Tour de France Jerseys Speculation Thread

[elpinto]

Hey, I'm new on this forum, so i don't know if this topic has been mentioned before, but who do you guys think will win the yellow, green and the polka dot jersey?

 

[krebs303]

Any particular race?

 

[elpinto]

Haha sorry. I was talking about the Tour

 

[Anonymous]

tony martin gonna win a yellow colour jersey on a lottery.

 

[Moondance]

Any particular race?

Don't be silly on purpose.

Anyway,

Yellow: Schleck the Younger
Green: Cavendish
Polka dots: Always a gamble, but I think Voeckler will have a go this year.

 

[jobiwan]

Hey, I'm new on this forum, so i don't know if this topic has been mentioned before, but who do you guys think will win the yellow, green and the polka dot jersey?

By green jersey do you mean the Cavendish jersey?

And I think Moondance is spot on, and I think each competition (except the Cavendish competition) being close. And yes the KOM could be anyone.

 

[Mambo95]

The Polka Dot jersey is the hard one to assess. They've changed the scoring system in an effort to favour the GC guys, but I'm not sure it will pan out like that.

 

[just some guy]

Yellow - contador
Green - alejet
Kom - soler
White-Gesink

Edit found out Gesink was young enough for white so put him in instead of Coppel

 

[Wurfel]

Green Jersey in the TDF?

Anyone has a good sight who is going for the green this year?
There are a couple of stages where sprinters like Rojas, Hushovd, Goss, ... have some chances to make a big gap with other favorites...
Then you have the intermediate sprint with 15(!) points for the winner. Who is going to dispute this? The big sprinters like Cavendish, Farrar, Greipel,...?
What with Boasson Hagen, Petacchi, Mcewen, Boonen?
Interesting competition...Please give your view!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Yellow: Contador
Green: Cavendish
KOM: Could be a lot of guys, but I'm going with Voeckler
White: Gesink (as I'm obliged to answer as a Dutchie)

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Yellow: Contador
Green: Cavendish
KoM: I'm really hoping for Titi to win this/Soler
White: Gesink

 

[just some guy]

I thought Gesink was too old for white ?

 

[Mambo95]

Here's what Prudhomme said about the rule change:

"It's not that I am biased towards Cavendish, but it wasn't logical. Winning 15 stages in three years is something no other sprinter has ever done. If you have a sprinter who can do that it's not normal that he can't win the green jersey. So we decided to change things."

He then added "I'll push his fat Manx ars* over the mountains myself if I have to" (this bit might not be true)

 

[Mambo95]

Y: Contador
G: Cavendish
PD: Andy Schleck
W: Gesink

 

[Moondance]

I thought Gesink was too old for white ?

No, he's from 86, so he's still eligible.

 

[jobiwan]

I've actually changed my mind.

Yellow: TGBM by 2 weeks
Green: TGBM by 300 points
KOM: TGBM by 300 points
White: TGBM by 3 weeks

 

[Wurfel]

Will Cavendish be interested in the Green then? Or will he let it to guys like Boasson Hagen, Hushovd, Petacchi, ... to be tired with the intermediate sprint?
In any case it looks like a difficult course for the "real" sprinters Greipel, Cavendish, Farrar, ...

 

[El Pistolero]

Here's what Prudhomme said about the rule change:

"It's not that I am biased towards Cavendish, but it wasn't logical. Winning 15 stages in three years is something no other sprinter has ever done. If you have a sprinter who can do that it's not normal that he can't win the green jersey. So we decided to change things."

He then added "I'll push his fat Manx ars* over the mountains myself if I have to" (this bit might not be true)[/QUOTE]

Technically speaking it would be the car.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

I've actually changed my mind.

Yellow: TGBM by 2 weeks
Green: TGBM by 300 points
KOM: TGBM by 300 points
White: TGBM by 3 weeks

He's not allowed to do all the stages in one day :s so 2 weeks and 3 weeks isn't possible Stupid ASO and their stages

 

[theyoungest]

Yellow: Contador
Green: Sagan
KOM: Kern
White: Gesink

 

[Nastyy]

Does Europcar have to change their kit for the Tour since their kit is green? Once had to use a pink kit for the Tour but does this rule only concern the yellow jersey?

 

[just some guy]

No, he's from 86, so he's still eligible.

ok thanks.

 

[Anonymous]

silly season has started.

Already a tdf jersey thread started today.
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=14010

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Replay of the Vuelta: Gilbert vs. Cavendish.

Gilbert will take the lead early with Mont-des-Alouettes and Mur-de-Brétagne, and Cav will do his customary losing the first sprint, but then come roaring back to win every other one. Thor may have outsmarted him in 2009 but the change in rules and the simple fact that Gilbert will not be competitive in a bunch sprint (especially with Greipel around) will mean Cav takes the jersey on about stage 7 and takes it all the way to Paris.

Gilbert might be able to get points from the intermediates on mountain breakaways since the intermediate points have been jacked up, but since the points were already biased towards sprinters and the new changes make them more so, I expect that intermediate sprints in the mountain stages will become about as prestigious as the Intermediate Sprints jersey at the Tour d'Île Saint-Barthélemy.

 

[taiwan]

Yellow: Contador
Green: Sagan
KOM: Kern
White: Gesink

...can't argue...