Shrimpsvoices

Well done to GT for becoming the 3rd UK rider to win this years Tour de France. A great team display by Team Sky who supported both GT and CF until it became clear that GT had more in his legs this time than CF.

Also a well done to the riders who completed the entire route despite having a broken collar bone and a broken knee cap after crashing into a wall and landing on its other side. Makes the injuries to footballers who wimp off the pitch pathetic in comparison. Imagine a footballer playing on with either of those injuries.

Imagine all those footy players with Hay Fever.

There seems to be a disproportionate number of riders with asthma - I find this puzzling as when I was at School said people were a bit flakey when it came to PE and cross-country running in particular. If only they'd have had those non-performance enhancing aids back then to help them with this debilitating respiratory condition - it might've been so different.

redrobo wrote:...the 3rd UK rider to win this years Tour de France.

The third UK rider to win this year? How many Tour de France have there been this year???

Got to agree with the strength & determination of those guys. The chap who came off, landed face first, broke his nose & eye socket, yet completed the Tour? That’s some strength, physically & mentally! TT riders are tough but cyclists are up there too.