Cancellara is back! How about Spartacus?

[del1962]

yeah

1 Martin 2 Dumoulin 3 Could be anyone!

Too far for Dumoulin, would love to see Brad beat Tony Martin, but Brad will probably have to settle for 2nd

 

[Netserk]

Too far for Dumoulin, would love to see Brad beat Tony Martin, but Brad will probably have to settle for 2nd

It's shorter than the Tour ITT.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Too far for Dumoulin, would love to see Brad beat Tony Martin, but Brad will probably have to settle for 2nd

Too far? lolol. Dumoulin isn't a prologue specialist or something.

 

[Akuryo]

Tony, Dumoulin, Wiggins. Podium is filled. I doubt Rigo will take part but who knows. Is he on the Colombian shortlist?

 

[SeriousSam]

Brad will hopefully finish fourth. Tony going to win.

 

[Arredondo]

Tony, Dumoulin, Wiggins. Podium is filled. I doubt Rigo will take part but who knows. Is he on the Colombian shortlist?

Do you expect him to ride top-5 then?

 

[The Hitch]

Too far for Dumoulin, would love to see Brad beat Tony Martin, but Brad will probably have to settle for 2nd

Wiggins needs to get down to 1.5% body fat and be physically exhausted from demolishing everyone in a brutal month long gt the week before, in order to match Martins speed. Simply turning up fresh, trained, specifically prepared and at tt weight doesn't seem to cut it.

 

[King Of The Wolds]

Wiggins needs to get down to 1.5% body fat and be physically exhausted from demolishing everyone in a brutal month long gt the week before, in order to match Martins speed. Simply turning up fresh, trained, specifically prepared and at tt weight doesn't seem to cut it.

That's Bradley's prep for the 2012 OG ITT covered. What was Tony's prep like for that race, btw?

 

[rghysens]

That's Bradley's prep for the 2012 OG ITT covered. What was Tony's prep like for that race, btw?

Abandoning the Tour after breaking his wrist?

 

[qwerty16]

Too far? lolol. Dumoulin isn't a prologue specialist or something.

In the Tour Dumoulin only just held off Barta, while Nibali, Konig and van Garderen were pretty close as well. And that was by far his best long time trial. Obviously he has made big steps in 2014, but that one result is hardly a reason to put him up as a certainty for second.

Even more so because an isolated time trial always proves to be a different matter than one included in a stage race and Dumoulin has nearly no reference in these kind of time trials yet.

 

[greenedge]

All this talk about TM winning is irrelevant, we all know Froome will crush everyone in the WC ITT...

 

[Ricco']

Baby Spartacus started his complains earlier this time. Can't wait for Sunday afternoon, it will only get better. I predict some dangerous road coming ahead.

What the hell, if it rains it should be better to cancel the whole thing and wait for 2015.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=75411

 

[classicomano]

I demand neutralized descents with a safety car.

 

[icefire]

Baby Spartacus started his complains earlier this time. Can't wait for Sunday afternoon, it will only get better. I predict some dangerous road coming ahead.

What the hell, if it rains it should be better to cancel the whole thing and wait for 2015.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=75411

To be fair this time he just complained about the rules to compute team sizes. Nevertheless someone should recall him how many teammates had the winner 4 years ago.

 

[Ricco']

And last year too.

His words gave the impression that Switzerland is a great cycling nation, side by side with Spain or Italy. If that was the case some day in the past, that's certainly not the case now.

"Si tienes ese maillot, tal vez te da la oportunidad de hablar, de opinar, de hacer un ciclismo mejor" (If you have the rainbow jersey, maybe it gives you the opportunity to speak, to say your opinion, to make cycling better")

You just speak enough right now Fabian, you don't need a special jersey to that.

 

[Jancouver]

To be fair this time he just complained about the rules to compute team sizes. Nevertheless someone should recall him how many teammates had the winner 4 years ago.

Well, I have to agree with him. Give the best 20 countries 6 riders and the next 10 countries 3 and the next 30 countries one rider and you will have nice field of 180.

The current system is making the stronger countries even stronger and the smaller countries are disadvantaged.

 

[stabbin31]

I love how when someone has an opinion they are complaining. Or even if they do complain, now they are a "baby".

So what? He said he doesn't like the system. Im pretty sure he has earned the right to say that.

 

[cineteq]

Baby Spartacus started his complains earlier this time. Can't wait for Sunday afternoon, it will only get better. I predict some dangerous road coming ahead.

What the hell, if it rains it should be better to cancel the whole thing and wait for 2015.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=75411

Agree with him: 9-men teams are preposterous. There should be only 6 riders.

 

[Kwibus]

Well, I have to agree with him. Give the best 20 countries 6 riders and the next 10 countries 3 and the next 30 countries one rider and you will have nice field of 180.

The current system is making the stronger countries even stronger and the smaller countries are disadvantaged.

Agree 100%

We didnt hear Cancellara complain when he had more riders though, but max 6 riders a team would be awesome.

 

[ILovecycling]

Agree with him: 9-men teams are preposterous. There should be only 6 riders.

it should be more fun, but otoh its very unfair to best nations riders.Imagine spain to have only 6 riders,great riders would be left out...same with italy,france,australia etc

 

[Dazed and Confused]

it should be more fun, but otoh its very unfair to best nations riders.Imagine spain to have only 6 riders,great riders would be left out...same with italy,france,australia etc

Unfair?'

Don't see it. Most of them are not riding for themselves anyway. Just support riders. A great rider working for another great rider. Doesn't make much sense imo.

Cycling needs to get the balance between individualism and team effort right again. The balance is out of whack these days and it makes racing poor and dull in many cases.

 

[jens_attacks]

it's great with 6 riders but i don't think you would like to be one of these 6 and control a race. you have to be a bit of superman as a domestique. and races are 250 kms+. i'm definitely against it, it's barbaric for the domestiques to demand such thing from them. 9 riders teams are fair

 

[Aapjes]

it's great with 6 riders but i don't think you would like to be one of these 6 and control a race. you have to be a bit of superman as a domestique. and races are 250 kms+. i'm definitely against it, it's barbaric for the domestiques to demand such thing from them. 9 riders teams are fair

That's the point. We don't want those 6 to control the race, but rather to cooperate with other teams (or not, so escapes have more of a chance). Under whatever rules there are, teams will burn out domestiques as much as they can get away with and no more.

With 9 riders, Sky/Britain has controlled some races from start to finish, working their domestiques as hard as possible. Similarly, we've seen teams make a single rider chase for 100+ kms. So your 'barbarism' is already here.

 

[SeriousSam]

Anything that makes it harder to control races to a boring death is good in my book.

 

[jens_attacks]

well chaotic, junior races are not what i like. this is a professional sport. races can be destroyed even if the rivals have 9 riders but of course you have to attack, attack and attack.