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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 01-01-2018 20:59
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Following last year's thread made by DiCyc, let's make our predictions for the coming season! 
- Dumoulin to win back-to-back Giros and ITT WC
- Froome gets a reduced-time ban and is back for Tour, but he can only podium
- Landa wins Vuelta
- Movistar trio of stars fails to win Tour de France
- Bardet won't finish in the podium of Tour
- Sagan to win Green Jersey and 3 stages in Tour
- Sagan to win the first three monuments of the season
- Pinot to win Lombardia
- Chaves will finish in Giro's podium
- Wellens will finally win a Ardennes classic
- Gaviria won't win a TDF stage
- Alaphilippe to finally win something important
- Portw will crash out of Tour
- Tejay to finish in Tour's top10
I might add a few more predictions in the next days 
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 01-01-2018 23:34
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Last year it seemed so easy... 
01/01/2018
- Porte wins TDU
- TVG will win Tour of California
- Geraint Thomas will be in the fight for the Tour de France win.
- Valverde wins Catalunya
- Valverde wins Pays Vasco
- Greg van Avermaet wins Tour de Flandres
- Paris Roubaix is won by Trek-Segafedo.
- Oliver Naesen will win a WT cobbled classic
- Gianni Moscon will win a WT classic and be on the podium of a monument.
- Froome will not be suspended.. but a crash (or ilness) will prevent him from being on the Giro OR the Tour.
- Brambilla and Pantano will be a brilliant double on the Giro.
- Chaves and Miguel Angel Lopez will be on the final Giro podium, with Dumoulin or (likely) Aru.
- Nibali will win the World Championships
- Dumoulin wins ITT Worlds.
- Barguil will have an horrible season, Elie Gesbert will rise up to save Fortuneo's season.
- Valverde will Not win Fleche but he will win Liege.
- Amstel will be one by a sprinter, Colbrelli, Sagan, Matthews, probably between these.
- Adrien Petit will Top10 Paris-roubaix.
- Greipel will win a cobbled classic.
- Kelderman in the final Top5 in the Tour.
- Nibali will be on the Tour podium but Won't win,
- Kittel wins first stage in the Tour, Gaviria wins Green. He and Sagan follow each other in mountain breaks.
- Peter Sagan will without a single doubt win GP Quebec in front of GVA, and Uran will atack in the final Kilometer. Nathan Haas, Gianni Moscon will be on the top 5.
- Uran wins Il Lombardia
- W52 will dominate the continental scene again, but not with the same dominance.
- No doping scandals in 2018 (excludinf Froome's that began 2017)
- Snow will make one cobbled classic a race of plenty crashes and Paris-Roubaix will be without some of the main figures.
- Porte will crash on the 15th July, Tour de France stage 9. But he will be the strongest in the climbs.
- Mathieu van der Poel for CX WC win. Wout van Aert will be in the discussion of the Binckbank Tour.
- OH! And Gaviria wins first stage of Vuelta a San Juan
Edited by Yellow Jersey on 01-01-2018 23:40
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 02-01-2018 05:05
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This is more what I hope will happen in 2018 and some of my unabashed Movistar favouritism...
-Valverde leads in Ardennes. Should be challenging for wins here again.
-Landa leads in Giro. Should podium.
-Nairo leads Tour with Landa as Super-dom. If he doesn't challenge for the win with this setup, he never will. Valverede skips Tour.
-Valverde leads Vuelta. Can challenge for podium (or even a win maybe!)
-Valverde remains prime for WC RR.
-Nairo leads in Lombardia.
Off course they will mess all this up!
About other teams...
Hoping for a good season from Mitchelton Scott. Interested to see how the Fuglsang MAL duo lead Astana.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 15:42
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World War 3 finally kicks off thanks mainly to North Korea and the United States and all sports around the globe are cancelled
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 03-01-2018 15:59
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Looking back on 2017:
Spoiler So will have to do slightly better this year (again Pfft )
- Toon Aerts to win the cyclocross worlds after Wout and Mathieu hold another staring contest
He was injured, or he would've won
- Sagan wins both Omloop and Kuurne
That one was really close
- We'll see a Poggio attack win San Remo, maybe GVA?
Kwiatek, good enough!
- Dwars Door Vlaanderen gets a really big winner
All hail king Lampaert!
- Boonen wins E3 after beating Sagan in a sprint
Ok, this one was way off
- We get a normal Gent-Wevelgem and Gaviria wins in a bunch sprint
Again, not that far off with my prediction
- Team Sky sets up a train on the Kwaremont and wins Tour of Flanders, no one is happy
Haha nope, but we got way better!
- Vanmarcke wins Roubaix and cries after the finish
Nope
- Brabantse Pijl will be won by a convicted doper
Nah bro
- Etixx does not win the Gold Race because Gilbert chases down Martin
Hahaha hahahaha
- Valverde wins Fleche (stick with what you know!)
Roger!
- Wellens wins LBL after a big solo
Nope
- Quintana wins the Giro again, but disappoints in le Tour
Tommy D! But the second part was correct
- Froome wins le Tour again in the most boring race ever
Hmm, it was ok I guess
- San Sebastian goes to a Yates
Had to look that one up actually. Kwiat again.
- Vuelta is due an old suspicious winner needing a new contract, how's Valverde doing with his contract?
Froome is not that old. Fits the bill otherwise.
- Sagan wins another WC after not taking the lead until the final 20m, Martin takes the TT again
Sagan never disappoints 
- Gaviria wins Paris-Tours in a proper sprint this time
He got close though
It was better than I expected. Let's try for 2018:
- Mathieu wins the cyclocross worlds with a +1 minute gap
- Sagan wins both Omloop and Kuurne
- Gaviria for San Remo
- Dwars Door Vlaanderen goes to Degenkolb
- E3 for Sagan
- Gent-Wevelgem for Sagan
- Sagan is the only favourite for the Ronde, but gets beaten by Naesen
- Stybar finaly wins his Roubaix
- Matthews wins Brabantse Pijl
- Some dutchie wins the Gold Race, they all go crazy
- Valverde wins Fleche (stick with what you know!)
- Wellens wins LBL after a big solo
- We get a surprise Giro winner, Froome doesn't start
- Dumoulin wins le Tour, Froome goes crying
- San Sebastian goes to a Yates
- Froome does win the Vuelta, then retires
- Sagan wins another WC after not taking the lead until the final 20m, Dumoulin for the TT
- Valverde finaly wins Lombardia before retiring
- GVA wins Paris-Tours after a very disappointing season.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 19:02
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- Froome wins Tour and Vuelta, then retires
- Kristoff wins Roubaix
- Sagan injured early in season, back for the Tour. Dominates
- Dumoulin cracks in week 3 in the Tour. Top 5
- Dumoulin TT WC
- Valverde wins WC RR
- GVA wins RVV
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| bassiii |
Posted on 03-01-2018 20:44
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- Ewan wins at least 1 stage in TDU - last victory of the season besides a stage in Tour of Britain
- Sagan won't win Omloop or KBK, but will dominate the classics with victories in Strade Bianche, Sanremo, E3, Ronde Van Vlaanderen and Roubaix
- Naesen will win either Omloop or KBK
- The other one gets won by Trentin
- Kwiat will finally win LBL, Alaphilippe wins AGR by just holding off the sprinters like Sagan, Matthews
- Valverde wins Fleche (duh)
- Kristoff wins Gent-Wevelgem
- Moscon rounds off a solo at DDV
- Moscon plays a big part in Kwiato's win
- If Froome doesn't get suspended, he wins the Giro
- Landa wins the Tour!!!
- Sagan wins green, Gaviria to win at least 1 stage
- Aru wins the Vuelta because noone else bothers
- Kwiato wins his second world title, beating Moscon and Pinot in a three man sprint |
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| Champ_Armstrong |
Posted on 04-01-2018 08:12
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- TDU will be hot
- Paris Nice will be won by an outsider
- Tirreno for Roglic
- Milano San Remo for Gaviria
- Naesen for Paris Rubaix
- Sagan wins Ronde Vlaandern and Amstel
- Lutsenko will win Fleche Wallone
- Kwiat to win LBL - MA Lopez 2nd
- Dumoulin wins his 2nd Giro
- Froome is NOT getting his 5th tdf due to doping scandal
- Landa wins the Vuelta in front of a teammate
- Sagan wins his 4th wc
- Meintjes will win something big
- UAE will fail to win whats expected -> Aru and Martin won't co-operate |
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 04-01-2018 10:28
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Moscon wins Roubaix
Valverde wins Worlds and F-W for he 6th time
Movistar wins TdF
Balaphilippe wins Liege
Gaviria wins San-Remo
M.A. Lopez wins Giro
Bernal ends top-10 in Vuelta and wins a stage
Betancur has a monster year
Izagirre finishes top-5 in Tour and wins at least one one week stage race
Gaviria wins green marginally
Naesen wins Flanders
One of Samitier or Barcelo will win a big race, lets say Asturias or Madrid |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 05-01-2018 13:03
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sry but this thread is ... |
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| Raziz |
Posted on 05-01-2018 13:14
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Porte is the best climber until the start of July. |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 05-01-2018 13:22
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- Tayler Wiles continues to be the best thing ever
- Back in Europe she'll pick up another good GC win this year
- Boels-Dolmans again will win the WWT
- Coryn Rivera will take 3 major classics
- The Garner and Barnes sisters will step up and take multiple wins between them
- Movistar will be visible but ultimately lacking in results
- FDJ will be visible but actually get some results
- Lotto will be good in local races but not impact widely on the season
- Sunweb will be the best of the shared sponsor teams, by far
- Canyon will win one of the Ardennes Triple
- Newiadoma will win the WWT Individual Ranking
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 04-05-2018 22:00
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Checking this out again and had a good time seeing how terribly wrong i was in the begining of the season
Right:
- Valverde wins Catalunya
- OH! And Gaviria wins first stage of Vuelta a San Juan
Wrong:
- Porte wins TDU
- Valverde wins Pays Vasco
- Greg van Avermaet wins Tour de Flandres
- Paris Roubaix is won by Trek-Segafedo.
- Oliver Naesen will win a WT cobbled classic
- Valverde will Not win Fleche but he will win Liege. (  )
- Amstel will be one by a sprinter, Colbrelli, Sagan, Matthews, probably between these.
- Adrien Petit will Top10 Paris-roubaix.
- Greipel will win a cobbled classic.
- Snow will make one cobbled classic a race of plenty crashes and Paris-Roubaix will be without some of the main figures.
- Mathieu van der Poel for CX WC win. Wout van Aert will be in the discussion of the Binckbank Tour. (OH DEAR GOD HOW TF DID I MISS THAT  )
Alright that didn't seem to go so well.. let's take a look at how the Giro is going..
- Froome will not be suspended.. but a crash (or ilness) will prevent him from being on the Giro OR the Tour. (i guess he did crash before the prologue started...)
- Chaves and Miguel Angel Lopez will be on the final Giro podium, with Dumoulin or (likely) Aru. (alright this can still go somewhere)
- Brambilla and Pantano will be a brilliant double on the Giro. (*inhales deeply*)
And to top it off this amazing piece of my mind wich I was very confident:
- No doping scandals in 2018 (excluding Froome's that began 2017)
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 04-05-2018 23:45
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hillis91 wrote:
- Froome wins Tour and Vuelta, then retires
- Kristoff wins Roubaix
- Sagan injured early in season, back for the Tour. Dominates
- Dumoulin cracks in week 3 in the Tour. Top 5
- Dumoulin TT WC
- Valverde wins WC RR
- GVA wins RVV
Bad start, and Froome won't ride the Vuelta..
Damn do i suck
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| ruben |
Posted on 05-05-2018 09:03
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little late so i start late
- Betancur wins the Giro, doing 5 grand solo's in the mountains
- Mollema wins the Tour because all GC contenders get caught in a cash in a straight line. Mollema weaves so much on his bike however, that he evades everything and is the only good GC contender left.
- Bernal dominates the Vuelta, winning 7 stages including a TT and a couple of mountain stages. Kinda like PCM were the best rider usually wins 5/6 stage.
- Kangert wins the World Championship ITT and the road race, causing Guido Mukk to explode. |
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| Arberg |
Posted on 05-05-2018 09:20
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Froome wins Giro, Tour and Vuelta. |
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 05-05-2018 09:22
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ruben wrote:
- Mollema wins the Tour because all GC contenders get caught in a cash in a straight line. Mollema weaves so much on his bike however, that he evades everything and is the only good GC contender left
I’ll raise you one, all this will happen, but he’ll still lose.
I missed this thread this time round, but some of mine before the season were fairly obvious:
- Laporte will win Green at the TDF
- Ganna will win a Giro Stage (I have no clue if he’s racing )
- Froome doesn’t win any GTs
I’ll also throw in:
- Fuglsang podiums in the TDF
- Zakarin podiums in Vuelta
- San Sebastián winner doesn’t race the TDF
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 05-05-2018 11:09
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I’ll leave my two cents on how Froome will have a horrid year, abandoning the Giro after another crash, right after the second rest day, and then gets a year long suspension after losing his salbutamol case. |
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 05-05-2018 11:18
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FreitasPCM wrote:
I’ll leave my two cents on how Froome will have a horrid year, abandoning the Giro after another crash, right after the second rest day, and then gets a year long suspension after losing his salbutamol case.
imo even without a suspension he’ll have a terrible year.
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 25-08-2018 18:05
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HOLY SHHHHHHHHH
Yellow Jersey wrote:
- Porte will crash on the 15th July, Tour de France stage 9. But he will be the strongest in the climbs.
Damn did I put a curse on Porte?
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