Which bold rider has this stage circled in their tour bible? Wednesday July 18th, Stage 16, 197 km. The day after a the final rest day. A climbing day with two HC climbs followed by two Category 1 climbs and a serious descent toward the finish. The Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin and Peyresourde: you better be a fearless climber and a good descender, but a better climber. This is not a stage for Sagan or Fränkie Schleck (sorry Frank). If Wiggo was going to have a bad day, this would be a special one to have it on. And this follows a rest day? Could the weather finally make a difference? Will the mad tacker return? Will climbers just try to survive this stage to perform on the fearsome Stage 17? More questions than answers in the Velominati Super-Bunker.
All VSP bettors better give an extra shake of the monkey bones before casting them down. Study them well. There is much at stake: Fizik R3s for the winner, 2 pair of DeFeet socks for first loser. The rules are the same as for the first single stage VSP. Points are awarded for correct place only. Delgado might have enjoyed this stage but don’t be like him.
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@Marcus
You don't undertsand the sport then "” entirely. Today it was about using the biggest effort the entire time. I planned to go off the front with The V Meter and not look back. Big effrort works whenevr possible. But that was just today and you are expressing the tactic of surviving the overall stages. My point is, "not at at all times" and usually the effort is "never little" if at all possible.
@versio
Not quite sure what you are trying to get at with your unique turn of phrase - but if you are somehow trying to talk about your own racing, then I am sorry for conveying the impression that I could somehow give a fuck about that.
I guess I could have extended my sentence to read "using as little effort as possible at all times - to achieve one's goals" - but I thought that was pretty clear. Perhaps I overestimated some people's skill in making inferences.
@Marcus
The sentence sucks to start with and in turn you are sucking with it. Sorry for you.
@frank
I didnt hold out much hope for Cuddles, but he definitely did swing towards his bad side. I liked the way he got back on (with help) after being dropped for the first time, but was none too impressed that immediately afterwards he started talking about his upset tummy.
That was classic Bad Cadel stuff. He should be less honest at times like that.
Am glad he at least lost that first bit of time last week by throwing his nuts into the wind. He will live to fight another day - but not too many more. Reckon the way he has been going, he might at least animate some of the Olympic Road Race.
Look forward to soon transferring my fixation onto Porte, the Meyer Brothers and Jacky Bobby.
As for your comment on entertainment, yes it is very important - but that responsibility falls pretty heavily on designers of the parcours, rather than the participants. Their responsibility is to race to win.
@brett
Richie can climb, don't forget he wore pink & won the best young rider at the 2010 Giro.
What I wanna know is since when can EBH lead a pack over a couple of HC climbs?
@frankany chance you can some kind of translation coding for @versio's posts? That way it might be easier to work out what he's on about when he's disagreeing with people. At least @Marcus keeps things reasonably straight forward (as long as he steers clear of the latin).
@Mikael Liddy well done me...slag someone off for making no sense while composing a sentence of pure gibberish. That should have read '@Frank any chance you can write some kind of translation coding for @Versio's posts?'
@Marcus
Versio is obviously little Tommy V. (The cunning linguist)
@brett
yeah, that's why it took you three weeks and two new apartments to clear the stench you left after he won last year.
@Mikael Liddy
I've been trying to figure that out for ages myself. My nearest guess is that, since he's American, he takes his posts and runs them through Google Translate as Jinastubarniarian and then back to English. It's the only explanation.