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So this is the excuse now? Kek just start doing your riders lol you sound pathetic

We're going to sign a deal with the Qatar buy Froome and Bernal and then you'll pay

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>>Britains beat rider is out injured
Britain's best rider is from Kenya.

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No he's from a British colony which he subsequently left when that was clearly no longer the case

you're scotland and romania tier. kek

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>shorten stage
>still cracked 13km from the line

Why are Colombian girls are so slutty?

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>slutty
>adjective. Describes a woman, usually young, who is willing to have sex with other men but not user

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all girls are slutty

>people actually watch this shit

I think I discovered a new fetish

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le evil bald guy said his next goal was to win the tour with a Colombian. He did it a year early.

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Why are brits so obsessed with France ? Why are we always on their mind ?

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>Posting a guy that fled France like a pussy and came to Britain
kek.

>and who didn't make a big deal out of it
Why is what we do or don't do so important to you ?

Tour wins :
France : 36
UK : 6

Lol this entire thread is French cope

Tour wins during anyone on Yea Forums's lifetime
>France : 0

>implying

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What about that 43 years old guy from yesterday.

he died of old age between then and now

Ahem. Best climber, King Of the Mountains coming through

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United States shall have a TdF winner before France

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I'm 39 years old. I have seen two French winners. I have even seen Dutch and Irish winners!

>get in the break once
>win the pois jersey

Wow so much skills.

How would you fix the KoM competition?

Cheeky points gained in a breakaway aren't working, apparently.

I'd prefer them not to fix it so I can keep complaining about it every thread DESU

I can't argue with your reasoning. It's sound.

Pick like the biggest 10 mountains on the tour, take the time in each of them for every rider, the one with the best cumulative time wins it.

The climber jersey was a joke this year.
It's like when the yellow is worn by a guy who didn't win a stage *koff* froome *koff*

Tell me your memories about the Zoetemelk win

Purito stages, like in Vuelta. Tour de France should use Andorra for Pyrenees segment.

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Are you guys more Giro or Vuelta?

What a joke this jersey is it's rare for the normie french crowd to spit on their own particularly when he's the only french bringing back something home and yet most of the people i've seen are calling out the bullshit rating system that made him win

KoM is unfixable, GC contenders don't care about it and the other option is to have someone like Wellens take it to Paris, which makes no sense too

I prefer the Giro. They mix up their parcours a lot more and try to keep it fresh. The Vuelta is like an ignored child that acts out in order to get attention.
>You like mountains? Here's all the mountains! Nothing but mountains...
>...
>...someone please send their best riders.

Well when you see a rider that's been a complete embarrassment the whole tour winning it you start making questions.

Won it because Bernal/Ineos let him take it.

But they really should rethink the point system, especially with those double points.

Maybe they need a more complex system.

As a viewer, I actually want to see the best climbing times. It can't be that hard to put on official clocks and time the big climbs. It's ridiculous that they didn't have it yesterday on the Iseran.
Give points to the first ones to pass the top, but also to the ones with the fastest time.

A number of anons have pointed out that timing the climbs instead of merely giving it to the first summiter would make more sense.
The guys who actually want to win the mountains competition would be able to do so without constantly having to be in the breakaway with the scrubs, especially since those climbers are there to support their GC leader.

But, of course, that's the main problem: the most capable climbers are only brought onto the team to support the leader, not to win stuff for themselves. They're no different than sprint-leadout riders. No sprinter would ever want his leadout man going off and getting intermediate points or mountain points.

>It's ridiculous that they didn't have it yesterday on the Iseran.
This. Even in amateur-level running road races they give you a little transponder that's glued to the inside of your number. It tracks your start and finish times, as well as all your splits.
Why doesn't the multi-million dollar Tour have that technology?

Points for fastest ascents, weighed towards harder climbs and special climbs (like the single hardest climb of the Tour, or the highest point, or famous climbs like Ventoux, etc) would be pretty cool to watch.

On top of that, I think it would shake up the GC a little bit, since some of those climbers are real GC threats most years.

Allah should go for a Vuelta, there are a lot of mountains but none over 2000m, perfect for him.

Wonder which madlad sprinters will ride the Vuelta this year

Fat Fernando.

They have transponders user

These mass sprints in the Vuelta are always pretty cringe, even Jonas Van Genechten won a sprint a few years ago. Who? Yeah, no clue either, even Michel and Jose didn't recognize him

I mean Mike Teunissen won a sprint in the tour de france, it happens

I wonder if Bora will have Ackermann or the SEETHING Sam Bennett who's leaving

>They have transponders user
They don't seem to fucking work, though, since it took them a half-hour to square everyone's time on the truncated stage and, even then, it appears they got some people's time wrong.

I meant that there are usually very few sprinters in the Vuelta, so even a complete nobody can win. I can name a few more like Sbaragli or Sutton. In the Tour this doesn't happen, Teunissen is not a nobody and beat some impressive guys

Ahhhhh...no more daily tour threads.

What now?

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Volta a Portugal

>Teunissen
>not a nobody
You only know him because he's from your country.

Also in the vuelta even what are considered flat stages have random climbs and shit which makes it not as easy as it is in the tour to get to the final sprint for the sprinters, hence more open finals.

Transpondeurs aren't accurate and are not used for official timing, that's why it was a clusterfuck yesterday.
But they really have the means to put official chronos at the cols though.

/cyc/ is always around if you know where to look.

NEVER EVER FROGGIES

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Who is this?

why Colombia it's so good at this sport?

>romania

but they aren't

We can afford to choke during decades before anyone catches up

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>it's rare for the normie french crowd to spit on their own

It literally is the national sport, this is a self hating nation since the jews took other