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RichN95.

I thought it might be worth having a thread about the Tour selections as and when they are confirmed:

So far I've seen:

Quick Step: Tom Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel, Jerome Pineau, Gerald Ciolek, Gert Steegmans, Niki Terpstra, Dries Devenyns, Addy Engels, Kevin De Weert

Euskaltel: Samuel Sanchez, Egoi Martínez, Gorka Verdugo, Amets Txurruka, Rubén Pérez, Iván Velasco, Alan Pérez, Pablo Urtasun and Gorka Izagirre

RadioShack: Jani Brajkovic, Chris Horner, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Markel Irizar, Dmitriy Muravyev, Sérgio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia.

Doobz

has a few more

http://www.cyclingstartlists.com/2011/0 ... DF2011.htm

Cleat Eastwood

brailsford said on the R5 prog that sky would be announced on thursday.

FJS

RichN95 wrote:

I thought it might be worth having a thread about the Tour selections as and when they are confirmed:

So far I've seen:

Quick Step: Tom Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel, Jerome Pineau, Gerald Ciolek, Gert Steegmans, Niki Terpstra, Dries Devenyns, Addy Engels, Kevin De Weert

Euskaltel: Samuel Sanchez, Egoi Martínez, Gorka Verdugo, Amets Txurruka, Rubén Pérez, Iván Velasco, Alan Pérez, Pablo Urtasun and Gorka Izagirre

RadioShack: Jani Brajkovic, Chris Horner, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Markel Irizar, Dmitriy Muravyev, Sérgio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia.

BMC: Cadel Evans, Brent Bookwalter, Markus Burghardt, George Hincapie, Amaël Moinard, Steve Morabito, Manuel Quinziato, Ivan Santaromita, Michael Schär

Rabobank: Robert Gesink , Carlos Barredo, Lars Boom, Juan Manuel Gárate, Bauke Mollema, Grischa Niermann, Luis León Sánchez, Laurens ten Dam, Maarten Tjallingii

Vacansoleil: Romain Feillu , Borut Božic, Thomas De Gendt, Johnny Hoogerland, Sergey Lagutin, Björn Leukemans, Marco Marcato, Wout Poels, Lieuwe Westra

http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/Tour/1.809973

rick_chasey

FJS - is Freire missing out due to nose surgery?

Also - will you also be missing Tankink's post-stage interviews?

lucybears

Liquigas pour le Tour de France
Ivan Basso, Paolo Longo Borghini, Daniel Oss, Fabio Sabatini, Alessandro Vanotti, Maciej Bodnar, Maciej Paterski, Sylvester Szmyd, Kristjan Koren

rick_chasey

Szmyd in the tour eh?

Last time and only time was what, '08 wasn't it?

LangerDan

Rick Chasey wrote:

FJS - is Freire missing out due to nose surgery?

Freire missing cos he couldn't be arsed.

TBH, I tend to agree with him.

rick_chasey

LangerDan wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

FJS - is Freire missing out due to nose surgery?

Freire missing cos he couldn't be arsed.

TBH, I tend to agree with him.

Hero.

Tom BB

Well you were right about no Sagan! Some very strong looking teams there already.

lucybears

Saxo
Alberto Contador, Jesús Hernández, Daniel Navarro, Benjamin Noval, Richie Porte, Nicki Sørensen, Chris Anker Sørensen, Matteo Tosatto, Brian Vandborg

takethehighroad

lucybears wrote:

Saxo
Alberto Contador, Jesús Hernández, Daniel Navarro, Benjamin Noval, Richie Porte, Nicki Sørensen, Chris Anker Sørensen, Matteo Tosatto, Brian Vandborg

All or nothing for Bjarne again then?

rick_chasey

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

lucybears wrote:

Saxo
Alberto Contador, Jesús Hernández, Daniel Navarro, Benjamin Noval, Richie Porte, Nicki Sørensen, Chris Anker Sørensen, Matteo Tosatto, Brian Vandborg

All or nothing for Bjarne again then?

No Nick Nuyens?

'Cor.

takethehighroad

I was impressed by Matteo Tosatto in the Giro. He went from Boonen's lead out to Contador's mountain chaperone.

I also like Chris Anker Sorensen very much, although I feel it has a lot to do with his pain face

timoid.

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I was impressed by Matteo Tosatto in the Giro. He went from Boonen's lead out to Contador's mountain chaperone.

I also like Chris Anker Sorensen very much, although I feel it has a lot to do with his pain face

Are you sure impressed is the right word?

timoid.

Rick Chasey wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

FJS - is Freire missing out due to nose surgery?

Freire missing cos he couldn't be arsed.

TBH, I tend to agree with him.

Hero.

Legend. How can anyone not love this guy?

takethehighroad

Timoid. wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I was impressed by Matteo Tosatto in the Giro. He went from Boonen's lead out to Contador's mountain chaperone.

I also like Chris Anker Sorensen very much, although I feel it has a lot to do with his pain face

Are you sure impressed is the right word?

Yeah, impressed. I love a good Gregario Transformer

frenchfighter

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french- ... nce-squads

frenchfighter

RichN95 wrote:

RadioShack: Jani Brajkovic.

http://vimeo.com/25445293

Respect.

andyjr

Sky team out: Wiggins, Thomas, Swift, EBH, Uran, Knees, Gerrens, Flecha, Zandio
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,15264_7001435,00.html

patchy

Sky also racing in the green kit. Good idea, you'll be able to tell the difference from Garvelo and lEoParD.

FJS

andyjr wrote:

Sky team out: Wiggins, Thomas, Swift, EBH, Uran, Knees, Gerrens, Flecha, Zandio
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,15264_7001435,00.html

So it'll be only Tour of Poland and Eneco as chances left for GB to get more than 6 riders to the Worlds...

thamacdaddy

FJS wrote:

andyjr wrote:

Sky team out: Wiggins, Thomas, Swift, EBH, Uran, Knees, Gerrens, Flecha, Zandio
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,15264_7001435,00.html

So it'll be only Tour of Poland and Eneco as chances left for GB to get more than 6 riders to the Worlds...

Yawn..... :roll:

cogidubnus

A strong looking Sky squad. Pleased to see Swift in there

FJS

thamacdaddy wrote:

FJS wrote:

andyjr wrote:

Sky team out: Wiggins, Thomas, Swift, EBH, Uran, Knees, Gerrens, Flecha, Zandio
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,15264_7001435,00.html

So it'll be only Tour of Poland and Eneco as chances left for GB to get more than 6 riders to the Worlds...

Yawn..... :roll:

:?:

mroli

The only ones I would question in there are Knees and Gerrans. I would have thought that Brad would have taken a "minder" - the job that Barry has done. If Mick Rogers was fit, he would have gone and I assume Lofkvist is still beaten up by the Giro. Glad to see Swifty get a go - will this mean Pete Kennaugh is riding the Vuelta? Surprised Froome isn't in there too.

Pross

Froome was starting to show a bit of climbing form so I'm also surprised he isn't there.

fungus_the_muffin_man

So will it be Swifty or EBH being the main sprinter. Or will they share the duties based on individual days?

Didn't Gerrans do well early season in some of the races with slightly hillier finishes?

rick_chasey

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

So will it be Swifty or EBH being the main sprinter. Or will they share the duties based on individual days?

The 2nd.

EBH is quite suited to stages like stage 1.

Swift prefers his sprint pan-flat.

afx237vi

mroli wrote:

The only ones I would question in there are Knees and Gerrans. I would have thought that Brad would have taken a "minder" - the job that Barry has done. If Mick Rogers was fit, he would have gone and I assume Lofkvist is still beaten up by the Giro. Glad to see Swifty get a go - will this mean Pete Kennaugh is riding the Vuelta? Surprised Froome isn't in there too.

Presumably that's the job Knees is in the team to do. He was quite strong on the flat bits in the Dauphiné, always towards the front with Wiggo close by.

I would have gone for Hayman instead of Gerrans, but what do I know.

LangerDan

FJS wrote:

Vacansoleil: Romain Feillu , Borut Božic, Thomas De Gendt, Johnny Hoogerland, Sergey Lagutin, Björn Leukemans, Marco Marcato, Wout Poels, Lieuwe Westra

Rob Ruijgh in, in place of Sergey Lagutin