NormanH Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 A fantastic achievement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]A fantastic achievement[/quote]Hear Hear.A great effort from all of his team as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Absolutely great. Knighthood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Result[:D] - ok teamwork, but 2013 sports personality of the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 [quote user="just john "]Result[:D] - ok teamwork, but 2013 sports personality of the year?[/quote]Or 2012 SPOTY even especially if he adds to his tally of Olympic medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 They haven't yet announced who will light the Olympic flame - have they been keeping their options open? Or is a competing athlete not allowed to perform this ceremony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 As far as I know t has to be an Olympian (no need to compete this year ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The l'Equipe headline today was ............ "A l'heure Anglaise".Nice all round and well deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 And it headed the BBC evening news tonight - in front of the "serious" news which is usually covered first. Never before achieved .... etc.We were a pretty proud household also, though we are not real devotees, nor have we seen any of the tour this year - not near enough, and rather busy with other things. Last year it came through our village /town, about 200 yds away from our house (on two different sides) but this year it's nearest spot was too far away, but would have loved to have seen "Le Gentleman" in person ride by in the yellow jersey, as he certainly was wearing by the time he was down in this neck of the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 No pressure to win at the Olympics then. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 The French press find it hard to swallow, as can be seen from this rather sour article in Le FigaroLe retour des absents et un tracé différent devraient donner au centième Tour de France plus d’enthousiasme et d’émotion que la victoire manquant de punch de Bradley Wiggings. Il fera date pour la première victoire britannique et confirme l’ouverture du cyclisme «à un monde qui parle anglais» Thomas Voeckler soulève. «Il a manqué un peu de charme, de panache.http://www.sport24.com/cyclisme/tour-de-france/actualites/vivement-2013-571161 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I am not at all surprised, as those are comments I have been hearing throughout the Tour from some French commentators, journalists, and cyclists alike. It seems that the SKY team's dominance of the Tour is not well perceived everywhere. Lots of sour grapes everywhere! They don't want to have to compete against athletes who are so rigorous and strict in their training all year around, as are Wiggins and Froome, as this goes against the French cyclists occasional lackadaisical-ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Absolutely thrilling...though I don't really understand all the flag-waving and jingoism.There is a wonderful Mac cartoon today showing a couple at a French restaurant with the waiter hovering them. On the table, the menu says "Bradley Wiggins".The caption says it with sly humour: We don't want to order anything - we've just come to gloat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 The problem with the tour this year was that there was only one team prepared and able to dominate the race whereas most of the others were either weak or incomplete. In previous years there have always been two or three. What the press conveniently forget is that all the great riders have had excellent team backing, even the great Bernard Hinault.The French want some home grown heroes on the Tour and, I suspect, do not understand why they have not been more successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I have some sympathy with the French ideal of charismatic - eccentric even - characters, rather than highly organised teams working to a tight script. But that's the way things are now. The others will have to up their game; I hope it does not make the Tour too clinical.My friend from Bordeaux sent me a message of congratulation for the British result. But he couldn't resist adding that he admired more the performance of "the Kenyan Froome" to that of Wiggins and Sky.It's a French thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="Alan Zoff"]I have some sympathy with the French ideal of charismatic - eccentric even - characters, rather than highly organised teams working to a tight script. But that's the way things are now. The others will have to up their game; I hope it does not make the Tour too clinical.My friend from Bordeaux sent me a message of congratulation for the British result. But he couldn't resist adding that he admired more the performance of "the Kenyan Froome" to that of Wiggins and Sky.It's a French thing.[/quote]They would have no objection to a highly organised team if such a thing could be French ...[;-)]As for nationality it will be interesting to see the French athletes at the Olympics..The 1998 World Cup team was celebrated and praised for inspiring pride and optimism about the prospects for the "French model" of social integration.[23] Of the 23 players on the team, the squad featured players who could trace their origins to Armenia, Algeria, Guadeloupe, New Caledonia, Argentina, Ghana, Senegal, Italy, French Guyana, Portugal, Spain, Martinique and the Basque Country with the patriarch of the team being Zinédine Zidane, who was born in Marseille to Algerian immigrants.All to the good say I, but then why whinge about the UK having sports people of commonwealth descent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 Who's the daddy then? how many plaudits to follow?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Messages of congratulations from my Bordeaux mate have been conspicuous by their absence this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pommier Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Will it soon be Sir Bradley Wiggins, sportsman of the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 [quote user="Pommier"]Will it soon be Sir Bradley Wiggins, sportsman of the year?[/quote]not to mention Minister for Cyclists - /bradley-wiggins-i-did-not-call-for-compulsory-helmets-for-cyclists- [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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