2013 Bold Predictions

[Gordon]

Christina Watches receive a shock invitation to the Tour de France which is led by Michael Rasmussen until the penultimate stage when he is disqualified for a new kind of blood doping involving injecting the blood of a chicken.

A Sky or Garmin rider, albeit not a big name test positive, provoking Astana directeur Vinokourov to slate Brailsford/Vaughters publicly over how their teams are run and threaten to join a breakaway league run by guru of clean cycling Tyler Hamilton.

And possibly the most unlikely of all, Euskaltel become a sprint/classics superteam with their new foreigners ripping up the sprints and a reformed Igor Anton winning Paris-Roubaix, causing Mark Cavendish to beg for a spot on the team for 2014 citing broken promises at Omega.

 

[Netserk]

Chris Froome will win both Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico

 

[Wigwan]

Chris Froome will win both Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico

Along with the Giro and California.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Bold predictions...some predictions are not really that bold..

Let me try some BOLD predictions:
-Quintana to podium a GT
-Van Avermaet wins the Amstel Gold Race
-'team former Rabobank' to finish 1st at the World Tour ranking

 

[burning]

Bold predictions...some predictions are not really that bold..

Let me try some BOLD predictions:
-Quintana to podium a GT
-Van Avermaet wins the Amstel Gold Race
-'team former Rabobank' to finish 1st at the World Tour ranking

These are not bold at all compared to this:

4. Gesink will not crash in the Tour.

 

[Gloin22]

Bold predictions...some predictions are not really that bold..

Let me try some BOLD predictions:
-Quintana to podium a GT
-Van Avermaet wins the Amstel Gold Race
-'team former Rabobank' to finish 1st at the World Tour ranking

Those are not really that bold. You can see Quitnana podiuming a GT, Vuleta or Giro.
GVA with some luck can win Amstel.

The last one is the boldest one, but if they pull it together and focus, wchich they should as some might fight for contracts and such - they have an all - round team to be in contention at least.

My prediction - Cav not to win any stage at the Tour. That's bold

 

[Galic Ho]

Start out easy. Simon Gerrans to win the TdU. If he doesn't, then another Greenedge rider will. The win will be dedicated to Matt White.

 

[pastronef]

Andrew Talansky to podium a GT.

i'd like it
maybe a top 5 is a bit more realistic
his TT skills could go well in the Nice TTT at the Tour (he is maybe a bit young and must support Ryder at the Tour)
or he can be on form for Romandie+Giro

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Sky july fanboys not to become may fanboys and invade the forum during ii giro.

 

[Wigwan]

i'd like it
maybe a top 5 is a bit more realistic
his TT skills could go well in the Nice TTT at the Tour (he is maybe a bit young and must support Ryder at the Tour)
or he can be on form for Romandie+Giro

That's why it's bold..

 

[Esroh the Hoss]

Nico Roche to podium in a Classic
(Having finally listened to what Daddy and Sean have been telling him for years )

 

[The Hitch]

a colombian to win the tour de Lavenir.

 

[HiCadence]

Wiggins to win both the giro and tour (Froome to have an unfortunate accident and breaks a collarbone).

 

[schralp]

-Wiggo burns out and becomes a Trackie again
-Sky merges with Rabobank
-Purito becomes a mountain biker

 

[shakeshakeshake]

armstrong gets really fat, is captured on camera by paparazzi, dazed and confused in a walmart at 3am wearing bright yellow sweatpants

 

[Afrank]

The winner of Milan-San Remo to be someone who did well at the Tour Down Under, either who won a bunch of sprints or won the overall.

Greipel to race other races than small crap sprinter races and the Tour, and actually go for the win in them.

Mario Cipollini to make his long awaited comeback to cycling and go head to head with Mark Cavendish and finally settle the question, who is the greatest sprinter in history.

Tylar Farrar to win a classic

-Wiggo burns out and becomes a Trackie again
-Sky merges with Rabobank
-Purito becomes a mountain biker

Robert Gesink becomes a mountain biker/cyclocrosser
And dominates! move over Sven Nys.

 

[Leonardus]

- Cavendish won't win a single race, the Germans will annihilate him all year long in every bunch sprint.
- Vanmarcke and Boom will destroy all competition in the cobbles classics and White Label will be nr 1 team of the spring.
- Basso and Nibali will drop Wiggins in every mountain stage of the Giro
- Froome will leave Contador behind in the mountains in the Tour and wins easily
- Moser wins the WC RR
- Purito wins the Vuelta and starts smoking cigars during the final stages as an early celebration
- Gesink won't crash once in the Tour
- Andy Schleck will start in a few races without finishing them and announces he will be ready for the tour in 2014.
- Voeckler gets caught for using EPO and the ASO reacts by legalizing all medicines and substances.

 

[theyoungest]

- Cavendish won't win a single race, the Germans will annihilate him all year long in every bunch sprint.
- Vanmarcke and Boom will destroy all competition in the cobbles classics and White Label will be nr 1 team of the spring.
- Basso and Nibali will drop Wiggins in every mountain stage of the Giro
- Froome will leave Contador behind in the mountains in the Tour and wins easily
- Moser wins the WC RR
- Purito wins the Vuelta and starts smoking cigars during the final stages as an early celebration
- Gesink won't crash once in the Tour
- Andy Schleck will start in a few races without finishing them and announces he will be ready for the tour in 2014.
- Voeckler gets caught for using EPO and the ASO reacts by legalizing all medicines and substances.

Twice?




10char

 

[serfla]

Bjarne, Chris and Levi to keep their hair stylists.
Wait... Did you ask for bold or bald predictions?

 

[Dedelou]

Sorry, I know you are Pistoleros number one fan, but I think the more likely prediction is that he tests positive again and/or Bjarnes past catches up and Saxobank folds mid season.

that is an "*" prediction not a "bold[/B] one

 

[cineteq]

- Cavendish won't win a single race, the Germans will annihilate him all year long in every bunch sprint.
- Vanmarcke and Boom will destroy all competition in the cobbles classics and White Label will be nr 1 team of the spring.
- Basso and Nibali will drop Wiggins in every mountain stage of the Giro
- Froome will leave Contador behind in the mountains in the Tour and wins easily
- Moser wins the WC RR
- Purito wins the Vuelta and starts smoking cigars during the final stages as an early celebration
- Gesink won't crash once in the Tour
- Andy Schleck will start in a few races without finishing them and announces he will be ready for the tour in 2014.
- Voeckler gets caught for using EPO and the ASO reacts by legalizing all medicines and substances.

Now they're bold.
Actually, all those predictions are very reasonable.

 

[nvpacchi]

Tour of Beijing becomes a two week stage race.

Ponferrada doesn't find enough funds, 2014 worlds is moved to Doha

 

[HiCadence]

Peter Sagan will burn out and never hit 2011/2012 form for the rest of his career.

Robert Miller Anounces his comeback.

Sky dominate everything.

The Tour of Britain becomes a 3 week Grand Tour.

 

[will10]

a colombian to win the tour de Lavenir.

How is that a bold prediction? More or less nailed on

 

[skidmark]

- Phinney to podium Roubaix
- Andy Schleck to win the Worlds
- Cav sets a Sky jersey on fire as a victory celebration after winning his 6th stage of the Tour
- Sky to hire Hincapie in a directorial position, then fire him when doping questions are asked by the media, stating he 'wasn't truthful' with them when hired and they didn't know about his past
- Dombrowski top 10s Giro helping Wiggins as a neo-pro; Lutsenko wins nothing
- Rebellin has a great year, wins a WT event with a Polish team