Tour de France 2007 thread (6 Viewers)

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Pascal Herve (1964 - 24 December 2024)
90's climbing domestique who was unflinchingly loyal to Richard Virenque before and after the 1998 Festina affair. For what it is worth, Herve was one of the top climbing lieutenants of his time.
It appears Herve had stomach cancer in recent years.
Herve turned pro late with Festina aged 29. When Virenque left Festina, Herve moved to Polti with him. Herve only got a short ban for his part in the 1998 Festina scandal but a doping ban in 2001 ended his career aged 37.

Pascal Hervé, key lieutenant in Festina squad for Richard Virenque, dies at 60

Career of former Giro d'Italia leader marked by 1998 Tour de France 'Festina affair'

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Pascal Hervé

Pascal Hervé (born 1964-07-13 in Tours, passed away 2024-12-24) was a former professional road racing cyclist from France, active between 1991 and 2023. His best results are winning GP Ouest France - Plouay and winning a stage in Giro d'Italia.

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Gianni Savio (1948 - 30 December 2024)
A fixture in Italian cycling, Gianni Savio was a Directeur Sportif since 1986 and started managing his low budget team in 1992, currently known as GW Erco Shimano.
Famous for his linen suits, Savio managed to keep his low budget team going for decades w/ up to four title sponsors and even riders sometimes paying their own wages (pay to ride).
Savio had strong links with South America and spotted many young talents from Colombia (even Egan Bernal) and Venezuela.
Doping was a problem at the team to the extent they were once not offered their Giro annual wildcard.
Gianni was seriously ill for some time.

Gianni Savio - Wikipedia

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https://ultimochilometro.it/2024/12/31/addio-a-gianni-savio/

 

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Arrigo Padovan (16 June 1927 - 4 January 2025)
Padovan won two Tour and three Giro stages and was close to victory in many more (2nd in 6 Tour and 2nd in 6 Giro stages).
Arrigo has a footnote in the history of British cycling - Padovan crossed the line first in a two up sprint on stage 7 of the 1958 Tour but was demoted after trying to put Brian Robinson into the barriers.
Robinson (1930-2022) was then given Britain's first ever Tour stage win.

Arrigo Padovan

Arrigo Padovan (born 1927-06-16 in Castelbaldo, passed away 2025-01-04) was a former professional road racing cyclist from Italy, active between 1950 and 1962. His best results are 3 stage wins in Giro d'Italia and 2 stage wins in Tour de France.

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God bless TG4

Eurosport is closing down in the UK - cycling is about to get a lot more expensive to watch

Live cycling to be shown on TNT Sports from next month

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God bless TG4

Eurosport is closing down in the UK - cycling is about to get a lot more expensive to watch

Live cycling to be shown on TNT Sports from next month

www.cyclingweekly.com

We have a dodgy box so I can watch TNT or whatever it is called. Didn't watch TV in the mid 90's but my interest in bike racing is the lowest since then. Will probably watch the big races but I hardly care about cycling goings on otherwise. Only real news I heard over the winter was Patrick Lefevre retiring.

English football leaving free TV eventually ended up with under 1 million watching English team's Champions League matches on BT.

 

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Lara Gillespie - European champ in the elimination race

Lara Gillespie makes history to win European elite title | Video

Lara Gillespie rode an incredible elimination race at the Europeans in Belgium to win the gold medal, Ireland's first at these championships

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She's taken a step up on the road as well. Finished 3rd to Wiebes on stage recently and helped her boss Longo Borghini take GC win.

UAE Tour Women 2025 Stage 2 results

Lorena Wiebes is the winner of UAE Tour Women 2025 Stage 2, before Lily Williams and Lara Gillespie. Lorena Wiebes was leader in GC.

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Lara Gillespie - European champ in the elimination race

Lara Gillespie makes history to win European elite title | Video

Lara Gillespie rode an incredible elimination race at the Europeans in Belgium to win the gold medal, Ireland's first at these championships

www.stickybottle.com

She's taken a step up on the road as well. Finished 3rd to Wiebes on stage recently and helped her boss Longo Borghini take GC win.

UAE Tour Women 2025 Stage 2 results

Lorena Wiebes is the winner of UAE Tour Women 2025 Stage 2, before Lily Williams and Lara Gillespie. Lorena Wiebes was leader in GC.

www.procyclingstats.com

I think she's capable of some big results on the road this year. She's some talent

 

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Het Nieuwsblad 2025:
The final two climbs were the old Tour of Flanders duo of the Gerardsbergen and the Bosberg.
Two completely races tactically from the women and men:

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serious result by Lara Gillespie yesterday. Some talent.

 

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serious result by Lara Gillespie yesterday. Some talent.

Lara is deffo on the verge of some good wins.

 

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Henri Duez (1937 - 6 March 2025)
French 60's pro with Peugeot. Duez rode 6 Tours. His career highlights inc. a 1961 Volta a Catalunya GC victory, a Dauphine stage win and 18th (1964) + 14th ('65) overall in the Tour.

Henri Duez

Henri Duez (born 1937-12-18 in La Comté, passed away 2025-03-06) was a former professional road racing cyclist from France, active between 1959 and 1966. His best results are winning GC Volta a Catalunya and winning a stage in Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.

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Milano - San Remo coverage just starting on the dodgy box, I mean TNT Sport.
Finally there is going to be a women San Remo today. Will finish after the men's.
Should be a great few hours this afternoon.

Will miss it live as I am off to get soaked at Palestine demo.

 

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Milano - San Remo coverage just starting on the dodgy box, I mean TNT Sport.
Finally there is going to be a women San Remo today. Will finish after the men's.
Should be a great few hours this afternoon.

Will miss it live as I am off to get soaked at Palestine demo.

Actually it was lovely for Palestine demo!

Third day of my favourite stage race the Tour of the Basque Country is coming on TV now.
Yesterday stage was as soft as shite.
Caleb Ewan won! One 3rd cat climb in first half of stage. Easiest stage I've ever seen in Pais Basque since I first saw race in 1998.
Race started in Pamplona and went much further south than it usually would.
Today looks good - 3,646 metres vert with some steep ramps

 

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Caleb Ewan won!

is he still racing? I was convinced he'd retired.

He got married to the daughter of that guy (Delaney?) who ran that cycling team that rode the 1x 3T bikes several years ago. Some multi-millionaire from Cork, living in Monaco. They seem like a family of assholes.

what was the name of that team again? Conor Dunne and Eddie Dunbar rode for them.

 

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Sam Bennett won yesterday.....

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Région Pays de la Loire Tour 2025 Stage 1 results

Sam Bennett is the winner of Région Pays de la Loire Tour 2025 Stage 1, before Giovanni Lonardi and Dillon Corkery. Sam Bennett was leader in GC.

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Dillon Corkery was 3rd. Another man from Banteer?

is he still racing? I was convinced he'd retired.

He got married to the daughter of that guy (Delaney?) who ran that cycling team that rode the 1x 3T bikes several years ago. Some multi-millionaire from Cork, living in Monaco. They seem like a family of assholes.

what was the name of that team again? Conor Dunne and Eddie Dunbar rode for them.

Aqua Blue? Rick Delaney? Didn't know any of that about Ewan.
I spent far more time watching Flanders on Sunday than all this years previous bike racing.
Neither Flanders race was great

 

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Sam Bennett won yesterday.....

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Région Pays de la Loire Tour 2025 Stage 1 results

Sam Bennett is the winner of Région Pays de la Loire Tour 2025 Stage 1, before Giovanni Lonardi and Dillon Corkery. Sam Bennett was leader in GC.

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Dillon Corkery was 3rd. Another man from Banteer?

Aqua Blue? Rick Delaney? Didn't know any of that about Ewan.
I spent far more time watching Flanders on Sunday than all this years previous bike racing.
Neither Flanders race was great

thats them/him.

I'm not watching or paying any attention to any race with Pogacheat in it.

though I'm curious to see how he goes in Paris-Roubaix. I'm reminded of the time Hinault rode it because people accused him of not being a complete rider cos he never won PR. He rode it, won it, then told everyone he'd never ride it again because it was bullshit.

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thats them/him.

I'm not watching or paying any attention to any race with Pogacheat in it.

though I'm curious to see how he goes in Paris-Roubaix. I'm reminded of the time Hinault rode it because people accused him of not being a complete rider cos he never won PR. He rode it, won it, then told everyone he'd never ride it again because it was bullshit.

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Yeah - Bernie was last Tour winner to win Roubaix?? Go in, get the job done and get the fuck out! Weather was awful in 1981 Roubaix.
Winning the 5 monuments is a holy grail - DeVlaeminck might have been last? Eddy was probably last guy to win Flanders and Tour before Pogacar?
Weather in Flanders last Sunday would have been like summer, without all that wind.

Should be good on Sunday.
Pogacar could attack with 50+km left and win by 4 minutes or he might get caught out badly.

48 km left in Basque stage 3...

 

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Yeah - Bernie was last Tour winner to win Roubaix?? Go in, get the job done and get the fuck out! Weather was awful in 1981 Roubaix.
Winning the 5 monuments is a holy grail - DeVlaeminck might have been last? Eddy was probably last guy to win Flanders and Tour before Pogacar?
Weather in Flanders last Sunday would have been like summer, without all that wind.

Should be good on Sunday.
Pogacar could attack with 50+km left and win by 4 minutes or he might get caught out badly.

48 km left in Basque stage 3...

Paris-Roubaix Femmes coming on TNT 4 shortly at 1:10 pm.
So turn on yer dodgy box, get in your armchair and let the cycling sisterhood do the hard work - for them.

 

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Lara Gillespie is going well in Roubaix w/ 42 km left in second group chasing leaders..

 

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Best ever ride by an Irish woman in a one day race. Really enjoyed that. Kelly was last rider to do better than Lara in Roubaix.
Good race - esp. seeing the other teams put it up to SD Worx.