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Skys The LimitThis week HarperCollins - the people behind Bella Bathurst's The Bicycle Book and Daniel Coyle's Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force - have teamed up with Podium Café to give you a chance to win Richard Moore's Sky's The Limit.

You've read the review of the Sky's The Limit and you've read the interview with Richard Moore, discussing some of what the book has to say. It's a pretty solid piece of reportage on Sky's first year and well worth the read, regardless of what your think of the team. Moore offers tantalising glimpses inside the team that swaggered onto the cycling stage with two key objectives: the long-term goal of landing a Briton on the top step of the Tour podium before the half-decade was out; and the short-term goal of not fucking it up the way previous British teams - Hercules, ANC-Halfords and the Linda McCartney Pro Cycling Team - had done.

So what do you have to do to win the book? As Sky's The Limit is all about Team Sky we're making them the stars of this competition. Do we want you to rank a list of David Brailsford's soundbytes in order of bizarreness? No we don't. Do we want you to get your crayons out and draw a picture of Twiggo's broken clav? No we don't. Do we want you to guess how many words will be spilled on the Cav to Sky story before the Manxman finally announces who he's signing with? No we don't.

What we do want you to do is tell us who you think is going to be the best-placed Sky rider at the finish of the Clásica San Sebastián tomorrow. Simple as that, really. For the tie-breaker, tell us the position they'll finish in.

Star-divide

The Team Sky line-up for San Seb is currently listed as: Michael Barry, Christian Knees, Rigoberto Uran Uran, Dario Cioni, Simon Gerrans, Serge Pauwels, Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Xabier Zandio Echaide.

You've two entries for this competition:

1) stick your pick and finishing position in the big white box at the bottom of the page. (Not registered to comment? Rectify that here.);

2) Tweet us your entry, using the hash-tag #PdCSkyComp eg

@PodiumCafe Dario Cioni, 3rd  #PdCSkyComp

Do remember that you have two entries, one on site and one on Twitter. Use them both to double your chances of winning. Use your head here on the site and use your heart on Twitter. Or the other way around.

Same rules as before. If no one gets the right answer, all entries go in the hat. If the tie-breaker doesn't separate multiple correct entries, they go in the hat. The judges' decision is final, no appeals that can be postponed and postponed and postponed yet again will be allowed.

This time around I'm not offering any forfeits if no one gets the right answer. I've learned my lesson after the Tour. You failed to predict the winner on Alpe d'Huez. You failed to predict the ninth rider across the line on the Tour's first stage. Only one of you managed to predict the lanterne rouge when the Tour was done with the Pyrénées. Podium Café's reputation is on the line here folks. Failure is not an option.

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You can keep up to date with news from HarperCollins by following them on Twitter: @HarperCollinsUK. You'll find Richard Moore on Twitter: @RBMoore73.

You'll find a review of Sky's The Limit - along with an interview with Richard Moore -  on the Café Bookshelf.

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Zandio 5th

"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.

by tedvdw on Jul 29, 2011 7:41 AM EDT reply actions  

Simon Gerrans 15th

by Ankush83 on Jul 29, 2011 8:11 AM EDT reply actions  

Uran 12th

"I love the guys that everyone else in the peloton hate to see hit the front." sminer

by fancan on Jul 29, 2011 10:00 AM EDT reply actions  

Uran 7th

Chuck Norris isn't fit to wear Jens! cleats.

by Millsy_1989 on Jul 29, 2011 10:51 AM EDT reply actions  

Gerrans @ 12th

[Pigilito has a] lifetime stupid statement pass [on PdC] -- Yeehoo

by pigilito on Jul 29, 2011 11:02 AM EDT reply actions  

Uran 11th

"you are now the chris nolan of LSB posters." -TideNtexas 4/21/11

by crazy86er on Jul 29, 2011 11:22 AM EDT reply actions  

Gerrans on the top step of the podium

I picked Riccardo Ricco for my 2011 VDS team, and submitted said team well before the submission deadline. I fully understand the error of my ways, and plead with the VDS Gods to allow me to resubmit my team.

by PopUp Rolen on Jul 29, 2011 2:23 PM EDT reply actions  

Gerrans 9th

"I am Superior,but I'd rather be Human" quote by Data(Star Trek NG) or Fabian Cancellara?

by frans verbiage on Jul 29, 2011 5:03 PM EDT reply actions  

And the Cafe’s rep is saved! Uran it was what won it. Well, finished first for Sky. But he finished in ninth and no one figured that right. So the Uran pickers go in the hat and the first name out is … Millsy_1989.

by fmk on Aug 2, 2011 6:38 AM EDT reply actions  

Wooo!

Thank you very much fmk AND your hat!

(Would you like me to send you an email/tweet?)

Chuck Norris isn't fit to wear Jens! cleats.

by Millsy_1989 on Aug 2, 2011 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

either’s good. you should have a mail from me in your inbox.

and thanx is due to richard moore and harpercollins.

by fmk on Aug 2, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ah yes, i've just spotted it.

and indeed, thank you to Richard Moore and Harper Collins!

Chuck Norris isn't fit to wear Jens! cleats.

by Millsy_1989 on Aug 2, 2011 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's a pretty great hat, isn't it?

I am ready to hug the world - Tony Martin.

by tgsgirl on Aug 3, 2011 4:44 AM EDT up reply actions  

shame for this guy
lucaclare luke richards
@PodiumCafe Rigoberto Uran Uran, 9th #PdCSkyComp
29 Jul Favorite Retweet Reply

by andrewp on Aug 4, 2011 4:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

Fucking Twitter. I searched the hash-tagged entries on Tuesday and that one didn’t show. Will contact him and sort something out for him. Thanx for pointing this out.

by fmk on Aug 4, 2011 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

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