2017 Tour de France startlist & field speculation

[MatParker117]

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So no Poels and Stannard.

Viva La Vuelta.

 

[jflemaire]

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Sky:

Froome
Henao
Kiryienka
Knees
Kwaitkowski
Landa
Nieve
Thomas
Rowe

There are WT team leaders that are much lesser riders than half of these guys...

 

[Valv.Piti]

Will obviously be the best team in the race, but Movistar with a motivated duo of Quintana + Valverde wont be too far behind. Interested to see who their pseudo GC-contender is, last year it was Henao and in 15 it was Thomas. Probably Thomas.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Sky:

Froome
Henao
Kiryienka
Knees
Kwaitkowski
Landa
Nieve
Thomas
Rowe

I'll look at the bright side and see that two of the most ridiculously strong mountain domestiques of the last decade aren't in the team and one of them is now even a rival. That said, man this team looks scarily good. I just pray that Froome doesn't already lead by two minutes after the first week

 

[Dr. Watson]

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

surprised no Dennis

 

[Inquitus]

BMC Racing’s Tour de France team: Caruso, De Marchi, Kung, Moinard, Porte, Roche, Schar, Van Avermaet, Wyss.

 

[Valv.Piti]

A very solid BMC team, Dennis isn't so good in the peloton (or so have I been told) and doesnt climb really well to justify it, altho it had almost been a 100% sure yellow jersey given how well he is time trialing. Martin must be thrilled with no Canc, Dum and Dennis.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

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A very solid BMC team, Dennis isn't so good in the peloton (or so have I been told) and doesnt climb really well to justify it, altho it had almost been a 100% sure yellow jersey given how well he is time trialing. Martin must be thrilled with no Canc, Dum and Dennis.

For sure. Still, at 14k you never know if someone just goes crazy and steals it from everyone by a couple of secs.

 

[Ikbengodniet]

Surprised to see no Bookwalter.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Surprised to see no Bookwalter.

Me too. They must be hoping for Caruso to be climbing with Porte for the whole Tour. Roche will be present as well but towards the end not sure about Roche's ability to hang in the group at this moment.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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A very solid BMC team, Dennis isn't so good in the peloton (or so have I been told) and doesnt climb really well to justify it, altho it had almost been a 100% sure yellow jersey given how well he is time trialing. Martin must be thrilled with no Canc, Dum and Dennis.

For sure. Still, at 14k you never know if someone just goes crazy and steals it from everyone by a couple of secs.

Aint happening aginst Dennis I think, he is really a monster.

 

[DFA123]

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Will obviously be the best team in the race, but Movistar with a motivated duo of Quintana + Valverde wont be too far behind. Interested to see who their pseudo GC-contender is, last year it was Henao and in 15 it was Thomas. Probably Thomas.

I think perhaps Valverde is the key for us having an entertaining race. He's the only rider who might work as a domestique who can consistently destroy the Sky train - because he's too dangerous to let up the road and too strong for the train to easily reel in. Perhaps Aru/Fuglsang could play a similar role if they keep their Dauphine form. Froome could end up with just one or two riders for company fairly early if the others ride aggressively enough. Then it will come down to the mano a mano which would be a huge improvement on last years borefest of Poels downing a can of coke while effortlessly catching Bardet, Aru, Porte or whoever else tried anything.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Surprised to see no Bookwalter.

&
Hermans
Sanchez


Dennis rules himself out of the team as said he hadn't the form

 

[deValtos]

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Surprised to see no Bookwalter.

&
Hermans
Sanchez


Dennis rules himself out of the team as said he hadn't the form

He smashed two TT's in suisse and calls himself out of form? Wonder what he's like in form. :lol:

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Presumably Dennis means climbing form.

Good point about Hermans and Sanchez. I don't really understand why BMC didn't have both on a Tour focused schedule, then take the strongest three of Caruso, Roche and those two. Three rather than two climbing dims would make Porte a lot less vulnerable to being isolated because someone else has a random bad day. It may simply be that Richie feels more relaxed with the guys he likes I suppose.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Presumably Dennis means climbing form.

Good point about Hermans and Sanchez. I don't really understand why BMC didn't have both on a Tour focused schedule, then take the strongest three of Caruso, Roche and those two. Three rather than two climbing dims would make Porte a lot less vulnerable to being isolated because someone else has a random bad day. It may simply be that Richie feels more relaxed with the guys he likes I suppose.

Those interviews Porte did in the training camp before the Dauphine suggested that there are some riders he does not get on with in the team ? Not Dennis but others I think ? I don't know who but to leave climbers behind may sheds some light on this

Also Dennis ruling himself out ? Surely if he can smash TTs he could go and be support on the flat

 

[deValtos]

I wondered about Amaël Moinard but after reminding myself of his previous stats I think he is a good inclusion, very experienced and part of Cadel's winning team.

 

[yaco]

BMC has chosen a well rounded team to support Porte. He will have no excuses.

 

[Laplaz]

So Astana has confirmed 6 riders till now:
Fuglsang
Aru
Lutsenko
Valgren
Grivko
Zeits

Who will be the others 3?

 

[May0maniac]

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So Astana has confirmed 6 riders till now:
Fuglsang
Aru
Lutsenko
Valgren
Grivko
Zeits

Who will be the others 3?

I don't know how Cataldo's form is after the Giro, but they still need some climbing firepower.
I'd pick him, Kozhatayev, he was pretty strong in RdS, and maybe Moser if he's back from his injury and in form.
ATM they really lack climbing firepower because of injuries, Kangert (who has done the double in recent years) and Miguel Lopez would have added a ton of climbing firepower.

 

[greenedge]

In terms of BMC's squad even Dillier (based off his form over the last month) would have deserved a spot.

In an ideal world this would be my team for BMC:
Porte
TJVG as a super dom
Caruso
Roche
Sanchez
Hermans
Dillier
GVA
Dennis/Oss.

They wouldn't have much flatland support for Porte, but Oss and Dillier would be able to suffice, whilst Hermans and Roche can help at a pinch.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Trek had a competition on twitter, those who chose the correct 9 riders could win a special TDF edition jersey. From the entry of one of the winners it seems likely this will be their team:

Contador
Degenkolb
Pantano
Felline
De Kort
Mollema
Cardoso
Gogl
Rast

 

[Task_Force]

Lotto NL Jumbo

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

 

[Ricco']

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Trek had a competition on twitter, those who chose the correct 9 riders could win a special TDF edition jersey. From the entry of one of the winners it seems likely this will be their team:

Contador
Degenkolb
Pantano
Felline
De Kort
Mollema
Cardoso
Gogl
Rast

***!

Ninja Zubeldia ninj'ed me. They only had to take out Rast and put in Zubeldia for ninja duties, and that was my team.

And I think I was the first to put the combo Contador/Mollema/Degen/Kort/Felline/Pantano/Cardoso/Gogl/Zubeldia, so if they choosed on a basis of chronological order, the jersey could have been mine. :Neutral:

I really wanted another prize to put next to my EBH's bike number of RvV. :razz:

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

BMC won't bring Hermans, very questionable as he was the only one who really was any use to Porte in the mountains last week.