Tour de France Grand Depart, Barcelona team time trial
Climate change comes for the Tour de France and no amount of hydration breaks can save it.
yeast of burden3I remember stages in the Vuelta last year happening in 100+ heat and I just…nope. We can actually tackle climate collapse. We can.
jientho.bsky.social2Wondering whether those with an extreme interest in (outdoor) sports generally have a corresponding interest in curtailing anthropogenic global warming. Because <waves at all these sporting event cancellations>.
eschneider1I suppose they could run it at night (works for Paris-Brest-Paris) but it would make the mountain stages awfully sporty...
elfdock.bsky.social1'rises to dangerous levels at or above the red high-risk zone of 28°C.' Meanwhile in 'Australia' 'Men's Stage 4 will be modified due to the ‘Extreme’ Fire Danger Rating for the Mount Lofty Ranges and predicted maximum temperatures of 43 degrees.'..That's 43C somehow not stated.
Zamafir3cycling is awesome taking your bike somewhere to do it is awesome make sure that bike rack is attached to an EV whenever possible 🤙🏽 that paid off outback or pilot pollute a ton of AQ/GHG, and you're responsible for most of the particulate emissions your fellow outdoorsy folks re ingesting
Dr Anke Marsh3I’ve done fieldwork in very hot places in the ME and Med region. There’s a reason we didn’t work in the high summer and why we started work at 4am. And it was mostly (tho not always) dry heat - slightly better than the wet furnace blast we get here in the UK. TdF needs to be done earlier or later
Ideas to make the Tour de France better: • Put it in America • Call it "Tour de America" • We have more mountains than France • Play "Country Roads" after the race
Kim McCauley18this is probably Quinn Simmons unironically
GerrardGerrard9Hydration break halfway through the mountain climb.
Gravel Influencer3Instead of a Roubaix stage have an Unbound stage
Neville Eclov3Pretty sure all the racers would be fatally hit by various F150s throughout the course.
Kevin Kostka3July 4th being the craziest stage that ends at the top of Pikes Peak with a fireworks show, of course.
Dustin George-Miller3• All roadside spectators required to wear French mime costumes with black berets and fake mustaches
I am le tired2Feed zones at local breweries.
And the Tour de France starts tomorrow. We are truly all spoiled as sports fans.
Gravel Influencer31My goal is to have all of BlueSky screaming, "Campy!!!!" and "GC Kuss!!!" by mid-July
Tara Goddard7It is good that I'm not teaching rn because between the World Cup and Western States last weekend and the Tour starting, my productivity is basically nonexistent.
Paddy_boy1I think we can raise the profile of Le Tour here on Bluesky - The Sports App🚴
Tour de France teams are funny. I’m rooting for Build-a-Bear/Bank of Saudi Arabia
lex (they/them) (back to luddite arc)3i bought a bank of saudi arabia build-a-bear but the limbs all fell off :/
Constant Velocity1There’s a Lease-a-bike team that I hear as Lisa Bike. I miss this team: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippo%E...
So we don't know each other and I could quite possibly get this wrong, but my intuition says that you might be interested in this old team jersey, featuring Bob Roll and Eric Heiden (yes, the speed skater):
Leo1Can't believe the US Postal Service would cheat
Given I live in Wimbledon, I was about to force myself to be interested in the tennis but have realised the Tour de France starts today.
Sean Wilken KC7Having overdone the coppicing yesterday, the TdF start is very welcome. <preps couch <locates tea and painkiller supplies
David Higham5Receiving less publicity than usual? Nothing in yesterday’s Times about it which I found surprising. The Guardian had a good guide to the teams and the stages.
AliQuack4I got very excited when I saw C5 have a nightly highlights show. Even if it isn't presented by the saintly Gary Imlach and the rest of the ITV4 team.
Ian McLaughlin3Apparently there is a TV channel called 5, which will show highlights every day
Shaun2The Nations Championship means back to back international rugby all day today too.
Paul Tyreman 〓〓2Taking a long route from Cornwall to Brittany at end of month - so in Paris on 26th 😁.
I think today is the first time ever, since performance enhancing drugs were banned, that there will be no rider in the Tour de France who has experienced a doping scandal at the Tour.
Jose Been10Yet quite a few around the peloton 😬
Johnboy5Even though doping scandals are hiding in plain sight in today's tour
Tilda3I guess it's small fry compared to what used to happen but the Bahrain raid felt like a doping scandal at the time
kamiterru1Was there ever a time when they weren't banned?