Milan San Remo

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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    And Steegmans is. As I say it's provisional, and look at Garmin's team too, they should be players.

    Can we have a PTP for which of the Euskaltel boys will be in the break?
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Tusher wrote:
    Would love Cav to win it again this year, but I agree- he hasn't got the form right now, and he's not bluffing.

    With Haussler unlikely to be fit enough to turn up, my money's on Boonen.

    The problem with Boonen, as I've found to my cost before in PTP, is that he won't sprint for minor placings.
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  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Yes, Cav doesn't have the k's in his legs at this stage. As mentioned earlier, dur to his dental problems, he was only able to do a small fraction of the training he aimed to do at Columbias training camp.

    His main aims are for later in the season this year anyway, so it could even be a blessing in disguise for him, if he hit's the TdF and then the Worlds in top form.

    I fancy Gilbert or EBH. I would say Cancellara, but I don't hink his early season form has been as good as a few others?
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    AG2R for Milan-San Remo

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ag2r-na ... mo-line-up

    I'm suprised Roche is not included.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Me too, he's clearly in form, can climb with the best in a race like this and has a sprint. He'd have been a dark horse in my opinion.
  • Dgh
    Dgh Posts: 180
    Would be nice to see Gilbert or Freire win.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    EBH for me.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    calvjones wrote:
    Tusher wrote:
    Would love Cav to win it again this year, but I agree- he hasn't got the form right now, and he's not bluffing.

    With Haussler unlikely to be fit enough to turn up, my money's on Boonen.

    The problem with Boonen, as I've found to my cost before in PTP, is that he won't sprint for minor placings.

    same with Cav on many an occasion
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited March 2010
    andyp wrote:
    Me too, he's clearly in form, can climb with the best in a race like this and has a sprint. He'd have been a dark horse in my opinion.

    dark horse

    how about Sagan if he gets the gap (hypothetically)?
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    andyp wrote:
    Me too, he's clearly in form, can climb with the best in a race like this and has a sprint. He'd have been a dark horse in my opinion.
    He's twittered that he "prefers to focus on Catalunya" and so presumably the hiller classics later in April. He's lost weight and you could see his attack in Paris-Nice, he was first to go on the hill into Aurillac and only the best could go with him.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boonen's put Benatti as favourite.

    He was the only guy to pick out Flecha as the likely winner for Het Volk, and his predictions (Cavendish aside I guess) are usually on the money.
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    To win - would be nice to see another British victor (5 Brits on the start line - fantastic to see that); I'd be very very surprised if Cav won again this year. He's clearly not firing on all cylinders at the moment. Haven't really had a chance to see the mighty Columbia train in action yet either; is it still as good without George and all the Sky boys?

    So if we can't have a Brit winning, a quasi-Brit will do for me. EBH it is. Or Flecha - but I think he might be saving himself for Belgium, so will be working for EBH.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Boonen's put Benatti as favourite.

    He was the only guy to pick out Flecha as the likely winner for Het Volk, and his predictions (Cavendish aside I guess) are usually on the money.

    Benatti's my tip as well, you heard it here... er, second...
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  • bring_back_jan
    bring_back_jan Posts: 235
    am i right in thinking they've changed the parcours this year to bring the finish line closer to the foot of the final descent by a couple of km??

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    bring_back_jan wrote:
    am i right in thinking they've changed the parcours this year to bring the finish line closer to the foot of the final descent by a couple of km??

    Ja.
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  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    EBH for me.

    +1
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    bring_back_jan wrote:
    am i right in thinking they've changed the parcours this year to bring the finish line closer to the foot of the final descent by a couple of km??

    Ja.

    Are you sure it's as much as a couple of km's shorter, I thought it was only 2-3 kms from the bottom of the descent to the finish!
  • bring_back_jan
    bring_back_jan Posts: 235
    dunno i read it somewhere i'm sure.

    but Evans isn't even racing it so it shows i know next to nothing!!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    According to the Cycling News preview, it's exactly the same route as last year. They've got to change for 2011 though as the shopkeepers on the finish straight have been moaning.
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  • Cheesyman99
    Cheesyman99 Posts: 60
    If he gets over the climbs then Cav. People say he doesn't have much of a chance but they said that last year.
    If he doesn't then EBH
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Ok, ive been trying not to say it because everyone will think im mad but after his form in Paris-Nice, i cant help thinking that Voeckler could do something a bit dangerous. Surely someone would just hoover him up though, there are too many people in with a chance who will have team mates there to pull back any late attack. Im NOT putting money on him BTW, even at 150-1.

    A bit surprised by the lack of mentions of Hushovd. He was third last year and since the first and second, Cav and Haussler, dont look like being competitive, maybe he can step up this year. He was quite quiet at T-A, maybe keeping his powder dry? Then again, Freire was quiet on some of the stages too. Farrar seems a good bet for a place IMO
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    That's the thing with this race, it's so utterly unselective, it could come down to anyone.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    bring_back_jan wrote:
    am i right in thinking they've changed the parcours this year to bring the finish line closer to the foot of the final descent by a couple of km??
    Make it a real Monument again.
    KELLY won, when the Finish was only one and a quarter Km's from the Poggio in the days you never considered a sprinter to win.
    A Rouler yes.

    Where ever you go now, everybody is talking about Sprinters (including the bookies) and Tom Simpson was never classed as a sprinter. in fact there were not many sprinters before 1997.

    So get the dammed cars away and put the finish back, please.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    deejay wrote:
    bring_back_jan wrote:
    am i right in thinking they've changed the parcours this year to bring the finish line closer to the foot of the final descent by a couple of km??
    Make it a real Monument again.
    KELLY won, when the Finish was only one and a quarter Km's from the Poggio in the days you never considered a sprinter to win.
    A Rouler yes.

    Where ever you go now, everybody is talking about Sprinters (including the bookies) and Tom Simpson was never classed as a sprinter. in fact there were not many sprinters before 1997.

    So get the dammed cars away and put the finish back, please.
    zzzzzzzz, wake me up before the Poggio as there is always a slim chance of a surprise.

    Kelly's won the green jersey in the tour which in my book makes him a 'sprinter'.

    Cancellara's win 2 years ago shows how it's not always a sprinters' finish.

    What makes Milan-San Remo fun is that tussle between those who can get over the poggio fast but can't sprint as fast and vica versa.

    i think this year everyone will be trying to shake off a few more sprinters than last year on the poggio.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Kelly's won the green jersey in the tour which in my book makes him a 'sprinter'.

    Kelly also won the Vuelta, Paris-Nice, LBL, Lombardy, etc too

    So that means Kelly was a very good sprinter, but he was hardly a pure "sprinter" was he?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    redddraggon wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Kelly's won the green jersey in the tour which in my book makes him a 'sprinter'.

    Kelly also won the Vuelta, Paris-Nice, LBL, Lombardy, etc too

    So that means Kelly was a very good sprinter, but he was hardly a pure "sprinter" was he?

    Never said he was purely a sprinter. Just said I consider him a sprinter.

    It's not an exclusive term...
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Seems Robbie McEwen is unhappy about not being selected by Katusha.

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3488/ ... sence.aspx

    Don't know why though. Has ever been in the mix in this race before? Even at his peak he could never get over the Poggio in the front group.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    afx237vi wrote:
    Seems Robbie McEwen is unhappy about not being selected by Katusha.

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3488/ ... sence.aspx

    Don't know why though. Has ever been in the mix in this race before? Even at his peak he could never get over the Poggio in the front group.

    He came 4th once (2007), but usually he's outside the top 50.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The trouble for McEwen is that spending the weekend in a long hard race is ideal for the upcoming Belgian classics, he'll need the mileage and intensity to be ready for Ghent-Wevelgem etc. But at the same time, these are the classics, they are not training rides.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting comments by Pozzato:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/filipp ... r-saturday

    Cipo for Boonen
    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3489/ ... nremo.aspx

    EBH unsure of distance
    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3491/ ... ances.aspx

    Gilbert in superb form
    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3490/ ... nremo.aspx

    Liquigas have four cards to play
    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3494/ ... nremo.aspx
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