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| lakebeach |
Posted on 09-01-2016 15:26
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There has already been a couple of races this season and I suppose we better start to make our predictions before the first WT races start. 
- Van Avermaet will finally win a big classic.
- Dumoulin will win a tight Giro prologue ahead of Cancellara.
- Landa will win the Giro.
- Caleb Ewan will win at least three stages of the Giro.
- Quintana will win the Tour.
- Kittel will be the best sprinter in the Tour but Sagan will win the points jersey.
- Kwiatkowski will not come up with any good results.
- Cavendish will not win a stage of a Grand Tour.
- No Swedish rider will grab a single world tour point.
My 2015 predictions:
Spoiler - Navardauskas wins Milano - Sanremo ahead of Cancellara. NOPE
- Wiggins podiums in Paris - Roubaix. NOPE
- Contador wins a close Giro ahead of Aru. Kind of...
- Quintana dominates the Tour, wins ahead of Nibali and Froome. NOPE
- Boasson Hagen wins a stage in the Tour. NOPE
- Betancur manages to stay fit and finishes top 3 in the Vuelta. NOPE
- Cancellara wins the RR World Championships. NOPE
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 09-01-2016 16:28
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My 2015 predictions:
Spoiler - Vanmarcke will win his first big monument, beating Wiggins in a sprint not even close
- De Gendt will win a big race hahaha, nope
- Evans wins Tour Down Under quite close actually
- Greipel will struggle to win a race (Farrar-style) totaly wrong
- Basso wins the Giro, then gets busted for doping I actually feel guilty about this prediction now
- Quintana takes le Tour this is the closest I got
- Contador takes the Vuelta if he had started, sure!
- Gesink will crash repeatedly YOU CANT COUNT ON ANYTHING THESE DAYS
- Rojas will finish 4th repeatedly this probably happened, but cba to look it up
Obviously, I need to think about this stuff before I write it. Predicitions will come next week 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 09-01-2016 16:38
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I'll start with my 2015 ones:
Spoiler - You wil get sick of my flood of womens cycling related posts
I Hope you didn't get sick of them
- Vos and Amristead will fight for the World Cup again
Well i was right with Armitstead
- Ferrand-Prevot will take ~5 major wins, and then at least 2 NC's/WC's on top of that
She easily got the NC's/WC's but lacked in the major wins
- VelocioSRAM will win another TTT WC
Nailed it!
- Taylor Wiles will continue to be the goddess she is (no bias at all)
Nailed it!
- Lucy Garner will crack the next level of sprinting and elite level racing with some serious wins
No breakthrough but continue progressing
- Other womens cycling stuff you probably don't care about etc etc
Probably nailed this stuff
2016 ones:
- Lizzie Armitstead will win the Olympics RR
- Anna Van Der Breggen will win the Olympics ITT
- Van der Breggen will also win the WWT
- The Worlds RR will not end in a sprint
- Taylor Wiles continues her growth, another couple of GC wins
- Hannah Barnes crushes her full-time return to Europe
- Blah blah more womens cycling stuff
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 09-01-2016 17:13
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My 2015 predictions:
Spoiler - Simon Gerrans won´t win Tour Down Under
Dennis did it
- Betancur´s season will disappoint
His best result was a 2nd place in a Giro stage, so yes, he disappointed
- Contador will win Giro and will podium Tour
So close! He won Giro but was 5th at TdF
- Froome will win a GT
He did it, so yeah
- Nibali´s season will disappoint
Definitely not
- Kwiatkowski will win one Ardennes
Amstel Gold Race
- Kwiatkowski won´t have the "rainbow curse"
Half yes, half not, winning one of the Ardennes treble was good!
- König will be in Top 5 in a GT
6th at Giro, close
- Majka will podium in a GT
Vuelta a España
- Quintana won´t win a GT, but he will be close
YES!
- Cancellara won´t win a Flanders classic (P-R, RVV, E3 or G-W)
NO!
- Sagan will win San Remo
No, he didn't
- Vanmarcke will win at least a Flanders classic
A pity he didn't
- Joaquim RodrÃguez´s season won´t be good, but he will win some late season classics
PaÃs Vasco + 2nd at Vuelta: good season
- Valverde will win an Ardennes classic
One and even two
- Gilbert will be in podium at least in two Ardennes classics
His best result was a 10th, so no
Some ones for this season:
- Dennis will repeat as TDU winner
- Alaphilippe will show up very good at the very first tours of the year
- Kwiatkowski will disappoint this time, at least in the first part of the season, but he will win a stage at TdF
- Degenkolb won't win any monuments, but he will have a crucial paper at Worlds
- Froome will get injured in the GT he rides
- Quintana will win his second GT
- The best place Contador will get in a GT will be 2nd
- Valverde will get at least 1 Ardennes classic
- Cancellara won't win any monuments or Flandres classics
- Sagan will lose his 2agan nickname, because he will start winning a lot despite the fact he wears "rainbow"
- Sagan will win a Flandres classic
- Il Lombardia will be won by a non-European rider
- Benoot will Top 3 a monument
- Van Avermaet will get injured at E3 or GW, so he won't ride the other Flanders classics
- Kittel will win at least 3 stages of the GT he rides
- Ewan will fight for the win at World Championship
- Dumoulin will fight for the GC of the GT he rides, but he will disappoint
- Same will happen with Gallopin
- One of the Yates will finally have a nice GC at a GT
- Aru will have too much pressure after his great 2015 and he won't even get a Top 3 at a GT
- Kristoff will improve in cobbles, although his sprint skills won't shine as much
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 09-01-2016 17:22
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| roturn |
Posted on 09-01-2016 17:18
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2015 Predictions. Was half good half bad. At least got some nice ones correct.
Spoiler - Cadel Evans will podium in Down Under Good one. 3rd.
- Caleb Ewan wins a TdU stage (3x Top5 but no win...)
- Sagan will once again not win the big monuments (Easy one. )
- Kwiatkowski is having another huge season winning one Ardennes (Let`s count this. He won AGR but was not that huge afterwards. Good until then though)
- Daniel Martin won`t crash in LBL taking a podium (DNF...)
- Degenkolb wins a cobbled classic (Definitely won this one)
- Kittel takes the most sprint wins in GT`s (and definitely lost this one)
- Tony Martin wins the Worlds ITT (nope)
- Quintana won`t be as strong in GT`s as expected, neither is Froome (Froome-Quintana 1-2 in the Tour...later also 4th in Vuelta, so lost I guess)
- Contador wins yet another GT (Indeed)
- Majka improves and podiums on a GT (Vuelta!)
- Cancellara won`t win more than 3 stages/ITT`s (Just won 2 stages!, win)
- There will be another Astana doper (tbh not even sure right now)
- König won`t get a chance to go for a GT as leader (Half true. Became leader after Porte was crap)
- Nerz will come close to a top10 in the Vuelta or top15 in the Tour (Abandoned in 21st of the Tour. Still lost...he should have fully focussed on Vuelta as top10-15 goal imo)
For 2016:
- Lampaert will improve from 2015
- Alaphillipe won`t be as good as last year in the Ardennes being far behind Martin
- Peter Sagan wins a monument!
- As also another green jersey in the Tour
- Aru don`t podium in the Tour
- Simon Gerrans will start huge with a TdU win and will at least podium in 2 Ardennes week classics
- Tony Martin top10`s in either Paris Roubaix or Ronde van Vlaanderen
- Landa won`t top5 any GT
- Froome wins the TdF if not crashing out
- Cancellara will not improve from 2015 season
- Kittel will be back to great form
- Cavendish won`t but wins couple of shit races and maximum 5 WT stages all year
- Greipel and Kristoff battle it out in the Tour de France with Kittel as 3rd challenger |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 09-01-2016 19:03
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- Nibali´s season will disappoint
Definitely not
You could argue both ways but what?
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| Omloop |
Posted on 10-01-2016 01:44
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- Kittel is going to have a awfull season.
- Peter Sagan will not win a monument.
- Sagan will win the PCS Ranking.
- EBH is going to win a stage in the TDF.
- Froome will win the tour.
- Kwaitek is going to have a excellent season.
- Gerrans will win a Ardenne classic.
- Vanmarcke is going to beat Cancellara in a sprint to win PR. |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 10-01-2016 02:27
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- Lutsenko will win a monument
- Iglinsky will win Lombardia or the World Championships
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 10-01-2016 23:25
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we don't talk about preditions in this lifetime
Spoiler 2015 preditcionts
- Sagan will win classic after classic after classic etc, etc.
wrong but he won the big one :'(
- Nibali, Quintana and Uran all win one GT
shit, shit and shit
- a high class cyclo-cross rider decides to be a medioce road rider
keeping the wrong streak going, at least I haven't noticed
- a dutchie wins a WT event.
hahahahahahahahaha, Terpstra got close
- Luis Leon Sánchez wins a big race
now I'm really sad about this one
Dumoulin wins the Rio Time Trail.
a different dutchie wins the Rio Road Race.
The Netherlands earns a medal on each event excluding mountain bike at the Olympics.
one GT will have a undeserved winner (a rider outside list of favorites of a generic GT)
Sagan does not care about "the curse of the rainbow jersey"
Milan-San Remo/Paris-Roubaix double will be repeated by someone.
probably could make some other bold predictions but I can't think of them right now.
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 11-01-2016 20:01
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- Nibali will win the Giro ahead of Landa and Valverde
- Sky will have a horrible season
- Rodriguez will win L-B-L and/or Vuelta if Nibali/Contador/Quintana doesn't go
- Contador will win the Tour ahead of Quintana,Froome and Aru.Oh and Quintana won't win the Tour even if Contador doesn't win.
- Porte will disappoint.
- Sagan will win 2 of MSR,RVV,PR
- Vanmarcke won't win a monument
- Alaphilippe will podium a lot but will miss a big win.
- Valverde will win 2 of Amstel Gold,Olympics RR and Lombardia.
- Gaviria willl have a great season
- Contador will win Paris-Nice and Pais Vasco as well
- Nibali to win Tirreno and win 2 stages in Le Tour after dominating the Giro.If he goes to the Vuelta he will win it if Contador/Quintana doesn't go.
- Froome won't win anything besides Andalucia and a stage at Dauphine
- Cancellara will win one of MSR,RVV,PR
- Olympics TT will be won by Dumoulin
- Kwiatek to have a decent season but no big win.
- Cavendish and Kittel will both disappoint.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 12-01-2016 07:15
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- Sagan will win everything.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 12-01-2016 09:05
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Posted it in the wrong thread before and now lost the text 
Don't feel like making it again so I'll sum it up:
- That rider who's done something before, but potentially has had a lesser season/or not, will do something (again) and win (some type of race) in some manner.
Oh and an underdog sprinter to take the WC in the sprint. Someone like Coquard, Matthews, Sagan. Not one of the big sprinters like Kittel, Cavn Greipel. |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 12-01-2016 11:32
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Omloop wrote:
- Kittel is going to have a awfull season.
- Peter Sagan will not win a monument.
- Sagan will win the PCS Ranking.
- EBH is going to win a stage in the TDF.
- Froome will win the tour.
- Kwaitek is going to have a excellent season.
- Gerrans will win a Ardenne classic.
- Vanmarcke is going to beat Cancellara in a sprint to win PR.
Amazing how opposite my blind bet will be:
- Kittel is going to have a awfull season.
If he stays healthy he will be best again. Who can wait and play at Champ Elysee like 1,5 years ago.
- Peter Sagan will not win a monument.
Sry. he's time has started now.
- Sagan will win the PCS Ranking.
- EBH is going to win a stage in the TDF.
No way
- Froome will win the tour.
Not this time. If movistar wont fuck this up..Quintana has it.
- Kwaitek is going to have a excellent season.
Yes
- Gerrans will win a Ardenne classic.
Not
- Vanmarcke is going to beat Cancellara in a sprint to win PR
No. Vanmarcke still missing something what makes him ace rider ace Sagan is, Ettix whole lineup, Cancellara was |
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| Scatmaster111 |
Posted on 12-01-2016 12:50
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- Porte will win the Tour Down Under.
- van der Haar will win the Elite Men's race at the Cyclocross World Championships.
- Pervis will win 2 gold medals at the Track World Championships.
- Colombia will win at least 2 gold medals at the Track World Championships.
- Njisane Philip will claim a medal at the Track World Championships.
- Sagan will win a Monument.
- Stybar will win a Monument.
- The winners of both Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix will use regular caliper brakes.
- Valverde, Nibali and Landa will make up the Giro podium.
- A pure sprinter will win the Tour points classification (in other words, not Sagan)
- Quintana will win the Tour ahead of Froome and BMC will breach the podium.
- Rohan Dennis will claim a medal in the Olympics Time Trial.
- Valverde will win the Olympics Road Race.
- Presuming he participates, Contador will win the Vuelta by a comfortable margin.
- Germany will top the medal table at the Road World Championships.
- Linda Villumsen will repeat as World Champion in the Elite Women's ITT.
- Rohan Dennis will win the World Championships Elite Men's ITT ahead of Dumoulin and Kiryienka.
- A rider will win with a time gap in the Road World Championships Elite Women's Road Race.
- Caleb Ewan will finish in the top 5 in the World Championships Elite Men's Road Race.
- Nibali will not finish in the top 10 at Il Lombardia.
- Sagan will win the World Tour overall.
For the end of the year:
- Contador will extend his career for another year.
- Valverde will announce or hint to retirement in the near future.
- Meintjes will return to Dimension Data.
- Between Porte and van Garderen, the lower finisher at the Tour will transfer to a different team.
- Cervelo will cease to sponsor any World Tour teams.
Edited by Scatmaster111 on 12-01-2016 13:02
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 12-01-2016 13:27
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In the year 2016..
- Van der Poel will win the world championships after the Belgians fail to cooperate.
- Stannard wins Omloop, Cavendish wins Kuurne
- Sagan beats Kristoff and Degenkolb to win San Remo
- Terpstra wins Dwars Door Vlaanderen
- E3 win be won by a sprinter you wouldn't expect (Bouhanni, Coquard, Lobato?)
- Gent-Wevelgem goes to Kittel
- Cancellara wins Ronde Van Vlaanderen, taking the record
- Boonen wins Paris-Roubaix, taking the record and immediatly retires
- Gilbert wins Brabantse Pijl, but can't make the top 10 in the other Ardennes races
- Van Avermaet wins the Gold Race
- Valverde takes Fleche Wallonne
- Martin and Alaphillipe make it a 1-2 in Liege-Bastogne-Liege
- Nibali wins the Giro pretty much uncontested
- Quintana breaks Froome in the third week to win le Tour
- Benoot gets his first win in San Sebastian
- Dennis wins the olympic TT, road race goes to a Sanchez
- Vuelta goes to Contador, who hasn't done much in the rest of the year
- Tom Dumoulin wins both the RR and the TT at the world, but realises he'll never win a GT
- Nibali wins Lombardia again
- Boeckmans wins Paris-Tours
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 12-01-2016 13:31
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Ollfardh wrote:
In the year 2016..
- Van der Poel will win the world championships after the Belgians fail to cooperate.
For a second I thought you meant on the road, not cyclo-cross.
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 14-01-2016 00:38
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- Kwiatkowski will flop badly at Sky
- Bertie will win TdF
- Lampaert to win Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2agan to come 2nd in at least 3 TdF stages.
- Gaviria explosion, several big wins.
- Tommeke to have a strong showing in either de Ronde or Roubaix
- Kiryienka won't win a TT this year.
- Nibbles to win Giro
- Tommy D will barely make Top10 in the Giro but will win 1 or 2 1 week races like Romandie
- Olympic Gold will be won by someone completely random and unexpected
- Olympic Gold TT will be won by Tony
- Valv.Piti to win Vuelta
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| Roextro |
Posted on 14-01-2016 09:28
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- Valverde will podium at the giro
- Froome will win another Tour de France
- Contador will podium at the tour
- Nibali will win the Giro d'Italia
- Aru won't podium but will finish in the top 5 at Le Tour
- There will be another large crash caused by spectators, UCI will claim to take action
- Sagan will win a TDF stage
- Degenkolb will win Milan - SanRemo
- Cancellara will podium either Ronde van Vlaanderen or Paris - Roubaix
- Rohan Dennis will take a medal at the world's TT
- Valverde will win at least one of the Ardennes classics
- Etixx will make another tactical disaster at one of the spring classics
- Uran will top 5 a GT
- Porte will take two week long stage races at least
- Greipel will take at least two wins at the TDF
- The world's Road Race will be boring as hell and will end in a German victory (Kittel or Greipel) |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 14-01-2016 09:50
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- Only one of Degenstache and AK-47 take a monument
- Valv takes a Grand Tour, I'll go out on a limb and say Giro, but definitely adds it to his podium collection
- Cancellara podiums a monument but doesn't win (just beat out fanboy triple + top 5 worlds RR)
- Dumoulin and Dennis both take a week long stage race but underwhelm in GTs, not just mountains either
-Gerrans takes his last WT win but it isn't a monument
- Valverde has another amazing season but shows signs of less consistency but still the same class
- Quintana has form to win a GT and shows it by winning TDF but falter rest of season (excluding a Tirenno win a la this year) by working entire season trying to beat Froome
- Froome takes TDF-Rio TT double and nearly triple with RR but isn't punchy enough
- Nibz takes Rio RR
- Uran will show old form with a top 5 in a GT
- Hesjedal has some stellar GT moments in stages but can't cut it overall
- Valv takes an Ardennes classic
- Boonen and Cancellara both a part of the battles at the front in one of the cobbled monuments
- San Remo is won by nailbiting Poggio attack
- Both Bennetts take thier first ever GT stage
- Sagan takes a stage with his green jersey but is still mostly unlucky 2nds and 3rds
- Kittel is back but not as good as 2014
- Crosswinds mess things up in Doha (just pleeeeeeease)
- Zakarin doesn't get caught doping
- Chaves/Nibz/Valv podium at the Giro
- Bertie and Froome within a minute of each other at TDF
- Another Yates WT classic win, as well as 2 GT stage wins and a KoM fight
- I manage to follow womens cycling enough to make some fairly clued up predictions for this year.
- Van Aert still doesn't win Worlds
- Bevin makes strong showings in HC races for Cannandale and puts in some decent leadout and domestique WT work but no personal glory
- Plaza is a decent buy for Orica but isn't at last year's form but still same tactical savvy and aggressiveness. Amets isn't amazing but solid buy withs oem close calls at La Vuelta
- I make so many of these predictions a more complicated one (not: Valv takes Ardennes classic because that's easy  ) is bang on (not likely)
- Peter Sagan takes a god damn monument
Edited by jandal7 on 22-07-2016 14:45
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Posted on 27-01-2016 17:40
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Bit late now, but still...
-Kwiat will win two Tour stages after Froome gets injured
-EBH will win a GT stage
-A Dimension Data rider will lead a GT at some point
-Dan Martin will have an awful season
-Dumoulin to win all three Giro TTs
-Degenkolb to make amazing recovery after missing all the monuments to win World Championships
Disclaimer- Most of my posts are me thinking aloud. And most of what I think is rubbish.
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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