Cycling 2012 (Page 2 of 6)

Today is the final, Queens' stage of the Tour de Suisse, also known as the Tour de Sagan, since the winner of five ToC stages has won four stages here too. However, Sagan is not a climber, and this stage features two monster mountains, which promise to deliver an epic final stage, since any one of the current top 10, including Levi Leipheimer, could win the stage and the general classification.

Live streams can be accessed at the bottom of this page - http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-suisse/#live - from 15:45 CET, 9:45 eastern, 6:45 pacific (this info particularly for my SoCal insomniac friend )

Coverage now scheduled to start an hour earlier, 14:45 CET.

BBC - Tour de France - "British riders Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome occupy the top two places in the Tour de France after an excellent day for Team Sky on stage 11."

Good to see our boys on top of the leader board - Just hope their 'clean'

This must be making the French spit, more than usual.

Cycling fan here and good to see the Sky team doing so well. This might be a changing of the guard. We'll see in the mountains.
Rick

an awful out of politics surrounding the Froome/Wiggins/Sky relationship which I think is being put around to upset Wiggens in the hope of another rider picking up the pieces, - think it was the Italian press (Nibali interest) that published an interview, - which then l'equipe picked up and re-wrote with their own edge on it...

A couple of things to remember: This Sky team was put together by Sean Yates for one reason: For Wiggins to win le Tour, - not Froome. Froome was NOT an automatic inclusion for Le Tour team until quite late on because he was sick with a virus infection at the start of the year and then had an accident on his return to training. Therefore his inclusion was only ever as a domestic.  The team manager Sean Yates spent YEARS as a domestic and probably was one of the best ever so he knows the value and need for such riders. - If Wiggins does wear yellow into Paris then Froome should be praised to the highest level because of what he has done, not only with this race but also Cav's world championship. Perhaps this year he is strong enough to take yellow and hold it but it is not the first and will not be the last rider to play the team role and sacrifice his chance.

It does appear that Le Tour establishment have a problem with perceived outsiders stepping into their territory and winning the thing, - Lemond, Armstrong.......?

sorry Murray1903 my post was specifically aimed at you, - certainly was not having a go, - I did not make it clear but I was more answering the negativity that appears to be building up around Wiggins right now, - including his bad language reply when asked about drug taking. As I am sure you and others know Wiggins has been around for quite a while now, just under the radar perhaps, but when you look at his record now you can see why a tour team has been built around him, and as I think he has said himself he has sacrificed a lot of family life for this opportunity.

Sorry, but I'm not joining in the Sky/Wiggins love fest, though I absolutely understand that Brits are thrilled at the prospect of a first Tour winner, and rightly so.

The dominance of Sky is reminiscent of US Postal days, and most fans that I know simply dislike any one team being SO dominant, because of the inevitable questions that arise....

All of my personal favorite riders are either absent, have failed, have quit, or both. As far as I'm concerned, this Tour was decided at the first TT - barring any unforeseen disasters, Wiggins will win easily. My only remaining interest is the White jersey - I hope that Teejay will be able to keep it.

Congrats to Brad, Chris & the Cav ... what a brilliant day for Great Britain, & British Cycling! - a fantastic achievement - lets now go and get some GB Golds.