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Contador Freire Boonen Cancellara Cavendish Bettini Valverde Zabel Evans After these 9, it becomes cloudy with a host of names like Rebellin, JRod, Mcewen, Vino, Nibali, Sanchez, Wiggins. Nibali will be there eventually but if Wiggins' track pedigree counts for anything or if you...

I think there's a real chance of TVG taking 4th and come close to 3rd. He's come good on the climbs and this rolling tt should be up his alley.

As mentioned, last year's was for the climbers. And I disagree that this year's isn't hard enough. It's up to the riders and if Germany doesn't qualify enough quality riders, they can't control the break. Other nations (Italy for Modolo, Ulissi if he's back, Bennati) can also race it harder to...

Samu, Navarro, Pinot, Martin, Wiggins will most likely be there. It certainly will be a very deep field.

I don't know particulars about their relationship but from what I've read, Bouhanni's the arrogant one in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel_Nieve Mosquera and Dapena (formerly 2nd & 11th) tested positive. Their void results bumped Nieve up to 10th in his 1st GT. Could see a scenario where Froome crashes out and Porte lacks form giving Nieve the lead.

Agree about Grepel. But Cavendish has actually shown motivation at times to go for intermediate sprint points. Nevertheless, I'd love to see Demare win the jersey just to give him confidence in the face of Bouhanni's arrogance and Sagan's seemingly inevitable dominance for the next few years.

I'd rate Thomas above Lopez as he's been doing monster turns for captains on mountains in stage races. Shouldn't Intxuasti be ahead of Izaguirre in the climbing department? Also, Gadret and Visconti should be superior climbers than Plaza, possibly even Herrada. Roche is also superior to...

umm... against this field he would http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=23611 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=24039 flat 33km http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=23425 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=21145 Other...

Yes, I realized the first comes after the second but seeing as how Cav's closer to the ground and Haussler is closer to him. However, what threw me was the wheel bending and then straightening out immediately. Also, I'm surprised cyclists don't break their hands more often seeing as how Cav's...

Curious as well. Also, the 2 photos seem to be contradictory. The first shows Cav closer to the ground than the 2nd. Also, the polka dot jersey appears to be even with Cav in the 1st photo and behind him in the 2nd photo with no hand on the brakes in either. Nevertheless, Cav's wheel is bent...

Highest UCI ranking? There'd be no other rank in WC road races and 1st stages.

Yup, looks to me Rabo had a good record in these close finishes. One source says Renshaw won by a margin of 0.008s Oh and Turgot holding off Ballan. http://inrng.com/2012/04/photo-finish-camera/ If it were a tie on an opening stage, do you think they'd award 2 leader's jerseys or invoke a...

Ah cool, I'm pretty sure I knew that but just forgot about it. Can you imagine two winners of a monument (or Worlds) or an opening stage? It'd be pretty odd to see 2 rainbow jerseys or 2 yellow jerseys in the peloton.

I recently thought about the possibility of a tie and recall a sprint photo finish within the last couple of years where the difference was the width of the tire on the wheel. If we count track where margins tend to be smaller than on the road, I believe that the possibility for an...