2013 Criterium International

[McLovin]

They finally updated the site, 3 days before the race.

23 mars Porto-Vecchio - Porto-Vecchio 89 km

23 mars Porto-Vecchio - Porto-Vecchio 7 km

24 mars Porto-Vecchio - Col de l’Ospedale 176 km

http://www.letour.fr/2013/CRI/COURSE/fr/le_parcours.html

 

[LaFlorecita]

Froome ftw and I fancy Manuele for the tt

 

[airstream]

Froome vs Contador is getting principal. Seemingly we'll close to A squads again. Does Andy participate in this junk?

 

[Miburo]

Froome vs Contador is getting principal. Seemingly we'll close to A squads again. Does Andy participate in this junk?

yep

should be contador vs froome, let's see how contador recovered.

Is he worse or better than he was in T-A?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Froomedog for the win.

 

[LaFlorecita]

yep

should be contador vs froome, let's see how contador recovered.

Is he worse or better than he was in T-A?

Worse since he was ill two days ago and I don't think he'll completely recover from that in a few days.

 

[airstream]

yep

should be contador vs froome, let's see how contador recovered.

Is he worse or better than he was in T-A?

No one knows. Even in the best years Andy solved his personal tasks in the races like this, finishing much worse than the best. Now it is hard to predict anything.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Porte will take this. Froome 2nd.
Contador top 5.

 

[Cimber]

Porte will take this. Froome 2nd.
Contador top 5.

Porte is generally not the best on a very short (and flat) TT. Iirc he is better on the longer ones (the PN one is different since it was uphill).

My bet is Froome.

Btw the final climb in detail:

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Porte is generally not the best on a very short (and flat) TT. Iirc he is better on the longer ones (the PN one is different since it was uphill).

My bet is Froome.

Porte's form looks better than Froome's imo.
And Porte will not be worn out from any support work.
I'll stick with the Australian.

 

[will10]

Porte Froome 1-2.

 

[jens_attacks]

Porte Froome 1-2.

same here. probably pierre rolland 3rd
or the fedrigo enigma to arrive again here and win.

 

[airstream]

Saunier Duval finish necking?

 

[Miburo]

Oh yeah Porte is in aswell, yea 1-2 I guess

 

[SafeBet]

Startlist anybody?

 

[Cimber]

Porte's form looks better than Froome's imo.
And Porte will not be worn out from any support work.
I'll stick with the Australian.

The competition in PN was not comparable with the competition in TA by a long shot. Easier to make it look "easy" in PN

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The competition in PN was not comparable with the competition in TA by a long shot. Easier to make it look "easy" in PN

Meh, Porte was on his way to breaking the record up Col d'Eze. That doesn't require any competitors. Froome still lacks form imo.

 

[Samson]

Startlist anybody?

No complete list yet I think, but here's teams and their leaders taken from official site:

AG2R La Mondiale: Bardet, Péraud, Gadret (FRA)
Blanco Pro Cycling Team : Bos, Kelderman (NED), Bobridge (AUS), L. L. Sánchez (ESP)
BMC Racing Team : Evans (AUS), Moinard (FRA), Van Garderen (USA)
Bretagne-Seche Environnement: Koretzky, Lequatre, Vachon (FRA)
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits: Coppel (FRA), Taaramäe (EST)
Colombia: Atapuma, Pantano (COL)
FDJ: Fédrigo, Bouhanni (FRA)
Garmin-Sharp: Talansky (USA), Martin (IRL)
IAM Cycling: Denifl (AUT), Tschopp (SUI)
La Pomme Marseille: Gonçalves (POR)
RadioShack-Nissan: A. Schleck (LUX), Monfort (BEL), Klöden, Voigt (GER)
Sky ProCycling: Froome (GBR), Porte (AUS)
Sojasun: Hivert, Pauriol (FRA)
Team Argos-Shimano: Barguil (FRA), Geschke (GER)
Team Europcar: Rolland, Voeckler (FRA)
Team Saxo-Tinkoff: Contador (ESP), Rogers (AUS)

 

[SafeBet]

Cheers. Glad to see Bouhanni back.

 

[MatParker117]

No complete list yet I think, but here's teams and their leaders taken from official site:

AG2R La Mondiale: Bardet, Péraud, Gadret (FRA)
Blanco Pro Cycling Team : Bos, Kelderman (NED), Bobridge (AUS), L. L. Sánchez (ESP)
BMC Racing Team : Evans (AUS), Moinard (FRA), Van Garderen (USA)
Bretagne-Seche Environnement: Koretzky, Lequatre, Vachon (FRA)
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits: Coppel (FRA), Taaramäe (EST)
Colombia: Atapuma, Pantano (COL)
FDJ: Fédrigo, Bouhanni (FRA)
Garmin-Sharp: Talansky (USA), Martin (IRL)
IAM Cycling: Denifl (AUT), Tschopp (SUI)
La Pomme Marseille: Gonçalves (POR)
RadioShack-Nissan: A. Schleck (LUX), Monfort (BEL), Klöden, Voigt (GER)
Sky ProCycling: Froome (GBR), Porte (AUS)
Sojasun: Hivert, Pauriol (FRA)
Team Argos-Shimano: Barguil (FRA), Geschke (GER)
Team Europcar: Rolland, Voeckler (FRA)
Team Saxo-Tinkoff: Contador (ESP), Rogers (AUS)

Full Sky squad according to team site:
Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski, Chris Froome, Vasil Kiryienka, Richie Porte, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, Xabier Zandio

 

[Miburo]

Full Sky squad according to team site:
Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski, Chris Froome, Vasil Kiryienka, Richie Porte, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, Xabier Zandio

I nominate Siutsou to be Cataldo, at least it's more believable

 

[airstream]

I bet Kiri is going to ride brutally today. Alex and Purito would better surrender at one.

 

[movingtarget]

Cheers. Glad to see Bouhanni back.

Maybe with new teeth !

 

[Parrulo]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=60343

contador out with sickness, he will stay at home and recover for pais vasco

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Obvious duck is obvious.


(not obvious, but I can think of other combos, a few months ago, where this sort of manouever would be jumped on with very few people willing to take it at face value).