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Paris Nice - Stage 7 - Brignoles → Biot - Sophia Antipolis - 216km

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GC prior to stage

1 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad 24:59:47
2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team RadioShack 0:00:36
3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:39
4 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:01:10
5 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:14
6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 0:01:29
7 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Team RadioShack 0:01:32
8 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:01:37
9 Xavier Tondo Volpini (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:51
10 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:01:57


For me, this will be the day a group of opportunists go off the front, and make a big lead and fight out the finish together, while the gc guys largely look at each other and try and defend what they have.
 
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Didn't we often see profiles that promised a lot, but resulted in a terribly boring standard-race afterwards ?
It works the other way around, too. But you never know. This is the reason why people follow sports.

I like breakaways beeing successful and hope a BMC rider will win. :D
Some strong wind, rain, field splitting or some early and serious attacks would be great of course.

If boring standard race procedure, then I will pick Haussler for that, because Peter is injured.
 
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This is the worst Saturday Paris-Nice stage for quite a while. Eurosport is right not to show it live.
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Eurosport are showing it live. Its tirreno they arent showing.

PN on eurosport 2, Tirreno on ES2 afterwards.
 
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Well, it might not be that bad... it does remind me of 2009 Tour, but then again it's not all the top riders going a bloc with the strongest teams. A P-N stage like this has more potential to break up and be exciting than a Tour stage like this. I mean, of course you're not going to get them stringing in 1 by 1 like a MTF, but there could be a few groups that break up. I remember thinking that the stage where Contador cracked 2 years ago was going to be boring too.

That said, it could possibly be really boring too. I'm just going to give it the benefit of the doubt.
 
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Epic fail of a parcours IMO. They should of made it with a solid uphill finish. Tony Martin (I must admit, I have never really warmed to him as a rider) shouldn't get the P-N win because he is the best time trialist, go on, let's see what other qualities he has and make him fight for it.
 
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craig1985 said:
Epic fail of a parcours IMO. They should of made it with a solid uphill finish. Tony Martin (I must admit, I have never really warmed to him as a rider) shouldn't get the P-N win because he is the best time trialist, go on, let's see what other qualities he has and make him fight for it.
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I totally agree with that
 
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craig1985 said:
Epic fail of a parcours IMO. They should of made it with a solid uphill finish. Tony Martin (I must admit, I have never really warmed to him as a rider) shouldn't get the P-N win because he is the best time trialist, go on, let's see what other qualities he has and make him fight for it.
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If Tony Martin wins it will be because he is a good enough climber. Stage 5 had a solid uphill finish and who was setting the pace? Tony Martin! Kloden is a TTer Brajkovic is a TTer. Sanchez the sitter is not.

I wonder if the fact that he is German and doesn't give a huge number of interviews to Phil&Paul and to Cyclingnews.com is the reason for you and many others failing to warm to him! This is a consequence I feel of SA's and others idolisation of LA to the detriment of the sport.

What I like about Tony Martin is his committment to the team as shown by his leadouts for Cavendish in the last two years at the TdF.
 
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If Tony Martin wins it will be because he is a good enough climber. Stage 5 had a solid uphill finish and who was setting the pace? Tony Martin! Kloden is a TTer Brajkovic is a TTer. Sanchez the sitter is not.

I wonder if the fact that he is German and doesn't give a huge number of interviews to Phil&Paul and to Cyclingnews.com is the reason for you and many others failing to warm to him! This is a consequence I feel of SA's and others idolisation of LA to the detriment of the sport.
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I think most of them aren't disappointed in Martin winning it but more in the race itself not living up to former editions.
 
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Well, this stage profile is pretty much the standard Saturday fare.
We have swopped the 15km run across the Cannes sea front, off the
final climb, for a 50km run into the Biot science park.
The positive difference being that there's 60 metres of uphill at the finish.

So, we could have a situation whereby we have 2 breakaway groups; one in the early mountains, that gets caught, then another on the rolling circuit.

I can't come up with a realistic scenario whereby a team makes a viable attack on the yellow jersey..............other than with the aid of the elements and luck.

UK Eurosport starts up live, early, at 14-30GMT.
The reason for no live Tirreno is that Rai Sport 2 (host channel) won't be going to air until 15-00CET and the earliest scheduled arrival in Chieti is 15-24CET.
Even RAITRE are on delayed coverage.
Don't expect to see more than 20-30kms/minutes.:(
 
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