GC favorites in Paris Roubais

[ttrider]

I mean a lot of the roubaix specialists like maaskant, boom, boassen hagen etc didnt do work yet did badly....
Evans and Vino especially look like they could give Roubais and certainly flanders a very good go, if either peaked and trained for flanders i would say they would be major favorites

 

[scribe]

I mean a lot of the roubaix specialists like maaskant, boom, boassen hagen etc didnt do work yet did badly....
Evans and Vino especially look like they could give Roubais and certainly flanders a very good go, if either peaked and trained for flanders i would say they would be major favorites

Unless these guys were gonna do something GC productive to get into the front of the peloton, I don't see what the point is for them to bust nuts. That's a waste of energy that is more useful later, perhaps even tomorrow.

 

[roundabout]

Not sure, most of the specialists rode as fast as their GC guy or were used to get the GC guys to the front.

Besides, a crash is still too risky, even if Vino is like a cat.

 

[BrindSurch]

I thing to think is alot of really top guys where working for other people such as cancellara was working for a.schleck

 

[karlboss]

Some GC guys could go well in the Cobbles, no doubt but what are their real aims?

As for specialists not performing, a tour stage vs a classic and 10km of cobbles in the last 40 is a little differetn to a 3rd of the whole stage being cobbled and you have someon who doesn't ride cobbles to look after.