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Chavanel.
The Quickstep boys will be out for blood.
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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates |
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According to cyclingstarlists.com Hammond is starting the KBK, so I'll have to pick him again.
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Greipel - I saw him first hand at the TDU - impressive. High Road have 2 members of the same team to help him that they did at the TDU in Hansen and Eisel with Hammond to help too. Very strong team.
1. Greipel 2. Boonen 3. Vaitkus 4. Hushovd Good bunch sprint. |
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I want to see Greipel wind up a 55x11. If Cipo used that gearing... |
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I am betting on a successful break with one of the riders who rode well in Het Volk but did not bury himself. Chavanel fits the bill. We should record picks and keep a running score. Then we can all see how terrible I am at picking winners.
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Yep well I'm sticking with Greipel. I think it will be a bunch sprint. 43km from the final climb to the finish - more than enough and Greipel and Boonen are in terrific form. One of them will win. I reckon Greipel.
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I dont know, where was Greipel yesterday? |
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Dead last. |
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yeah, he sucked arse. I think he was training in the Canary Islands before he came down to Adelaide. May mean nothing, may mean alot. There was a few crashes that took out a whole lot of the peloton, chances are he got mixed up in one of those. |
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Dunno. Will find out tonight I suppose. |
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he made Brownie, Davis and Renshaw look slow in the best quality race in Australia besides 2000 Sydney. the stages were not overly short, and not too much piano tranquillo. Renshaw was top 10 in Kurne 2 years back, if Greipel cannot match that if it finishes in a sprint something will be up. |
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You've obviously never seen the field for the legendary annual 'Morwell to Glenmaggie Classic'. |
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ahhhh, I remember one year, classic1 won the "coalfields classic" ![]() |
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Well he might have got caught up in a crash. I know Eisel was caught up in a crash. I thougth he wasn't riding yesterday. In anycase - would you bother working hard yesterday when you knew you couldn't win the race? Gilbert was on his own then there was a break then there was the peloton wasnt there? He would have taken it easy when he knew it was beyond him.
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Nah, just got flicked in a tight finish for first and fastest after being the strongest all day. Still haven't got over it. Should have used the 15 in the uphill sprint, not the 14......... ![]() |
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