2012 Paris - Nice

[McLovin]

6 - 13 March

Dampierre-en-Yvelines - Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse 9.4 km
Mantes-la-Jolie - Orléans 185 km
Vierzon - Le Lac de Vassivière 194 km
Brive-la-Gaillarde - Rodez 183 km
Onet-le-Château - Mende 178 km
Suze-la-Rousse - Sisteron 176.5 km
Sisteron - Nice 220 km
Nice - Col d'Èze 9.6 km

 

[Wigwan]

Chavanel will at least podium.

 

[jens_attacks]

if valverde won't be there,froomy-papy horner showdown.
there are years now since paris-nice was better than tirreno,this is just one more.

 

[just some guy]

Tjvg ftw....

 

[TheArt]

 

[SHAD0W93]

Kloedi FTW if he is riding.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Oh dear, back to the future.

 

[Fetisoff]

Denis Menchov

 

[SHAD0W93]

Oh dear, back to the future.

Lol what does that mean?

 

[killswitch]

Tjvg ftw....

Probably won't like Mende... Then again with the predicted line-up this year...

Lol what does that mean?

That it'll be the same borefest as last year.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Lol what does that mean?

A return to the race format of ten years ago.
See killswitch's reply.

 

[the3verB]

if valverde won't be there,froomy-papy horner showdown.
there are years now since paris-nice was better than tirreno,this is just one more.

lol. Tirreno better than Paris Nice???

Tireno, the race Alessandro "climber" Petacchi almost won

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirreno-Adriatico_2005

The Paris Nice parcours is and has always been more difficult than Tirreno's one.

Vive la France!

 

[roundabout]

Ignore the doper fanboy who thinks that a race his favorite doper is riding at is automatically better and always has been regardless of the facts.

 

[jens_attacks]

Ignore the doper fanboy who thinks that a race his favorite doper is riding at is automatically better and always has been regardless of the facts.

lol

since 2006 tirreno was hands down better than paris-nice.i didn't say always better.and this year will be the same.

 

[SHAD0W93]

That it'll be the same borefest as last year.

I didn't mind it last year but it could have been a lot better.

 

[the3verB]

lol

since 2006 tirreno was hands down better than paris-nice.i didn't say always better.and this year will be the same.

I think you did not watch Paris Nice 2006,2007,2009,2010 which were excellent editions.

Maybe in 2008 and 2011 the races were equals.

But the big difference is that Tirreno is a race for sprinter-puncher whereas Paris-Nice is for all rounders.

 

[roundabout]

2006 decided by the TT

2007 decided by the TT

2008 decided by the TT

2011 nearly decided by the TTT

yeah, better

The only great T-A stage that I can remember from the "better editions" was the one to Camerino in 2009.

The rest are a blur of interchangeable uphill sprints up ramps of various difficulty

 

[jens_attacks]

i had favourite riders or dopers how you like to call them in both races.it's no secret that i love italian races more than french ones.tirreno adriatico for me has another kind of flavour then paris-nice, it reminds me that il giro is coming.

 

[Mellow Velo]

lol

since 2006 tirreno was hands down better than paris-nice.i didn't say always better.and this year will be the same.

Have to agree with the others. You are talking out of your rear end.
Paris-Nice: Simply the best week stage race of half the past decade.
Tirreno-Adriatico: Mostly mediocre.

Still don't like the look of this "old fashioned" P-N, though.

 

[will10]

Another joke parcours. Regardless of Tirreno, the last two Paris Nice routes have been awful.

 

[Raceoftruth]

Looks a good course for LL sanchez.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Yay! A return to the old style course when Klodi won (2000)

Small MTT at the end is great. Plus a short ITT to start with is good too. And great to see Mende in there. But are there no other remotely relevant GC stages? No other MTF's or at least significant climbs within 30 kms of a finish?

 

[craig1985]

Looks like a pretty dire parcours. Hopefully the sprint stages have a lot of side and cross winds to split things up.

 

[roundabout]

Another joke parcours. Regardless of Tirreno, the last two Paris Nice routes have been awful.

And the last Dauphine, the last Tour de l'Avenir, likely the 2012 Tour and what's been revealed of the 2013 isn't looking too great. Pescheux can't retire soon enough.

Even the very remote possibility of climbing Montagne de Lure on stage 6 won't stop the race from being a turkey.

 

[auscyclefan94]

This route is really dissapoitning but I think TJVG has a good chance of winning.