2013 WC in Firenze - Who will win?

[SafeBet]

It's about time we have a new poll with better options.
Who will win the elite men road race?

 

[Netserk]

Please make it with countries instead of cyclists as options

 

[SafeBet]

Please make it with countries instead of cyclists as options

Sorry but I wanted Bobby G to show in the options, so no countries.

 

[Netserk]

Votes aren't public

 

[Red Rick]

Cancellara.

He is due

 

[EnacheV]

troll poll, reported

 

[Pantani_lives]

I expect Cancellara to be the strongest man in the race, but he's too much the favorite. He'll probably finish second behind a wheelsucker.

Gilbert is not impossible in spite of his weak season.

Mollema seems more likely than Gesink because of his strong finish.

I voted Sagan because he has a strong team: Stybar, Kreuziger, König...

 

[theyoungest]

Mollema seems more likely than Gesink because of his strong finish.

Mollema ever beat Sagan in a sprint?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Nibali FTW ofc

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Mollema ever beat Sagan in a sprint?

he beat richeze, boasson hagen, farrar and cancellara though, in a flat stage in the Vuelta.

 

[tomorrow]

I expect Cancellara to be the strongest man in the race, but he's too much the favorite. He'll probably finish second behind a wheelsucker.

Gilbert is not impossible in spite of his weak season.

Mollema seems more likely than Gesink because of his strong finish.

I voted Sagan because he has a strong team: Stybar, Kreuziger, König...

Wow, that would be some support, (un)fortunately he's slovak, not czech, and there is no Czechoslovakia since '93. So Sagan will have to stick with these guys: Velits brothers, his brother Juraj and two of these four (Maros Kovac, Matej Jurco, Patrik Tybor or Marek Canecky).

In the end, despite the performance that sagan showed in last week, the brain would tell me to vote for Horner or Nibali. But my heart definately goes with sagan, if he would eventually win, it would be a pleasant surprise for me. Hopefully, others see him as underdog too, because with all the respect to his slovakia comrades, he will probably have even less support than he's used to in cannondale. And with everybody marking him, he's more or less doomed.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

I expect Cancellara to be the strongest man in the race, but he's too much the favorite. He'll probably finish second behind a wheelsucker.

Gilbert is not impossible in spite of his weak season.

Mollema seems more likely than Gesink because of his strong finish.

I voted Sagan because he has a strong team: Stybar, Kreuziger, König...

Since when did Sagan become czech???

 

[Cance > TheRest]

he beat richeze, boasson hagen, farrar and cancellara though, in a flat stage in the Vuelta.

... by opening a gap within the last k. Hardly the same as beating these guys in a normal sprint

 

[The Hitch]

Berto of course.

As in Rigoberto.

Anyway the winner is too difficult to pick for the worlds, anything can happen and there are like 30 potential winners.

Here is how I see it.

***** Vincenzo Nibali, Joquim Rodriguez Oliver, Alejandro Valverde Belmont, Fabian Cancellara, Rigoberto Uran Uran.

**** Robert Gesink, Alexander Kolobnev, Peter Sagan, Nairo Quintana Rojas, Philipe Gilbert.

*** Daniel Martin, Rui Costa, Chris Horner, Christopher Froome, Bauke Mollema.

** Daniel Moreno Fernandez, Alberto Contador Velasco, Simon Gerrans, Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez, Carrlos Betancur Gomez

* Maxim Iglinsky, Roman kreuziger, Cadel Evans, Michele Scarponi, Thomas Voeckler. About 20 other riders.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

... by opening a gap within the last k. Hardly the same as beating these guys in a normal sprint

right, hence the ''

Even more so, we were comparing him to Gesink beating Sagan in a sprint, which was hardly a normal sprint either.

 

[Netserk]

I think Sagan will be dropped hard on the last (or second last) time on Fiesole.

Canc the strongest, but Nibali to cross the line first!

 

[Eshnar]

I think Sagan will be dropped hard on the last (or second last) time on Fiesole.

Canc the strongest, but Nibali to cross the line first!

I don't see how is that possible. Maybe the only chance is Nibs and Canc drop everyone together and Canc has a flat near the finishing line.
If he has it 3 kms from the finish he'll catch Nibali easily

 

[Pantani_lives]

Since when did Sagan become czech???

Hey, you may have a point there. In my mind Czechoslovakia is still one country.

 

[Netserk]

I don't see how is that possible. Maybe the only chance is Nibs and Canc drop everyone together and Canc has a flat near the finishing line.
If he has it 3 kms from the finish he'll catch Nibali easily

Canc will refuse to drag Valverde to the line

 

[tomorrow]

Hey, you may have a point there. In my mind Czechoslovakia is still one country.

Well, as I said previously, for twenty years we're not. And to be honest, besides probably too little slovak ice hockey players playing for national team, there should be added "unfortunately" in that sentence, because we would complement perfectly each other in whole bunch of others sports, cycling e.g.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Other. Ponzi. Thank you very much.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Other. Ponzi. Thank you very much.

Ponzi has been really strong this year indeed.

 

[Arredondo]

Nibbles is not going to become WC, not fast and explosive enough to win it in a sprint or arriving solo. Sammy Sanchez is in my opinion a really dangerous rider, rood a pretty decent third week and, comparable with Evans, is now a better classic rider than a GT rider (because of his age). Together with Moreno a strong tandem who can surprise if Purito ant Piti fade.

Perhaps Quintana, but i don't really what to expect from him in a one-day race.

**** Cancellara
*** Sagan, Purito
** Valverde, Sammy, Gilbert
* Nibali, Moreno, Gesink, Pozzato

 

[gruppeto993]

I voted Sagan because he has a strong team: Stybar, Kreuziger, König...[/QUOTE]

Do slovakia and czech republics race together??? Because all those three are czech. Sagan is slovak.

 

[The Hitch]

Do slovakia and czech republics race together??? Because all those three are czech. Sagan is slovak.

They hold their nats together. But no they don't rave together in world's.