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To answer the question: number 20 Tom DUMOULIN, if not then no 21 Wilco KELDERMAN, if not then 36 Thibaut PINOT. The answer could be as high as number 1, 7 or 10 (Sagan, Bardet or Mollema) but they all look like they may have succumb to temptation at some point. Pinot is the clean poster boy...

Alex: thanks for keeping everyone in order regarding the power data, there is a lot of misinformation and people not wanting to understand the numbers and reasons behind them. I ride with a left only crank based powermeter, I am aware that it is not perfect, but for what I need it for, it is...

I think the idea is fair enough, but there could and would be instances that wouldn't be clear cut. On a cross-winds stage, if someone loses contact with the peloton and loses a further 15 seconds over the last 3km, they should lose the extra time in my opinion. I would say if you are in the...

Re: Re: Yes I do follow cycling. I know he is gutsy, and in the Vuelta 2012 he kept plugging away even when he was behind and it looked lost, but this time he is riding against fresh riders and the best group of GC riders I can remember for a long time, not Evans and the Schlecks. He can also...

Re: Re: Can you not just lay it on Betfair? They have a top 6 market anyway, not very liquid yet though. I will go for: Nibali Froome Quintana Bardet TJvG Contador to chuck it after getting dropped on the first mountain stages.

Sky have won the tour twice in the last 3 years! They have won countless other stage races, plenty of stages in the big tours too. Wiggins also won the tour, is world road TT champion and has x olympic golds.. I don't like Wiggo, but promising lots and delivering little obviously does not...

Re: 2015 Ardennes Classics: 50th Amstel Gold Race - 4.19 - 2 Why does Stybar have no chance? I get that Kwiatkowski is the team leader, but the way he climbed at the end of the Strada Bianchi certainly made it look like he could have a chance here...

I'll take Felline in a tired legs sprint.

Sorry talking about stage wins and cobbles, I thought you might get stage 5 from that, unless you call RVV a stage of the classics... Another 2nd place, yesterday. So Kristoff has a tour stage win and a monument this season, maybe Sagan could learn something from him, instead of following...

He needs to get over this fear of dragging people to the finish. Yesterday he was off the front of the group and would probably have caught Gallopin. He got annyoed that he had to do all the work, so sat up giving up any chance of winning the stage. That isn't brave, clever or anything...

Well in fairness he has been riding like a consistent loser. I can understand when Cancellara decides not to drag a group over to a break away, because he will just burn himself out and lose the sprint, but Sagan could and should usually win the sprint at the end. I get the idea that loss...

After the success of the stages in England, there is already talk of bringing the Tour back to England in the future. Does anyone else think that they could make a pretty decent spring classic on the parcours of stage 2, or in the lake district? It would be a bit Amstel Gold Race like, good...

It's weird the way the tables have turned. Cancellara always had to drop everyone as otherwise someone would wheel suck him and outsprint him, whereas now he knows he can just follow other attacks and outsprint them at the end! I guess he would rather roll in with the peleton and lose a...

Ok I guess what I meant is that I don't think Boonen or Sagan will be able to stay with him, or Degenkolb etc. I think Cancellara is a faster sprinter than people give him credit for, it was a bunch sprint at Milan-San Remo and he was 2nd. I would expect him to beat Vanmarke, Terpstra and...

I don't see anyone that is able to stay with Cancellara being able to outsprint him, so it seems his for the taking. I think Sagan and Boonen will disappoint, and good old Sir Brad will be useless for Thomas and soft pedal as soon as it gets a bit tough.