Critérium du Dauphiné 2017 (04/06 > 11/06/2017)

[RattaKuningas]

I think that Contador will beat Porte today and Froome will take the win.

 

[Sasquatch]

Gallopin will put in a top 3-5 ride today and if Sanchez is still on form, he will too.

 

[Blanco]

Favorites: 1.Froome 2.Bala 3.Contador 4.Porte

 

[Ruby United]

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...But Buchmann is probably the slowest guy on the whole team and Kirby has tipped him as an outsider for about half a dozen sprint stages.

I assume he kept getting him mixed up with Ackermann, who actually is a sprint prospect.

I was thinking this too.
I think it may be a mixture of getting confused between Ackermann (fellow teammate) and Kris Boeckmans (who is obviously a solid sprinter) - if you have Kirby's brains and put the two together you get Buchmann

 

[RedheadDane]

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Kwiato to podium today. Martin to take stage.

However, in the ultimate plot-twist it's gonna be Dan.









Probably not...

 

[kingjr]

Re: Re:

...But Buchmann is probably the slowest guy on the whole team and Kirby has tipped him as an outsider for about half a dozen sprint stages.

I assume he kept getting him mixed up with Ackermann, who actually is a sprint prospect.

I was thinking this too.
I think it may be a mixture of getting confused between Ackermann (fellow teammate) and Kris Boeckmans (who is obviously a solid sprinter) - if you have Kirby's brains and put the two together you get Buchmann

Schwarzmann is there, too, fortunately Schachmann is not.

 

[sir fly]

All-rounders who are preparing for the Tour will more likely go all out in the tt than in the mountains.
Should be exciting time trial.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Valverde to top-5 today

 

[Ruby United]

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All-rounders who are preparing for the Tour will more likely go all out in the tt than in the mountains.
Should be exciting time trial.

In my opinion, people forget that riders can only really tell where they are, especially in comparison to their rivals, BY riding full out. This is the race where riders want to compare themselves to their top rivals for the tour.
I think almost everyone will be riding all out for the whole race

 

[portugal11]

I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

 

[SeriousSam]

As it's a time trial, there's almost nothing to see anyway.

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

All-rounders who are preparing for the Tour will more likely go all out in the tt than in the mountains.
Should be exciting time trial.

In my opinion, people forget that riders can only really tell where they are, especially in comparison to their rivals, BY riding full out. This is the race where riders want to compare themselves to their top rivals for the tour.
I think almost everyone will be riding all out for the whole race

I think there are riders who are taking more conservative approach, and for them a tt is better test than the mountains. Mostly because of the effort management and recovery. Contador is saying he's taking that kind of approach this season. I'm sure there are others, as well.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

The Rai doesn't cover roland garros

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Meantime ticker here:
http://racecenter.criteriumdudauphine.fr/#/stageprofile

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

The Rai doesn't cover roland garros

looks like coverage only starts at 15h25 regardless...

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Tony Martin starting now

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re: Re:

I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

The Rai doesn't cover roland garros

looks like coverage only starts at 15h25 regardless...

oh

 

[Alexandre B.]

Re: Re:

I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

The Rai doesn't cover roland garros

looks like coverage only starts at 15h25 regardless...

Contador won't finish in 18 minutes

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Contador won't finish in 18 minutes

You know about 50% of a rider's screen time during a TT is at the start gate, right

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Chad HAGA smashes Impey by 23s

 

[carolina]

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I'm afraid we won't be able to see contador because of roland garros

You can watch on RTP3

 

[MrTea1976]

Live now on Eurosport player!

 

[portugal11]

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Chad HAGA smashes Impey by 23s

Ahahaahahah, I don't even remember that. I'm glad to be portuguese

 

[infeXio]

Tony Martin at the intermediate; 27 seconds faster than Haga

 

[LaFlorecita]

phew, fake news. Sporza is live.