2016 Paris - Nice, March 6th - 13th, WT

[Cance > TheRest]

Considering Thomas and Porte's ride, Contador losing 16 seconds is not bad at all.

 

[Brullnux]

Porte meh

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice win for Matthews. Entertaining prologue.

 

[DBotero]

Porte a bit worse than Thomas as expected.

 

[StryderHells]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

 

[Brullnux]

Worth remembering this:
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Tour_de_Slovenie_2014_Stage_1_Ljubljana

 

[murali]

Bling should have been in the list

 

[del1962]

Tom Dumoulin must now be favorite for GC

 

[Põhja Konn]

Dumoulin the man to beat now, it seems.

 

[DBotero]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

 

[sir fly]

Re:

Dumoulin the man to beat now, it seems.

Looks light enough to be able to roll over the hills.

 

[Poursuivant]

Does anyone know the odds Matthews was to win today??

 

[StryderHells]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

Ah okay well fair enough, thought he would go top 10 but not win this

 

[Red Rick]

Do they have bonifications on every road stage?

 

[pastronef]

GC riders

Dumoulin
Thomas
Porte
Keldermann
Majka
Gallopin
Contador
Talansky
Zakarin
Yates

 

[Mr.White]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

Well you've expected too much. Good ride by him.
Great ride by Matthews though, what a talented rider he is!

 

[70kmph]

1 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:07:39
2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:07:40
3 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:07:41
4 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 0:07:45
5 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0:07:45
6 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Astana Pro Team 0:07:46
7 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:07:46
8 Dries Devenyns (Bel) IAM Cycling 0:07:47
9 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Direct Energie 0:07:48
10 Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 0:07:48

 

[Arredondo]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

Thomas never has been a specialist like Dumoulin.

 

[johnymax]

Re: Re:

Great ride by Matthews. Perfect route for him.

Agreed! Can't believe I didn't think of him when looking at this Prologue

Same here. I completely forgot about him. Great ride, indeed.

 

[DBotero]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

Thomas never has been a specialist like Dumoulin.

Everybody is a specialist in everything these days Thomas needs to do more than last year if he's really into becoming a future GT winner.

 

[portugal11]

Dumoulin will crack big time in stage 3

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dumoulin going back to his 2nd place-in-ITT form of 2014

 

[johnymax]

Looking at the GC riders pretty much everyone did well, except for Costa and Spilak, who was terrible. They both started early so maybe that has something to do with it. Nevertheless they've done a poor prologue.

Oh and Sanchez also worse than I thought.

 

[pastronef]

Thomas not too great.

What was wrong with his ride in comparison with his other GC rivals?

I was expecting him to win this.

Thomas never has been a specialist like Dumoulin.

Everybody is a specialist in everything these days Thomas needs to do more than last year if he's really into becoming a future GT winner.

Thomas started as a classic rider
Dumoulin started as a TT specialist

both are trying to become GT riders

no hurry

 

[DBotero]

Dumoulin will podium Il Giro.Grande Ilnur Zakarin is still under par,though.