Poll - who will win Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014?

[Flamin]

Time for a poll. Cast your votes.

 

[ExtraSpoke]

So where is the poll?

 

[David_William]

 

[Gloin22]

Cancellara if no bad luck looked the strongest in E3. Plus Devolder looks in great shape so he'll have a preety good dom.

Tersptra from a long attack maybe.

I can't see Sagan winning, he misses something in the big races yet as San Remo shown again.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Its Sagan for me.
A little weakness here and there, but he is gathering race understanding very quickly and I think he will peak perfectly.

I hope RVV will be raced considerable harder than this year's E3.

 

[Tournesol]

Cancellara to ride everyone off his wheel on the Paterberg.

 

[David_William]

Cancellara to ride everyone off his wheel on the Paterberg.

Good luck trying to drop Geraint Thomas...

 

[Netserk]

Good luck trying to drop Geraint Thomas...

He will do it himself...

 

[Marco Pantani]

Cancellara to ride everyone off his wheel on the Paterberg.

Cancellara to surprise with an attack over Taaienberg.

1st Cancellara
2nd Vanmarcke
3rd Stybar
4th Sagan
5th Terpstra

 

[BigMac]

Where's the option for Tiago Machado?

Gaudin will win.

 

[trevim]

Boonen to withstand all the Cancellara moves and outsprint him in the end. The King of Flanders!
I would be happy with Canc, Vanmarcke, Vandenbergh, Roelandts, Keirsbulck, Hushovd and Degenkolb too. Basically it will be difficult for me to be depressed with the outcome of the race. From the poll only Stybar, Sagan or Thomas would be disappointments.

 

[zlev11]

sh*t, i meant to vote Sagan but i voted Boonen on accident. screw it, Boonen will win!

 

[trevim]

sh*t, i meant to vote Sagan but i voted Boonen on accident. screw it, Boonen will win!

Your heart knows better than your conscience

 

[Jspear]

1. Cancellara - with a large gap
2. Stybar
3. Terpstra

Then whoever you want in whatever order.....but Boonen will beat Sagan by two bike lengths.

 

[David_William]

I think everyone is understimating Geraint Thomas capabilities, he is more than capable of putting Cancellara under pressure in the hills.

 

[Samson777]

I think everyone is understimating Geraint Thomas capabilities, he is more than capable of putting Cancellara under pressure in the hills.

If that will be the case, you are probably right that a lot of people don't think highly enough of Thomas. Time will tell.

 

[David_William]

How come people vote for Stybar instead of Thomas? G is better climber and sprinter, is like rating rating Degenkolb higher than Sagan. Same type of rider but one at a much higher level...

 

[scholar]

I think everyone is understimating Geraint Thomas capabilities, he is more than capable of putting Cancellara under pressure in the hills.

You know he's got to get down them as well, ideally while remaining on his bike?

 

[Afrank]

Gonna vote based on my CQ team. The man that makes Sagan's wheelies look amateurish.

 

[Lanceo]

1.Sagan
2.Stybar
3.Vanmarcke

 

[The Hitch]

I think everyone is understimating Geraint Thomas capabilities, he is more than capable of putting Cancellara under pressure in the hills.

Geraint Thomas has never shown anything that would suggest he can take a fight to Cancellara here. Can it happen. Sure, there have been more surprising winners of monuments(and gts) in recent years, but on ability we've seen in recent years, few people are even close to cancellara on cobbles, and g Thomas is not one of them.

 

[The Hitch]

Where's the option for Tiago Machado?

Gaudin will win.

Looks like in thus thread anyway, Tiago Machado has become Geraint Thomas. (Originally Bauke Mollema)

 

[jaylew]

How come people vote for Stybar instead of Thomas? G is better climber and sprinter, is like rating rating Degenkolb higher than Sagan. Same type of rider but one at a much higher level...

I disagree

 

[The Barb]

How come people vote for Stybar instead of Thomas? G is better climber and sprinter, is like rating rating Degenkolb higher than Sagan. Same type of rider but one at a much higher level...

I don't agree with this. Stybar outsprinted Gilbert in a flat stage at last year's Vuelta, and if you think he doesn't have speed on an uphill finish, check out his 2nd placing on stage 6 at the Eneco Tour.

In a sprint finish I'd definitely take him over Thomas.

On top of that there's bike handling skills, where the difference between them is large ...

 

[Pippo_San]

Looks like in thus thread anyway, Tiago Machado has become Geraint Thomas. (Originally Bauke Mollema)

Eventually Thiago Machado will become the unsung hero of 2014.