French pedal strokes - 2015 3/3

The Tour de France 2015, also known as Tour de Froome, is now over. And as soon as it was over the excitement bug inside starts to fade and so it took longer to write the final article about this year edition.

Also once it is over it's harder to talk about the last week, because all is settled no new predictions only conclusions. So I have to go back to the 2 other articles to see my thoughts and considerations and sum it all up.

It didn't go as I thought although I got it right in what comes to Quintana winning back some time from Froome. And he did attack on both Stage 19 and Stage 20. What surprises me is that it was indeed due to the Sky team that Froome kept the yellow jersey, on the climb to Alpe d'Huez. I thought he could defend alone but he couldn't. He really needed help from his team-mates and 3 of them actually. If Sky would have been exhausted as suggested in earlier stages and Froome isolated, I think he would have lost several minutes and the Tour.

French pedal strokes - 2015 2/3

14 stages done, Stage 15 is going on right now and I am writing my second article about this year's edition of the Tour de France.

I expected fireworks on the second week and we did have great stages and nice results but not the attacks I was expecting. Well, kind of. Movistar did attack here and there, Quintana included, but Froome is still in control. I was expecting more attacks from Movistar and Tinkoff-Saxo on Stage 12. If I were a betting person I would have placed a bet on Quintana to won the stage or at least gain back some time, but it was not to be.
The big change we had was that the Big 4 became the Big 5 as Tejay van Garderen from BMC kept himself in the hunt, in particular after BMC won the Team Time Trial.
Nibali is gong backwards and Contador again lost more time.
Froome has one foot on the door, he just needs one final effort and crack it open.

French pedal strokes - 2015 1/3

I love cycling and follow the cycling season (road competition) closely every year.
The Tour de France being the biggest event of them all, is of course the crown jewel.

The 2015 edition is under way and more than 1 third (of the stages) is completed already.
Many things happened and already and has usual many crashes that took a toll on the peloton. Not as high impact as last year, when we lost the defending champion on week 1. This year we only lost 2 yellow jerseys, that were not contenders for the overall win.

And so all the Big 4 of current cycling are still there: Froome, Contador, Nibali and Quintana.

There is no failure except in no longer trying

The actual state of this blog is a reflection of my failures to achieve the so called "world domination" at least of the cyber community.
The plan was so simple, write my witty remarks and strange dissertations in English so they would reach a wider audience, and hopefully more people in the world would discover my brilliance.

Because I try to push too many wagons at the same time, I cannot continue to cover some subjects as regularly as I thought. For instance I started commenting on the 2015 F1 season but only wrote 2 articles.
And then I noticed my so-called brilliance was lacking. At least some years ago.