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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    calvjones wrote:
    Stannard will Boonen in the Roubaix velodrome.

    :O Twofold.

    Terrible use of the word podium, and a big shout.

    Anyone going to challenge?

    No worse a use of the phrase podium than of your use of the phrase "a big shout" Rick

    Touché.

    Never mind Rick I've fixed it so it really can only be described as a big shout!
    @JaunePeril

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    How about Boonen will not win either Flanders or Roubaix again!

    :D
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    How about Boonen will not win either Flanders or Roubaix again!

    :D

    I've mooted that one before...


    Now, those of you who were ADAMANT that Cav wouldn't be going to Sky. Time to own up? :wink:
    _
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    How about Boonen will not win either Flanders or Roubaix again!

    :D

    He's one rider I wouldn't be so quick to write off. There is too much class in Boonen. I would really like to see him on top form battling it out with Gilbert
    @JaunePeril

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    How about Boonen will not win either Flanders or Roubaix again!

    :D

    He's one rider I wouldn't be so quick to write off. There is too much class in Boonen. I would really like to see him on top form battling it out with Gilbert

    TBH, I'd like to see him win Roubaix again. I was trying to get a rise from a certain forum member, but he easily saw through my cheap shot!
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    I've always said Hincapie will never win Roubaix. I understand he is riding for another year so he'll probably go and win and I will have egg on my face!
    I've had a couple of successes - I picked Bruseghin for a TT in the Giro when no-one else did and he won and on another forum I picked Gilbert for his first P-T win and no-one else did!
    My 2012 prediction? They'll be blood on the floor of the Sky bus - mark my words - tears and toys. :lol:
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  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Tusher wrote:
    Thomas Voeckler will win the Tour de France in 2012.

    That is an unbelievable shout, and one I shall challenge.

    He absolutely will not win the Tour.

    Game on.


    You're on, Rick!
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    How about Boonen will not win either Flanders or Roubaix again!

    :D
    Ok I predict he's got another Roubaix yet.
    I also predict Rick will win his bet with Tusher.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • SLX01
    SLX01 Posts: 338
    Cavendish will crack up under the pressure and end up throwing his toys out the pram in 2012.
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    2012 will be a disappointing year for British Cycling (on the track mainly, but I don't think it will live up to expectations on the road)

    Contador's hearing/appeal thing will get pushed into 2013 (well, pushed back further)

    Tyler Farrar will win on the Champs Elysées (Sky/BC having taken Cav out of the tour)
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    26 years since the last French TdF winner. Another 26 'til the next???
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    inseine wrote:
    26 years since the last French TdF winner. Another 26 'til the next???

    A lot can happen in 26 years...

    A new Hinault could be born tomorrow and win the tour within 26 years.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,181
    Geraint Thomas will win a spring classic in the next two years.
  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    edited October 2011
    Cav will continue to be the best sprinter in 2011 (and continue on his way to being the best sprinter ever) but won't win the Green Jersey and/or the Olympic RR gold medal and people will moan about his abysmal season and what a mistake he's made signing with Sky.


    EDIT - I meant "2012" and I hope Gazzaputt's right.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Cav will be the top sprinter in 2012 and win the green jersey in the TDF and go on to take gold in the Olympic road race.

    Everyone will hail the success his move to Sky has been.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    inseine wrote:
    26 years since the last French TdF winner. Another 26 'til the next???


    A lot can happen in 26 years...

    A new Hinault could be born tomorrow and win the tour within 26 years.

    So they only have to wait 25 years then :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    Cav will be the top sprinter in 2012e.

    Is this measurable? If so, how?
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  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Edvald Boasson Hagen will never win a Monument.

    I think that's a tough one to call.
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Wiggo Will not win the Tour.

    Cav will not win the Olympic RR.

    Im a negative B@stard i know, but they are my predictions!
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    And whilst we're being negative, Fabian Cancellara will not win Liege Bastonge Liege.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Wiggo Will not win the Tour.

    Cav will not win the Olympic RR.

    Im a negative B@stard i know, but they are my predictions!

    Amazing how far British Cycling has come that this is seen as negative rather than inevitable.
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  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Wiggo Will not win the Tour.

    Cav will not win the Olympic RR.

    Im a negative B@stard i know, but they are my predictions!
    it's easier to say who won't win than who will though.
    Negative predictions are easy. I'm guilty of it myself :oops:
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    zippypablo wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Wiggo Will not win the Tour.

    Cav will not win the Olympic RR.

    Im a negative B@stard i know, but they are my predictions!
    it's easier to say who won't win than who will though.
    Negative predictions are easy. I'm guilty of it myself :oops:

    In that case, Contador to win the tour, Olympic Road Race title goes to...ok, that ones a little harder
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Katusha will have a better TDF2012 than TDF2011.
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  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    if we can't have negative predictions:

    then my positive predictions must be Spanish cyclists.... joke :)
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Ireland will have another TDF winner before a British rider wins it.


    (These are loose definitions obviously)
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Cavendish will never win another Green Jersey.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Sandy Casar and Jeremy Roy to get another couple of runners up spots in the TdF to add to FDJs growing bridesmaids list.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Ireland will have another TDF winner before a British rider wins it.


    (These are loose definitions obviously)

    I hope you are not relying on your boy Nico for that one! :wink:
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Bauke Mollema will win a GT before Robert Gesink
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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