PTP - La Vuelta

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited September 2009 in Pro race
1. Victor, try not to get too excited.

2. So... who's going to be brave enough to pick Vino?

3. This is the final stage-race of the year. Then it's a quick burst of one-dayers before the end of the season.

Race starts on Saturday in the Netherlands. 3 ITTs, 8 mountain stages, 10 normal stages. That's according the website, at least:

http://www.lavuelta.es/09/ingles/recorr ... o.html?e=p

Start lists are preliminary at the moment:

http://www.lavuelta.es/09/ingles/equipos/index.html?e=p

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/200 ... start-list

http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19140

The first stage is stage 1, not a prologue, despite only being 4.8 km long.
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  • Cheshire_Cat
    Cheshire_Cat Posts: 464
    I'll go first then :D

    GC: Alejandro Valverde

    Stage 1: Fabian Cancellara

    Stage 2: Tyler Farrar

    Stage 3: Tyler Farrar

    Stage 4: Philippe Gilbert

    Thanks!
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    I´m soo excited! :lol:
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com
  • Noodley
    Noodley Posts: 1,725
    GC: Sammy Sanchez
    ITT: Cancellara
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    GC: Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Stage 2: Farrar
    Stage 3: Farrar
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,114
    GC: Samuel Sanchez

    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Stage 2: Farrar
    Stage 3: Farrar
    Stage 4: Cunego
    Stage 5: Boonen
    Stage 6: Farrar
    Stage 7: Cancellara
    Stage 8: Valverde
    Stage 9: Samuel Sanchez
    Stage 10: Freire
    Stage 11: Ballan
    Stage 12: Basso
    Stage 13: Samuel Sanchez

    I'm off on holiday on Saturday so I'll edit this in the next day or so to add my picks for the first 2 weeks. I reserve the right to come online when I'm away to change things should I put the mockers on anyone. :?
  • richard wants a baum
    richard wants a baum Posts: 744
    GC: Basso

    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Stage 2: Farrar
    Stage 3: Farrar
    Stage 4:Gerrans (ill regret this one)
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    GC: Basso (mainly in hope)
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Stage 2: Farrar
    Stage 3: Farrar
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    Overall: Ezequiel Mosquera
    Stag. 1: Cancellara
    Stag 2: Greipel
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com
  • Greggyr
    Greggyr Posts: 1,075
    GC - Valverde
    1 - Cancellara
    2 - Farrar
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    GC Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    GC: Basso

    Stage 1: Fab

    2: Farrar
    3 - Greipel
    4 - Leukemans
    5 -S Sanchez
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    GC: Ivan Basso

    Stage 1: Tylar Farrar
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    GC: Basso :? please
    1: fab cancellara
    2: farar
    3: farar

    thanks a lot
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    GC Sammy Sanchez
    Stage 1 Cancellara
    Stage 2 Tyler Farrar
    Stage 3 Tyler Farrar
    Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,648
    GC. Basso please
    Stage 1: Spartacus please
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    GC: Sam Sanchez
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,851
    GC: Gesink
    s1: Martens
    s2: Freire
    s3: Freire
    Half man, Half bike
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    GC - BASSO
    Stage1 - GRABSCH
    Stage 2 - CIOLEK
    Stage3 CIOLEK



    Thanks.
  • Campervan27
    Campervan27 Posts: 137
    After blowing £75 on a hasty earky bet on Contador (burnt money don't tell the wife), GC had better turn out a decent result with Valverde or the kids will be eating bread and drinking water until the end of the month. :roll:

    stage 1 could only be Spartacus. 8)
    Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Overall: Ivan Basso
    Stage 1: Fabian Cancellara
    Stage 2: Tyler Farrar
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    andyp wrote:
    I'm off on holiday on Saturday so I'll edit this in the next day or so to add my picks for the first 2 weeks. I reserve the right to come online when I'm away to change things should I put the mockers on anyone. :?

    No problemo. Don't edit your post though, otherwise I'll miss your changes - just add a new post. Have a nice holiday!
    Campervan27 wrote:
    After blowing £75 on a hasty earky bet on Contador (burnt money don't tell the wife), GC had better turn out a decent result with Valverde or the kids will be eating bread and drinking water until the end of the month. :roll:

    stage 1 could only be Spartacus. 8)

    Does this mean you're playing or are you confusing PTP for Gamblers Anonymous? :wink: I've put you down on the spreadsheet anyway, so you're playing whether you like it or not!

    BTW, I was looking at last year's Vuelta scores...

    http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key= ... No0GVFV6Dw

    ... 43 players, only 7 didn't pick Contador! Thankfully there's a bit more variety this year.
  • thomasmc
    thomasmc Posts: 814
    GC: Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
  • onthefells
    onthefells Posts: 157
    quick question...why nobody going for Schleck? if he'd not been trying to protect his brother he would have been an even stronger second in TDF. He also looks a little long in the betting to me...is he not trying in this or is his team not? cheers
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,864
    gc: Sammy Sanchez

    stage 1 prologue thing spartacus
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    GC Andy Schleck please.
    stage 1/prologue Cancellara please.
    thanks
  • Richrd2205
    Richrd2205 Posts: 1,267
    GC: Andy Schleck
    St 1: Cancellera
    St 2: Farrar
    St 3: Farrar (or the 3th stage, according to the website)
    St 4: Cunego
    St 5: Friere
  • tforonda
    tforonda Posts: 1,193
    GC: Ivan Basso
    Stage 1: Fabian Cancellara
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    As one of the 7 who didn't pick Bert last year I am going out on a limb again! 8)
    GC Jose Angel Gomez Marchante
    St 1 Rabon
    St 2 Davis

    I'll be away for the 2nd week so will study the runners and rider before then to post those stages.
    Thanks as ever afx
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    GC: Valverde
    St 1: Cancellara
    St 2: Farrar
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    GC: Schleck, Andy
    Pro: Cancellara
    stg 1: Farrar

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