2010 Predictions Thread

iainf72

Right, things which will happen in the ten.

- Someone from Columbia will win Tour Down Under
- Contador will win Paris-Nice
- Ballan will win Paris-Roubaix with sterling help from Hincapie
- Cavendish will win Gent-W
- Liquigas dominate the Giro. Franco P to win
- Big name to suffer poor luck on cobbles in Tour de France
- Contador and Schleck to fight it out. Basso, Evans, Sastre and Sanchez in battle for 3rd
- Farrar to win worlds
- Pat L to sue someone
- Lance to get less than half the monthly magazine covers for the year
- Valverde to get cleared by CAS
- Another Spanish doping ring to emerge

Yorkman

Roubaix - Cancellara
Flanders - Boonen
Paris Nice - who knows. a look at the past roster suggests its whoever has the newest gear.
Giro - Pelizotti, one of 3 sure fire bets for the year.
Tour - Heart says AC, but his lack of team is worrying.
2nd bet of the season - Cav to get the green jersey. The Eurosport Tour programme with him shows just how much that eats him. He will win green in 2010.
3rd bet - Cav will get the worlds. the boy is super ambitious and will have a well tuned GB squad in melbourne.
Lombardy - Evans.

TheStone

MSR - EBH (big start for sky)
Flanders - Boonen (or Gilbert)
P-R - Cancellara
LBL - Thin Schleck
Giro - not sure, but agree on Liquigas dominance
Tour - could be great, I'll go Contador, but Schleck could be closer. LA and Basso could
be anything. If Basso is anywhere near 06 Giro form, he'll go very close.
WC - Cav, easy

RichN95.

I'll start with a bold one:

Contador doesn't win the Tour de France (I'm thinking misfortune, not anything dodgy)

Sky win a Classic (one of the top ten*)
The Worlds doesn't end in a bunch sprint.....
.....Neither does MIlan San Remo
Evans wins the Giro (he's doing it isn't he?)
Radioshack, Sky, Garmin, Katusha, BMC and Cervelo get wildcards for the Tour. ASO somehow manage to exclude Footon Servetto.
Cavendish wins more races than anyone else (a bold one that)...
....but Farrar wins the second most
Wiggins comes top 5 at the Tour
Geraint Thomas is one of breakout stars of the season.
Jens Voigt announces his retirement
Kim Kirchen wins either LBL or Amstel
Valverde gets banned properly
Menchov falls off at least twice in high profile races with no-one near him
The top three in PTP will be the same as this year (but in a different order)
Boonen does the cobbles double (Hincapie 2nd at Roubaix)
Cavendish punches Ned Boulting or Matt Rendell live on ITV4

And finally, Bellis makes a full recovery and gets back into training (I hope this one is right).

*Top ten classics (IMO): 5 Monuments, Amstel, San Sebastien, GW, Fleche W, Vatenfall Cyclassics (some will disagree with the last one)