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issoisso said:Pellizotti and Sastre are very close in my eyes. A week ago I would've edged Pellizotti, but he's been beyond awful at the Trentino.
Evans is strong, but he's not going to drop them on the climbs, he won't gain much at all in the flat TTs and he's going to lose a bunch of time not only in the mountains, but also in the TTT.
Moondance said:Sastre hasn't done much better this season
kurtinsc said:Has the BMC squad been announced for the Giro yet?
Hincappie rides a solid TT, and Frank and Frei are okay.
Do they have the riders to have at least 5 TT guys to limit losses to an acceptable level?
Moondance said:Sastre hasn't done much better this season
issoisso said:Sastre is saving himself and riding little. Pellizotti isn't that type. When Pellizotti doesn't show something, that's smoke right there.
Still. Anything can happen. I can't wait.
nvpacchi said:And Simoni makes this poll...??
Moondance said:Old times sake.
If had had known Pozzovivo had won the Trentino stage when I made the poll I would've probably gone with him as the #9 man.... But I didn't know.
Also, since there is an "other" option technically everyone is in.
Moondance said:Last year Pellizotti finished 2nd in the Giro and took a stage. According to CQ his pre-Giro record consisted of:
18th: Giro del Friuli
23rd: Tirreno-Adriatico
DNF: Giro del Trentino
47th: Liege-Bastogne-Liege
7th: GP Industria & Artigianato - Larciano
47th: Giro di Toscana
Saved himself last year (seems like) and is probably doing the same this year.
issoisso said:Pellizotti and Sastre are very close in my eyes. A week ago I would've edged Pellizotti, but he's been beyond awful at the Trentino.
Evans is strong, but he's not going to drop them on the climbs, he won't gain much at all in the flat TTs and he's going to lose a bunch of time not only in the mountains, but also in the TTT.
kurtinsc said:Has the BMC squad been announced for the Giro yet?
Hincappie rides a solid TT, and Frank and Frei are okay.
Do they have the riders to have at least 5 TT guys to limit losses to an acceptable level?
lucybears said:9 from
BALLAN Alessandro
BEYER Chad
BOOKWALTER Brent
EVANS Cadel
KOHLER Martin
LOUDER Jeff
MORABITO Steve
MURPHY John
SANTAMBROGIO Mauro
SCHÄR Michael
STALDER Florian
STEWART Jackson
WYSS Danilo
ZAHNER Simon
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 BMC Racing's Thomas Frei tests postive for EPO
http://www.velonation.com/News.aspx
nvpacchi said:The TTT has 200m of climbing in it, does anyone feel that would level the playing field out and cripple the pure time trialists a little bit?
Ferminal said:20-30km ITT is only a minute which Cuddles will get back
They've done a course recon already, so at least Evans feels like he's being taken seriously, which apparently is all he cares about (it can't be the quality of the team, after all).Moondance said:Those guys are probably out too... Although it wouldn't surprise me if the self-imposed ban gets lifted in the next two weeks.
Either way, that's still a rather poor looking lineup for the TTT... Although I don't really know who's the clear favorite among the GC teams (Garmin will win the day I imagine, but Vande Velde is riding this for training not contending). Liquigas will be strong, even though Nibali and Kreuziger won't be there. Cervelo will have Sastre, Tondo, Konovalovas & others... A few strong guys there.