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Who will be the next new Grand Tour champion and when?
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:15
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Only Fernández is a guaranteed no IMO.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:21
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Very rarely have Avenir winners gone on to dominate cycling though  . Maybe once in a decade kind of stuff. Even Nairo's struggling to live up to his potential!
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:26
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Also, until 2015, WT riders weren't able to participate in the race, and the great riders with 20 years are already in the WT
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:35
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France desperately need a new hero so i would say that Bardet needs to step up to the mark  |
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| aldrofj |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:43
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I would add Soler, even if he has shown great skills last year, he'll be 25 at the end of the year. He is a good climber and a decent time-trialist, but lacks of regularity and doesn't seem to have a big margin of progression, maybe the future Spilak.
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 13-01-2018 17:52
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It's only the Tour win missing really. Three times on the podium, Giro win and two-time Vuelta winner, between several other big results (and he's only 27), he just had this rough year but he is living up to his potential.
AbhishekLFC wrote:
How are some of the last couple of years' Avenir winners coming along? Taking the last 5 winners - Ruben Fernandez, MAL, Soler, Gaudu and Bernal - who wins a GT first? Do they win any at all?
Superman has already proved himself IMO, big mountain-stage guy, he just has the same struggles has Nairo (TT, Flat, due to his weight) and he does crash a lot. Gaudu is also living up so far, lets not forget he hasn't done any GT but Catalunya and Ardennes he was up there with the best. Soler and Fernandez are the same and Bernal I think it's to soon since no GT under his belt, but for week-long mountain races outside of WT, Sky may give him lead
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-01-2018 18:40
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MAL looked good when wasn't injured...maybe he is my choice
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| Champ_Armstrong |
Posted on 29-01-2018 10:11
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SIIIVAKOOOOV for the win! |
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| Arberg |
Posted on 26-05-2018 08:39
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 30-04-2019 06:55
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So will there be any new winners this year? We had a golden year in 2018 with two of them, but no one predicted either here
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 30-04-2019 09:21
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 30-04-2019 09:52
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This sounds like something someone says right before they are proved wrong, but harking back to the earlier discussion above, I don't think Nairo will ever win Le Tour.
Would love it to be Chaves or, more fancifully, Bennett targeting the Vuelta, but I'm starting to believe those two are just too unlucky to do it. I think I've said all I will about Chaves' recovery, really hope he has a good Giro in service of Yates which would put him back on the path to his best that it looked like the first 9 days of the Giro last year was about to do.
But surely it's Roglic comes into the Giro as a big contender to become the actual answer to this thread, providing he hasn't overcooked his March-April form. Otherwise MAL could as well this year, not sure who else is a likely this year, still not quite sold on Adam Yates doing it this year but I could be proved wrong. Other than Bernal, who could have his GT breakthrough next month, and fittingly herald in the new stage racing dynasty as Sky become Ineos...
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| quadsas |
Posted on 30-04-2019 10:41
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Sadly for yall, it's definitely Pogacar. and it's this year
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 30-04-2019 10:50
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quadsas wrote:
Sadly for yall, it's definitely Pogacar. and it's this year
Don't think too many people will be sad imo. He won't win, but that's a different argument
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 30-04-2019 12:37
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Bernal will win the Giro.
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| Tafiolmo |
Posted on 30-04-2019 14:19
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sutty68 wrote:
France desperately need a new hero so i would say that Bardet needs to step up to the mark
France has currently got plenty of cycling heroes......... the only problem though, is none will win the Tour!!!
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| quadsas |
Posted on 30-04-2019 21:33
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AbhishekLFC wrote:
quadsas wrote:
Sadly for yall, it's definitely Pogacar. and it's this year
Don't think too many people will be sad imo. He won't win, but that's a different argument
Not when right after he announces his departure for Sky
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 03-06-2019 05:40
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So many wrong predictions
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 16-09-2019 06:03
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Well five new winners in a row, and no one had a clue
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| Shonak |
Posted on 23-09-2019 15:44
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5 new winners in a row is quite extraordinary. Contador retired, Froome injured, Quintana declined, and NIbali so-so thereabout.. the age of the big four is definitely over. Hopefully, this merry mix of surprises and different winners continues and doesn't devolve into too much ineos and jumbo domination over the coming years.
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