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View Poll Results: What will Team Sky Win In 2010
A Monument Classic 16 27.12%
A standard classic 31 52.54%
A Grand Tour (Which one) 2 3.39%
Climbers Classification in a grand tour 1 1.69%
Sprinters/Points Classification in a grand tour 1 1.69%
Best Young Rider in a Grand Tour 4 6.78%
Minor Tour, Tour Down Under, California, Britain, Poland 43 72.88%
Minor 1 day race, or short tour.. 35 59.32%
A World Championship (Road or TT) 2 3.39%
Nothing 4 6.78%
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Old 11-04-09, 18:18
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I have gone for Standard classic, and I assume that includes the semi-classics. Minor Tour, and minor one-day races.
it meant semi classic but i couldnt think of the word.. minor tour, and one day are under erm.. minor tour/one day...
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EBH has a chance win the points classification in a grand tour if he should try, remember he was quite up there in the points classification at this years Giro d'Italia and would possibly have won it if he didn't have to work so much for Cavendish in the first weeks. (he even had to lead out for Cavendish while ebh himself was wearing the points jersey...).

He kind off has an upper hand on the pure sprinters being that he can collect quite some points in the time trials (he got 3. in the last time trial of the giro) and hilly stages. However, I don't think nor hope that his main focus will be to win points jerseys, but it's still a possibility.
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They will also win a huge following from Robbie Williams fans and a rubdown date with Dame Edna. The only way to complete this team is with Cavendish, He should wear some super mario suits just to show that he doesn't measure up, just kidding Markeemark.
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I don't think they have a GC contender for any grand tours; Thomas Lövkvist isn't there yet, but Gerrans could definately take a stage or two.
I think the natural progerssion for Lövkvist if he takes another step forward next year would be to finish a GT without having a huge collapse in the last week. For example if he can finish in the top 15 of a GT at less than 20 minutes behind the winner then it would be a nice step forward to build on.

As of yet he has had days where he has finished with the grupetto 30 minutes down. That's what he needs to learn to avoid first. Then he can start working on actually entering the top 10.
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I think that a minor tour is very likely for Sky, having Lövkvist and EBH, so I go for that. A semi classic and some minor races will come almost for sure, and I think that they'll be able to do well in the monuments (specially Flecha in Roubaix), but I don't see them winning one.
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a classic maybe this year or next with simon gerrans(liege )and a one day win or two ......
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where is the "more than radioshack" option?
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They will also win best girl band ahead of the Spice Girls
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nothing much at all , EBH will grab a small number of wins maybe 1 or 2 others will grab a win but beyond that it will look like a french pro tour team......
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EBH and Gerrans will deliver their quota of wins in one day races, not the monuments though. EBH an Lokvist will both perform well at the shorter stage races and I see Hendy picking up half a dozen stage wins with good lead outs from Sutton.
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