(07-24-2022, 06:49 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: That was one heck of a Tour de France. I've never seen anything like it. This being my first TdF it set a high standard that I doubt will ever be duplicated.

Congratulations to Team Jumbo Visma and their winner of the yellow jersey, Jonas Vingegaard, who unseated two time Tour winner UAE's Tadej Pogacar (2020 & 2021) who was a sure thing to win again by pretty much everyone. Then Jumbo Visma came in and dismantled that whole idea. Both teams lost riders to Covid or crashes but they kept fighting until the end. What a masterpiece this Tour was.

I used to pay a lot of attn to the tour when I was younger, but doping soured me. I hope they've cleaned that up.

Kinda thought they could do like the American Le Mans series where they have multiple classes of cars on track at the same time - you have the doper class, the clean  class, and separate standings for each one

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