Who will win la Vuelta a España 2012?

[the asian]

Alberto vs Froome vs Unndy vs Condor??

Alberto Vs Froome Vs Andy vs Anton.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Jens I see you went with other, your favourite is el bisonte again?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Alberto Vs Froome Vs Andy vs Anton.

Oh yeah, I thought for a moment you meant Robert

 

[LaFlorecita]

1 Chris Froome
2 Jesús Hernández Blázquez +0'17
3 Alberto Contador Velasco +9'35
4 Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver +11'46
5 Nairo Quintana Rojas +11'57
6 Sergio Henao Montoya +14'00
7 Robert Gesink +15'05
8 Daniel Moreno Fernández +15'15"
9 Lars Petter Nordhaug +17'04
10 Michal Kwiatkowski +17'56

Andy Schleck will DNS stage 8
Igor Antón will crash out of the race descending La Cobertoria
Samuel Sánchez will make the start and win on Arrate, but the lack of preparation time will get to him and he'll drop from contention in week 2.

Jesús will finally show his true colors, after Froome drops Alberto on Cuitu Negru he will be allowed to ride for himself.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Jesús will finally show his true colors, after Froome drops Alberto on Cuitu Negru he will be allowed to ride for himself.

Jesús would have won the race, but they tragically made him work in Andorra when wearing the Jersey Rojo because they didn't realise he was the stronger man. This led Froome to take the lead. Froome then took bonus seconds by beating J-Rod in the uphill sprint at Ezaro, attacked on the Alto Folgueiras de Aigas with Jesús in tow on stage 14, let Jesús take the Covadonga stage, before ripping the field apart with an attack on San Lorenzo a full 90km from the finish, riding the rest of the stage with Jesús and the duo putting seven minutes into the field.

 

[Forunculo]

Yes, while we know for sure that Contador and AS climb much better than anything we've seen in this TDF so far, if they are in shape. So why people randomly assume Froome is better beats me. He might suprise, but hey, everybody might suprise, and Froome didn't show enough just yet for anybody to reasonably assume he would beat Contador on a stage race with so many MTF's.

Yes but even if VDB and Nibali are his rivals, he doesn't have any problem.

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Igor Antón will crash out of the race descending La Cobertoria
Samuel Sánchez will make the start and win on Arrate, but the lack of preparation time will get to him and he'll drop from contention in week 2.

Shame about Antón I had hoped he would do well. Good that Sammy Sánchez finds some success though.

 

[jens_attacks]

Jens I see you went with other, your favourite is el bisonte again?

cobo has one vuelta,that is enough,he should ride il giro and tour from now on.
i like quintana for this one though

it'd be cool to have both froomy and andy in form to see if they can stay with alberto on arrate.that will be a bloodbath i'm sure

 

[auscyclefan94]

I picked Igor Anton, because he is a good rider and one of my favourites.

 

[Climeon]

You need to add Cobo to the poll

 

[the asian]

1 Chris Froome
2 Jesús Hernández Blázquez +0'17
3 Alberto Contador Velasco +9'35
4 Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver +11'46
5 Nairo Quintana Rojas +11'57
6 Sergio Henao Montoya +14'00
7 Robert Gesink +15'05
8 Daniel Moreno Fernández +15'15"
9 Lars Petter Nordhaug +17'04
10 Michal Kwiatkowski +17'56

Andy Schleck will DNS stage 8
Igor Antón will crash out of the race descending La Cobertoria
Samuel Sánchez will make the start and win on Arrate, but the lack of preparation time will get to him and he'll drop from contention in week 2.

As usual of course 3 Sky riders in the top 10 will confirm the awesomeness of SKY.

 

[airstream]

juanjo сobo

 

[Forunculo]

As usual of course 3 Sky riders in the top 10 will confirm the awesomeness of SKY.

Or the clinic forum

 

[the asian]

You need to add Cobo to the poll

Yep. He's riding the Tour as a training ride to prepare for the Vuelta. It's wrong to write him off judging by his Tour form.

 

[Forunculo]

Yep. He's riding the Tour as a training ride to prepare for the Vuelta. It's wrong to write him off judging by his Tour form.

Cobo is special, riding the Tour to prepare another race

 

[Ruudz0r]

According to De gendt, the giro was a warmup with a hopeful top 20, the Vuelta is what he has been preparing for, so be afraid.

Everyone apart from Contador who barring injury should walk away with it 5 mins +

De Gendt later said he wouldnt do the Vuelta for GC anymore this year. Not sure why anymore but I believe it was because he wanted to focus on the worlds.

 

[LaFlorecita]

You need to add Cobo to the poll

I forgot about him

 

[the asian]

Cobo is special, riding the Tour to prepare another race

Why not? His home tour is more important for him than the "Medias only cycle race in the world".

 

[LaFlorecita]

why not? His home tour is more important for him than the "medias only cycle race in the world".

+ 10000.....

 

[jens_attacks]

Yep. He's riding the Tour as a training ride to prepare for the Vuelta. It's wrong to write him off judging by his Tour form.

actually he's not in the form he used to be when he rode from unzue years ago
i really think he has another mentality now and he has a peaceful mind

he stayed with rogers's huge tempo on croix de fer so pretty good. i think he can go for a win in the pyrenees

1 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 4:43:54
2 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 0:00:55
3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team 0:00:57
5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
6 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
7 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank 0:01:08
8 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 0:01:58
9 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Movistar Team 0:02:13
10 Frank Schleck (Lux) RadioShack-Nissan 0:02:23
11 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
12 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
13 Christopher Horner (USA) RadioShack-Nissan 0:03:53
14 Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan
15 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun
16 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) RadioShack-Nissan
17 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Movistar Team
18 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Astana Pro Team
19 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:17
20 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:07:27

 

[airstream]

Yes, the result of Toussuire is already a sentence for Contador. The Vuelta 1st place is occupied.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Yes, the result of Toussuire is already a sentence for Contador. The Vuelta 1st place is occupied.

Alberto! Alberto! Alberto!!

 

[airstream]

Alberto! Alberto! Alberto!!

Who?? Havent you seen I said: Cobo!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Who?? Have you seen I said: Cobo!

No you must be mistaken, Alberto is the real deal, have you seen my prediction on the first place, Andy finishes 5th, 1h35'02" after Alberto IIRC.

 

[auscyclefan94]

According to De gendt, the giro was a warmup with a hopeful top 20, the Vuelta is what he has been preparing for, so be afraid.

Everyone apart from Contador who barring injury should walk away with it 5 mins +

Clearly he was better than he thought he was going to be at the Giro so I wouldn't be that afraid of him.