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What are your BOLD predictions in Tour de France?

1. Quintana will win the Tour by more than a minute
2. Contador to finish in the top 10 and annouce that he will line-up for Vuelta
3. Froome to win the Queen Stage and finish 2nd after being outside top 5 in going into stage 19
4. Nibali to hold the Yellow Jersey going into the final week only to crack and finish top 5.
5. Valverde and Van Garderen to fight for podium with Valverde taking it on
6. Sagan to confortable win the Green Jersey and 2 stage wins including the cobbled stage.
7. Greipel and Degenkolb not to win any stage.
8. Pinot, Peraud, Mollema and Kelderman will crack in Week 2
9. Majka will win one stage and the mountains jersey
10. Cavendish will win three stages
11. Simon Yates will finish in Top 3 of White Jersey right behind Quintana and Bardet
12. BMC will win the TTT
13. Valverde to win on Mur and wear Yellow
14. Costa, Hesjedal and Purito to finish in the top 10
15. Team Sky to dominate the mountains
 
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Cavendish won't win a single stage
Valverde 3rd
There will be a <39min Alpe ascent (in other words, someone will join Pantani, Armstrong, Ullrich, Klöden and Landis in the top 10)
 
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Froome to win the cobble stage in the rain. :D

Sky riders setting the pace up climbs, Froome whisking away from the bunch with 1-2km from the win.
 
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Asero831 said:
1. Quintana will win the Tour by more than a minute
2. Contador to finish in the top 10 and annouce that he will line-up for Vuelta
3. Froome to win the Queen Stage and finish 2nd after being outside top 5 in going into stage 19
4. Nibali to hold the Yellow Jersey going into the final week only to crack and finish top 5.
5. Valverde and Van Garderen to fight for podium with Valverde taking it on
6. Sagan to confortable win the Green Jersey and 2 stage wins including the cobbled stage.
7. Greipel and Degenkolb not to win any stage.
8. Pinot, Peraud, Mollema and Kelderman will crack in Week 2
9. Majka will win one stage and the mountains jersey
10. Cavendish will win three stages
11. Simon Yates will finish in Top 3 of White Jersey right behind Quintana and Bardet
12. BMC will win the TTT
13. Valverde to win on Mur and wear Yellow
14. Costa, Hesjedal and Purito to finish in the top 10
15. Team Sky to dominate the mountains

Many of your predictions are not exactly "bold". :cool:

Bold should be something unexpected and not widely expected.
 
Quintana not getting through cobbled stage, Froome to hold 4 minute lead (and be the best among GC riders on cobbles) just to get sick for 2 last mountain stages and lose 5+ minutes, Contador dropping out after first week and trying to go for Vuelta. Forum getting butthurt over Nibali winning another Tour
 
Kudus to win the Mountain classification
Froome to finish top 15 in the cobbled staged
Astana will not be 3 classes above the rest of the field
Rodriguez to do better in the long MTF then on the short ones
Team LottoNL - Jumbo will win a stage
Dan Martin will not crash/get sick
 
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Pricey_sky said:
Little Richie to sneak into a large break as nobody can spot him and gains 20 minutes on the rest. Sky then decide to put Froome on a leash Wiggo 2012 style and Porte just about holds on despite cracking bad on stage 20 to win by 2 seconds

That would be pretty funny. Sports Gods please make it happen.
 

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