2017 Tour de France startlist & field speculation

[May0maniac]

I thought that it was time to start this thread.

The first team to announce the whole TdF team is Bora:
Maciej Bodnar
Emanuel Buchmann
Marcus Burghardt
Rafal Majka
Jay McCarthy
Pawel Poljanski
Peter Sagan
Juraj Sagan
Rüdiger Selig )

Katusha:
Tony Martin
Alexander Kristoff
Marco Haller
Reto Hollenstein
Robert Kiserlovski
Maurits Lammertink
Tiago Machado
Nils Politt
Rick Zabel

Team Sunweb:
ARNDT Nikias
BARGUIL Warren
CURVERS Roy
TEN DAM Laurens
GESCHKE Simon
MATTHEWS Michael
TEUNISSEN Mike
SINKELDAM Ramon
TIMMER Albert

Sky:
Froome
Henao
Kiryienka
Knees
Kwaitkowski
Landa
Nieve
Thomas
Rowe

BMC:
Damiano Caruso
Alessandro De Marchi
Stefan Küng
Amaël Moinard
Richie Porte (AUS)
Nicolas Roche
Michael Schär
Greg Van Avermaet
Danilo Wyss

Lotto NL Jumbo:
George Bennett
Robert Gesink
Dylan Groenewegen
Tom Leezer
Paul Martens
Primož Roglič
Timo Roosen
Jos van Emden
Robert Wagner

Orica Scott:
Michael Albasini
Esteban Chaves
Luke Durbridge
Mathew Hayman
Damien Howson
Daryl Impey
Jens Keulekeire
Roman Kreuziger
Simon Yates

Trek:
Gogl
Mollema
Irizar
Felline
Degenkolb
Contador
Cardoso
De Kort
Pantano

Lotto Soudal:
HANSEN Adam
BENOOT Tiesj
GALLOPIN Tony
WELLENS Tim
DE GENDT Thomas
GREIPEL André
BAK Lars Ytting
ROELANDTS Jurgen
SIEBERG Marcel

Astana:
Fabio Aru
Dario Cataldo
Jakob Fuglsang
Andriy Grivko
Dmitriy Gruzdev
Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev
Alexey Lutsenko
Michael Valgren
Andrey Zeits

Fortuneo:
Maxime Bouet
Brice Feillu
Elie Gesbert
Romain Hardy
Daniel McLay
Pierre-Luc Périchon
Laurent Pichon
Eduardo Sepulveda
Florian Vachon

Direct Energie:
Thomas Boudat
Lilian Calmejane
Sylvain Chavanel
Yohann Gène
Adrien Petit
Perrig Quéméneur
Romain Sicard
Angelo Tulik
Thomas Voeckler

AG2R La Mondiale:
Jan Bakelants
Romain Bardet
Axel Domont
Mathias Frank
Ben Gastauer
Cyril Gautier
Pierre Latour
Oliver Naesen
Alexis Vuillermoz

DD:
Cavendish
Cummings
EBH
Eisel
Renshaw
Venter
Thwaites
Pauwels
Janse Van Rensburg

Wanty-Groupe Gobert:
Frederik Backaert
Thomas Degand
Guillaume Martin
Marco Minnaard
Yoann Offredo
Andrea Pasqualon
Dion Smith
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
Pieter Vanspeybrouck

UAE Team Emirates:
MEINTJES Louis
LAENGEN Vegard Stake
ULISSI Diego
SWIFT Ben
ATAPUMA John Darwin
BONO Matteo
DURASEK Kristijan
MORI Manuele
MARCATO Marco

Cofidis:
Nacer Bouhanni
Dimitri Claeys
Christophe Laporte
Cyril Lemoine
Luis Angel Maté
Daniel Navarro
Florian Sénéchal
Julien Simon
Geoffrey Soupe

Bahrain:
Brajkovic
Cink
Arashiro
Grmay
Izagirre
Colbrelli
Bozic
Moreno
Bole

FDJ
Davide Cimolai
Mickaël Delage
Arnaud Démare
Jacopo Guarnieri
Ignatas Konovalovas
Olivier Le Gac
Rudy Molard
Thibaut Pinot
Arthur Vichot

Movistar:
Nairo
Valverde
Erviti
Betancur
Sutterlin
Bennati
Jesus Herrada
Castro
Amador

Quickstep:
Kittel
Martin
Gilbert
Sabatini
Trentin
Bauer
Stybar
Vermote
Brambilla

Cannondale-Drapac:
Talansky
Rolland
Uran
Bettiol
Bevin
Simon Clarke
Phinney
Brown
Dylan Van Baarle

 

[Anderis]

LOL, few days ago I wondered myself which 9 riders would Bora choose from their pre-selection and my guesses were exactly these 9 riders.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

LOL, few days ago I wondered myself which 9 riders would Bora choose from their pre-selection and my guesses were exactly these 9 riders.

Yes, it's probably the right choice, the main focus is on Sagan and with König having no form they don't really have many fresh climbing domestiques that could help Majka, but he's good at following wheels, so Buchmann should be enough.

 

[yaco]

McCarthy can also provide help in the mountains.

 

[Breh]

Quick Step Floors

Kittel
Sabatini
Martin
Brambilla
Trentin
Terpstra
Gilbert


Lotto Soudal

Greipel
Gallopin
Wellens
Hansen
De Gendt
Benoot
Sieberg


These riders are pretty muchcertainties for the Belgian WT teams I think. Probably Stybar gets to ride again after barely missing out last year. Add in Lampaert or Vermote although I'm giving Lampaert the edge this year.

Probably Bak and Roelandts/Debusschere for LottoSoudal.

 

[Alexandre B.]

AG2R La Mondiale:

Romain Bardet (Fra)
Axel Domont (Fra)
Mathias Frank (Swi)
Pierre Latour (Fra)
Oliver Naesen (Bel)
Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra)

Then three of those four:

Jan Bakelants (Bel)
Samuel Dumoulin (Fra)
Ben Gastauer (Lux)
Cyril Gautier (Fra)

 

[Ikbengodniet]

Katusha

Tony Martin
Alexander Kristoff
Marco Haller
Reto Hollenstein
Robert Kiserlovski
Maurits Lammertink
Tiago Machado
Nils Politt
Rick Zabel

Although his buddies aren't there seems like a pretty good train for Kristoff.

Don't know why they bring Kiserlovski though.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Katusha

Tony Martin
Alexander Kristoff
Marco Haller
Reto Hollenstein
Robert Kiserlovski
Maurits Lammertink
Tiago Machado
Nils Politt
Rick Zabel

Although his buddies aren't there seems like a pretty good train for Kristoff.

Don't know why they bring Kiserlovski though.

It's still a good train for Kristoff, Hollenstein, Haller and Zabel with Politt and maybe even Martin helping out.
Kiserlovski is a bit odd, I get the fact that they wanted another rider who's capable of infiltrating the breakaways on the mountain stages with Machado, but he has already ridden the Giro and Taaramäe is finally in decent shape, he would have been a good stagehunter without any pressure of having to ride for the gc.

 

[Dr. Watson]

happy for Juraj to make the team for his first tdf, will also be good for Peter to have his brother there with him

 

[fauniera]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

 

[Ikbengodniet]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

I would have taken Taaramae instead for that role and take Kiserlovski to the Vuelta as a dom for Zakarin. I think Taaramae has more chance of some success and Kiserlovski is the better dom.

 

[vladimir]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

The Katusha tem is more or less as expected. I only miss Taaramäe which I thought was certain after setting up Spilak brilliantly in Suisse. But maybe he will do Poland/Vuelta?

 

[search]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

The Katusha tem is more or less as expected. I only miss Taaramäe which I thought was certain after setting up Spilak brilliantly in Suisse. But maybe he will do Poland/Vuelta?

his next race (after the Estonian Championships) would be either the Tour de France or Austria is what he said after the Tour de Suisse

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

I think Terpstra is still questionable, his crash in the Tour of Belgium was no joke an he DNF'ed the first stage of the ZLM tour.

 

[KGB]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

He is still in pro tour team?I thought he rides his bike to buy some milk and bread these days and not riding for living.Very fake pro tour rider.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Is Dennis going to be on BMC's squad?

 

[Vesica]

Is it possible to put al the final rosters of the teams in the OP? Otherwise there's still no overview and teams posted here and everywhere..

 

[May0maniac]

Is it possible to put al the final rosters of the teams in the OP? Otherwise there's still no overview and teams posted here and everywhere..

Ok, I've added Sunweb and Katusha, the other teams who have already confirmed their full team.

 

[Kwibus]

Re:

I think Terpstra is still questionable, his crash in the Tour of Belgium was no joke an he DNF'ed the first stage of the ZLM tour.

He also doesnt start in the nationals, which says a kot. I dont expect him to start.

 

[Breh]

Re:

I think Terpstra is still questionable, his crash in the Tour of Belgium was no joke an he DNF'ed the first stage of the ZLM tour.

Ah, completely missed that.

 

[Roku]

Kiserlovski did a very good ride at the Dolomite stage of the Giro. And why wouldn't they bring him? Without him they would be nonexistent in the mountains.

He is still in pro tour team?I thought he rides his bike to buy some milk and bread these days and not riding for living.Very fake pro tour rider.

He had a horrible 2016, but he was one the best climbing domestiques on the last week of this year's Giro.

I would have taken Taaramae instead of Machado, who is well past his prime and won't be able to make anything interesting (imho)

 

[jaylew]

Re:

happy for Juraj to make the team for his first tdf, will also be good for Peter to have his brother there with him

First GT of any kind for him, right?

 

[Dr. Watson]

Re: Re:

happy for Juraj to make the team for his first tdf, will also be good for Peter to have his brother there with him

First GT of any kind for him, right?

Yeah, I think he improved a lot in the last year so well deserved

 

[MatParker117]

Sky:

Froome
Henao
Kiryienka
Knees
Kwaitkowski
Landa
Nieve
Thomas
Rowe

 

[Laplaz]

So no Poels and Stannard.