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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 08:29
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I've always wondered what a stage race would be like if it involved some of the classics and other tough stages - and find out who is the best combined rider. So it is time to find out - but just racing it might be a bit boring, so Ill make it more interesting for everyone else too.
There are 18 team spots available for the race. If you want one of them, you just have to select a team from Dankan's Real Name database, and pick 9 riders from them. You might want to go for overall glory, or just target certain stages. You do not have to pick a ProTour team, you may feel that a team such as Garmin, or Barloworld are better suited to the route.
Once 18 people have posted their team and line up, I will also choose a team and then race the stage race in the control of some rubbish continental team.
You cant reserve a team and say youll do their rider list later, this will work on a first come, first serve basis.
Teams list:
CSC - Levi4life
Caisse d'Epargne - Dankan
Columbia - helGn
Astana - snoep_de_hond
Quick Step - A_Schleck
Francaise des Jeux - rontgen
Silence - matt493
Garmin-Chipotle - Addy291
Rabobank - Alesle
Euskaltel - mb2612
Saunier Duval - schleck93
Gerolsteiner - Immortal
Barloworld - willbushby
Lampre - Smoothie
Cofidis - dave92
LPR - Waghlon
Liquigas - MayMaggot
Ag2r - stevenag
CSF - Crommy
Last but not least, here is the route:
Edited by SportingNonsense on 15-07-2008 18:53
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 14-07-2008 08:34
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I call CSC!
My team:
Carlos Sastre
Andy Schleck
Frank Schleck
Fabian Cancellara
Jens Voigt
Stuart O'Grady
Bobby Julich
Karsten Kroon
Jason McCartney
I would have picked BMC but that would be seen as a bit rediculous
Edited by Levi4life on 14-07-2008 08:36
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| Dankan |
Posted on 14-07-2008 08:53
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Nice! Great idea SN. I'll call for my guys from Caisse d'Epargne:
Alejandro Valverde
Óscar Pereiro
Luis León Sánchez
José JoaquÃn Rojas
David Arroyo
Chente GarcÃa Acosta
Pablo Lastras
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| helGn |
Posted on 14-07-2008 09:20
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ill call Columbia:
Kirchen
Cavendish
Grabsch
Wiggins
Pinotti
Hincapie
Rogers
Lövkvist
Gerdeman
i forgot to add hincapie hope its ok i changed him with Hagen
after thinking really hard about it, if its ok i'll change Ciolek with Grabsch and Burghardt with Pinotti aswell 
Edited by helGn on 14-07-2008 14:31
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 14-07-2008 09:49
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Not my favorite team, but in a claim to victory all try Astana
Alberto Contador
Sergei Ivanov
Levi Leipheimer
Toni Colom
Janez Brajkovic
Andreas Klöden
Vladimir Gusev
Andrei Mizourov
Tomas Vaitkus
Edited by snoep_de_hond on 14-07-2008 11:18
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 14-07-2008 09:49
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Oeps double post.
Well a chance to say I like your idea. Although the 'best' combined rider also needs the have a good team, but that's what I like about cycling. So this will be interesting.
Edited by snoep_de_hond on 14-07-2008 09:59
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 10:00
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Like I said in the main post, you cant reserve a team like that. If someone comes and says they want Astana and posts their rider choices before you, then Astana is theirs
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:11
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Ah my fault. I misread.  ops: I thought you said I could do that. Well I'm working on it.
Edited by snoep_de_hond on 14-07-2008 11:13
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| niconico |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:17
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I'm in with Quickstep:
1. Stijn Devolder
2. Paolo Bettini
3. Gert Steegmans
4. Dmitry Grabovskiy
5. Sebastien Rosseler
6. Carlos Barredo
7. Alexander Efimkin
8. Juan Manuel Gárate
9. Matteo Tossato
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| rontgen |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:37
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I call Francaise des Jeux
Casar
Joly
Chavanel
Gilbert
Vaugrenard
Veikkanen
Stubbe
Vannendert
Coppel
When will this be played?
Edited by rontgen on 15-07-2008 09:13
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| matt493 |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:53
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I call Silence Lotto
Evans
Popovych
McEwen
Hoste
Roesems
Vansummeren
Van den Broek
Van Avermaet
Tjallingii
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:57
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Im pretty sure this isnt pain enough. You better add M-SR and another set of cobbles. And ill get around to call a team later today.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 11:57
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rontgen wrote:
When will this be played?
When 18 people have posted their teams 
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:06
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I have two commends on the route.
First of all I like your picks except La Flèche Wallonne. I think Amstel or LBL would be more difficult and more interesting. And I'm missing RvV. Perhaps two cobbled race would be a bit much, but it will be very interesting to see how the climbers will hold up.
And if you ask me to name the 4 most important classic races it would be LBL, RvV, PR and Lombardy.
My second commend is the order. Perhaps it's interesting to start with a prologue (also because there is no flat ITT), then a hilly classic or something before going into the mountains stages. And the TTT could be stage 3 or 4. I would like to see the mountain TT more towards the end. But I like the last two stages (PR and then the Champs-Élysées). |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:10
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Whos race is this? Mine. Whos route is this? Mine. What is my route? The one in the post. Fleche Wallone is my favourites Ardennes classic so Voila, thats the one I chose.
Its not changing.
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:12
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I call Garmin - Chipotle! GO MILLAR
team:
David Millar
Tom Danielson
Maggie Backstedt
Danny Pate
Martijn Maaskant
Julian Dean!!
Ryder Hesjedal
Dave Zabriskie
Christian Vande Velde
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| helGn |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:23
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maybe on more flat aswell for sprinters (cav )
over to a serios thing tho. doesnt you have to be one of the 18 teams? so its only 17 people who can participate
Edited by helGn on 14-07-2008 12:30
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:34
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Once 18 people have posted their team and line up, I will also choose a team and then race the stage race in the control of some rubbish continental team.
Theres 20 teams altogether
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 14-07-2008 12:57
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Whos race is this? Mine. Whos route is this? Mine. What is my route? The one in the post. Fleche Wallone is my favourites Ardennes classic so Voila, thats the one I chose.
Its not changing.
That's clear
I know it's your race and I don't have a problem with it if it stays the way it is. I just couldn't resist commenting on it.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 14-07-2008 13:07
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Yes and besides, Paris-Roubaix is a much bigger and more important race anyway
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