PTP - Tour de Suisse

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited June 2012 in Pro race
Oh yeah, PTP overlap!

Tour de Suisse, begins on Saturday and concludes next Sunday. 9 stages in total, two TTs and 3 summit finishes.

Website: http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/en/

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html ... d=MjI5MTQ=

Stage profiles: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html ... d=MjI5MTQ=

Past winners:

2011 LEIPHEIMER Levi
2010 SCHLECK Frank
2009 CANCELLARA Fabian
2008 KREUZIGER Roman
2007 KARPETS Vladimir
2006 ULLRICH Jan
2005 GONZALEZ JIMENEZ Aitor
2004 ULLRICH Jan
2003 VINOKOUROV Alexandre
2002 ZUELLE Alex
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Comments

  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    hommelbier's selections in advance:

    GC: Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Stage 2: Anton
    Stage 3: Boonen
    Stage 4: Boonen
    Stage 5: Sagan
    Stage 6: Sagan
    Stage 7: Cancellara
    Stage 8: Valverde
    Stage 9: Valverde
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Are there time bonuses?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Are there time bonuses?

    For the road stages, yes. 10", 6" and 4" for the finish and 3", 2" and 1" for the intermediates.

    (From the technical guide here: http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/en/media/)
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Thanks AFX - I did look at the website but couldn't find it.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    May as well get them out the way in one go.

    Overall - Kreuziger

    st1. Canc
    st2 Nieve
    st3 Sagan
    st4 Boonen
    st5 Sagan
    st6 Mollema
    st7 Canc
    st8 Gadret
    st9 Valverde
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    Overall - Gesink

    st1. Canc
    St2: Anton
    point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I went for Albasini for GC last year and he failed miserably. However, the Swiss go really well in this race so I'm not sure.

    GC - Valv
    1 - Canc
    2 - Valv
    3 - Sagan
    4 - Sagan
    5 - Freire (Purely so I don't pick Sagan four days running)
    6 - Sagan
    7 - Levi
    8 - Cunego
    9 - Albasini ;)
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    B***ocks to the time bonuses - more importantly is it on Eurosport yes or no ?
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    GC: Robert Gesink
    Stage 1: Fabian Cancellara
    Stage 2: Igor Anton
    Stage 3: Elia Viviani
    Stage 4: Elia Viviani
    Stage 5: Peter Sagan
    Stage 6: Alejandro Valverde
    Stage 7: Andreas Kloden
    Stage 8: Damiano Cunego
    Stage 9: Robert Gesink

    Cheers afx
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Also going for broke with picks up front.

    GC: Cancellara
    St1: Cancellara
    St2: Boonen
    St3: Swift
    St4: Gesink
    St5: Petacchi
    St6: Swift
    St7: Cancellara
    St8: Boonen
    St9: Sagan
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    GC - Valverde
    St 1 - Cancellara
    St 2 - Albasini
  • Noclue
    Noclue Posts: 503
    GC - Valverde
    St1 - Cancellara
    St2 - Gesink
  • seven7faces
    seven7faces Posts: 360
    GC - Gesink
    S1 - Meyer
  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    GC. Gesink
    1. Cancellera
    2. Valverde
    3.Sagan
    4. Sagan
    5. Sagan
    6. Sagan
    7. Cancellera
    8. Valverde
    9. Sagan
  • Greggyr
    Greggyr Posts: 1,075
    GC Valv
    1 Canc
    2 NIEVE ITURALDE Mikel
    3 Sagan
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    GC: Gesink
    1. Cancellara
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    GC - Leipheimer
    Stage 1: Cancellara
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    GC. Gesink
    1. Cancellara
    2. Gesink
    3.Sagan
    4. Sagan
    5. Petacchi
    6. Sagan
    7. Cancellara
    8. Valverde
    9. Valverde
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  • GC: Valverde
    Stage 1 : Cancellara
    Stage 2 : Valverde
    Stage 3 : Haussler
    Stage 4 : Sagan
    Stage 5 : Sagan
    Stage 6 : Sagan
    Stage 7 : Cancellara
    Stage 8 : Valverde
    Stage 9 : Valverde
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • GC Fuglsang.
    St 1/ Prologue Cancellara please.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    About time he had some PTP lurve

    GC: Tom Danielson
    1 - Canc
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    Strava is not Zen.
  • Neil Buckley
    Neil Buckley Posts: 334
    I'd like to see Adam Blythe take a stage, also good to see Steve Cummings back, let's hope people stop knocking him off!!
    Helmand Province is such a nice place.....
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    GC Albasini
    St1- Cancellara
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    GC: Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    GC- Gesink
    S1 Cancellara
    s2 Mollema
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    GC: Valverde
    Stage 1: Cancellara
  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    GC: Valverde

    St 1: Cancellara
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    GC: Gesink
    1: Gesink
    2: Gesink
    Half man, Half bike
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ridgerider wrote:
    GC: Gesink
    1: Gesink
    2: Gesink
    :lol: