Tour De France 2017: Chris Froome Wins Yellow Jersey For The Fourth Time

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40695072

Well done Chris !

[DTCwordfan]

I'll back you on this, mikey.......will he get 5 or 6?

Congrats to the women's win at cricket too.

[mikey4444]

Yes......a good weekend for British sport ::::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40698974

[Cloverjo]

Didn't see much of the TdF this year. I like to watch the race for the line on the Champs Elysees if Mark Cavendish is there.

Well done, Chris Froome.

Yes, well done to England Women cricketers, too. Great match. Very tense at the end.

[marval]

Yes, well done to Chris, and the women's cricket team.

[New Judge]

I don't quite understand cycling.

As I understand it Mr. Froome crashed out on one of the very early stages. In any other sport this would see him finished in the event (especially as he had to get a new bike). But in the T de F he gets up, brushes himself off and wins the entire thing.

Another thing I don't understand is why they have t route the race over hills and mountains. There are plenty of flat areas where they could run the race (Northern France or Holland - the French have no compunction in allowing their race to exercise incursions into other countries - including the UK - thus making it the "Tour de Europe".

It's all very strange and doesn't do much to enhance the image of the sport as being sane or sensible.

[jourdain2]

I echo, well done Chris! Mais ce n'est pas juste! I can hear the reaction from here!

[Mamyalynne]

Well done Chris.

[Togo]

With you on some points Judge. But hey ho, a Brit won in France. Gotta miff em off that. :)) Did post ref the ladies win earlier, cracking game to boot. Lady footballers beat Spain as well. Thank God for the girls and lycra clad lads.

[ichkeria]

Nice wind-up New Judge.

Well done M Froome

[goodgoalie]

And he somehow managed to win without having won any of the stages. Still trying to figure that out....

[ToraToraTora]

I will assume you are joking judge.

[anotheoldgit]

All that just for a yellow jersey, when they are cheap enough in Primark.

[ToraToraTora]

they should try doing it like Granville:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/19/article-0-1982608B00000578-497_634x416.jpg

[ChillDoubt]

As I understand it Mr. Froome crashed out on one of the very early stages. In any other sport this would see him finished in the event (especially as he had to get a new bike). But in the T de F he gets up, brushes himself off and wins the entire thing.
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Indeed! What a mindset, what an ethos.
Good job he wasn't a Premier League footballer or he'd have been stretchered away after his first puncture!
Geraint Thomas rode most of the TdF one year with a fractured pelvis. Nice to have sportsmen we can be proud of from time to time.

[New Judge]

"I will assume you are joking judge."

If I answered that, 3Ts, my mystery and mystique would be destroyed forever :-)

What I mean by him crashing, CD, is that as a result of that he needed a new bike. Surely the idea of the race is to test man and machine. If the machine gets mangled beyond quick repair then that's that, surely?

[ToraToraTora]

in the very early days of the TDF judge it was just that, they were not allowed any assistance and had to fix their own problems:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jan/07/cycling.features

[Garaman]

//I don't quite understand cycling. //

You should have left it at that, NJ, 'surely'.