Tour of qatar - Stage 1 - West bay lagoon - 8.2km TTT

[auscyclefan94]

Start List Tour of qatar

who will win the opening team time trial?

 

[hfer07]

on paper-it looks to me like a showdown between Wiggins vs Cancellara--I'm adding also Boonen & Ignatiev as a wild cards

 

[auscyclefan94]

on paper-it looks to me like a showdown between Wiggins vs Cancellara--I'm adding also Boonen & Ignatiev as a wild cards

It's a team time trial

 

[hfer07]

It's a team time trial

I just double-checked -thanks- although CN has it as an ITT

back to the topic: Sky, Saxobank & Katusha

 

[karlboss]

Too hard to pick, short TTT, I expect the top 5 within 5 seconds of each but I'll tip sky for wiggins, thomas and edvald and I think they'll have put in the work in TTTs. Their leadouts at TDU were pretty solid

 

[Andrichuk]

I'm gonna go with Quickstep cuz im a Boonen fanboy

 

[maltiv]

Sky should win this.

 

[timmers]

Quickstep! Extra text as my message was to short!

 

[stefrees]

its skys to lose. would be good if someone random won it though

 

[ErmOkk]

QS probably, the guys should be in the best form of the bunch right now if they want to dominate the belgian spring classics again this year.

 

[blackcat]

QS probably, the guys should be in the best form of the bunch right now if they want to dominate the belgian spring classics again this year.

its a TTT on road bikes I think. And it is just up and back. Not technical.

 

[Buninyong Bunny]

I question the wisdom that says that everyone will be super close. Surely Sky and Quick Step will be most movtivated by far, so even though there is nothing else going on that would make big differences, that it itself will be the difference. I will also add Garmin as an important team, simply because there TTT machine is top nonch.

Having said that, is TTT on road bikes going to make a difference to anything? I am inclined to think that it would simply add another layer of unprecditablity to the race, but it would be helpful to here from those who actually ride as to how it would affect things

 

[Anonymous]

its skys to lose. would be good if someone random won it though

Why, they are a brand new team and have had no real opportunity to do any TTT training..

 

[Mellow Velo]

Jeez, we have Carlton Kirby.
First up the awful news about Ballerini.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/italian-coach-franco-ballerini-dies-in-rally-crash

Then it's a lot of talk about Armstrong-Livestrong........

 

[Anonymous]

The scenery is like playing pro cycling manager with the graphics options turned down low..

 

[Mellow Velo]

Love that BMC kit.
Tyler Farrar just about to kick off another long season?

.....quiet around here, with all the troll in bed!

 

[WonderLance]

Love that BMC kit.

Looks like a cheep rip off of the Radiostrong kit. I think Liveshack will probably win in the only race that counts, the race for cancer awareness

 

[Anonymous]

Holy Sh*t, garmin smashed ten seconds off, Sky take garmin and tip them to shreds

 

[Mellow Velo]

Oooh.....Bradder's and Eddy drive the Skytrain mucho fast!
I can hear JV's teeth gnashing from here.

 

[bianchigirl]

Kirby is superb dropping in stories about his personal history - he enlivened many a dull hour during the last TdF with his tales - but a cycling commentator? No thanks.

Having any kind of TT in a short stage race without a concomitant stage for riders who lose in the TTs to get time back makes for a deadly dull race IMO

 

[thehog]

Crowds look bigger than last year.

 

[bianchigirl]

How can that be? LA hasn't been paid 3 million to stand by the side of the road has he?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Bradley gets his ASO yellow jersey.

 

[Anonymous]

Bradley gets his ASO yellow jersey.

And gives it to Edvald realising his mistake

 

[Mellow Velo]

And gives it to Edvald realising his mistake

That's not watching carefully and listening to Kirby.