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Very likely, I think the squad will be Froome, Wiggins, Porte, Uran, Kiriyenka, Siutsou, Lopez, Hagen, Thomas.
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I'm pretty sure Stannard is riding, he was part of the Tenerife training camp. They need an engine like him for the flat and the TTT.airstream said:Very likely, I think the squad will be Froome, Wiggins, Porte, Uran, Kiriyenka, Siutsou, Lopez, Hagen, Thomas.
airstream said:Very likely, I think the squad will be Froome, Wiggins, Porte, Uran, Kiriyenka, Siutsou, Lopez, Hagen, Thomas.
del1962 said:I think Knees will be in the sqaud, posibly Stannard aswell, in place of Uran and Siutsou
Netserk said:No matter which team he'd ride for, I'd still dislike him.
Why should it matter which team he rides for? I dislike riders on pretty much every team, and even on Sky (a team I hate) there's several riders I like.
del1962 said:I think Knees will be in the sqaud, posibly Stannard aswell, in place of Uran and Siutsou
Froome19 said:Agreed.
Uran is focusing on the Worlds at the end of the year, he will ride the Vuelta and is certainly not doing the Tour.
Knees will be taken surely, he is Sky's wind buffer. Only other person who could be considered is Zandio, whom Wiggins and DB like a lot, but I don't think he will get taken.. just simply not good enough. Bernie aint got a chance either imo. Stannard should be the last rider therefore.
airstream said:Thomas, Hagen, Stannard and Knees is way too much for flat. One of them won't start imo
Bernie's eyesore said:Boasson Hagen will be there for his climbing ability as much as anything, noone better at dropping 90% of the peloton on the first part of a climb.
maltiv said:I'm pretty sure Stannard is riding, he was part of the Tenerife training camp. They need an engine like him for the flat and the TTT.
maltiv said:I'm pretty sure Stannard is riding, he was part of the Tenerife training camp. They need an engine like him for the flat and the TTT.
JRanton said:I think the team will be:
Froome
Wiggins
Porte
Lopez
Kiryienka
Thomas
EBH
Stannard
Eisel
King Of The Wolds said:Snap. Swap around Lopez and Kiryienka and that's probably your train order too.
I wouldn't take Brad actually or even replace him with one of the Colombians. Much better to take somebody who's going to be fully behind Froome, and somebody who can support on the flat, hills and TTT - Sivtsov or Knees probably.
JRanton said:Lopez was used after Kiryienka in the train at both Paris-Nice and Romandie. I think politically they pretty much have to take Wiggins, unless he's completely unfit. It's a bit like the Cavendish situation last year. He's defending champion and has too much name recognition in Britain for Sky not to want him there. Brailsford said before the Giro that if Wiggins didn't ride the Tour then Henao would replace him. Given that Henao was running on fumes in the second half of the Giro I'd imagine the logical replacement would be Uran.
Poursuivant said:I think Porte will finish higher than Wiggins.
JRanton said:I think the team will be:
Froome
Wiggins
Porte
Lopez
Kiryienka
Thomas
EBH
Stannard
Eisel
HCl+HN03 said:So do I, but its depends wheter Porte is allowed to do his own race. Hopfully the likes of Kiriyenka, Lopez and perhaps Thomas can take care of the job he did last year.
But he says: “I don’t feel like I’ve hit my best form yet. It’s been good but not like I’ve been absolutely flying yet. I feel on the rise but I’ve still got a few weeks to the Tour, there’s still headroom.”
“Contador’s the main threat,” says Froome. “He knows what he’s doing, he’s won a lot of Grands Tour. He’ll be hidden away in Spain somewhere riding himself into form, I’m sure.”
gooner said:There's more to come from the Dawg.
But he says: “I don’t feel like I’ve hit my best form yet. It’s been good but not like I’ve been absolutely flying yet. I feel on the rise but I’ve still got a few weeks to the Tour, there’s still headroom.”
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“Contador’s the main threat,” says Froome. “He knows what he’s doing, he’s won a lot of Grands Tour. He’ll be hidden away in Spain somewhere riding himself into form, I’m sure.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/oth...s-and-winning-the-tour-de-france-8637316.html
Maybe he's having a few flights a month in Madrid, with a fake mustache on his face. Who knows?Cimber said:Only he has been doing that in Switzerland, not spain :