PTP - Giro d'Italia

afx237vi

Ooh, a grand tour without a clear favourite. How exciting.

Giro d'Italia, 21 stages, 3 weeks, begins on Saturday... in Denmark. A flat opening few days, gradually getting hillier as the weeks progress, until the usual May madness in week three.

Here's the official race website: http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/it/

Or if you prefer, a concise race guide with all the stage profiles on one page: http://inrng.com/giro/

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html ... d=MjI5MTI=

Recent winners:

2011 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto*
2010 BASSO Ivan
2009 MENCHOV Denis
2008 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto
2007 DI LUCA Danilo
2006 BASSO Ivan
2005 SAVOLDELLI Paolo
2004 CUNEGO Damiano
2003 SIMONI Gilberto
2002 SAVOLDELLI Paolo

*Or Scarponi, whatever.

Race begins on Saturday with a time trial. That's stage 1. No prologue.

Note there are more PTP points available for grand tours as opposed to shorter stage-races. See the sticky thread for a breakdown (top 20 on GC, top 8 riders each day score points).

Finally, stage 1 begins at 15.40 CET on Saturday afternoon. GC selections after that point will not be accepted.

rick_chasey

afx237vi wrote:

*Or Scarponi, whatever.

Pross

GC Kreuziger
Stage 1 Phinney
Stage 2 Cav

Cheers AFX

cogidubnus

What an uninspiring selection of riders to pick from for GC. Due to my irrational hatred of the looking over their shoulders brothers I cannot pick FS so....

GC: Basso
Prologue: T Phinney

Cleat Eastwood

i love the giro its my fave race so

Overall- Basso

st1 - Lars Bak
st2 - Cav.
st3 JJ Haedo

cal_stewart

GT
S1. Geraint Thomas
S2. Cav
S3. Cav
S4. Sky
S5. Cav
S6. Filippo Pozzato
S7. Michele Scarponi

Noclue

GC - Basso

St1- Gustav Larsson
St2- Matt Goss

mroli

GC Scarponi
St1 Thomas G

afx237vi

Cal_Stewart wrote:

GT
S1. Geraint Thomas
S2. Cav
S3. Cav
S4. Sky
S5. Cav
S6. Filippo Pozzato
S7. Michele Scarponi

Did you mean to put a GC selection there or not?

shockedsoshocked

GC Basso
1 Geraint

richard wants a baum

GC: Scarponi

Stage 1: Bobridge
Stage 2: Cav.
Stage 3: Cav
Stage 4: GreenEdge
Stage 5: Cav

seven7faces

GC - Kreuziger
S1 - Larsson
S2 - Goss

jgsi

oh well, nothing ventuured...
GC Basso
S1 Larsson

calvjones

Gawd knows.

GC: Uran. Or his twin*
Stage 1: Taylor Phinney



*oblique Astroboy reference ahoy!

takethehighroad

Easier to pick a winner in the Grand National, although hopefully none of the riders will get shot.

GC - Shirley Basso
1 - G E Larsson

P.S. How rubbish are Saxo Bank?

r0bh

GC: Kreuziger
1. Thomas Geraint
2. Cav
3. Cav

Tusher

GC Scarponi


Stage 1- Geraint of Wales

RichN95.

GC: Scarponi
St 1: Phinney

victorponf

GC: Scarponni
1 Larsson
2 Cav
3 Cav
4 Sky
5 Cav
6 Ventoso

TheStone

GC - Basso
1 - Larsson
2 - Cav
3 - Cav
4 - Sky

andyjr

GC - Kreuziger
S1 - Larsson
S2 - Cav

sonny73

GC: John Gadret
Stage 1: Svein Tuft
Stage 2: Mark Cavendish
Stage 3: Mark Cavendish
Stage 4: Garmin - Barracuda
Stage 5: Mark Cavendish
Stage 6: Thomas De Gendt
Stage 7: Michele Scarponi

finchy

Bit of a 2nd rate line up for the GC, but Kreuziger's going to have to be my pick.

S1: G Thomas

Grazie

mroli

2 Goss
3 Cavendish

Ta

TheBigBean

GC - Scarponi
S1 - Alex Rasmussen
S2 - Cav
S3 - Cav

Pross

I'll add some long term predictions in case I forget!

3 Cav
4 Green Edge
5 Cav
6 Thor
7 Kreuziger
8 Uran

cal_stewart

sorry afx237vi was thinking the GT over. Scarponi as he did me good last year.

Mad_Malx

GC - Basso
St1 Phinney
St2 Cav
St3 Cav

Stage 1 is the TT right?

Omar Little

GC - Basso
Stage 1 - Thomas
Stage 2 - Cavendish
Stage 3 - Cavendish
Stage 4 - Greenedge

Greggyr

GC - Gadret
1 - Bobridge
2 - Cav
3 - Theo Bos

hommelbier

GC : Michele Scarponi
Stage 1 : Taylor Phinney
Stage 2 : Mark Cavendish

thanks