Rest Day Poll - Who do you think will win?

RichN95.
RichN95. Posts: 27,253
edited July 2008 in Pro race
Six men. One winner. Who will it be? You decide.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    The Mench. Big Denis. Climbing better than Evans, much better in the time trial than all the others. Knows how to win a grand tour.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    I predict an early attack on the breakfast buffet by Kohl.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Latest bookies odds:

    Evans 6-4
    Menchov 11-4
    Sastre 11-2
    Schleck 6-1
    Kohl 15-2
    Vande Velde 11-1
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  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    Vande Velde could just do it, he looked like he wanted to attack today but had second thoughts, maybe he wants to let CSC concentrate there attacks on Evans and take advantage, he is a decent time trialist which could decide the race. I bet he will fancy his chances if he has a little cushion over Evans and isnt too far behind Schleck, still how can you bet against Schleck after today ?

    ps. how strong are CSC...
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Please not Evans. Anyone but Evans.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Nuggs, Evans is not there to entertain, he's there to get the yellow jersey and the best rider wins. It's not a Hollywood plot where the rider with the greatest setbacks in early life wins, it's not a lame TV show where people text in their choice, it's a full on three week stage race, as hard as you can get.
  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    Kléber wrote:
    It's not a lame TV show where people text in their choice..

    I heard a rumour that Davina McCall was taking over from Phil Liggett :D
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Dirk Van Gently wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    It's not a lame TV show where people text in their choice..

    I heard a rumour that Davina McCall was taking over from Phil Liggett :D

    I wonder if Davina would try and replicate the riders facial expressions. :D Still, a lot more eye-candyish they any of the rest of them.
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  • skavanagh.bikeradar
    skavanagh.bikeradar Posts: 1,097
    Me: Good news, I'd already started celebrating when I heard a bit of cardboard was taking over from Sherwen, this tops it off.

    Sherwen: It certainly is good news about celebrating on hearing the news about team cardobard taking over from Sherwen, it really tops it off neatly for this rider from the United States of America.

    Me: Shut up Paul and stop repeating EVERYTHING I SAY and adding something about the USA to it!
  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    Harmon: So Shawn is this a difficult climb?
    Kelly: Yes, certently!
    Harmon: Thanks! :roll: How difficult?
    Kelly: Majorly
    Harmon: grrrooaaann! :roll:
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Kléber wrote:
    Nuggs, Evans is not there to entertain, he's there to get the yellow jersey and the best rider wins. It's not a Hollywood plot where the rider with the greatest setbacks in early life wins, it's not a lame TV show where people text in their choice, it's a full on three week stage race, as hard as you can get.
    10 point bonus for stating the obvious...

    I don't like the guy and don't want him to win. You will find this attitude reflected in relation to a variety of different sports...
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Menchov... just because I love hearing Paul and Phil calling him "the sleeper" and "the silent man of the pleoton"
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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    I want Schleck to win, but unless he can pull a big win in the few mountain stages left- I.e more than 7/8 seconds, he'll get annhialated in the Time Trial by Evans.

    So I want Frank to win but suspect Evans will.
    That ain't so bad, Evans is a nice guy.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Menchov probably.

    I expect we'll see some action on the first climb tomorrow to soften people up. Then the Schlecks will try leg it on the Bonnette. But that descent before the finish...Hmmmm.

    Menchov could be confident of beating Evans if he took 20s in the final TT.

    Personally I'd like a mountain goat to take it.
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  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    Well i want Evans to win it but i think he's gonna get a going over by CSC who are gonna give him the old combination one two sucker punch...

    Don't rule out Sastre people, he's never lived up to his billing for me but i think he looks dangerous. If Evans doesn't get it then i'd like to see Menchov of Kohl win it.
  • espoir
    espoir Posts: 61
    Bernhard 'the toad' Kohl :D
  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    Menchov or Vande velde seem to have Evans more worried than either Schleck or indeed Sastre.I just hope they both attack Evans enough to make the time trial really interesting.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I can't decide between Evans, Menchov, Schleck and Kohl - even Sastre if some of the bigger men (assuming Schleck and Menchov are bigger - they look it) suffer more on the steeper slopes of Alpe D'Huez. I've voted Menchov though just because if Evans cracks Menchov has looked the most solid of the rest, he was unlucky to fall off yesterday. Kohl I don't know so much about and the CSC boys it depends how much they were taking it easy when the other one went up the road. If Schleck really rode away from the others on the Hautacam rather than them giving him some rope because he's down on the GC then that's the most impressive performance in the mountains so far by anyone still in the race. So with a total lack of conviction I'm going for Menchov.
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  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Hi folks.

    Remember the upcomming TT is the last TT of a grand tour - and that is rarely won by the best pure time triallist. What the last TT of a grand tour test is who has survived the previous 3 weeks in the best shape - and this is often decided by the rider's doctors...

    Heras in his last Vuelta is a perfect example of this.

    So who will come out of the Alps in best shape? My money is on Menchov (did anyone say Austrian blood banks?)

    Cheers, Andy

    ps Do they have a definitive test for homogolous transfusions yet?
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    (did anyone say Austrian blood banks?)

    There's one in Vienna apparently, called Humanplasma, that was implicated in a possible biathlon doping scandal last winter (they couldn't prove anything, all speculation, etc)
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Vaughters reckons Vande Velde gets better and better as a 3 week GT goes on. He can TT really well and has been seemingly riding within himself on the climbs so far. I see Betfair have him at 15/1. I am quite tempted to have a bit of that.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Hi folks.

    Remember the upcomming TT is the last TT of a grand tour - and that is rarely won by the best pure time triallist. What the last TT of a grand tour test is who has survived the previous 3 weeks in the best shape - and this is often decided by the rider's doctors...

    Ignoring the doping bit, you are, of course right. And Evans has an excellent record in final time trials - 7th, 8th , 2nd. The only person (still) on the Tour to have beaten him in a final TT is Sebastian Lang (Pereiro did too in 2006). As a pure TTer he isn't that special.
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