Most impressive tour debut 2015

[fungusbear]

Who in your opinion had the most impressive tour de france debut? I think the Yates twins (3 top tens for Adam, 2 for Simon plus great showing on stage 20) and Bon Jungels had very impressive debuts. Meintjes was doing great until he had to withdraw due to illness. There are probably loads of other great debuts that I have missed as I am very sleepy at the moment

Your thoughts?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Jos van Emden with his 5th place in the opening prologue. He might be old (30) but it was his first TDF

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

 

[Christian]

Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

 

[fungusbear]

Re: Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

dem TT perhaps?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Re: Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

Cobbles races. Like Terpstra.
Window of opportunity coming up.

 

[del1962]

What about Luke Rowe, did lot of great work as a domestique

 

[Billie]

Barguil had the most impressive debut

 

[roundabout]

Who in your opinion had the most impressive tour de france debut? I think the Yates twins (3 top tens for Adam, 2 for Simon plus great showing on stage 20) and Bon Jungels had very impressive debuts. Meintjes was doing great until he had to withdraw due to illness. There are probably loads of other great debuts that I have missed as I am very sleepy at the moment

Your thoughts?

Simon raced the Tour last year.

 

[Billie]

And Stybar and Vuillermoz who both won stages

 

[Popchu]

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And Stybar and Vuillermoz who both won stages

Vuillermoz no debutant

 

[Christian]

Re: Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

Cobbles races. Like Terpstra.
Window of opportunity coming up.

I think people put a little too much importance on his U23 win in Paris Roubaix. He had good results in cobbles, ITT and GC as a U23. No disrespect to Terpstra but Jungels seems considerably more versatile to me

 

[ILovecycling]

Styby,Teklehaimanot and Emden as DT said.
edit: My god I forgot Anacona

 

[Billie]

Re: Re:

And Stybar and Vuillermoz who both won stages

Vuillermoz no debutant

indeed thought he only was a stagaire in 2013 but that was in 2012

 

[roundabout]

Re:

Styby,Teklehaimanot and Emden as DT said.
edit: My god I forgot Anacona

oh yes, how impressive it was for a multiple GT veteran, GT stage winner and a top-20 overall finisher to feature on 2 stages at age 27.

 

[BigMac]

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Barguil had the most impressive debut

I'm also going with Barguil cos he's awesome. His two Vuelta stage wins a couple of years ago were very telling.

 

[ILovecycling]

Re: Re:

Styby,Teklehaimanot and Emden as DT said.
edit: My god I forgot Anacona

oh yes, how impressive it was for a multiple GT veteran, GT stage winner and a top-20 overall finisher to feature on 2 stages at age 27.

read the thread name instead of moaning

 

[hrotha]

I thought Barguil was very slightly disappointing.

 

[Netserk]

Barguil
Stybar
Jungels

 

[Hugo Koblet]

I can't think of anyone, so I guess my answer is that no one impressed.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Re: Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

Cobbles races. Like Terpstra.
Window of opportunity coming up.

I think people put a little too much importance on his U23 win in Paris Roubaix. He had good results in cobbles, ITT and GC as a U23. No disrespect to Terpstra but Jungels seems considerably more versatile to me

Forget the U23 stuff. Its similar level as the tour cobbles. Means nothing.

Terpstra is currently a much better rider than Jungels, primarily because of the Dutchman's focus.

 

[tristecsinamigos]

Pantano did good too, top 20.

Sepúlveda was doing very good at such a young age and with such a team, too bad what happened later..

 

[roundabout]

Re: Re:

Styby,Teklehaimanot and Emden as DT said.
edit: My god I forgot Anacona

oh yes, how impressive it was for a multiple GT veteran, GT stage winner and a top-20 overall finisher to feature on 2 stages at age 27.

read the thread name instead of moaning

I know what this thread is about. Which makes your post baffling, unless of course you thought that the title was the Most impressive tour debut by a Colombian rider.

And even then Pantano was more impressive even if more anonymous.

 

[TMP402]

Re: Re:

Jungels by far, but hes wasting his time chasing GT glory.

What else do you think he should be going after?

Cobbles races. Like Terpstra.
Window of opportunity coming up.

I think people put a little too much importance on his U23 win in Paris Roubaix. He had good results in cobbles, ITT and GC as a U23. No disrespect to Terpstra but Jungels seems considerably more versatile to me

What are you talking about? Terpstra is also the best Dutch sprinter!

 

[Arredondo]

I actually expected Barguil to do a Tour like this. So not really impressive imo.

Jungels really good. And Winner Anacona was great in the Alps!