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| RHW |
Posted on 30-12-2010 11:47
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Giro - Ricco
Tour - A.Schleck
Vuelta - Menchov after a fail at the Tour
Gilbert to dominate classics but miss out at Flanders again
Greipel to struggle to win races without Columbia support.
Cav & Renshaw to have a big fall out (the clues are already there) and one of them not to ride the Tour.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 30-12-2010 11:48
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Sagan wins Tour Med, Paris-Nice, but his positiveness is announced the day prior to MSR.
Vinokourov drops Gilbert on the Poggio and wins MSR.
Ullrich announces his come back on 1st April.
Ullrich announces he never planned to come back on the 2nd April.
Cancellara has no motorbike this year, and gets dropped by Boonen both in RVV and Paris-Roubaix, though Boonen climbed Grammont 3 seconds slower than in 2010.
Boonen is caught positive with cocaine one week after Roubaix.
Armstrong announces partnership with *insert major US company name here*, and says he has to ride the TDF one last time, though he's been looking out of form during his first races of the season.
Di Luca wins AGR and LBL, then finishes 2nd behind Anton, but before Basso at the Giro.
Contador's ban ends soon before the Dauphiné. He does no stage top-5 and hardly achieves a top-10 there. Though, he wins the Spanish ITT championship a few weeks later.
The FDA's trial against TailWind Sports (US Postal, Armstrong, etc.) starts during the last week of the Giro. L.A. is proved to have cheated a few days prior to the TDF. He's not present at the race, because of an illness he caught in a French restaurant during the Dauphiné (rumours of poisoning by jealous Froggies arise).
Contador lost one minute to Franck Schleck before the mountains, he's third in the GC after two weeks but didn't lose one more second, and he crushes every one in the last two mountain stages.
Lance Armstrong is condemned to spend one year in jail the day before the Tour de France ends. People hardly speak about Contador's fourth (third ?) TDF win.
Thomas Dekker won the last ITT. He'll win Eneco Tour and the ITT WC (Cancellara won't be there).
Anton wins the Vuelta, Contador was preventively suspended because of salbutamol, but he claims he had a certificate for asthma.
Greipel beats Cavendish at the WC. He won the TDF green jersey and one stage, but didn't beat Cavendish in a bunch spring one single time during the season, except for the Worlds.
Gilbert does one more razzia in the late classics. |
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Posted on 30-12-2010 11:52
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One more - the crucial break will go clear in Flanders on the Muur, and there will be no Garmin - Cervelo riders to be seen |
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| Wilier |
Posted on 30-12-2010 14:58
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Allright here are my predictions for 2011
MSR: Cav
Vlaanderen: Boonen
PR: Cancellara
LBL: Gilbert
Giro: Scarponi
Tour: Contador
Vuelta: Samuel Sanchez
WCITT: Cancellara
WCRR: Cav
Lombardia: Ricco
Also: Cav wins Green, Gesink white+top 5, Van den Broeck top-3
* At least 1 big name gets caught on doping.
* Giro will be less awesome than 2010, but still way better than the Tour
* Vino will suck and retires at the end of the season
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| Smowz |
Posted on 30-12-2010 15:42
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Time for one of those not quite so predictable Roubaix wins this year...how about Gerient Thomas or Haussler?
Nibali wins the Giro, Anton the Vuelta...
The tour the soap opera begins with is Contador in or out.. for the overall you gotta go with Andy Schleck though no-one else can live with him in the mountains other than Contador. Something like Schleck - > Basso - > Van den Broeck perhaps?
Frank to take out one of the Ardennes, LBL seems most likely.
Whats left for team sky? Rogers to win some races like Romandie and Califiornia and Wiggins to get back into the top ten at the tour. Boessen Hagen could take stage wins outside of the Le Tour but I cannot see him outsprinting the best sprinters no matter how good his lead out is. MSR is his best shot at a big win this year for me.
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Posted on 30-12-2010 15:52
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I'm gonna go with Frank Schleck as winner of the tour  |
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Posted on 30-12-2010 16:55
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Predictio Time. 
MSR: Farrar
Vlaanderen: Cancellara
PR: Thomas
LBL: Gilbert
Giro: Anton
Tour: Contador
Vuelta: A.Schleck
WCITT: Cancellara
WCRR: Cavendish
Lombardia: Cunego
Riders to Watch:
Simon Spilak - Expect a Top 3 in one of the Cobbled Classics.
Richie Porte - Should win Stages at the Giro or Vuelta.
Alexander Kristoff - Will win a semi-classic.
Jens Voigt - Will get into at least one 15 minute plus break in a Grand Tour
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| LaMagliaRosa |
Posted on 30-12-2010 17:27
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Big race predictions:
MSR: Gilbert
RVV: Boonen
PR: Hushovd
LBL: Gilbert
Giro: Nibali then Ricco and Kreuziger
Tour: A Schleck then Basso and Gesink
Vuelta: Contador then Anton and Menchov
WCTT: Martin
WCRR: Breschel
GdL: Nibali |
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| bfreire |
Posted on 30-12-2010 17:49
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MSR: Freire
Vlaanderen: Devolder
PR: Boonen
LBL: Vino
Giro: Ricco
Tour: Contador
Vuelta: Gesink
WCITT: Tony Martin
WCRR: Cav
Lombardia: Ricco
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Posted on 30-12-2010 18:30
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Tour:
A. Schleck : Champion
Menchov : top 5
Fuglsang : top 15
Rodriguez to win 1 stage
At the Giro, I think Kreuziger will be on the final podium, but not as champion.
Edited by pcm2009fan on 30-12-2010 18:39
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 30-12-2010 18:42
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ruben wrote:
Nibali fails at everything next year. Showing that the Vuelta win was just a fluke.
come one..give him a break. Young guy had great season..and with small luck also results came. Beat that Gesink..
Edited by Guido Mukk on 30-12-2010 18:42
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| ruben |
Posted on 30-12-2010 19:02
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Nibali is 2 years older and had all the luck in the world. |
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Posted on 30-12-2010 19:14
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My predictions:
MSR: Pozzato
RVV:Gilbert
PR:Boonen
AGR:Gilbert
FW:Evans
LBL:J.Rodriguez
Giro:1,2,3.Anton,Ricco or Menchov,4.Nibali,5.Kreuziger
TdF:1.A.Schleck,2.Evans,3.Basso,4.F.Schleck,5.Gesink
Vuelta:1.Anton,2.Mosquera,3.J.Rodriguez,4.Nibali,5.Ricco
Angliru stage will win hm....Mosquera
WCITT:T.Martin
WC:Gilbert
Lombardia:Cunego(Gilbert suffered a puncture in the final 5 km and Cunego beat Evans an sprint)
Edited by supersonic on 30-12-2010 19:14
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Posted on 30-12-2010 19:17
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TDU: Mark Cavendish
P-N: Luis Leon Sanchez
T-A: Gesink
MSR: Petacchi
Gent-Wevelgem: Boom
Vlaanderen: Cancellara
PR: Cancellara
AGR: Gesink
Wallonie: Vinokourov
LBL: Gilbert
Romandie: Karpets
Dauphne: Contador
Suisse: Gesink
Giro: Kiserlovski
Tour: A Schleck
Vuelta: Vinokourov
Eneco: Martin
Plouay: Voeckler
WCITT: Martin
WCRR: Freire
Tours: Geslin
Lombardia: Gilbert
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Posted on 30-12-2010 20:03
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With Contador out of the way, we will have one of the best Tours in years. And that's my only prediction
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 30-12-2010 20:19
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itsmichael wrote:
Giro: Kiserlovski
That's a funny prediction.
Edited by FreitasPCM on 30-12-2010 20:19
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Posted on 30-12-2010 20:31
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FreitasPCM wrote:
itsmichael wrote:
Giro: Kiserlovski
That's a funny prediction.
More like very wishful thinking along with Taaramäe winning le Tour (as much as I'd like it it won't happen anytime soon).
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| itsmichael |
Posted on 30-12-2010 22:21
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Bosskardo wrote:
FreitasPCM wrote:
itsmichael wrote:
Giro: Kiserlovski
That's a funny prediction.
More like very wishful thinking along with Taaramäe winning le Tour (as much as I'd like it it won't happen anytime soon).
Well he rode this year aswell with nibali and basso in the team and went 10th... so why not?
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 30-12-2010 22:34
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itsmichael wrote:
Bosskardo wrote:
FreitasPCM wrote:
itsmichael wrote:
Giro: Kiserlovski
That's a funny prediction.
More like very wishful thinking along with Taaramäe winning le Tour (as much as I'd like it it won't happen anytime soon).
Well he rode this year aswell with nibali and basso in the team and went 10th... so why not?
He was 10th thanks to that big break, but he did well in the mountains, that has to be said. |
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Posted on 31-12-2010 00:38
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MSR: Pipo
Vlaanderen: Gilbert
PR: Gilbert
LBL: Cancellara
Giro: Nibali
Tour: Basso, Schleck, Evans....assuming bertie is banned
Vuelta: Anton, Evans 2nd
WCITT: Cancellara
WCRR: In the upset of the year, Renshaw 1st, Cav 2nd. Cav has a bitch about being beaten by his leadout man before going to sky...................we can only hope
Lombardia: Gilbert
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