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2013 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, 21/04/13 257km

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IAM even has two riders in the break today, they really do well. Pliuschin in Amstel break, Lang in Fleche´s and Lang and Fumeaux in LBL´s.
They have a wildcard for Romandie, and if they show themselves there one day or another, they can really look back to a solid first spring.

I´m sure ASO also have noticed this.

To be honest, performance-wise, my three Tour wildcards would be Europcar, Cofidis and IAM.

Edit.: Cofidis actually not performance-wise, because they had a weaker spring, but I guess they´re in anyways; the sponsor has lots of influence (can´t imagine a Tour without Cofidis, actually) and they have Taramae and Coppel, so certainly will be in TdF 2013.
 
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RHRH19861986 said:
IAM even has two riders in the break today, they really do well. Pliuschin in Amstel break, Lang in Fleche´s and Lang and Fumeaux in LBL´s.
They have a wildcard for Romandie, and if they show themselves there one day or another, they can really look back to a solid first spring.

I´m sure ASO also have noticed this.

To be honest, performance-wise, my three Tour wildcards would be Europcar, Cofidis and IAM.
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iam stand no chance for getting selected to the tour. larssona dn lovkvist their 2 big signings also proved how overrated they are. iam isn't doing great al all considering all the races they did, riders they got and budget they have for a pct.
 
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I am planning to watch the finish of this for the first time this year.
Any tips on a good spot to watch. i.e is there a big screen nearby. Ease of parking etc.
 
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Ryo Hazuki said:
iam stand no chance for getting selected to the tour. larssona dn lovkvist their 2 big signings also proved how overrated they are. iam isn't doing great al all considering all the races they did, riders they got and budget they have for a pct.
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Yeah, and everyone´s clean and Colombia will send the Tour winners 2015-2050.

Great post again, like most of your posts. Don´t want to get off topic, but that just has to get answered.

Larsson wasn´t that great in 2013, Lövkvist won Tour Med against strong competition and is injured at the moment.

IAM was invited to great races and had OK results and a lot of TV attention.

They had a better spring than NetApp, Bretagne and Cofidis, an equal spring to Sojasun, and a weaker spring than Europcar. That´s how I see it.
 
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They had a better spring than NetApp, Bretagne and Cofidis, an equal spring to Sojasun, and a weaker spring than Europcar. That´s how I see it.
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Wildcard are Europcar, Cofidis and Sojasun then. :rolleyes:

And why are you so angry?
 
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RHRH19861986 said:
Yeah, and everyone´s clean and Colombia will send the Tour winners 2015-2050.

Great post again, like most of your posts. Don´t want to get off topic, but that just has to get answered.

Larsson wasn´t that great in 2013, Lövkvist won Tour Med against strong competition and is injured at the moment.

IAM was invited to great races and had OK results and a lot of TV attention.

They had a better spring than NetApp, Bretagne and Cofidis, an equal spring to Sojasun, and a weaker spring than Europcar. That´s how I see it.
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And that's why Europcar, Cofidis and Sojasun will get the invites.

And getting in the early break is really not much to be proud of.

Edit: beaten on point 1
 
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Wildcard are Europcar, Cofidis and Sojasun then. :rolleyes:

And why are you so angry?
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Not angry, and it´s actually not my mentality, but like many people before me, I had to learn there are people in the world who don´t appreciate a nice and normal kind of speaking/writing... :) So I have to adapt. ;)
 
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Who is in the break?
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Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise), Bart De Clercq (Lotto), Vincent Jérôme (Europcar), Pirmin Lang (IAM Cycling), Frederik Veucheulen (Vacansoleil) and Jonathan Fumeaux (IAM Cycling).
 
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Yeah, and everyone´s clean and Colombia will send the Tour winners 2015-2050.

Great post again, like most of your posts. Don´t want to get off topic, but that just has to get answered.

Larsson wasn´t that great in 2013, Lövkvist won Tour Med against strong competition and is injured at the moment.

IAM was invited to great races and had OK results and a lot of TV attention.

They had a better spring than NetApp, Bretagne and Cofidis, an equal spring to Sojasun, and a weaker spring than Europcar. That´s how I see it.
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it's stuff like this that only makes your posts more ridiuclous as those are no arguments. where did I say anything about colombians here.

larsson wasn';t that great in 2013? that's like an understatement. injured or not, lovkvist is a joke. he's been chronically injured for what? 4 years now? netapp got invited to far less races, same for bretagne. how can you even use those as an argument, especially bretagne who also have like 1/5th of their budget. cofidis I agree, but again I didn't expect any better from them either. they have an equally overrated roster and have been horrible for past many years now. vini fantini is another pct team that did a lot better than iam.
 
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Thanks, guys!
Even though IAM has two guys in it, I think Jérôme or De Clercq (tiliting towards the latter) are the strongest of these guys.

Any live ticker yet? (Sorry for asking all these questions)
 
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Ryo Hazuki said:
it's stuff like this that only makes your posts more ridiuclous as those are no arguments. where did I say anything about colombians here.

larsson wasn';t that great in 2013? that's like an understatement. injured or not, lovkvist is a joke. he's been chronically injured for what? 4 years now? netapp got invited to far less races, same for bretagne. how can you even use those as an argument, especially bretagne who also have like 1/5th of their budget. cofidis I agree, but again I didn't expect any better from them either. they have an equally overrated roster and have been horrible for past many years now. vini fantini is another pct team that did a lot better than iam.
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Well, but Vini Fantini aren´t on the preselection list. With Bretagne, OK, but it´s not ASO´s fault they have a small budget...

I also don´t see one single NetApp rider able to win a Tour stage; Huzarski and König with a ton of luck, maybe. And NetApp had a very nice schedule in 2013, the best they could hope for.
 
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The brown bibs will be a force today.

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Betancur+Bardet+ Gadret (or should I say minus Gadret, not sure).
 
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Typical lame Ardennes riders let a break go in 5km as opposed to 100km in Roubaix and Ronde.
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Yeah,really true,thats why I love cobbles classics...this is embarassing ,hope they starts to race at least on Theux:rolleyes:
But still riders and DS:eek: makes the race so still it can be pretty good with nice fireworks on La Redoute:D
 
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If you want a great race, you gotta hope for 2 things.

1.Hope Contador has a super day.
2.Hope Nibali has a super day.

They are crazy enough to go on la redoute.

Astana and saxo can make this race real fun. Sky aswell actually but i'm not gonna hope for that :eek:
 
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