2008 wasn't so bad in retrospect I think, though I don't remember that much apart from the MTF's and the MTT. What was so bad about it?
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DFA123 said:One thing the route has going for it, is that they will be spending a lot of time in the regions with the worst weather. There's a decent chance of a couple of very wet and windy stages which could make even an easyish stage interesting. I guess for the riders that is also better than having many stages in Andalucia at around 40 degrees, when no-one could attack even if they wanted to - like we had in the last few editions.
No, otherwise they would have skipped the TTT and made a hilly ITT instead of a flat one. There will have to be bonus seconds and he will have to win at least 3 stages. And he is one of these guys who gains 10 secs on a stage, not a minute because he doesn't attack until the final couple of K's.Escarabajo said:I think they want Purito to finally win it?
WheelofGear said:No, otherwise they would have skipped the TTT and made a hilly ITT instead of a flat one. There will have to be bonus seconds and he will have to win at least 3 stages. And he is one of these guys who gains 10 secs on a stage, not a minute because he doesn't attack until the final couple of K's.Escarabajo said:I think they want Purito to finally win it?
Quintana will be tried after Tour. And he is not explosive enough. Moreno, Ion and even Betancur could be potentially better.
I heard that Landa is going to be Sky's captain and I think he is going to win this. He just have to sit behind Kiryienka in the time trial. If Contador shows up, it's between him and Landa. I think Contador will fail in the Tour but will be eagered to at least win the Vuelta.
Red Rick said:If Landa is team leader for the Vuelta without having ridden the Tour he's gonna be the big favourite if he can confirm last year's Giro in May. Contador, Froome and Quintana have enough class to be competitive for 2 GT's in 3 months, but it takes too much out of them to be good enough to win.
I don't know, without the fever on the Andorra stage Quintana would have been competitive at the Vuelta, but this year everyone will try to peak for Tour and Olympics, so I can't really see those who ride the whole Tour for the gc doing well at the Vuelta.Red Rick said:If Landa is team leader for the Vuelta without having ridden the Tour he's gonna be the big favourite if he can confirm last year's Giro in May. Contador, Froome and Quintana have enough class to be competitive for 2 GT's in 3 months, but it takes too much out of them to be good enough to win.
railxmig said:@Libertine_Seguros. Is there any chance of wind action in one of those Unipublic MTF stages? I remember i think in 2012 there was something on a stage to Valdezcaray where Sky and Katiusha tried something on crosswinds and Valverde was caught in a crash losing a minute or close to it. Similar to what happened in Tour 2013. I found a profile of this stage - it was basically an Unipublic stage but with a steep cat. 1 in the first part.