This year's Tour: ideal result/s

Lichtblick

This is intended to be a light-hearted thread. No need for any swearing, pinching, punching, shouting or fighting, ok?

Ideal result in forthcoming Tour.

Winner. CONTADOR! or maybe even better, someone completely unexpected, but popular; for instance, Sammy Sanchez, Philippe Gilbert, Tommy Voeckler. (Not Froome, thanks)

Green Jersey. SAGAN! Or Greipel, or Hushovd with recovered form. (Not Cavendish, thanks)

KOM: If he didn't get the yellow, CONTADOR!

Just a jokey thread guys, no need to hit me. Ta.

dab_32

You don't like the Brits then eh?

Winner: Exciting racing with a close GC right to the Queen stage (with hopefully Froome taking it which goes against the exciting racing request but hey, you can't have everything).
If not Froome, a rider with out a doping conviction.

Green: Cav but if not Sagan, again a close race would be good, not like last years romp by Sagan.

KOM: Tommy V would be good, he's not really GC material is he?

LeicesterLad

Thibaut Pinot to win everything.

Or Any other of the young Frenchies.

Or Contador, obvs.

ddraver

GC - Froome in the final mountain stage a la Tourmalet from that last time...

Green - Cav, by one point from Sagan, won on the Champs

Mountains - pffft who cares, TV is a good shout actually

White - One of the Columbians

above_the_cows

GC: Froome, or a non-convicted doper with hopefully lots of Twatter outrage over evil Sky and poor Porte being tethered to Froome etc. as I find it all thoroughly entertaining.

Green: Cav, with a win on the first stage, a stint in yellow and a win on the Champs Elysees.

Spotty jersey/Jongens jersey: A Frenchman or a Colombian.

Finally: No doping funny business insh'allah.

Lichtblick

dab_32 wrote:

You don't like the Brits then eh?

Hey, nothing against Brits, I just think there are riders out there with more panache. Fizz. Stuff like that.

Winner: Exciting racing with a close GC right to the Queen stage (with hopefully Froome taking it which goes against the exciting racing request but hey, you can't have everything).
If not Froome, a rider with out a doping conviction.

Exciting racing, tick. Your last two words, meh. I miss Vino.

Green: Cav but if not Sagan, again a close race would be good, not like last years romp by Sagan.

Someone ELSE to win the final stage in Paris for once.

KOM: Tommy V would be good, he's not really GC material is he?

KOM. Bring back Bahamontes! (still alive) (what a star)

DeadCalm

GC: JC Peraud

Green: I like ddraver's suggestion.

Mountains: Ten Dam

White: Warren Barguil

I'd be pretty happy with that.

TheBigBean

What I'd like:
GC 1. Contador 2. Froome 3. Schleck all within 30 seconds
Green 1. Cav 2. Sagan separated by a few points
KoM 1. Schleck or anyone who is actually good at climbing

What I expect:
GC 1. Froome 2. Porte a long way ahead of the competition.
Green 1. Sagan beating 2. Cav by a very long way.
KoM The usual irrelevant competition

milton50

I don't really mind who gets the GC as long as it isn't Contador. I'd be happy to see Contador get dropped on the big mountain stages and end up having to work for Rogers. I want to see Schleck make the GC competitive but that ain't going to happen sadly.

I would like J-Rod to win the Alpe D'Huez stage or at least one of the big mountain top finishes.

Lots of brilliant attacking on the medium mountain stages with French riders giving everything they have.

Green - Cav, by one point from Sagan, won on the Champs

That would be pretty awesome.

wombly_knees

Stuey O'Grady for a stage win. Deserves a reward for racing from before bikes were invented.

Paul 8v

Hey OP, what's wrong with British riders eh? :-P

Froome - Yellow (But only just after an epic battle with Contador on stage 18
Cavendish - Green
Tommy V - Mountains

joelsim

Ideal results:

GC
1st Dan Martin
2nd J Rod
3rd Teejay or Quintana

They are the ones I've had a little wager on anyway.

Green
1st Cav

Because he is the best sprinter by a distance

KOM
1st Voekler

Because he always always puts in mega effort in the Tour

greasedscotsman

General: Ryder Hesjedal
Points: André Greipel
Mountains: Peter Sagan
Young: Tejay van Garderen

Loretta Damage

Richie Porte to take the yellow after he gets bored of dragging Froome up the hills.
Cav to take Green, but only on the final stage.
Voekler to win KOM, to make it perfect he would even wear the yellow jersey for a few days.

exlaser

dan martin, overall. not because hes irish, but because hes a brummie like me!!!!!

Tom Butcher

GC - Rodriguez out of those with a decent podium chance
Green - Cav
White - Berhane
Mountains - Voeckler

Pross

Ideally for me all the results will be negative.

joelsim

Pross wrote:

Ideally for me all the results will be negative.

I would have thought there's more chance of Ed Milliband winning a breakdancing competition

knedlicky

GC: Chavanel (but unlikely) so Van den Broeck (a little less unlikely)
Green: don’t care, someone unexpected - Mezgec
Polka: Contador or Porte
White: Le Bon or Gallopin
Combativité: Bardet
Lanterne Rouge: Appollonio (was at the Giro, for the double) or Blythe (pipped by 13 secs at the Giro)

dolan_driver

GC; Froome, Evans or Schleck. Any of these three would be a good Tour champion.

A carnage-free first week would be a nice change too.

After that, a top-ten GC finish, the Alpe D'Huez stage win and spotted jersey for Dan Martin.

A Colombian stage win in the high mountains would also be a bonus.

I'm not looking for much, really!

DD.

DeadCalm

Dolan Driver wrote:

A Colombian stage win in the high mountains would also be a bonus.

I'd like that too but which Colombians are likely to be riding? Quintana presumably, assuming his absence from all the warm-ups isn't due to injury, but then who?

dolan_driver

Yea, it does look like all of Colombia's hopes will be riding on Quintano's shoulders. He should still have a good shot at a stage win though. I understand that he is still at home, fine-tuning his preparation at altitude, so hopefully he will hit the mountains with all guns blazing.

DD.

ellerslierd

LeicesterLad wrote:

Thibaut Pinot to win everything.

This please!

RichN95.

Yellow Jersey: Geraint Thomas
Green Jersey: Geraint Thomas
Polka Dots: Geraint Thomas
White Jersey: Luke Rowe

Well, you did ask for 'ideal', not realistic

inkyfingers

Yellow: After three weeks of crazy attacking we get a Froome/Contador dead heat, so close that the race jury are forced to award to the race to the rider who looked at their power meter the least number of times.

Green: After a ding dong battle with Sagan, Cavendish claims the winning points by winning on the Champs Elysees having wheelied all the way from the last corner.

Polka Dots: After realising the GC is beyond him, a newly inspired Andy Schleck wins by getting into a series of mad breakaways, and bags a stage win or two along the way.

White: After Valverde has an unfortunate reaction to a dodgy blood bag, Quintana is given free resign to rip everybody's legs off which he promptly does. Wins white after his dreams of yellow are dashed by losing time in echelons in an otherwise boring sprint stage

Daz555

ABC

Anyone but Contador.

above_the_cows

inkyfingers wrote:

Cavendish claims the winning points by winning on the Champs Elysees having wheelied all the way from the last corner.

The horror! :shock:

Paul 8v

Joelsim wrote:

Pross wrote:

Ideally for me all the results will be negative.

I would have thought there's more chance of Ed Milliband winning a breakdancing competition

I would pay to see that, Cameron on the decs and Clegg on the mic...

Lichtblick

Daz555 wrote:

ABC

Anyone but Contador.

ABC

On the last stage in Paris, ANYONE but Cavendish. He's done that for the last four years. Boring! Someone else to win that stage this year, please.

A nail-biting ding-dong between two GC contenders with only seconds between them, would be great. (Yes I know that did happen once before: 1989 by Lemond by 8 seconds.)

liquor box

I would like the following-
GC- any Euskaltel
KOM- any GreenEdge
Green- Tommy V
U23- Any french cyclist.

I would love Euskaltel to win, and the beauty of this is their lack of quality TT riders ensures some great dominance in the mountains. I would also like them to get plenty of UCI points after going so poorly last year, cycling would not be the same without them.

I would love GreenEdge to win KOM, this will help cycling in Australia hugely, we wont win the race, and the only chance Australia would have is if Froome withdraws in the first couple of days before Porte sacrifices himself.

I would love Tommy V to win green, it will never happen, but it could only occur if he was in a break away every stage and got all intermediate points, and a couple of stages to boot.

Lastly I would like a french junior to win the white jersey, this will give them eternal hope and keep the race strong

LeicesterLad

inkyfingers wrote:

Yellow: After three weeks of crazy attacking we get a Froome/Contador dead heat, so close that the race jury are forced to award to the race to the rider who looked at their power meter the least number of times.

Green: After a ding dong battle with Sagan, Cavendish claims the winning points by winning on the Champs Elysees having wheelied all the way from the last corner.

Polka Dots: After realising the GC is beyond him, a newly inspired Andy Schleck wins by getting into a series of mad breakaways, and bags a stage win or two along the way.

White: After Valverde has an unfortunate reaction to a dodgy blood bag, Quintana is given free resign to rip everybody's legs off which he promptly does. Wins white after his dreams of yellow are dashed by losing time in echelons in an otherwise boring sprint stage

That made me chuckle.