Tour de France 2014 Start List

[Ricco']

The team presentation is Thursday afternoon so by then we must know the official line-ups of the teams (bar some injury or something like that).

 

[Cimber]

Tinkoff-Saxo:

Contador
Rogers
Roche
Majka
Pauhlinho
Hernandez
Mørkøv
Benatti
Tossato

 

[One Man Grupetto]

No Coppel in their team???

He hasn't recovered from crashing out of the Dauphine.

 

[whittashau]

Cannondale for #TDF: P. Sagan, Bodnar, De Marchi, King, Koren, Marcato, Marino,
Sabatini & Viviani

Interestingly Caruso misses out. Viviani leading Sagan out?

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Viviani leading Sagan out?

Yes, that's the plan.

 

[whittashau]

Yeah, but who is going to make the race hard to drop sprinters on the hilly days in which Peter should be getting his wins on?

De Marchi and Koren?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Caruso is ****ed at his non-selection. But he said he will use the anger to drive him on the next races

 

[whittashau]

I'm guessing he missed out because he's going to BMC next season? The fact is that he has been rather poor this season. De Marchi hasn't been good either though

The only good climbers for Cannondale this season have been Formolo and Bennett

 

[whittashau]

Gadret, Visconti, Erviti, Herrada, Valverde, J Izaguirre, Plaza, Intxausti & Rojas - Movistar team

Strongest team from a climbing perspective thus far. Maybe a little weak on the flat/cobbled stages?

 

[Liquigas]

Gadret, Visconti, Erviti, Herrada, Valverde, J Izaguirre, Plaza, Intxausti & Rojas - Movistar team

Strongest team from a climbing perspective thus far.

I don't think so. Sky and Astana are stronger.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Yeah, but who is going to make the race hard to drop sprinters on the hilly days in which Peter should be getting his wins on?

De Marchi and Koren?

Bodnar will be more useful than De Marchi, I'm guessing. It's not about who's the best climber on the team. We're only talking 3rd and 4th category climbs, with the occasional rolling 2nd category. There will probably be other teams to help them out when the pure sprinters are dropped.

The harder medium mountain stages will be controlled by other teams, anyway.

 

[inthepink]

Gadret, Visconti, Erviti, Herrada, Valverde, J Izaguirre, Plaza, Intxausti & Rojas - Movistar team

Strongest team from a climbing perspective thus far. Maybe a little weak on the flat/cobbled stages?

But it is in the flat & cobbles stages that Movistar could loose the race ...I am sure that is what happened to Valverde in 2013 & 2012 ..if memory serves

 

[whittashau]

I don't think so. Sky and Astana are stronger.

Astana and Sky have better climbers, but Movistar have more. And if last year's Tour showed us anything it's that Sky's climbers could very well blow themselves up on some stages and leave Chris on his lonesome.

 

[Gabriel Gray]

http://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_88207.htm

Kittel + Degenkolb wanted to have some more say in terms of team building for Le Tour.

Kittel said according the article: "I wasn't ask in the build-up of our team for the Tour", after the journalists asked a bit more, he added "The team knows who we need in the sprint preparation, but in professional cycling there are some other priorities"

Degenkolb said straight that he wanted to be have a meeting before, to talk about the roster, now they were set to a fait accompli. But he added the team is not bad and there were no specific mistakes with it.

The article speculates it's about the nomination of Cheng instead of the old expirienced Johannes Fröhlinger.

Kittel was also asked about Cheng and he defended him at the press conference, that he does his job very well and that he's a good rider

 

[johngoat]

Cofidis

What could their sprinter Petit do?

 

[wirral]

What could their sprinter Petit do?

Sprint from reduced groups on hillier stages. I would give him little chance of a stage win as he'll be directly up against Sagan, Demare, etc on those types of stages.

You never know though.

 

[inthepink]

Now official ...no English riders in the Tour starting in England !!

And Millar not selected yet so maybe no Scots

Just a Welshman, a Manx & a Kenyan Brit so far

Strange with all the talent in England

 

[ILovecycling]

Now official ...no English riders in the Tour starting in England !!

And Millar not selected yet so maybe no Scots

Just a Welshman, a Manx & a Kenyan Brit so far

Strange with all the talent in England

does it matter to english people?I always thought british nationality is more important?

 

[Ferminal]

Is there a "drop dead" cut off deadline for a team's final roster?

Of course there is. I believe it's 24/48hrs before the start of the first stage.

 

[Ferminal]

Can't believe Kernmonster was overlooked, was in ominous form for the nats ITT.

 

[Boardslide]

Now official ...no English riders in the Tour starting in England !!

And Millar not selected yet so maybe no Scots

Just a Welshman, a Manx & a Kenyan Brit so far

Strange with all the talent in England

Millar just tweeted

@millarmind: I was selected for TdF last week, then they pulled me last night. Wiggo, Dowsett, Pete, Swifty, fancy a city break? I hear York's nice.

 

[luckyboy]

Yesterday he said his team wasn't answering his calls.

Weird

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Yesterday he said his team wasn't answering his calls.

Weird

He was **** at the the nationals, right? I thought he was supposed to ride the TT, as well, but Procylingstats makes no mention of a DNS.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Millar situation.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/30/david-millar-tour-de-france-withdrawn-garmin-sharp

 

[inthepink]

Not a great fan of Millars but i feel from him...He really wanted to ride his last Tour & he was I believe making a film of it

Can't see how the selection is all that stronger without him

Cycling can be a cruel business