Updates: How many riders teams will have for the TTT

[Moviestar]

The big teams so far are unaffected, the likes of Sky, BMC, Astana and in lesser extent Movistar.

 

[Dog]

Going by Dowsett's ITV interview, he sounds like he has about as much form as Michael Matthews.

 

[DBotero]

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Orica should ask to borrow Porte for a day. #AussomeHelp #Auuussit

Sounds good,they should let him help his mates then give him a 2 min penalty

 

[Miburo]

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

BMC.

 

[Miburo]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

BMC.

Oh yea BMC is gonna be big too but they've a basso too with sanchez

Tinkoff is better though i think

 

[b.broadhurst]

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Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

Sky

 

[sultanofhyd]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

Sky

Sky's TTTs have gone to *** lately.

 

[ILovecycling]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

Sky

Sky's TTTs have gone to **** lately.

thats true, but still it should be a big battle between Froome, TJ and Sagan for Jaune, ...Chris has couple of seconds of advantage.Also depends on number of riders, luckily only 2 stages left to crash for their domestics

 

[TMP402]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

Sky

Sky's TTTs have gone to **** lately.

WT TTTs this season:

Romandie: 1st (similar team to TDF, with Pate and Viviani instead of Koenig, Porte and Thomas)
Giro: 9th (Porte, Koenig, Sitsov and Kiryenka have TTing history, the other 5 were climbers or sprinters)
Dauphine: 6th (similar team to TDF, with Boswell and Deignan instead of Koenig, Porte and Thomas)

 

[Jspear]

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Lotto Jumbo
Laurens ten Dam - Dislocated shoulder
Wilco Kelderman - Several abrasions
Giant-Alpecin
Ramon Sinkeldam - Damaged elbow ( sutures )
Orica
Michael Matthews - Bruised ribs
AG2R
Johan Vansummeren - Injury to right knee and elbow . Several abrasions
Lotto Soudal
Greg Henderson - Broken Rib
Thomas de Gendt- broken rib
Adam Hansen- bruised left shoulder
BMC
Daniel Oss - Cuts in the face and bruised wrist
Etixx-Quick Step
Michal Golas - Several abrasions and bruised shoulder
Rigoberto Uran - Bruising lower back and a sore pelvis
Julien Vermote : Bruising and abrasions left knee
Lampre
Rui Costa - Bruises on the left leg
Filippo Pozzato - Bruising on the knee
IAM
Mathias Frank - Injury to the right elbow
Cofidis
Nicolas Edet - Several abrasio
Dani Navarro : Abrasions left knee, left elbow and left hip.
Luis Angel Maté : Abrasions left knee, left elbow and left hip.
Kenneth Vanbilsen : Contusion left knee.
Bora
Jose Mendes - Bruised knee
Dominik Nerz - Bruised
Movistar
Alex Dowsett- Bruised elbow
Garmin-Cannondale
Ramunas Navardauskas- light Bruised arms
Dylan van Baarle- idem
Nathan Haas: Abrasions left hip and right elbow.
MTN-Qubheka
R. Janse van Rensburg: Bruising and abrasions left elbow.
Bretagne
B. Feillu : Abrasions left hip and left elbow. Bruising left cheek.
FdJ
Jeremy Roy : Abrasions left thigh.

Crazy! Thanks for compiling this.

BMC will win imo.

 

[mrhender]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

Sky

Sky's TTTs have gone to **** lately.

WT TTTs this season:

Romandie: 1st (similar team to TDF, with Pate and Viviani instead of Koenig, Porte and Thomas)
Giro: 9th (Porte, Koenig, Sitsov and Kiryenka have TTing history, the other 5 were climbers or sprinters)
Dauphine: 6th (similar team to TDF, with Boswell and Deignan instead of Koenig, Porte and Thomas)

Think they will do top 3... Mostly because of high morale due to things going well...

A late TTT like this is even more about the dynamics of current race then an early one would be..

Some teams might be limited in performance due to loss of riders and things not going according to plan..
Some fold under such pressure and others deliver...

I expect pretty big time differences though.. maybe not in top-5 but apart from that..

Will be very interesting...

 

[SeriousSam]

I hope Sky and Tinkov will somehow lose about 1:30 to Movistar and Astana.

 

[Gigs_98]

Would be great if sagan could war yellow after the TTT but I think sky will do quite well and froome will gain time on the mur de bretagne

 

[Gigs_98]

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I hope Sky and Tinkov will somehow lose about 1:30 to Movistar and Astana.

That would be great but I don't see it happen

 

[mrhender]

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I hope Sky and Tinkov will somehow lose about 1:30 to Movistar and Astana.

I think crashes will be needed for that...

Anyone with a weather forecast?

 

[42x16ss]

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I hope Sky and Tinkov will somehow lose about 1:30 to Movistar and Astana.

That would be great but I don't see it happen

Nope. They have been racing very smartly. Bennati and Rogers have kept Saxo very well placed all race and Thomas and Co. have also done a very good job. Astana and Movistar have had to do too much fire fighting, like in the echelons a few days ago.

 

[Velolover2]

Sky have the least damaged team. I think they are going to take it. A guy who Dowsett is both injured and in poor shape, so don't expect Movistar to win it.

1. Sky
2. BMC
3. Movistar

 

[Miburo]

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Sky have the least damaged team. I think they are going to take it. A guy who Dowsett is both injured and in poor shape, so don't expect Movistar to win it.

1. Sky
2. BMC
3. Movistar

No way in hell movistar does better than tinkoff

 

[Velolover2]

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Sky have the least damaged team. I think they are going to take it. A guy who Dowsett is both injured and in poor shape, so don't expect Movistar to win it.

1. Sky
2. BMC
3. Movistar

No way in hell movistar does better than tinkoff

Oh. I forgot them! I think they get the same time as BMC. 20 secs down on Sky.

 

[rm7]

Think it'll be between SKY and Tinkoff, with BMC as 3rd. Astana not far behind either. Moviestar will loose 30 sec to the best team.

I dont expect big gaps between the top GC teams. Only Katusha could loose a minute.

 

[Sasquatch]

Sky winning a TTT

lol

 

[jaylew]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

BMC.

Oh yea BMC is gonna be big too but they've a basso too with sanchez

What do you mean by that? Sammy is historically a very good TTer, though granted he's not as good as he used to be. He's won several, including in a GT, I recall.

 

[Irondan]

Re: Re:

Martin confirmed gone, so who is the favorite now for the TTT? Tinkoff?

Very likely sagan will wear yellow sunday

BMC.

Oh yea BMC is gonna be big too but they've a basso too with sanchez

What do you mean by that? Sammy is historically a very good TTer, though granted he's not as good as he used to be. He's won several, including in a GT, I recall.

He won stage 20 (Villalba) 2007 Vuelta. 20k ITT.

 

[jaylew]

Yep, that's the one.