Tick Tock - Tour de France 2015
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Sky's 11 man longlist
Froome, Thomas, Kennaugh, Stannard, Rowe, Porte, Henao, Poels, Konig, Nieve, Pate.
No Roche.
strange, but possibly saving him for the Vuelta? top 5 would be possible, though he'd never win it.0 -
Haha no Roche! But then I suppose he was likely told he can ride the Vuelta.Contador is the Greatest0
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Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection....a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.0
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He's not the team leader. He can afford an off day. The Giro was the first time he'd failed to finish a GT. And no-one, not even Poels, can do last man before Froome attacks job as well as him.Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Sam Bennett makes the Bora-Argon Tour team. That should be exciting. Expect things from him...
Barta, Bennett, Buchmann, Dempster, Huzrski, Mendes, Nerz, Schillinger, Voss0 -
He's not the team leader. He can afford an off day. The Giro was the first time he'd failed to finish a GT. And no-one, not even Poels, can do last man before Froome attacks job as well as him.Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.
Yes if he's healthy he has to be one of the first names on the sheet.
I still think Roche is a funny one - he doesn't seem to have been in great form and I doubt he's in line to lead at the Vuelta unless they really have no other options so this looks like a bit of a kick in the teeth for him if it's the final selection. I imagine he's a big wage to leave on the bench.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0 -
I'm absolutely not surprised by Roche. He didn't add anything in the Dauphine mountains and he struggled to hang on in the TTT.0
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Sky's 11 man shortlist
Froome, Thomas, Kennaugh, Stannard, Rowe, Porte, Henao, Poels, Konig, Nieve, Pate.
No Roche.
No Knees or Eisel?
Not surprised by Roche. He looked out of form in the Dauphine.0 -
I think it's been reported that someone by have "jumped the gun" by leaking that list. Froome has tweeted a photo in the last few hours of him, Porte and Roche out training so it seems that list of 11 might not actually be correct.0
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Are you suggesting that someone just made up 11 names and tweeted it?!
NEVER!!
The Tom Cary tweet I saw was linking to the Sky website... not to say that the webmaster didn't just make it up...0 -
It was accidently put on Sky's website in the bit with their race scheduleAre you suggesting that someone just made up 11 names and tweeted it?!
NEVER!!
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It was accidently put on Sky's website in the bit with their race scheduleAre you suggesting that someone just made up 11 names and tweeted it?!
NEVER!!
Surprised by Roche as he dropped out of the Irish Nationals, supposedly to focus on Tour prep.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.
Porte in a storm.dish_dash wrote:MTN-Qhubeka's team is confirmed. Nice mix of riders. Hoping they get a decent result.
Farrar
Boasson-Hagen
Pauwels
Cummings
R Janse van Rensburg
J Janse van Rensburg
Teklehaimanot
Kudus
Meintjes
ah playing the old Janse van Rensburg combo...
Teklehaimanot needs a catchy nickname TK0 -
And he's been riding around the Pyrenees with Froome the past few days.
It was accidently put on Sky's website in the bit with their race scheduleAre you suggesting that someone just made up 11 names and tweeted it?!
NEVER!!
Surprised by Roche as he dropped out of the Irish Nationals, supposedly to focus on Tour prep.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion
actually he has got a nickname Tickles Teklehaimanot apparently...
I just looked that up.0 -
Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.
Porte in a storm.dish_dash wrote:MTN-Qhubeka's team is confirmed. Nice mix of riders. Hoping they get a decent result.
Farrar
Boasson-Hagen
Pauwels
Cummings
R Janse van Rensburg
J Janse van Rensburg
Teklehaimanot
Kudus
Meintjes
ah playing the old Janse van Rensburg combo...
Teklehaimanot needs a catchy nickname TK
It's been suggested that they don't have any GC ambitions, but Brian Smith said during the Dauphine that Cummings had been set a target for the Prologue. He also suggested that Louis M wouldn't have any pressure to do anything, but a few good stage finishes in the mountains would be good. It sounded like he would be losing a fair bit of time and cherry-picking a few stages. Obviously EBH will be going for a few stages too. And who would bet against one or two of them getting in the breakaways for polka.0 -
Big boost for team BSE ahead of this year's Tour as they head the EuropeTour rankings at the mo ...
Rnk Prev. Diff. Team Points
1. 1 - BRETAGNE - SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT 991
2. 3 1 TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE 978
3. 2 1 KOLSS BDC TEAM 957
4. 9 5 RUSVELO 851
5. 7 2 COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS 770
6. 5 1 TEAM MARSEILLE 13 KTM 768
7. 6 1 TEAM EUROPCAR 735
8. 4 4 CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE 724
9. 10 1 ADRIA MOBIL 717
10. 21 11 CULT ENERGY PRO CYCLING 716
Never fully understood the scoring though e.g. I thought MTNQ would figure quite high in the list :?0 -
They spread themselves about a bit though. They are second in the African tour and third in the Asian tour. Also World Tour races don't count towards Continental tour rankings.Never fully understood the scoring though e.g. I thought MTNQ would figure quite high in the list :?Twitter: @RichN950 -
Thanks. With the team not appearing in the WT list at all (according to the PCS site anyway) I thought that the list showed total accumulated across all races. Its now clear(ish) that the list only contains the UCI teams.0
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It's not clear. It's never been clear.Thanks. With the team not appearing in the WT list at all (according to the PCS site anyway) I thought that the list showed total accumulated across all races. Its now clear(ish) that the list only contains the UCI teams.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.
Porte in a storm.dish_dash wrote:MTN-Qhubeka's team is confirmed. Nice mix of riders. Hoping they get a decent result.
Farrar
Boasson-Hagen
Pauwels
Cummings
R Janse van Rensburg
J Janse van Rensburg
Teklehaimanot
Kudus
Meintjes
ah playing the old Janse van Rensburg combo...
Teklehaimanot needs a catchy nickname TK
It's been suggested that they don't have any GC ambitions, but Brian Smith said during the Dauphine that Cummings had been set a target for the Prologue. He also suggested that Louis M wouldn't have any pressure to do anything, but a few good stage finishes in the mountains would be good. It sounded like he would be losing a fair bit of time and cherry-picking a few stages. Obviously EBH will be going for a few stages too. And who would bet against one or two of them getting in the breakaways for polka.
some say he's got it cummings...0 -
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WIthout TT does Pinot stand a chance?
I always thought not, because his TT ability is bollox, but this could be his chance... as a climber he can stay with the best...left the forum March 20230 -
Porte? Surely a malfunction in the algorithm. He's the rider most likely to come to grief in the first week. Strange selection.
Porte in a storm.dish_dash wrote:MTN-Qhubeka's team is confirmed. Nice mix of riders. Hoping they get a decent result.
Farrar
Boasson-Hagen
Pauwels
Cummings
R Janse van Rensburg
J Janse van Rensburg
Teklehaimanot
Kudus
Meintjes
ah playing the old Janse van Rensburg combo...
Teklehaimanot needs a catchy nickname TK
Tek or Tekkers.
Decent lineup for them, hoping they get some decent results. Would love to see a stage win, a showing in the kom. But get used to them being in every break.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
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@friebos 11h11 hours ago
Nairo Quintana has a VO2 Max of 90, according to the Spanish Informe Robinson programme.Contador is the Greatest0
