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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 29-04-2009 19:33
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The most hotly contested area in the ProTour, and certainly the hardest to make a Top 10 out of. A whole load of other riders are capable of scoring a big result yet wont feature in this Top 10, and the Grand Tours looks set to be an exciting contest. Well, except maybe the Giro where Cunego looks odds on favourite to take a 4th successive title.
Who do you think will be the king of the mountains this year?
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 29-04-2009 19:35
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I reckon you have underestimted ricco and frank on that list, but otherwise pretty spot on
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| t-baum |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:02
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How is serpa or karpets not on this list?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:04
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t-baum wrote:
How is serpa or karpets not on this list?
The most hotly contested area in the ProTour, and certainly the hardest to make a Top 10 out of. A whole load of other riders are capable of scoring a big result yet wont feature in this Top 10 |
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| SotD |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:14
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t-baum wrote:
How is serpa or karpets not on this list?
How could they ever be :-S
They are good yes, but who are they better than? There are 10 riders up there atm, and to be honest I wouldn't put neither Karpets nor Serpa in top 15 even.
Guys like Domenico Pozzovivo, Andrei Kashechkin, Franco Pellizotti, Yaroslav Popovych and José Angel Gomez Marchante are better than those... Atleast on paper...
Now I don't know exactly who is trained to what, but before trainings I would say that... |
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| Shifty |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:23
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Why the seeming lack of importance placed on TT? I understand and fully agree that MO is more important because if you're not up to par on climbing you'll lose time on 7 or 8 days (in a grand tour anyway but there are stage races besides those where TT plays a biger role) whereas if you have a weak TT you'll only lose time on two days at the most but Sella with 68 TT is going to lose minutes in a long TT which can be huge in a major tours not won by much more than that. Granted i haven't been following the Management Game that closely till now (but I must say it looks like a total BLAST and hope to get in on it sometime) are a lot of the big favorites with strong mountain and TT in the continental tour or retired?
Looks neat though Management Game seems like an awesome idea I'm way jealous to not be in on it
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:27
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Hey guys am i still in ProTour? I just kinda think that... Naaahhh...
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-04-2009 20:43
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Dekker's stats are looking good and this year maybe he will take the revenge in the Tour and make Crue happy. 
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| t-baum |
Posted on 29-04-2009 21:25
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SotD wrote:
t-baum wrote:
How is serpa or karpets not on this list?
How could they ever be :-S
They are good yes, but who are they better than? There are 10 riders up there atm, and to be honest I wouldn't put neither Karpets nor Serpa in top 15 even.
Guys like Domenico Pozzovivo, Andrei Kashechkin, Franco Pellizotti, Yaroslav Popovych and José Angel Gomez Marchante are better than those... Atleast on paper...
Now I don't know exactly who is trained to what, but before trainings I would say that...
Yeah but karpets tt stat is god compared to them, this is the best top 10 stage racers not climbers.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 30-04-2009 00:40
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Gesink will be the best I think
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| stemple |
Posted on 30-04-2009 02:35
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Levi4life wrote:
Gesink will be the best I think
Yeah, 10th? I think he should be higher than that.
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| SotD |
Posted on 30-04-2009 07:00
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t-baum wrote:
SotD wrote:
t-baum wrote:
How is serpa or karpets not on this list?
How could they ever be :-S
They are good yes, but who are they better than? There are 10 riders up there atm, and to be honest I wouldn't put neither Karpets nor Serpa in top 15 even.
Guys like Domenico Pozzovivo, Andrei Kashechkin, Franco Pellizotti, Yaroslav Popovych and José Angel Gomez Marchante are better than those... Atleast on paper...
Now I don't know exactly who is trained to what, but before trainings I would say that...
Yeah but karpets tt stat is god compared to them, this is the best top 10 stage racers not climbers.
True, but you have to look into every aspect. And imo, those guys up there will all be able to place themselves ahead of Karpets in the GT's selected for them I think. |
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| SotD |
Posted on 30-04-2009 07:01
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Levi4life wrote:
Gesink will be the best I think
I thought the exact same thing... He looks deadly! |
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