[Closed] TdF Stage 18 [Possible Spoiler Content]

why/what was merckx shouting ?

Merckx was getting very excited about someone taking on the TdF the old skool way like he used to and was shouting encouragement. He also got quite abusive to the random fancy dressed chickens and budgie smuggler wearing dicks that seem to think it's cool to run alongside the lead rider which was amusing to watch.

[i]He also got quite abusive to the random fancy dressed chickens and budgie smuggler wearing dicks[/i]

Christian Prudhomme was also in the car; it was him shouting at numpties...

ahh.

Why do they do that? I have to say I'd struggle to ride with that lot around me as well as people standing in front of me until a spit second before getting run over to get a photo and the general exhaust fumes of all those cars and bikes around them. But then again I'd be 2hrs back down the road so wouldn't be a problem!

as you didn't seem too keen

Not that desperate to take money off you* - if I was as sure as you seem I'd take a punt at the bookies, though personally I reckon they've got the odds about right (tempted by TV at 16/1, but I think that's my heart not my head) - you've got me looking at arbs now though...

I just hope Frank doesn't win it - any of the other 3 deserve it the way they've ridden (I suppose Frank did attack the other day, but he's spent a lot of time sitting on wheels and it was hardly in the class of his brother). The first time I could honestly say that about either AS or CE.

not into gambling

Not entirely true - I made a few hundred on the last Olympics when I was sure the bookies were being too pessimistic about the number of medals we'd get.

* by that I mean that I'd be up on the deal, not necessarily that you're wrong

as it was for Fignon in 1989, though I suspect you might not have been following the TdF back then

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I missed the whole damn thing, even the highlights 🙁

ITV Player (and a proxy if you're still in Germany)?

Yeah that's all covered but I was out all afternoon, missed the highlights show and they don't put it on the player til after I've gone to bed...