Rate the 2016 Tour de France

[Valv.Piti]

1

Pretty fckn sad. The mountain stages were trash, I guess some of the other stages were decent, but I won't remember those. Without no single good mountain stage, or at least medium mountain stage, its hard to rate it any higher. Just compare the 4 MTF's from 2013 to those the 4 from 2016: Ax-3, Ventoux, Alpe d' Huez and Annecy Semnoz. All great. Now, this year's best MTF was the one yesterday do Saint Gervais with 2 kilometre attacks and a good stage victory from Bardet.

 

[Gigs_98]

A 2 for me. The tour seemed to get better in the 2nd week but then Froome smashed the ITT and it started to get boring.

1: Boring stage with a gc contender crashing
2: Boring stage with one gc contender loosing time due to a crash and another one due to a mechanical...how great
3: Boring stage
4: Boring stage
5: The fact that the break won this makes it look more interesting but it actually was hardly better than the stages before
6: Boring stage (seriously there was absolutely nothing happening before the mountains)
7: And hey, it appear as if there is also nothing happening after the mountains have started
8: Nothing happening except of a descent attack by...froome?...Okay...
9: Contador finally abandons after one week of suffering and leaves cycling fans all over the world with 2 weeks of suffering. Self-serving bastard
10: Yay week two starts which means the stages get a bit better. First of all a breakaway win after a sprint between Matthews, Sagan, EBH and GVA. Sounds good, right?
11: A crosswind stage where Froome attacks together with Sagan. Is this tour finally starting to get interesting
12: FROOME RUNS UP THE MONT VENTOUX AND TGBM LEAVES QUINTANA IN HIS DUST? Is this tour really becoming exciting now?
13: No
14: Boring stage
15: Boring stage...on this profile
16: Boring stage
17: Before anyone could say that the tour might not be over yet the 2nd place in gc and the only rider who is usually capable of riding on Froome's level drop so the fight for the gc gets even more boring
18: Just the result everyone expected
19: At least Bardet attacked which at the end earned him a tdf podium. Chapeau!
20: Froome is obviously happy with 1st, Bardet obviously happy with 2nd, Quintana somehow happy with his 3rd tdf podium, Yates somehow happy with being 20 seconds behind the podium, Porte somehow happy with being the 2nd strongest rider of the tour and finishing 5th, Aru is just bad and Bala has to babysit Quintana so not one of those rider attacks.

 

[Cannibal72]

Entirely depends on how you perceive grand tours. If you think of this Tour as '21 one-day races', it was pretty reasonable. The battle for the stage win every day compared very favourably to 2 of this year's Monuments. If you thought of it in terms of GC, it wasn't great, but Froome made it a little better.

5

 

[jalep]

2 but without Bardet's stage 19 and a couple other fresh spirits, it would have been a zero. We're in the Sky TDF domination years, which is great if that's what you admire. But the near future TdF's give me a sinking feeling -- I prefer more competition and a variety of teams winning from year to year. I don't like the loss of free spirited riding by Landa, Kwiato and others. It's a kill-joy when my favorite characters get swept up by the Sky machine in their best years.

 

[Hayabusa]

I rated it at a 7.

Resurgence of Cavendish, the attacks from Froome, Sagan's amazing talent and some really good stage wins from the likes of Pantano, Dumoulin and Bardet.

 

[movingtarget]

I give it a 5 for Froome's attack with Sagan and his attack on the descent, Pantano's performance, Porte's improvement over three weeks, Mollema's, Bardet and Yates' performance as well. I think the organizers are going too far with the short stages and having the last mountain stage without an MTF is just boring. Green jersey and mountain jersey was dull as usual. Cumming's win was good and it was great to see De Gendt get a stage win. Shortening the Ventoux was a disappointment but understandable. Not a bad race but Froome had it won pretty early and with Contador gone and Quintana ineffective there was only going to be one winner. 2014 was just as dull after Contador and Froome crashed out.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re:

A strong seven from me.
Didn't lack excitement, although it's been situated around the middle of race, and presented by the jerseys' wearers throughout the course.
A nice route, nice views... Some controversies... It had everything.

If this was a 7 for you, how do you rate gt's which are liked by most people like the giro 2015? I just don't see how one can think a gt can't be that much better.

 

[Netserk]

Ventoux was probably the best climb, but the farce completely ruined it. I will judge it better after getting some distance to it, but this might just be the worst Tour I have ever seen.

 

[Arredondo]

Re:

Ventoux was probably the best climb, but the farce completely ruined it. I will judge it better after getting some distance to it, but this might just be the worst Tour I have ever seen.

But was it worse then 2012?

 

[capuldemetal]

i rated it at 0.the winner was known from the start.3 weeks spent for nothing in france.

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

A strong seven from me.
Didn't lack excitement, although it's been situated around the middle of race, and presented by the jerseys' wearers throughout the course.
A nice route, nice views... Some controversies... It had everything.

If this was a 7 for you, how do you rate gt's which are liked by most people like the giro 2015? I just don't see how one can think a gt can't be that much better.

I don't remember my Giro 2015 voting.
Although the then protagonists featured in this year's Tour and brought the news as well.

And we all know rating on this board is influenced by Contador's achievement.,

 

[hrotha]

Re: Re:

And we all know rating on this board is influenced by Contador's achievement.,

How did you rate the 2016 Giro then?

 

[Miburo]

Re: Re:

A strong seven from me.
Didn't lack excitement, although it's been situated around the middle of race, and presented by the jerseys' wearers throughout the course.
A nice route, nice views... Some controversies... It had everything.

If this was a 7 for you, how do you rate gt's which are liked by most people like the giro 2015? I just don't see how one can think a gt can't be that much better.

I don't remember my Giro 2015 voting.
Although the then protagonists featured in this year's Tour and brought the news as well.

And we all know rating on this board is influenced by Contador's achievement.,

This has nothing with Contador or not, it was just a terrible tour. Yea of course the tour would have been better with Contador, you gotta be an idiot if you don't realise that.

But it was terrible, just like '09 with contador was but that shitshow of a tour was still way better than this garbage

 

[Irondan]

I voted it an 8, or the highest as I would any Grand Tour. I'm a homer that way I guess..

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

And we all know rating on this board is influenced by Contador's achievement.,

How did you rate the 2016 Giro then?

Can't remember.
It wasn't lower than seven.

 

[DFA123]

Re:

Entirely depends on how you perceive grand tours. If you think of this Tour as '21 one-day races', it was pretty reasonable. The battle for the stage win every day compared very favourably to 2 of this year's Monuments. If you thought of it in terms of GC, it wasn't great, but Froome made it a little better.

5

Two or three stages were good, but must were pretty dull. At least in monuments you get to see the best riders in the world going head to head over several hours in the saddle - not some second tier riders who have made it into a break because they're not good enough to contest the overall win.

 

[Tonton]

7: out of 10, I deducted one point for the lack of panache of many top-10 riders, one for Contador's DNF because HE would have attacked, and one for the Ventoux "decision". Showing The Run and the tri-cycle ride in highlights in the future will be a big misrepresentation. It was decided, they didn't count.

The course was the best in years, 2nd to 10th the gaps are small, but riders make the race. Chapeau Bardet, Purito, Valverde, Mollema, Pantano, Sagan, GVA, Cav, and also Froome for his guerrilla warfare early on.

 

[Netserk]

Re: Re:

Ventoux was probably the best climb, but the farce completely ruined it. I will judge it better after getting some distance to it, but this might just be the worst Tour I have ever seen.

But was it worse then 2012?

Thereabout. At least Nibali somewhat tried. The sky train was more exciting back then as well.

 

[Cookster15]

3.

Would have been a 2 except I enjoyed watching LRP finally silence his doubters that he can ride strongly for 3 weeks without a super bad day. Would have easily podiumed if not for his super bad luck.

Of course if AC had been present it likely would have been more entertaining but I am not sure he would have challenged Froome and the Tour isn't the Giro or Vuelta. But what the organisers can't control is the racing. Froome and Sky were just too strong and that snuffed out most of the possibility to attack with few notable exceptions such as Bardet's commendable effort yesterday after Froome's crash. But I also wonder if the higher importance placed on the Tour by sponsors and teams has a part to play in the Tour's perennial boringness? This creates risk averse racing.

ps - nice summary Red Rick I enjoyed reading that!

 

[Cannibal72]

Re: Re:

Entirely depends on how you perceive grand tours. If you think of this Tour as '21 one-day races', it was pretty reasonable. The battle for the stage win every day compared very favourably to 2 of this year's Monuments. If you thought of it in terms of GC, it wasn't great, but Froome made it a little better.

5

Two or three stages were good, but must were pretty dull. At least in monuments you get to see the best riders in the world going head to head over several hours in the saddle - not some second tier riders who have made it into a break because they're not good enough to contest the overall win.

Can't agree they were second-tier riders. If they were, there would have been a lot more of them contesting each breakaway, where in fact there were only a couple of riders who were up for the stage win each day and every day. Zakarin, Nibali, Majka, Pantano, Alaphilippe...I wouldn't rate them as hugely inferior to the major GC riders, personally. They didn't just fall into the break by accident, they worked very, very hard for it.

Thank god it's an even year, and there were Euro's

Did you watch the Euros?

 

[Carols]

2 Only bright spots were Bardet and Pantano! Yates is a hope for the future.
Edit: Plus Big Tom's TT win which unfortunately was deflated by his broken arm yesterday

 

[Gigs_98]

WTF is wrong with you guys? When I started to write this the number which was rated the most was 7 which is higher than last year. Are there seriously people who think this tdf is better than 2015

 

[PremierAndrew]

Could easily have been a couple of points higher without ASO giving Froome 1:40 on Ventoux (regardless of whether it was right or not)

 

[the delgados]

2 Only bright spots were Bardet and Pantano! Yates is a hope for the future.
Edit: Plus Big Tom's TT win which unfortunately was deflated by his broken arm yesterday

I agree--Pantano was great. My assessment just went from 2 to 3 with your valuable reminder.
Guy was dropped so many times and looked like he was spent, only to drag himself up to the front.
Very impressive.

 

[Jancouver]

3 for me

1. Point for Sagan
1. Point for Sagan & Froome attacking the peloton
1. Point for Porte making the Top 5. (did I really say that?)