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Spilak in the Vuelta heat would be murder.GuyIncognito said:No Spilak despite the persistent rumours
Valv.Piti said:Orica: Bewley, Chaves, Cort, Haig, Juul Jensen, Tuft, Verona, A.Yates, S.Yates. No Plaza is a bit of a surprise considering his Giro and this very mountainous route, but Haig can step up. No Howson or Kreuz either.
the chicken from T said:Is there outside BMC QS and Orica a team that can win the TTT?
Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
Valv.Piti said:Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
Whatever floats the boat. If both are in, it's 5 Vuelta champs, if only one of them is in, we count Froome and have 5 GT champs.Rollthedice said:Valv.Piti said:Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
There's three Vuelta winners at the start, Nibs, Berto and Aru. Alejandro and Nairo would make five, does that makes sense?
With this team Aru could win it. But who knows, maybe Lopez will be the surprise of the VueltaMayomaniac said:Astana also have some serious climbing firepower:
BILBAO Pello
CHERNETCKII Sergei
STALNOV Nikita
SANCHEZ Luis Leon
HANSEN Jesper
LUTSENKO Alexey
DE VREESE Laurens
ARU Fabio
LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel
Out of form after a virus contracted during Tour de Suisse.Ikbengodniet said:FDJ
FOURNIER Marc
MANZIN Lorrenzo
COURTEILLE Arnaud
HOELGAARD Daniel
ROUX Anthony
LE BON Johan
EIKING Odd Christian
LUDVIGSSON Tobias
MAISON Jérémy
Why is Reichenbach not there?
So we should probably call it the battle of the five armies since nobody knows what's the fifth army :lol:Valv.Piti said:Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
Ikbengodniet said:FDJ
FOURNIER Marc
MANZIN Lorrenzo
COURTEILLE Arnaud
HOELGAARD Daniel
ROUX Anthony
LE BON Johan
EIKING Odd Christian
LUDVIGSSON Tobias
MAISON Jérémy
Why is Reichenbach not there?
Valv.Piti said:Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
You mean according to LaFlo ?Lequack said:Top 30 GC contenders, according to PCS:
Blanco said:Valv.Piti said:Who would have been the 5th if one of them were present, Aru?Red Rick said:Shame that Valverde or Quintana isn't there, then we could've called it "The War of the Five Kings"
Aru is no king...
Nirvana said:They added the terrible "Alto de Nimes" in the TTT.
I think that when the Tour years ago put a KOM on a bridge was harder than this