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Bye Bye Bicycle

Bye Bye Bicycle

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Gregaard had something like a breakthrough year including a UCI win and half a dozen other nice results. He definitely deserved this nomination.
 
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ciranda

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I only see one result, the UCI win in a Danish race with weak competition. But it's true, Gregaard is a second year who was in l'Avenir last year already and it's not like the alternatives have a lot to show.
 
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42x16ss

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Thepirateisgood said:
Escarabajo said:
Weak stages. I thought I read somewhere that they wanted to know with more certainty that the winner of Lavenir would be a future star. If they want that at least they have to put a harder parcours. Not that we will know for sure anyway.
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What? Do you really think results in u23 is reflective to pro - and more so if it is harder? I'd say L'avenir is a small yardstick, nothing more. Well, that's probably what you mean with last sentence, which makes most of it obsolete.
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Looking at the likes of Quintana, Chaves, Yates, Talansky, Barguil it seems relatively accurate the last few years.

Same thing with sprinters too if you look at Ewan, Gaviria, Degenkolb, Matthews...
 
Samamba

Samamba

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Gaudu was pretty impressive in the Tour de l'Ain. He's gonna win a stage here.

Belgian selection:

Steff Cras (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 2
Benjamin Declercq (EFC-Etixx), espoir 4
Rémy Mertz (Color Code-Arden'Beef, Lotto Soudal (pro) next year), espoir 3
Nathan Van Hooydonck (BMC Development), espoir 3
Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 1
Thomas Vereecken (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 1

As expected, no Lambrecht. Steff Cras is their leader, Vanhoucke can try to win a stage if he has his Savoie or Alsace legs. A bit disappointing that they didn't chose for a sprinter type like Wouters, who doing pretty good the last few weeks (with some second places just behind Dupont), for the first 3 stages.
 
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Supercompetitive edition. I rate Costa on a higher level as i've seem him remarkably strong on Utah. Don't see Egan Bernal holding on that pace on the mountains.
Enric Mas is the guy who can posibbly beat Costa on a supertimetrial by him and keeping things on the final stages but that's not gonna be easy.

Then the mountain not very hard profile suits Gaudu capabilities very well, and he has Vincent, so France can challenge podium here. Geoghegan Hart, Ravasi... probably departing from the common actions so we will have an exciting race for sure.
 
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Charly_Gaul said:
Supercompetitive edition. I rate Costa on a higher level as i've seem him remarkably strong on Utah. Don't see Egan Bernal holding on that pace on the mountains.
Enric Mas is the guy who can posibbly beat Costa on a supertimetrial by him and keeping things on the final stages but that's not gonna be easy.

Then the mountain not very hard profile suits Gaudu capabilities very well, and he has Vincent, so France can challenge podium here. Geoghegan Hart, Ravasi... probably departing from the common actions so we will have an exciting race for sure.
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I dont think this is true about Bernal. On stage 2 of Giro del Trentino he was together with Firsanov in pursuit of Landa and in front of riders like Bardet, Fuglsang, Hugh Carthy, Scarponi. Thats not far off the competition that Costa was facing.
 
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Samamba said:
Belgian selection:

Steff Cras (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 2
Benjamin Declercq (EFC-Etixx), espoir 4
Rémy Mertz (Color Code-Arden'Beef, Lotto Soudal (pro) next year), espoir 3
Nathan Van Hooydonck (BMC Development), espoir 3
Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 1
Thomas Vereecken (Lotto-Soudal U23), espoir 1

As expected, no Lambrecht. Steff Cras is their leader, Vanhoucke can try to win a stage if he has his Savoie or Alsace legs. A bit disappointing that they didn't chose for a sprinter type like Wouters, who doing pretty good the last few weeks (with some second places just behind Dupont), for the first 3 stages.
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Not a bad selection at all. With a little bit of luck we can have 3 Belgians in the top 20.
 
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Bardamu said:
No Sam Oomen?
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Nope, he's riding Poitou-Charentes.

Gaudu can definitely win a stage here but what about his chances in GC? I know the ITT isn't that long, but he just lost almost 4 minutes to Cavagna on France U23 ITT champs (28,2km).
 
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Anyone knows why Portugal has no team in this tour de l'avenir?

They were used to have and this year I think they had a shot with Ruben Guerreiro.
 
Samamba

Samamba

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En tête : Amund JANSEN (Norvège), Gabriel CULLAIGH (Grande-Bretagne), Michael SVENDGAARD (Danemark), Ziga RUCIGAJ (Slovénie), Nathan VAN HOOYDONCK (Belgique), Jan MAAS, Peter LENDERINK (Pays-Bas), William BARTA (Etats-Unis), Pascal ACKERMANN, Lennard KAMNA, Jan TSCHERNOSTER (Allemagne), Alex ARANURU (Espagne), John RODRIGUEZ et Wilmar PAREDES (Colombie), David GAUDU (France), Ole FORFANG (Norvège), Tao GEOGHEGAN HART (Grand-Bretagne) et Filippo GANNA (Italie).

:surprised:
 
Bye Bye Bicycle

Bye Bye Bicycle

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Colombia can't be happy with Paredes and Rodriguez 3 minutes behind Geoghegan and all others even more than 4 minutes behind.
 
Samamba

Samamba

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They're losing time now. Geoghegan will have an advantage, but it won't be enough if he isn't one of the best climbers later this week.
 
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