CycloAndy said:Who'd have thought Contador would be your team leader?
Not a bad team though, shame the leader is so far past his best
My team leader is the 2007-2011 Contador of course
&2014 of course
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CycloAndy said:Who'd have thought Contador would be your team leader?
Not a bad team though, shame the leader is so far past his best
Afrank said:1. Leader-Contador (Arguably the current best GT rider)
2. Flat Dom/TT specialist- Cancellara (He can take yellow on the first day, do great work for the team on the flats and still win stages).
3. Mountain Dom- Quintana (did great work for Valverde at the Vuelta, also might be able to contend for white)
4. All-around Dom- Hincapie (Can do work on the flats and the mountains)
5. All-around Dom- Voigt (no explanation needed)
6. Free-role- LL sanchez (can get in breaks, go for stage wins)
7. Super-dom- Vino (he can do it all and still get a couple stages)
8. Free role- Gilbert (for domestique work and to contest in uphill sprints)
9.sprinter- Sagan (Can contend with green and doesn't need a sprint train to do so)
Afrank said:Hmm, my first list needs some amending.
1. Hard decision between Quintana and Nibali, will swap Contador for Quintana (because Quintana went head-to-head with Froome).
2. Same-Cance
3. Swap Quintana for Kreuziger (or maybe Contador )
4. Same I guess, if were going to switch maybe swap for Kiryienka, Agnoli, or Kangert.
5. Same- Voigt
6. Swap Lulu for Rui Costa
7. Same- Vino
8. swap for Dan Martin
9. Same-Sagan
BigMac said:Still-active
TDF2014 GC win Team
1. Alejandro 'The Great' Valverde
2. Andrew Talansky
3. Michal Kwiatkowski
4. Rafal Majka
5. Beñat Intxausti
6. Tanel Kangert
7. Zdenek Stybar
8. Ion Izagirre
9. Sylvain Chavanel
This team > Everyone
All Czech or Slovak?karlboss said:Anyone spot the link?
Kreuziger, Kwiatowski, Konig, Majka, Sagan, Niemiec, Bodnar, Velits, Stybar
42x16ss said:All Czech or Slovak?
Still, handy team.karlboss said:Majka, Bodnar, Kwiatowski, Niemiec?
Edit: But honestly close enough, they are polish, slovak, and czech, all speak an east slavic language, in the case of slovak and czech very close, polish probably closer than italian to spanish (close run thing). Looking at the talent in this region at the moment, f***n tenuous I know
BigMac said:Major convicted cheaters should not be allowed...
But the rest of cheaters, is all good I guessBigMac said:Major convicted cheaters should not be allowed...
Samson777 said:But the rest of cheaters, is all good I guess
karlboss said:Majka, Bodnar, Kwiatowski, Niemiec?
Edit: But honestly close enough, they are polish, slovak, and czech, all speak an east slavic language, in the case of slovak and czech very close, polish probably closer than italian to spanish (close run thing). Looking at the talent in this region at the moment, f***n tenuous I know
Libertine Seguros said:You could throw in Tony Martin, since he's from Chóśebuz. Not an ethnic Sorb though.
Oh, and Polish/Sorbian/Czech/Slovak/Kashub/Polabian are West Slavic, not East Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian. South Slavic are Slovene/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Macedon/Bulgarian/other smaller languages in the Balkan peninsula. The linguistic delineations of Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian are contentious, and the languages are often divided more upon cultural than pure linguistic grounds, with so much shared vocabulary and the major points of difference mainly coming in the fields of religious terminology and the choice of alphabet.
karlboss said:I should have read my post again
Speaking of actual east slavic speakers, Belarus to be exact, whatever happened to Samoilau?