CrueTrue wrote:
As far as I could see, the pace was quite high, and neither Schleck nor Gerdemann have any reason to go full out in this race.
But year, seemed weird.
Gerdemann wanted to ride well here. And what about Cervelo... riding full out for Gomez Marchante, who finishes in the same group as Dekker
Milram all failed.
Just all big failures. Not even top 60 in the Tour, except for A. Schleck, who I predicted would not be good here.
why did you predict that? @A. Schleck
parcours doesnt suit him? still building up for the tour?
(this is not a disguised attack on you I'm just surprised to see him struggeling )
Andy Schleck NEVER does well in preparation races.
DJP19 wrote:
Kreuziger will win it tomorrow and then win TT the following day because it is a little hilly.
Cancellara won't have any problems because of hills in the TT (look at Olympia). But I think he's going to win with a smaller gap than expected because he's driving to agressive imo in the last kilometres of every stage. And tomorrow he's going to lose about 2 minutes or something (maybe more, but I don't hope so;-)). My prediction is, that it's a tt-fight on sunday between Kreuziger and Klöden and hopefully Cancellara.
DJP19 wrote:
Kreuziger will win it tomorrow and then win TT the following day because it is a little hilly.
Cancellara won't have any problems because of hills in the TT (look at Olympia). But I think he's going to win with a smaller gap than expected because he's driving to agressive imo in the last kilometres of every stage. And tomorrow he's going to lose about 2 minutes or something (maybe more, but I don't hope so;-)). My prediction is, that it's a tt-fight on sunday between Kreuziger and Klöden and hopefully Cancellara.
DJP19 wrote:
Kreuziger will win it tomorrow and then win TT the following day because it is a little hilly.
Cancellara won't have any problems because of hills in the TT (look at Olympia). But I think he's going to win with a smaller gap than expected because he's driving to agressive imo in the last kilometres of every stage. And tomorrow he's going to lose about 2 minutes or something (maybe more, but I don't hope so;-)). My prediction is, that it's a tt-fight on sunday between Kreuziger and Klöden and hopefully Cancellara.
You forgot Valjavec, didn't you ?
I did but he's not my top favourite anyway. Karpets is also mentionable.
DJP19 wrote:
Kreuziger will win it tomorrow and then win TT the following day because it is a little hilly.
Cancellara won't have any problems because of hills in the TT (look at Olympia). But I think he's going to win with a smaller gap than expected because he's driving to agressive imo in the last kilometres of every stage. And tomorrow he's going to lose about 2 minutes or something (maybe more, but I don't hope so;-)). My prediction is, that it's a tt-fight on sunday between Kreuziger and Klöden and hopefully Cancellara.
You forgot Valjavec, didn't you ?
Will he have any chances? I mean... there's a 49km TT up ahead... It's looking better and better for Kreuziger.
Great move by Kirchen today. I mean, the right moment, the right team tactics plus some strong legs.
Monforts attack definatly helped speeding the bunch up.
Too bad for Kreugziger though
What I dont understand is why Silence and Rabobank chased today... (along with FDJ as well I believe)
You knew this was going to happen the moment Switzerland got to host the worlds.
They can't go to the worlds with just 3 measly riders in the road race. They need to rack up points in the countries' ranking so they can have more riders.
What better way than to design a route specifically so a swiss rider will win?
Specifically a swiss rider who is managed by the same people who manage the Tour de Suisse.
Call this what you will. I call it corruption. These people should be locked up.
Thus, what is usually one of the coolest most exciting races on the calendar has a crap parcours and is tremendously boring.
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Agreed Isso, the course this year is very boring. And not very challenging. In my opinion Evans and Contador get's much better traning at the Dauphine.
But maybe tomorrows stage is a bit to hard for Cancellara? Either way he's going to limit his losses pretty well tomorrow, and then crush them all in the last stage.
Talking about the course being tailor made for Fabian, didn't the Italians do the same for Moser in the Giro in the 80's
@A. Schleck
I'm just surprised to see him struggeling 
but he's not my top favourite anyway. Karpets is also mentionable.
