Tour 2012: Route Rumours / Our wishes

[guncha]

Apparently the choice of the finish line is dangerous if ridden directly from the climb so they need to loop around.

Last 10km of this 26km decent are flat. With such a sharp climb 26km before the finish bunch sprint is not possible.
Possibly some of city/ies around Foix have paid to A.S.O to have this loop through them...

 

[airstream]

OMG, this comical parcours seems to be true... Wow.
lol, Libertine Seguros, if they will give Arcalis+Abantos+Velefique, you will like this Tour?

 

[roundabout]

Last 10km of this 26km decent are flat. With such a sharp climb 26km before the finish bunch sprint is not possible.
Possibly some of city/ies around Foix have paid to A.S.O to have this loop through them...

I think the talk is about narrow streets and chicanes.

Allee de Vilote where the finish seems to be is pretty narrow.

 

[theyoungest]

I'm getting the unmistakable whiff of 2011 Paris-Nice spread over three weeks here. God help us.

Take out the Angliru, and that's more or less the Vuelta 2011 for you.

 

[guncha]

I think the talk is about narrow streets and chicanes.

Allee de Vilote where the finish seems to be is pretty narrow.

There won't be bunch sprint anyway, just small groups of riders.

 

[airstream]

Guys, how do you think, Prudomme realizes that he signed the verdict about his own dismissal?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

OMG, this comical parcours seems to be true... Wow.
lol, Libertine Seguros, if they will give Arcalis+Abantos+Velefique, you will like this Tour?

Lol Arcalis. Even Cerler is a better MTF than that.

Take out the Angliru, and that's more or less the Vuelta 2011 for you.

Nah, the Vuelta put lots of mountain finishes, just a really, really poor final week which meant it petered out rather like Paris-Nice did. And the Vuelta has that horrible tendency of not bothering to make really tough stages, just sticking everything interesting in the last hour for TV. 2011 Paris-Nice just went for the first part of that without bothering with the second.

 

[ferryman]

Never been so unexcited before a Tour presentation. Maybe it should be renamed Le Diesel. Jeez, I so hope Contador survives November.

 

[The Hitch]

Take out the Angliru, and that's more or less the Vuelta 2011 for you.

Wheres Pena Cabarga, wheres Valdepenas de Jaen and most importantly, where is San Lorenzo de Escortial?

 

[El Pistolero]

Wheres Pena Cabarga, wheres Valdepenas de Jaen and most importantly, where is San Lorenzo de Escortial?

With the exception of Pena Cabarga they are just short uphill finishes like Mur de Huy(but harder).

 

[Libertine Seguros]

With the exception of Pena Cabarga they are just short uphill finishes like Mur de Huy(but harder).

And we saw lots of those finishes in Paris-Nice 2011?

 

[Havetts]

LS, seeing your comments always make me smile and cry on the other hand cause they're so painfully true.

 

[El Pistolero]

And we saw lots of those finishes in Paris-Nice 2011?

Woops, thought we were just trolling on the Vuelta

Cyclingnews should really allow for multiple quoted posts to be seen instead of only 1.

Paris-Nice was indeed horrible. It had one climb that resembled the Sierra Nevada and that was it(in terms of boringness)... The final stage is normally pretty exciting, but this year it was crap because of the boring cyclists in the race.

The Vuelta was also pretty horrible, but slightly less so.

 

[The Hitch]

With the exception of Pena Cabarga they are just short uphill finishes like Mur de Huy(but harder).

And we saw lots of those finishes in Paris-Nice 2011?

Cyclingnews should really allow for multiple quoted posts to be seen instead of only 1.

You were saying?

 

[Parrulo]

What was that?

thats cheating tho

 

[The Hitch]

thats cheating tho

Anda Ya!!!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Stage 7's finish looks like a beauty. "Stage 7 to La Planche des Belles Filles (Vosges): average 20% grade on final 200m (w/28% part!)"

 

[Papparrazzi]

I can't find the link someone posted about the Live interweb of the Presentation.
Is it France 3 Television? What time ?

 

[jens_attacks]

let's see if the bmc guys and vino can wake up in time for the presentation...like hoogie

 

[The Hitch]

Will someone be recording the presentation?

Dim?

 

[Anonymous]

British viewers can watch it here
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/2011/2012routepresentation/

 

[Ferminal]

It's live, unrestricted on the ASO front page.

Should be starting in 10-15mins.

http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/COURSE/conf/live_en_hd.html

 

[Forunculo]

British viewers can watch it here
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/2011/2012routepresentation/

And no Brits my english is much better than my french


I hope Cadel is having the deserved attention and tribute as current winner and not AS and AC

 

[auscyclefan94]

Feed starts at 8.25

 

[jens_attacks]

It's live, unrestricted on the ASO front page.

Should be starting in 10-15mins.

link?i would like to see it in french without other guys translating over it please