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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:11
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Hey everyone,
I was just thinking the other day, if I could pick a team for the Tour de France, who would it be? I know my team is overpowered by stars, but here it is! 
Cadel Evans- Leader
Luis Leon Sanchez- Helper/2nd Leader
Mark Cavendish- Sprinter
Thor Hushovd- Leadout/2nd Sprinter
Fabian Cancellara- Stage Wins/Leadout
Sylvain Chavanel- Domestique
Lars Boom- Domestique
Lars Bak- Domestique
If you guys just want to leave your suggestions of who you think would make the best team for a Tour de France then join in and name your riders! It doesn't matter how many stars your team has or how many unknowns!
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| YvesStevens |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:22
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I think for this tour your selection is perfect but I would prefer EBH insted of Hushovd and LL isn't that good anymore so then I would say Uran  |
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:46
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yeh good choice! I like Hushovd because I think he could be a good sprinter on some of the hilly stages but then again I don't really follow Eddy so I'm not sure how he'd compare to Hushovd! and I think he's still pretty decent. He'd be good enough to just help Cadel on some of the mountain stages don't you think?
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:48
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i saw he won the third stage of the Tour de Romandie and has a 1 second gap between himself and the Wiggins in the lead.
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| YvesStevens |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:57
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yes, LL did well yesterday, but that's a exception, he doesn't win that often an other race.... |
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| alex valceanu |
Posted on 28-04-2012 08:57
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I decided to make 2 teams : 1 for the GC and 1for sprints
Bradley Wiggins- Leader
Rigoberto Uran
Sylvester Szmyd
Bauke Mollema
Richie Porte
Jens Voigt
George Hincapie
Geraint Thomas
David Millar
Vicenzo Nibali (Leader)
Domenico Pozzovivo
Jose Rujano (2nd Leader )
David Millar-Benard Eisel-Geraint Thomas-Matt Goss-Cavendish (this will be the sprint train )
Sylvain Chavannel
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 09:54
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Here's mine:
Cadel Evans-Leader
Jens Voigt-Mountain domestique
Fabian Cancellara-Leadout, helper
Jakob Fuglsang-Main protector of Leader.
Lieuwe Westra-Domestique, leadout
José Rojas-Hilly Sprinter, flat leadout
Matt Goss-Sprinter
Christophé Le Mevel-Mountain Domestique
Daniel Martin-Free Element
Reserve: Maxime Monfort.
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| iNSUPERABLE |
Posted on 28-04-2012 10:18
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Samuel Sanchez - GC Leader
Andreas Kloden - Co-Leader
Mark Cavendish - Sprinter
Sylvester Szmyd - Mountain domestique
Jelle Vanendert - Mountain domestique
Fabian Cancellara - Domestique/Leadout
Mark Renshaw - Domestique/Leadout
Igor Anton -Free Elemnt(and big help for the leaders in the key stages)
Matthew Goss -Domestique/Leadout |
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 10:32
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YvesStevens wrote:
yes, LL did well yesterday, but that's a exception, he doesn't win that often an other race....
Yeah fair enough. I like him though so I hope he does well!
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 10:37
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iNSUPERABLE wrote:
Samuel Sanchez - GC Leader
Andreas Kloden - Co-Leader
Mark Cavendish - Sprinter
Sylvester Szmyd - Mountain domestique
Jelle Vanendert - Mountain domestique
Fabian Cancellara - Domestique/Leadout
Mark Renshaw - Domestique/Leadout
Igor Anton -Free Elemnt(and big help for the leaders in the key stages)
Matthew Goss -Domestique/Leadout
This looks like a good team! Sanchez did well in last year's tour and i see you've gone back to the HTC days with the sprint train!!  Also Igor Anton, Fabian Cancellara and Andreas Kloden are good choices! Vanendert came 20 odd places off Cadel last year so thats a pretty damn good team!!
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 28-04-2012 11:35
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All right, let's give it a try :
Mark Cavendish
Peter Sagan
Fabian Cancellara
Andy Schleck
Cadel Evans
Vincenzo Nibali
Thomas Voeckler
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
Bradley Wiggins
Should be enough to win prologue, sprint stages, breakaway stages, hilly stages, mountain stages with mountain or descent finish, individual time trials and team time trials. I could have included Tony Martin, who was better than Cancellara last year, but Cancellara is a better helper (more all arounder IMO), both are currently injured anyway. All distinctive jerseys (bar the white one, except maybe if I'd have Sagan going for it) too. |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 11:50
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Aquarius wrote:
All right, let's give it a try :
Mark Cavendish
Peter Sagan
Fabian Cancellara
Andy Schleck
Cadel Evans
Vincenzo Nibali
Thomas Voeckler
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
Bradley Wiggins
Should be enough to win prologue, sprint stages, breakaway stages, hilly stages, mountain stages with mountain or descent finish, individual time trials and team time trials. I could have included Tony Martin, who was better than Cancellara last year, but Cancellara is a better helper (more all arounder IMO), both are currently injured anyway. All distinctive jerseys (bar the white one, except maybe if I'd have Sagan going for it) too.
That would be my team, bar probably Boonen or Gilbert replacing Voekler.
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 12:22
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Aquarius wrote:
All right, let's give it a try :
Mark Cavendish
Peter Sagan
Fabian Cancellara
Andy Schleck
Cadel Evans
Vincenzo Nibali
Thomas Voeckler
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
Bradley Wiggins
Should be enough to win prologue, sprint stages, breakaway stages, hilly stages, mountain stages with mountain or descent finish, individual time trials and team time trials. I could have included Tony Martin, who was better than Cancellara last year, but Cancellara is a better helper (more all arounder IMO), both are currently injured anyway. All distinctive jerseys (bar the white one, except maybe if I'd have Sagan going for it) too.
Like you said, sure to win at least one jersey, if not, all of them!! The only thing I'd suggest is maybe a good flat rider for a sprint train but i guess you've got enough there with Cancellara, Peter Sagan etc. Good team man!
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 28-04-2012 12:35
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If it was me, i would put it this way:
Cadel Evans-Leader
Thomas Voeckler-Helper for Mountains
Sylwester Szmyd-Helper for Mountains
Edvald Boasson Hagen-Sprinter
Geraint Thomas-Leadout Man
Filippo Pozzato-For train
David Millar- For train
Raimaunas Navardauskas-For work
Jack Bobridge-For work |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 28-04-2012 12:41
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Cadel Evans - Leader
Thomas Voeckler - Mountains Domestique / Breaks
Sylwester Szmyd- Mountains Domestique
Edvald Boasson Hagen -Sprinter / Breaks
Geraint Thomas - Leadout / Mountains Domestique
Jelle Vanendert - Mountain Domestique
David Millar - Train / Work
Tony Martin -Train / TT / Work
Igor Anton- Deluxe Mountains Domestique
While I like Aquarius it's totally unrealistic Although my team isn't likely too, I think it's a bit more
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| andy222c |
Posted on 28-04-2012 13:12
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My choice:
| Samuel Sanchez | Leader | | Juan José Cobo | Mountain helper | | Alejandro Valverde | Mountain helper | | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sprinter | | Thor Hushovd | Leadout and Breaks | | Heinrich Haussler | Ledaout | | Luis Leon Sanchez | Allrounder | | Thomas Löfkvist | Allrounder | | Lars Bak | Flat helper |
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 29-04-2012 00:57
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Alakagom wrote:
While I like Aquarius it's totally unrealistic Although my team isn't likely too, I think it's a bit more
I agree but that's the whole point of it! All the teams should be unrealistic cause of the fact that they're dream teams! So You can get as unrealistic as you want as long as you don't have every single GC man such as Evans, Schleck's Contador etc.
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 29-04-2012 01:15
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Andy Schleck - Yellow jersey
Frank Schleck - Mountain helper, 2nd Leader
Wout Poels - Free element, white and polka jersey
Marcel Kittel - Sprinter, green jersey
John Degenkolb - 2nd Sprinter, leadout
Fabian Cancellara - (Team)Timetrials, prologue, domestique
Lars Boom - Domestique
Marcus Burghardt - Domestique
Johan Vansummeren - Domestique
Nationalities:
3 German
2 Dutch
2 Luxembourg
1 Swiss
1 Belgian
So quite realistic, I hope
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| mattie524 |
Posted on 29-04-2012 03:06
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fcancellara wrote:
Andy Schleck - Yellow jersey
Frank Schleck - Mountain helper, 2nd Leader
Wout Poels - Free element, white and polka jersey
Marcel Kittel - Sprinter, green jersey
John Degenkolb - 2nd Sprinter, leadout
Fabian Cancellara - (Team)Timetrials, prologue, domestique
Lars Boom - Domestique
Marcus Burghardt - Domestique
Johan Vansummeren - Domestique
Nationalities:
3 German
2 Dutch
2 Luxembourg
1 Swiss
1 Belgian
So quite realistic, I hope
Quite a good team! Personally, I'd choose a different sprinter and lead out other than Kittel and Degenkolb but apart from that its quite a good team!
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 29-04-2012 05:31
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Hmm lets give this a try.
Cadel Evans - Leader
Samuel Sanchez - Co-Leader
Levi Leiphimer - Mountains Help
Tyler Farrar - Sprinter
Edvald Boasson Hagen - Leadout / Stage Wins / Young Rider
Peter Sagen - Leadout / Stage Wins / Young Rider
Tony Martin - Time Trial / Tempo Pushing
David Zabriskie - TT / Tempo
Alejandro Valverde - Free Element
(Some favoritism for the US, could easily take Cav over Farrar, Levi is getting old, but I still think he is a top 10 rider if he can stay healthy, and big Z could get changed for Cancellara)
Edited by Kentaurus on 29-04-2012 05:33
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