Velo d'Or Predictions

[Anonymous]

Considering the award usual goes to a rider with a grand tour, couple of monuments, world championship to his name, who do we think will get it this year??

I included 9 of the top 10 world ranked riders (replaced allan davis with fabian cancellara) in the poll. Probably should have put menchov in there, but can't change now!

I vote, Cadel, showing my aussie bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9lo_d%27Or

EDIT:::: It's interesting that most people in the poll have ONE major win (monument, GT or WC medal) with smaller wins to follow. No-one has swept the result table, so to speak.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Contador won a few stage races, spanish itt champion and the tour... hard to beat.
Ebh had a good season, lot of wins, as well as a classic.
And the other one who could win imo is Andy Schleck... Tour 2nd place. LBL winner, and basically the winner at F-W (considering rebellion's status atm) and national champion
Oh and of course cav deserves a mention, great dominance over the season, won a classic... losing the green doesn't help his chances though.

as for evans, I'd say the WC pretty much saved an other wise dissapointing season for his standards, so I don't believe he will win that.

Also an impressive return basso. 4th in two GTS.

 

[danyela]

Tough one. Contador got the TdF, but not all that much else. Evans got Worlds and nothing else. Cav mostly just has stage wins, Schleck's got a few high GC placings and a classic, but I really don't know if anyone stands out in particular. Personally I hope Cancellara gets it.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I think Cavendish will win it. His season has been stunning. Contador 2nd with Andy Schleck or Boasson hagen for 3rd

 

[python]

consider this folks

it’s awarded by the french cycling magazine and historically most recipients won the tour de france that year.

conti won the french tour and conti won a boatload more. and he looked bloody impressive in anything he raced this year. no doubt he is gonna get it.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Tough one. Contador got the TdF, but not all that much else. Evans got Worlds and nothing else. Cav mostly just has stage wins, Schleck's got a few high GC placings and a classic, but I really don't know if anyone stands out in particular. Personally I hope Cancellara gets it.

lol.

1st Tour (x2 stage wins)
1st Vuelta al País Vasco
1st Spanish National Time Trial Championships
1st Volta ao Algarve
2nd Castilla y León
3rd Dauphiné Libéré
4th Paris-Nice (x2 stage wins)

indeed he was a one show pony
easily the most consistant rider in stage races...

 

[rghysens]

easy one:

1) contador
2) cavendish
3) cancellara

 

[uphillstruggle]

I was thinking of starting this thread earlier this morning.

Conti
Cav
Cancellara
Schleck

All the other contenders to beat AC had good but not amazing seasons that you need to beat the tour winner. If say, Cancellara had won a classic, or Evans had podium at the tour then maybe one of those may have taken it. Milan-San Remo and the sheer number of stage wins Cav got may be enough but I doubt it.

 

[samb01]

1. Contador
2. Cavendish
3. not sure.

 

[Moondance]

I'm going for the Cs, and by that i don't mean Cadel

Gold: Cavendish. Milan-Sanremo, 6 stages in the tour, 4 in the Giro (i think) plus additional stage wins in California, Tirreno and Tour of Switzerland. Consistently excellent.

Silver: Contador; Le Tour and the coolest named race of the year: the Euskal Herriko txirrindulari itzulia. Plus good results in Paris-Nice, Dauphine and Castilla & Leon. While dominant in Le Tour he was slightly less so in the lesser races, while Cav still performed brilliantly everywhere, even if it wasn't a tour stage.

Bronze: Fabian Cancellara. World Champion, stage in the tour, two in the Vuelta, Tour of Switzerland. 'Nuff said. He just edges out Cadel and A.Schleck.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Contador got it the last 2 times, Cav said something about 'f-cking frenchies' so it might just be Cancellara.

 

[Anonymous]

Contador got it the last 2 times, Cav said something about 'f-cking frenchies' so it might just be Cancellara.

I'd vote for Cav, but I think Contador will get it. Funny ak about the "Frenchie" comment he made, because I am with you on it making him getting the honor HIGHLY unlikely.

 

[Ibanez]

Cavendish should get it. Ridiculous season.

 

[Cracked Again]

Cav did have an amazing record this year, I think he won a stage in every

race he was in this year. But how much was him and how much was the

unstoppable Colombia leadout train? Will this hurt him, will the fact that he is

english and also on an american team hurt him? Conti will probably take it,

but I think even though Fabian has one he deserves a look. Destroying the

field in ever tt and prologe aint easy, expecially at the WC. Plus he showed

huge balls in the WC road race

 

[Epicycle]

Cavendish should get it. Ridiculous season.

Yeah it has to be Cav. 10 GT stages and a monument.