So Australia will automatically be taken out of the competition as only 5 riders have over 10 points: Matthews, Porte, Dennis, Evans and Durbridge. Since Evans has retired, he will not be available next year. Unless Gerrans wins points at the final classics, which is likely but is not certain, then they have only 4 riders available. But if Matthews and Dennis score big at the races in which they go to and qualify top 5, then do they relinquish that spot or hold it for no reason?Asero831 said:TMP402 said:AICA ribonucleotide said:MatParker117 said:G, Froome, Cav, Stannard & Kennaugh is probably GB's team
You have to bare in mind each rider needs to get a minimum of 10 world tour points. Stannard and Kennaugh wouldnt be eligible to compete.
Stannard getting a top 10 in say MSR (which he has done before) and P-R would do the job. ditto Kennaugh having a good Ardennes campaign, and I'm sure Sky will be well aware of this.
Edit: Rowe got 20 WT points for his P-R 8th place, so if Stannard can get a P-R top 10 and Kennaugh an Ardennes top 10 or two and a WT stage win, they'll be fine. But I don't think Stannard will be that useful for Team GB. He can do grunt work, but with that parcours and a maximum team of five, surely having five contenders in Kennaugh, Froome, Thomas and the Yates' would be at least as useful as including Stannard if not more.
The 10 points rule is for the 2015 season. So as of now, only 6 British riders have atleast 10 WT points
Froomey, G, Yates bros, Cav and Luke.
True.Asero831 said:Australia also have riders in the continental tour like von hoff and kerby, but if the 10 points is no longer required, it is a different story
Brullnux said:Why does the Olympic course have 20km of flat after the final climb+descent? This really damages the hopes of some riders surely, as the race is now likely to finish with a group of 10 riders at the end. However, this is the Olympics, so I guess attacks will happen 24/7
TMP402 said:Brullnux said:Why does the Olympic course have 20km of flat after the final climb+descent? This really damages the hopes of some riders surely, as the race is now likely to finish with a group of 10 riders at the end. However, this is the Olympics, so I guess attacks will happen 24/7
I don't mind that. London-Surrey had 50km after the last hill I believe but was still an exciting race.
Brullnux said:TMP402 said:Brullnux said:Why does the Olympic course have 20km of flat after the final climb+descent? This really damages the hopes of some riders surely, as the race is now likely to finish with a group of 10 riders at the end. However, this is the Olympics, so I guess attacks will happen 24/7
I don't mind that. London-Surrey had 50km after the last hill I believe but was still an exciting race.
I realised it was actually a nice idea after I started writing![]()
But I still think some riders chances have been damaged, especially the climbers who will undoubtedly attack on the last climb, and on the climb the 3 times before that, but who can't time trial that well will be caught there. Racing wise it will be good, but for the like of Purito it will be very bad.
TMP402 said:I hadn't noticed before but this article
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/rio-olympic-games-how-great-britain-plan-to-deliver-success/
mentions a Rio 2016 test event on 16 August, the 1.2 rated Aquece Rio - Desafio Internacional following much of the same course. National teams from the leading countries will be invited so it will be interesting to see what happens, but being less than a week before the Vuelta will rule out some favourites for both events, eg Nibali.
Pierrot le Fou said:TMP402 said:I hadn't noticed before but this article
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/rio-olympic-games-how-great-britain-plan-to-deliver-success/
mentions a Rio 2016 test event on 16 August, the 1.2 rated Aquece Rio - Desafio Internacional following much of the same course. National teams from the leading countries will be invited so it will be interesting to see what happens, but being less than a week before the Vuelta will rule out some favourites for both events, eg Nibali.
There's a strong French team heading over. Bardet, Pinot, Vuillermoz, Barguil and Gallopin. Not sure if that means none of them are doing the Vuelta.
Asero831 said:It will really be interesting for Spain. Contador, Valverde, Rodriguez, Landa and the fifth guy.
Billie said:It's not a 2 day race like in Bejing? There they had the timetrial as 2nd stage.
Contador named the Olympics his 2nd goal of the season besides the TDF, and the Spanish national coach has practically begged him to participate in the worlds in the last few years, so I would be surprised if he leaves him at home.Velolover2 said:Asero831 said:It will really be interesting for Spain. Contador, Valverde, Rodriguez, Landa and the fifth guy.
Not sure that Contador will be there. Neither with Landa.
Valverde, Rodriguez, Ion Izagirre, Intxausti and Luis Leon Sanchez (pacing).
Yep, but only to be a biatch to Valverde.LaFlorecita said:Contador named the Olympics his 2nd goal of the season besides the TDF, and the Spanish national coach has practically begged him to participate in the worlds in the last few years, so I would be surprised if he leaves him at home.Velolover2 said:Asero831 said:It will really be interesting for Spain. Contador, Valverde, Rodriguez, Landa and the fifth guy.
Not sure that Contador will be there. Neither with Landa.
Valverde, Rodriguez, Ion Izagirre, Intxausti and Luis Leon Sanchez (pacing).
Hmm? What do you mean?ILovecycling said:Yep, but only to be a biatch to Valverde.LaFlorecita said:Contador named the Olympics his 2nd goal of the season besides the TDF, and the Spanish national coach has practically begged him to participate in the worlds in the last few years, so I would be surprised if he leaves him at home.Velolover2 said:Asero831 said:It will really be interesting for Spain. Contador, Valverde, Rodriguez, Landa and the fifth guy.
Not sure that Contador will be there. Neither with Landa.
Valverde, Rodriguez, Ion Izagirre, Intxausti and Luis Leon Sanchez (pacing).
LaFlorecita said:Hmm? What do you mean?ILovecycling said:Yep, but only to be a biatch to Valverde.LaFlorecita said:Contador named the Olympics his 2nd goal of the season besides the TDF, and the Spanish national coach has practically begged him to participate in the worlds in the last few years, so I would be surprised if he leaves him at home.Velolover2 said:Asero831 said:It will really be interesting for Spain. Contador, Valverde, Rodriguez, Landa and the fifth guy.
Not sure that Contador will be there. Neither with Landa.
Valverde, Rodriguez, Ion Izagirre, Intxausti and Luis Leon Sanchez (pacing).
[/quote]damian13ster said:That he wouldn't be a leader of a team, probably not even a free role seeing that they are better riders for this terrain. I really hope that Poland holds on. Majka needs to top 5-6 the Vuelta and Kwiatkowski needs to come back into some semi-decent shape for the classics.