Prediction 2021

[BlueRoads]

Race	March prediction	Pre-race prediction
Strade Bianche (1 point)	Wout Van Aert	Julian Alaphilippe
Milano-Sanremo (1 point)	Wout Van Aert
Gent-Wevelgem (half a point)	Wout Van Aert
Ronde van Vlaanderen (1 point)	Mathieu van der Poel
Paris-Roubaix (1 point)	Wout Van Aert
Amstel Gold Race (half a point)	Julian Alaphilippe
La Flèche Wallonne (half a point)	Julian Alaphilippe
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1 point)	Julian Alaphilippe
Giro winner (2/1 point)	Egan Bernal
Giro podium 2 (2/1 point)	Mikel Landa
Giro podium 3 (2/1 point)	Remco Evenepoel
TDF winner (2/1 point)	Primoz Roglic
TDF podium 2 (2/1 point)	Tadej Pogacar
TDF podium 3 (2/1 point)	Geraint Thomas
TDF - Green jersey (1 point)	Peter Sagan
TDF - White jersey (half a point)	Tadej Pogacar*
TDF Polka dot jersey (1 point)	Guillaume Martin
OG Road Race (1 point)	Wout Van Aert
OG Time Trial (1 point)	Filippo Ganna
Vuelta winner (2/1 point)	Tadej Pogacar
Vuelta podium 2 (2/1 point)	Adam Yates
Vuelta podium 3 (2/1 point)	Miguel Ángel López
WC Road Race (1 point)	Mathieu van der Poel
WC TimeTrial (1 point)	Filippo Ganna

Il Lombardia: Primoz Roglic (sorry, I don't know what went wrong with the formatting here).

*Lol that you can get points for this.

And of course you had to ruin my post with your late entry. Welcome, you're the 34st player!

 

[tobydawq]

So, we now have 33 players, a Schnapszahl as we say in Germany, I think there is no nice and ugly equivalent of this expression and I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but anyway, for Strade it seems there is one! person so far who dared to pick SOMEBODY ELSE than van der Poel, van Aert or Alaphilippe in at least one of their predictions for Strade (Mollema).

If you want to be the 34st player and beat Kovo by predicting that Greg van Avermaet (not totally impossible?), Ben Zwiehoff, or, shocking, Jakob Fuglsang will win this bike race, you can do this until tomorrow morning when the riders roll out of Siena to have a nice, bucolic ride to, well, Siena.

If you suddenly have doubts that Tadej will win this race this year, despite you saying so, you can give a pre-race prediction which differs from your original post. You can even pick a complete outsider from a small team like Kwiatkowski ! Yes, that's allowed!

Kwiatkowski is not a team.

 

[tobydawq]

And of course you had to ruin my post with your late entry. Welcome, you're the 34st player!

Some welcome... I see the pressure of playing host is already getting to you. It will be a tough year.

And how do you say 34st?

Thirty-fourst?

 

[BlueRoads]

Some welcome... I see the pressure of playing host is already getting to you. It will be a tough year.

And how do you say 34st?

Thirty-fourst?

Yeah, I guess German accent.

Don't you want to do some nice excel sheets? I think you're the perfect guy for that!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If you're in a bar in South Tyrol you can have thirty Forsts.

Pre-race Strade: Still Alafpolak.

 

[KZD]

Pre-race Strade: Julian Alaphilippe

 

[Finn84]

Regarding tie-breaker, I think in this kind of game it should be some number prediction and the closest would win.

I'll keep my prediction as it is for Strade.

 

[Brumdog66]

Pre-race Strade: Alaphilippe

 

[Pinot's goat]

If you don't post a pre race prediction is it assumed that you have not changed mind from your March prediction?

 

[BlueRoads]

If you don't post a pre race prediction is it assumed that you have not changed mind from your March prediction?

Yes.

 

[BlueRoads]

Going through the names I am now assuming Yates means Simon Yates for the Giro and Adam Yates for the Vuelta. Also I am assuming by Pedersen you mean Mads Pedersen. If that is not the case, please tell me!

 

[BlueRoads]

Pre-race Strade: Julian Alaphilippe

Wait, did you enter a March prediction? You can still do that. Or did I miss you?

 

[jpanula]

Race	March prediction	Pre-race prediction
Strade Bianche (1 point)	WVA
Milano-Sanremo (1 point)	WVA
Gent-Wevelgem (half a point)	Pedersen
Ronde van Vlaanderen (1 point)	Sagan
Paris-Roubaix (1 point)	MVDP
Amstel Gold Race (half a point)	Hirschi
La Flèche Wallonne (half a point)	Alaphilippe
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1 point)	Evenepoel
Giro winner (2/1 point)	Pinot
Giro podium 2 (2/1 point)	Yates S
Giro podium 3 (2/1 point)	Bernal
TDF winner (2/1 point)	Roglic
TDF podium 2 (2/1 point)	Pogacar
TDF podium 3 (2/1 point)	Froome
TDF - Green jersey (1 point)	Bennet
TDF - White jersey (half a point)	Pogacar
TDF Polka dot jersey (1 point)	Alaphilippe
OG Road Race (1 point)	Alaphilippe
OG Time Trial (1 point)	Evenepoel
Vuelta winner (2/1 point)	Bardet
Vuelta podium 2 (2/1 point)	Yates A
Vuelta podium 3 (2/1 point)	Quintana
WC Road Race (1 point)	Sagan
WC TimeTrial (1 point)	Ganna
Il Lombardia (1 point)	Evenepoel

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Race	March prediction
Strade Bianche (1 point)	Alaphilippe (also as pre-race)
Milano-Sanremo (1 point)	Van der Poel
Gent-Wevelgem (half a point)	Pedersen
Ronde van Vlaanderen (1 point)	Van der Poel
Paris-Roubaix (1 point)	Van Aert
Amstel Gold Race (half a point)	Hirschi
La Flèche Wallonne (half a point)	Valverde
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1 point)	Alaphilippe
Giro winner (2/1 point)	Bernal
Giro podium 2 (2/1 point)	Pinot
Giro podium 3 (2/1 point)	Yates S
TDF winner (2/1 point)	Roglic
TDF podium 2 (2/1 point)	Carapaz
TDF podium 3 (2/1 point)	Pogacar
TDF - Green jersey (1 point)	Sagan
TDF - White jersey (half a point)	Pogacar
TDF Polka dot jersey (1 point)	Konrad
OG Road Race (1 point)	Alaphilippe
OG Time Trial (1 point)	Ganna
Vuelta winner (2/1 point)	Pogacar
Vuelta podium 2 (2/1 point)	Lopez
Vuelta podium 3 (2/1 point)	Mas
WC Road Race (1 point)	Van Aert
WC TimeTrial (1 point)	Evenepoel
Il Lombardia (1 point)	Pinot

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Race	March prediction	Pre-race prediction
Strade Bianche (1 point)	Pogacar	Pogacar
Milano-Sanremo (1 point)	Alaphilippe
Gent-Wevelgem (half point)	Kristoff
Ronde van Vlaanderen (1 point)	Wout Van Aert
Paris-Roubaix (1 point)	Van der Poel
Amstel Gold Race (half a point)	Van der Poel
La Flèche Wallonne (half a point)	Hirschi
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1 point)	Pogacar
Giro winner (2/1 point)	Bernal
Giro podium 2 (2/1 point)	Nibali
Giro podium 3 (2/1 point)	Evenepoel
TDF winner (2/1 point)	Pogacar
TDF podium 2 (2/1 point)	Roglic
TDF podium 3 (2/1 point)	Carapaz
TDF - Green jersey (1 point)	Bennett
TDF - White jersey (half a point)	Pogacar
TDF - Polka dot jersey(1 point)	Pogacar
OG Road Race (1 point)	Van Aert
OG Time Trial (1 point)	Ganna
Vuelta winner (2/1 point)	Pogacar
Vuelta podium 2 (2/1 point)	Bernal
Vuelta podium 3 (2/1 point)	Roglic
WC Road Race (1 point)	Wout Van Aert
WC TimeTrial (1 point)	Ganna
Il Lombardia (1 point)	Nibali

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[Hihope]

I can see by the way you fill out your list, that you're a big van der Poel fan.

MVdP no doubt is a great rider, and he will probably win a race or two, but I can't predict which.

Last year WVA came back from injury, and was incredibly strong. I assume he will be even stronger this year.

Also Deceuninck will be a factor in many races, but it is not an option.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

MVdP no doubt is a great rider, and he will probably win a race or two, but I can't predict which.

Last year WVA came back from injury, and was incredibly strong. I assume he will be even stronger this year.

Also Deceuninck will be a factor in many races, but it is not an option.

Just yanking your chain, it was funny not to see him mentioned once.

 

[Gigs_98]

Very unimaginative

Ok

 

[Red Rick]

Y'all gonna be wrong

At least most of the times.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Y'all gonna be wrong

At least most of the times.

Many of us got it wrong today, that's for sure

 

[Hihope]

Ok

LOL. I guess it is more than OK as Long as you are right.

 

[Hihope]

Just yanking your chain, it was funny not to see him mentioned once.

I know and now I regret it. Great showing by MVP. Sprint between him and Alaf in MSR?

 

[topcat]

LOL. I guess it is more than OK as Long as you are right.

Being right is a nice ego-boost. But, I find it rather dull. I prefer to get creative and a little wacky. I'd prefer to get 1 right out of 10 that nobody else saw rather than 9 out of 10 right that everybody saw.

 

[Gigs_98]

Being right is a nice ego-boost. But, I find it rather dull. I prefer to get creative and a little wacky. I'd prefer to get 1 right out of 10 that nobody else saw rather than 9 out of 10 right that everybody saw.

And you are free to do so. Nobody trying to keep you from losing

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The forum's favourites for GTs this year:

Giro:
Bernal - 27 votes

Tour:
Pogacar - 23 votes
Roglic - 13 votes

Vuelta:
Pogacar - 14 votes
Evenepoel - 8 votes

Age of GT favourites (except Roglic) is incredibly young: 21-24 yo! When did such a situation happened last time? Sky is the limit for these young guys. Last year I made kinda prediction that these three will win at least half of GTs is 2020s. So far it's 1/3 but I wouldn't bet against them.