What's Your VDS Tour Team?
It appears that all the teams have announced their Tour de France startlists and from what I hear those teams are anxiously awaiting who we VDS owners have on our teams. So let's oblige them and name our teams toot sweet- and that includes those folks here who have Tour-only teams as the rest of us are anxious to see how you will wipe the floor with our teams.
Oh and be sure to state the name of your team too because then we can go back to the standings and note how many teams will probably pass our own before this trip around France is over and Al Trautwig has said his last bit of wisdom.
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After a fairly bare patch
of having maybe one or two water carriers in every race, I actually have a half decent bunch. Should clean up in the sprints at least, even if I’m only looking at minor placings in the GC
Oscar Freire
Andy Schleck
Thor Hushovd
Robbie McEwen
Mark Cavendish
Philippe Gilbert
Pierrick Fedrigo
Christian Vandevelde
Jerome Pineau
Oscar Pereiro Sio
Manuel Quinziato
Alexandre Botcharov
Bram Tankink
by Monty. on Jun 30, 2008 3:32 PM EDT 0 recs
Sprinters!
Wow, Oscarito, Thor, Robbie Mac, and Cav on the same team! Good thing it’s virtual as I don’t know how they’d work out the team “dynamics” in the bunch sprints in reality. With Benna and Boonen out you have all the A list sprinters, minus Robbie Hunter, maybe. Too bad (for you) there’s not a VDS green jersey for sprint/flat stage points.
by huy on
Jun 30, 2008 4:29 PM EDT
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Square Wheels For Speed here
Riccardo Ricco
Samuel Sanchez
Juan Mauricio Soler
Yaroslav Popovych
LL Sanchez
Alexandre Botchorov
Carlos Barredo
Manuel Quinziato
Laurens Tan Dam
Kanstansin Siutsou
Xavier Florencio Cabre
Johan Van Summeren
by ursula on Jun 30, 2008 3:33 PM EDT 0 recs
zegno1
Looking really, really bad with the loss of Boonen and Dekker. I have zero sprinters, a few possible climbers and no TT hopes. I’m rooting for the 30 minute breakaway.
David Arroyo
Samuel Dumoulin
Sammy Sanchez
Marcus Burghardt
Sebastian Langeveld
David De La Fuente
Riccardo Ricco
Danny Pate
Frank Schleck
by zegnotronic on Jun 30, 2008 3:34 PM EDT 0 recs
Eschelon of Fools come out to play
For the GC (and GC-ish):
Samuel Sanchez
Carlos Sastre
Christian Vandevelde
Markus Fothen
Sprint stages:
Fabian Cancellara
Mark Cavendish
Robert Forster
Murilo Fischer
Julian Dean
Stage hunters and domestiques:
David Millar
Danny Pate
George Hincapie
Thomas Lovkvist
Magnus Backstedt
LL Sanchez
Juan Antonio Flecha
Bernhardt Eisel
by Hons on Jun 30, 2008 3:35 PM EDT 0 recs
wow
50 points seems even harder now! Is there a best of the 50’s consolation prize?
by cg. on Jun 30, 2008 3:41 PM EDT 0 recs
Maybe
If it becomes unbalanced.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on
Jun 30, 2008 4:02 PM EDT
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On a quick check
I have 119 points worth of riders in the Tour.
by Monty. on
Jun 30, 2008 4:33 PM EDT
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They Might Be GPSs Disguised As Burritos!
Ricardo Ricco (Overall)
Jens! Voigt (Stages)
Juan Antonio Flecha (Sprints)
Christian Vandevelde (Stages)
Magnus Backstedt (TT)
Danny Pate (TT and Breakaway)
Bram Tankink (Stages)
Amets Txurruka (MOUNTAINS)
George Hincapie (Stages)
Yaroslav Popovych (Stages and Overall if Evans falters)
Maxime Monfort (Stages)
Vladimir Efemkin (Stages)
Filippo Pozzato (Stages)
Leonardo Duque (Sprints)
Leif Hoste (Stages)
Racing for Victory and Free Beer!
by DemonCats on Jun 30, 2008 3:44 PM EDT 0 recs
I meant...
JENS!!!
Racing for Victory and Free Beer!
by DemonCats on
Jun 30, 2008 3:44 PM EDT
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Rogue.Ryderz
Damiano Cunego (GC)
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (GC-Stages)
Yaroslav Popovych (Stages)
Juan Antonio Flecha (Stages)
Manuel Beltran Martinez (Stages)
Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (GC-Stages)
Leonardo Duque (Sprints)
Robert Förster (Sprints)
Sandy Casar (Stages)
Jimmy Casper (Sprints)
Oscar Pereiro Sio (GC-Stages)
Maxime Monfort (GC-Stages)
Alexandre Botcharov (Stages)
Jérôme Pineau (Sprints)
Markus Fothen (Stages)
David De La Fuente Rasilla (Stages)
Julian Dean (Sprints)
by brandon... on Jun 30, 2008 3:52 PM EDT 0 recs
Fromagerie Duval
GC: Sastre, Sam-San, F. Schleck, Astarloza
White Jersey: Lovkvist, Monfort
Sprinters: Hushovd, Duque, Fisher, Dean
Stage Hunters/Others: Gilbert, Hincapie, Hesjedal
French: Moncoutie, Hubert Dupont
by huy on Jun 30, 2008 4:11 PM EDT 0 recs
guttersnipes
after a slow start in the classics, equipo guttersnipes is Tour ready! Although a little light on the sprinters…
Cadel Evans
Vlad Carlos Sastre
Frank Schleck
Kim Kirchen
Maxime Monfort
Markus Fothen
Riccardo Ricco
Vlad Robbie Hunter
Christian Vandevelde
Julian Dean
Murilo Fischer
Oscar Pereiro
Carlos Barredo
Egoi Martinez
Sylvain Chavanel
Adam Hansen
by kimchi on Jun 30, 2008 4:17 PM EDT 0 recs
Eehm this one..
Cunego
Mcewen
Gilbert
Popovych
Flecha
Kreuziger
Ten Dam
Pereiro
Pineau
Siutsou
Florencio
Grivko
Posthuma
Txurukka
Totally failure. When is the next round?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on Jun 30, 2008 4:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Vincere Del Mori
Fabian Cancellara
Andy Schleck
Carlos Sastre
George Hincapie
Leif Hoste
Stijn Devolder
David Millar
Yaroslav Popovych
Magnus Backstedt
Thomas Lovkvist
Christian Vandevelde
Markus Fothen
Ryder Hesjedal
Sebastiaan Langeveld
by Clydesdale on Jun 30, 2008 4:24 PM EDT 0 recs
Team I got Nothin (formerly Way of the Cross)
Ricardo Ricco
Frank Schleck
Yaroslav Popovych
Magnus Backstedt
Thomas Lovkvist
Johan Van Summeren
Markus Fothen
Christian Vandevelde
Bram Tankink
Is it cross season yet?
"Hey, hey, settle down boys and girls or Krusty will have to bring out his old friend Corporal Punishment again."
by Drew... on Jun 30, 2008 4:25 PM EDT 0 recs
Lol Do you also have Mourey and Franzoi?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on
Jul 1, 2008 3:30 AM EDT
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I was actually
thinking about them when I was putting the team together but didn’t think they’d be riding that much road. Turns out they’re riding a lot more (and John Gadret too) than I thought.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
by Drew... on
Jul 1, 2008 9:21 AM EDT
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Dreaming of Cobbles err: Stage wins!!!!
Looks like I’m going for Stage wins! or Roman Z. is my GC hope.
Ricardo Ricco
George Hincapie
Yaroslav Popovych
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
Roman Kreuziger
Manuel Quinziato
Philippe Gilbert
Carlos Barredo Llamazales
Dario Cioni
Filippo Pozzato
Coming 30 minute breakaway!!!
by Cyclingfan on Jun 30, 2008 4:35 PM EDT 0 recs
Born From Jets
DUQUE Leonardo
MONCOUTIE David
DI GREGORIO Rémy
GILBERT Philippe
FOTHEN Markus
KIRCHEN Kim
LÖVKVIST Thomas
TEN DAM Laurens
MAASKANT Martyn
I’m so dead. So Drew , cyclocross you say, sounds interesting….
by Jens on Jun 30, 2008 5:03 PM EDT 0 recs
Correction: Add Heinrich Haussler
He’s in as a sustitute for Oliver Zaugg who is out sick.
by Jens on
Jun 30, 2008 5:25 PM EDT
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I love your team for breakaways and
stage wins though. Seriously.
You’d love Cross – it happens when the weather is the most temperate.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
by Drew... on
Jul 1, 2008 9:22 AM EDT
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Roller Coasters
Fabian Cancellara
Oscar Freire
Andy Schleck
Jens Voigt
Juan Antonio Flecha
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
Mikel Astarloza
Christian Vande Velde
Markus Fothen
Laurens Ten Dam
Dario Cioni
Manuel Quinziato
by Veloki on Jun 30, 2008 5:04 PM EDT 0 recs
Team Davis Wheelworks
Roman Kreuziger
Carlos Barredo Llamazales
Frank Schleck
Stijn Devolder
Carlos Sastre
Kim Kirchen
Maxime Monfort
Damiano Cunego
Bernhardt Eisel
Mark Cavendish
Bernhard Kohl
Josep Jufré
I think that’s it.
by brunopitton on Jun 30, 2008 5:07 PM EDT 0 recs
Multiple Scoregasm
OK, I’m weird, but I have these images of the riders based on their names….
Perrick Fedrigo (I imagine him to be a pirate, arrrggg)
Maxime Monfort (14th century portrait painter)
William Bonnet (doesn’t he sound like an old west bank robber or something?)
Bernhard Kohl (miner)
Sylvester Szmyd (I tot I taw a puddy tat)
Carlos Barredo (works in a mexican restaurant)
Juan Antonia Flecha
Bram Tankink (falls off barstools when he gets too drunk)
Riccardo Ricco (Oh Lucy, I’m homo)
Robbie McEwen (a character in a Mike Myers movie)
Yaroslav Popovych (I’m strong to the finich, ‘cause I eats me spinach)
Andy Schleck
I got nothing for Flecha and Schleck.
60% of the time, it works every time.
by bethie on Jun 30, 2008 5:13 PM EDT 1 recs
See above
And Heinrich Haussler, aka Beans.
60% of the time, it works every time.
by bethie on
Jun 30, 2008 5:39 PM EDT
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For Flecha
think of the hot latino, Valentino, as the sheik.
by Monty. on
Jul 1, 2008 3:48 AM EDT
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Brilliant!
Thanks Monty
60% of the time, it works every time.
by bethie on
Jul 1, 2008 9:52 AM EDT
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I'm going to have trouble getting some of yours out of my head
Every time I see Pierrick Fedrigo, a little voice in my head will be saying “Aaaarrghhh” Just like I can’t see Vladimir Karpets without remembering David Duffield’s “It’s curtains for Karpets.”
by Monty. on
Jul 1, 2008 2:59 PM EDT
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Team Arland
Riccardo Ricco
Samuel Sanchez
Andy Schleck
Popo
David Millar
Bernhard Eisel
Christian Vandevelde
Maxine Monfort
Johan Van Summeren
Martyn Maaskant
Markus Fothen
Remi Pauriol
Danny Pate
Best case scenario: Tons of breaks that get away, they cancel sprint stages, Monfort and Pauriol go 1-2 on Bastille Day, and Ricco and Sanchez are doing an amazing job of pre-race sandbagging.
by PopUp Rolen on Jun 30, 2008 5:18 PM EDT 0 recs
Haussler's In ... add 'em to my list
So maybe they shouldn’t cancel all the sprint stages. Just the hectic ones that see poor cav shoved to the back and then complaining about the dangers of non-sprinters trying to sprint.
by PopUp Rolen on
Jun 30, 2008 5:56 PM EDT
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He is??
Was there a change today?
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on
Jun 30, 2008 6:13 PM EDT
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Yeah Zaugg has some problems with his lungs..
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on
Jun 30, 2008 6:38 PM EDT
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Unibrow
GC: Ricco, Cunego, Sanchez, Fothen
Sprints: Chicchi, Forster
Stages: Gilbert, Quinziato, Txurruka, Pereiro, Vandewalle, Florencio
Do I sound excited?
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on Jun 30, 2008 5:32 PM EDT 0 recs
They jumped ship
at the thought of being temmates with Pereiro
by Jens on
Jun 30, 2008 5:40 PM EDT
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No
Nor should you be
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
by Drew... on
Jul 1, 2008 9:23 AM EDT
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New team name
Furrowed Brow
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on
Jul 2, 2008 12:53 AM EDT
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Priceless!
Well played Sir.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
by Drew... on
Jul 2, 2008 9:27 AM EDT
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near as i can tell, tdf only players are gypped...
with only 10 players…. while the year-rounders can have, what, between 12 and 17 (going by what’s listed here)
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jun 30, 2008 6:07 PM EDT 0 recs
Well...
it seems like the Giro-only players did fine with 10, as that was more than a lot of year-long teams had. But the Tour… apparently a lot of us year-longers picked riders out of the Tour pool. Or maybe the ones with three guys going just haven’t commented here. I wouldn’t make any assumptions about the outcome just yet.
Also, as we’ve said all along, the year-longers made their decisions based on what we knew in February.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on
Jun 30, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
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All is good Chris - just remind us next January of this
and I’m sure we’ll all be on top of getting in the year long.
The 50 pts and 10 riders is an ouch just because almost everyone who is anyone rides the Tour where the Giro was a bit quieter.
I’d imagine the Vuelta will be easier too. I’ll have mine in shortly. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
by nikki on
Jun 30, 2008 7:27 PM EDT
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Rudie Can't Fail
Damiano Cunego
Sammy Sanchez
Carlos Sastre
Riccardo Ricco
Filippo Pozzato
LL Sanchez
David Arroyo
Juan Antonio Flecha
Matteo Bono
Jerome Pineau
Sebastian Chavanel
Leonardo Duque
Robert Forster
Mark Renshaw
Heinrich Haussler (?)
by Tifosa on Jun 30, 2008 6:43 PM EDT 0 recs
Viva la Lactique
Alessandro Ballan
Alexandre Botcharov
Dario Cioni
Stijn Devolder
Juan Antonio Flecha
Oscar Freire
Markus Fothen
David de la Fuente
Leonardo Piepoli
Yaroslav Popovych
Andy Schleck
Bram Tankink
Amets TXURRUKA
Christian Vandevelde
Johan Van Summeren
Viva la Lactique
by nrs5000 on Jun 30, 2008 6:50 PM EDT 0 recs
Team Commonwealth Signing in
I’m thinking “happy thoughts”....
F. Cancellara
A. Schleck
C. Sastre
R. McEwen
Y. Popovych
Sebastian Chavenel
B. Kohl
S. Lang
F. Chicci
J. Pineau
S. Gerrans
R. Pauriol
Don't be afraid! I'll be right behind you, using you as a shield!
by Richmond Roadie on Jun 30, 2008 8:26 PM EDT 0 recs
Team North Road
Some quality, but mostly quantity. Should be a well hydrated squad.
Ricardo Ricco
Damiano Cunego
Philippe Gilbert
Remy DiGregorio
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
Heinrich Haussler
Roman Kreuziger
Adam Hansen
Mateo Bono
David Moncutie
David Arroyo Duran
by Rothko on Jun 30, 2008 10:34 PM EDT 0 recs
Team Zoe!
Here goes nothing:
Mark Cavendish
Remy Di Gregorio
Markus Fothen
Kim Kirchen
Roman Kreuziger
Trent Lowe
Konstantin Siutsou
Laurens Ten Dam
Yury Trofimov
Christian Vandevelde
Just here for the view
by ZoeRochelle on Jun 30, 2008 11:39 PM EDT 0 recs
no idea why those question marks are there. I didn't purposely put them there.
Just here for the view
by ZoeRochelle on
Jul 1, 2008 11:04 AM EDT
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I don't know if it's good news or bad
but it may all be in your head because no question marks are visible on my screen.
by Jens on
Jul 1, 2008 11:58 AM EDT
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I don't see any either.... ?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
by nikki on
Jul 1, 2008 1:29 PM EDT
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Ok. That is weird. A work I see them at home I dont.
I must not have this font on my work computer? No idea.
Just here for the view
by ZoeRochelle on
Jul 2, 2008 11:25 PM EDT
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Let The Good Times Roll
Hope that Steegmans shows his Paris-Nice sprinting!!
Mikel Astarloza
Maxime Monfort
Sandy Casar
Haimar Zubeldia
Gert Steegmans
Alexandre Botcharov
Roman Kreuziger
Francesco Chicchi
Robert Forster
Yury Trofimov
by semprenaroda on Jul 1, 2008 7:21 AM EDT 0 recs
Cham-Pain-Col-Baggers
Any Brits i could find, a couple of outside chance top 10s, some breakaway potential & then anything cheap i could find from Team Rabobank or Garmin to round it out.
Mark Cavendish
Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez
David Millar
Yaroslav Popovych
Markus Fothen
Laurens Ten Dam
Pieter Weening
Sebastian Langeveld
Julian Dean
Ryder Hesjedal
Is the VDS Lanterne Rouge a sought after position?
- a virgin VDS
by grim grimpeur on Jul 1, 2008 9:04 AM EDT 0 recs
Could be
I’ve got a pretty big pile of shwag to give away.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris... on
Jul 2, 2008 12:54 AM EDT
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lantern rouge
seb chavanel
sylvain chavanel
remy digregorio
roman feillu
egoi martinez
maxim monfort
yaroslav popovich
luis leon sanchez
yuri trofimov
haimar zubeldia
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jul 1, 2008 11:08 AM EDT 0 recs
subject to complete change
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on
Jul 1, 2008 5:32 PM EDT
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forget the first one... here's the new one
lantern rouge:
freire
txurruka
trofimov
suitsou
popovich
monfort
egoi martinez
luis leon sanchez
lowe
markus fothen
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on
Jul 1, 2008 7:59 PM EDT
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Terra Della Quercia aka Ouch without Tommeke
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
Frank Schleck
Stijn Devolder
Philippe Gilbert
Tadej Valjavec
David Millar
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
Thomas Lovkvist
Sandy Casar
Christian Vandevelde
Jerome Pineau
Alexandre Botcharov
Markus Fothen
Julian Dean
Ryder Hesjedal
Heinrich Haussler
by samboo on Jul 1, 2008 1:05 PM EDT 0 recs
Funky Finger Velo
Poised for Mediocrity
Andy Schleck
Mikel Astarloza
Haimar Zubeldia
Pierrick Fedrigo
Remy DiGregorio
Markus Fothen
Maxime Monfort
Christian Vandevelde
Cyril Dessel
Egoi Martínez
by itswells on Jul 1, 2008 1:18 PM EDT 0 recs
Tarmac & Cobbles
Left Boonen at home to do some hoovering, so here’s the votes for team T & C:
Riccardo Ricco’
Damiano Cunego
Samuel ‘Samu’ Sanchez
Leif Hoste
LL ‘cool J’ Sanchez
Robert Förster
Sylvain Chavanel
Roman Kreuziger
Oscar Pereiro
Murillo Fischer
Xavier Florencio
Matteo Bono
Joost! Posthuma
The exclamation mark does look the part, doesn’t it? ;-)
You can't lose against Italy, we can only fail to win - Johan Cruijff
by DZI on Jul 2, 2008 8:00 AM EDT 0 recs
Carrefive presented by the Arden Concept Group
Since I’ve been BSn’ on this site now for some months, I figured I’d better step up and present a team.
GC – Cunego & Zubeldia
White Jersey – Lovkvist & Kreuziger
Stages – Sylvian Chavanel, Sandy Casar, Pinotti, Quinziato, Hesjedal, & Pate.
Total cost – 48 points!!
Just so you know, numbers that end in 8 are considered auspicious in the Chinese culture.
I guess we’ll find out on that.
Personally, I like the mandated 10 rider thing and would suggest for next year to modify the rules to keep all teams at 10 riders, or better yet make it 9 so we are required to match the actual size of the teams in the race.
Also, I do actually like the 50 pts thing for the guys who don’t run the whole season. I think it helps even us out with the season long guys who have had to build teams for every race on the calendar.
by Ryan_Liles on Jul 2, 2008 9:05 AM EDT 0 recs
Team "Super Axe Hackers"
Cadel Evans
Fabian Cancellara
Jens! Voigt
Mark Cavendish
David Millar
Juan Antonio Flecha
Dmitriy Fofonov
Sylvain Chavanel
Nicki Sorensen
Sandy Casar
Sebastian Lang
Robert Forster
Markus Fothen
Dario Cioni
Oscar Pereiro Sio
Jerome Pineau
Bram Tankink
Kevin Hulsmans
Julien Dean
Here’s hoping!!
by giant rider on Jul 2, 2008 1:54 PM EDT 0 recs
Are you serious?
You have 19 of your 25 riding the Tour? Did you focus on the Tour for your team or just score this summer?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
by nikki on
Jul 2, 2008 2:15 PM EDT
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Don't hope to much..
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on
Jul 2, 2008 3:11 PM EDT
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That wasn't
initial plan when I put my team together, but it all kinda fell that way. I only really expected about 10-12 of those riders to make it. Though at the last minute I pulled out any Astana riders – like alot of people!
by giant rider on
Jul 2, 2008 3:31 PM EDT
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Ok you're right. Definetly a nice team. I have seen worse!
Only the Tour winner isn’t included Mencov and Cobo!
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on
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Colin's Crew TdF only....for what it's worth
Juan Mauricio Soler: Triple Threat. Polka Dot, White, and potential GC
Haimar Zubeldia: Top ten(I hope)
Jaroslav Popovych: Top ten last year, can he repeat that?
Cyril Dessel: For 1 point how could you not pick him??? Total sleeper
Robbie Hunter: The next big sprinter? He is at the right age for max strength.
Oscar Pereiro Sio: Only TdF champ in field, a bargain at 2 points. SUPER Domestique
Maxime Monfront: A good young prospect, first TdF let’s see how he handles himself
Christian Vandevelde: Stage maybe
Alexandre Botcharov: Stage Win maybe
Johan Van Summeren: This guy is a work beast, maybe one day he will get some glory. Always at the front working
All this for 49 points! I believe some of the year long teams will be very hard to beat. Example is Giant Rider above, his/her first three riders total 63 points alone, and yes they are all riding the tour…...YIKES. Nice team
by Colin Emerson on Jul 2, 2008 2:30 PM EDT 0 recs











