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Tour de France: Pre race thread
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| mangoman164 |
Posted on 29-06-2010 18:11
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Guido Mukk wrote:
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Joaquim Rodriguez and Robert Gesink will be Contador's two biggest rivals in the mountains, only to lose three minutes each in the final tt, and sacrificing their podium positions to Ivan Basso and Denis Menchov. Egoi martinez takes the polka dots, Freire the green, and Gesink the white. Armstrong will finish top 6-10, while Wiggins and S. Sanchez will be the dissapointments of the tour. The Schleck bro's will also finish top 10, but Frank will beat Andy. But what the hell, outside of Contador winning, the tour is impossible to predict, so this is probably all wrong.
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why Rodriguez or Gresink should sacrifice to Basso..?
Fränk is better then Andy?..decided from what? Suisse tour win?
Andy sucked in California tour.. 
I believe that it wil be same as year ago..Andy and Contador will go.. I am intrested what Menchov can do...or just Tour bad perfomances will continue.
I miss-worded that; I meant they'll lose the time in the final TT. I don't necessarily think Frank is better than Andy, but Andy just can't find his form this year. Also, the field is much stronger than last year's, so I definitely don't think it will be another Andy/Contador battle. Also this is directed @ Smitho: The parcours does seem great for Sammy Sanchez, but he never really enough focuses on the tour. |
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| hellboy |
Posted on 30-06-2010 07:04
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For me it looks like
1.Conta
2.Andy
3.-5.Frank,Menchov,Basso
6.Kreuziger
7.-10.Dopestrong,Wiggo,Sanchez,Gesink
Go Roman!
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| Caner26 |
Posted on 30-06-2010 07:43
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mangoman164 wrote:
Guido Mukk wrote:
mangoman164 wrote:
Joaquim Rodriguez and Robert Gesink will be Contador's two biggest rivals in the mountains, only to lose three minutes each in the final tt, and sacrificing their podium positions to Ivan Basso and Denis Menchov. Egoi martinez takes the polka dots, Freire the green, and Gesink the white. Armstrong will finish top 6-10, while Wiggins and S. Sanchez will be the dissapointments of the tour. The Schleck bro's will also finish top 10, but Frank will beat Andy. But what the hell, outside of Contador winning, the tour is impossible to predict, so this is probably all wrong.
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why Rodriguez or Gresink should sacrifice to Basso..?
Fränk is better then Andy?..decided from what? Suisse tour win?
Andy sucked in California tour..
I believe that it wil be same as year ago..Andy and Contador will go.. I am intrested what Menchov can do...or just Tour bad perfomances will continue.
I miss-worded that; I meant they'll lose the time in the final TT. I don't necessarily think Frank is better than Andy, but Andy just can't find his form this year. Also, the field is much stronger than last year's, so I definitely don't think it will be another Andy/Contador battle. Also this is directed @ Smitho: The parcours does seem great for Sammy Sanchez, but he never really enough focuses on the tour.
It is very interesting if Gesink will have to cycle for Menchov or maybe the other way round. we will see |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 30-06-2010 08:41
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Meanwhile, Footon have an awesome new bike for the Tour 
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
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| Calzone |
Posted on 30-06-2010 08:51
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1. Lance
2. Basso
3. Klöden
4. Contador
5. Menchov
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| mangoman164 |
Posted on 30-06-2010 08:56
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Caner26 wrote:
mangoman164 wrote:
Guido Mukk wrote:
mangoman164 wrote:
Joaquim Rodriguez and Robert Gesink will be Contador's two biggest rivals in the mountains, only to lose three minutes each in the final tt, and sacrificing their podium positions to Ivan Basso and Denis Menchov. Egoi martinez takes the polka dots, Freire the green, and Gesink the white. Armstrong will finish top 6-10, while Wiggins and S. Sanchez will be the dissapointments of the tour. The Schleck bro's will also finish top 10, but Frank will beat Andy. But what the hell, outside of Contador winning, the tour is impossible to predict, so this is probably all wrong.
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why Rodriguez or Gresink should sacrifice to Basso..?
Fränk is better then Andy?..decided from what? Suisse tour win?
Andy sucked in California tour..
I believe that it wil be same as year ago..Andy and Contador will go.. I am intrested what Menchov can do...or just Tour bad perfomances will continue.
I miss-worded that; I meant they'll lose the time in the final TT. I don't necessarily think Frank is better than Andy, but Andy just can't find his form this year. Also, the field is much stronger than last year's, so I definitely don't think it will be another Andy/Contador battle. Also this is directed @ Smitho: The parcours does seem great for Sammy Sanchez, but he never really enough focuses on the tour.
It is very interesting if Gesink will have to cycle for Menchov or maybe the other way round. we will see
Menchov is technically the leader going in, but Rabobank would like nothing more than to see Gesink emerge as a leader. |
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| pesci |
Posted on 30-06-2010 09:18
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I will also like to see Gesink with freedom to attack during the race, but knowing his TT skills, as he demonstrate in Switzerland, and looking km in TT, I think that Menchov will be the leader!! |
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| hellboy |
Posted on 30-06-2010 09:25
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pesci wrote:
I will also like to see Gesink with freedom to attack during the race, but knowing his TT skills, as he demonstrate in Switzerland, and looking km in TT, I think that Menchov will be the leader!!
With his luck and riding style the Tour GC we be probably over for Gesink after stage 4 at the latest
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| pesci |
Posted on 30-06-2010 09:28
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hellboy wrote:
pesci wrote:
I will also like to see Gesink with freedom to attack during the race, but knowing his TT skills, as he demonstrate in Switzerland, and looking km in TT, I think that Menchov will be the leader!!
With his luck and riding style the Tour GC we be probably over for Gesink after stage 4 at the latest
I hope not, but you might be true. |
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| TheHelpfulDevil |
Posted on 30-06-2010 10:52
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Hope gesink can do well, i think he will win a grand tour one day but tour de france this year is too hard. a solid top 10 i think. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 30-06-2010 11:00
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If he wins a grand tour, it'll be the Giro or the Vuelta. Can't see him winning the Tour as long as Contador is there.
Maybe when Contador is old (he is 3 years older) Gesink can win one of the 'in between' years like Riis, Ullrich, Pantani, Sastre and Pereiro did in the past |
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| Smitho |
Posted on 30-06-2010 11:05
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@ mangoman164 - I think he has a decent chance and he might be focusing on the tour this year you never know considering euskaltel have both inxausti and anton for the tour and not to mention sicard. I just think he might suprise a few people, he always does it quite quietly like zubeldia used to aswell. Hope to see him attack on one of those decents, might put some of the favourites in trouble. |
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| Wyman |
Posted on 30-06-2010 11:27
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It wouldn't be a tour de france without me claming Cunego is going to do well... but i really can't be bothered this year.
For me Contador is a HUGE favourite... i just hope that people try to put him under pressure on the cobbled stage..
I think it will be similar people up there as last year.. replace Nibali with Basso... add in Levi to the top 5... Lance shold be better than last year... or his performance in the Tour de Suisse lends us to believe this.
I hope Gesink and Sammy do a good tour and both get top 10's.
For the Green jersey i'm not sure... Farrar looked strong at the giro... Cav hasn't done much this year.. but the tour is the tour... i'm sure he'll get a couple of stages. Hushovd will be there or there abouts and i hope Oscar can grab another tour stage.
Mountains jersey... who knows... I'm sure it will be between a frenchman.. maybe vogondy.. he's be riding well... Someone like Joaquim Rodriguez may go for it too... or Cunego... but i highly doubt it.
So to sum up my top 3 is:
Contador, A Schleck, L A...
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| samdiatmh |
Posted on 30-06-2010 13:47
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sastre starts for cervelo in le tour source: https://www.cyclin...o-injuries
and what do you think about team sky and their sprint?
will it be thomas leading out boasson hagen or the other way round?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2010 14:05
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samdiatmh wrote:
and what do you think about team sky and their sprint?
will it be thomas leading out boasson hagen or the other way round?
On the entirely flat bunch sprint stages, Id expect Boasson Hagen to be left to his own devices.
If theres any finishes in a smaller group than the full peloton, then someone like Thomas may help Hagen.
Im not sure that Sky will want Thomas to use too much energy on the flat, with Wiggins being the main focus of the team.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 30-06-2010 14:07
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yes, thats why Henderson isn't at the tour. As much resources as possible go to Wiggins.
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 30-06-2010 18:56
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why you all counting Cavendish out?
Soon he will not have enough fingers to show.. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 30-06-2010 18:59
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issoisso wrote:
Meanwhile, Footon have an awesome new bike for the Tour
Except for the bitch-ass awesome crank, that bike is hideous. |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 30-06-2010 18:59
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Guido Mukk wrote:
why you all counting Cavendish out?
Soon he will not have enough fingers to show..
He's an interesting figure this year.
I'm not too sure of his form, he's giving evidence to show he is in good form, and it stands.
After Bruxelles we'll know for sure how he is. However until then, i'm still going to say he'll win Stage 1.
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| Deda |
Posted on 30-06-2010 19:19
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Rogers will surely do a top 10, he's having the best year of his career.
If offense is the best defence, does it mean that defence is the worst defence?
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