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you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby neilb » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:52 pm

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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby John G » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:54 pm

[quote="neilb"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cycling/15259826.stm


There is a surprise NOT! ... I don't see how they can fight for the green and yellow jersey!? can anyone explain that to me? :?
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Postby Alex P » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:21 pm

Does anybody know where Mark Renshaw is going :?:
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Postby Antloony » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:35 pm

Rabobank.
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby Phil H » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:49 pm

[quote="John G"][quote="neilb"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cycling/15259826.stm


There is a surprise NOT! ... I don't see how they can fight for the green and yellow jersey!? can anyone explain that to me? :?

I can't see how they can fight for GC and the sprints. HTC's success was about being able to put a bunch of strong guys on the front and pull the race back together for the sprint - Cav didn't necessarily need the leadout, but he did need there to be a bunch sprint. You can't waste your GC guys on such ventures day after day.
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby Alex P » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:52 pm

Might you be able to do this if you have a large enough team - what is the TDF team size limit?
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby DavidKennett » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:46 am

[quote="Alex P"]Might you be able to do this if you have a large enough team - what is the TDF team size limit?

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Project [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/8821501/Can-Britains-Team-Sky-win-green-and-yellow-at-the-same-Tour-de-France-following-Mark-Cavendishs-arrival.html]Green & Yellow[/url] Playing cat and mouse with the other sprinter/gc teams Rabobank(Renshaw & Gesink), OP QS(Greipel & Van Den Broeck)

With 14 stages classified as [url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2012-tour-de-france-route-revealed]'road'[/url], expect Cav to get [color=#008000]14 stage[/color] wins :D

Best signing for Sky, Bernhard Eisel, excellent team captain on the road.
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby John G » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:56 am

Be interesting to watch the TdF next year and how Sky handles all the conflicting agendas ! LoL :D
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Postby Andrew G » Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:16 am

Wiggins will move on, he has a reputation for it. Probably next year.
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Postby Ian A4size » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:15 pm

Only 9 riders for a TDF team, squads are much bigger tho' as there are more than one race going on at the same time and IIRC- part of the deal is that teams have to race in certain events.
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby Jon H » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:30 pm

Yellow & Green is doable; Telekom did it in 1997 with Ullrich & Zabel.
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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby Marek » Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:41 pm

Cav doesnt always need a lead out, he does need other sprinter only teams to chase down the breaks on the flat days, and I reckon they will if Sky are fighting for the yellow. The other sprinter teams are not going to want to give up their chance of maybe winning a sprint.

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Re: you heard it here first.....but no surprise!

Postby Paul H » Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:09 pm

Perhaps they realise that Yellow isnt going to happen
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Postby Ian A4size » Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:56 pm

I think one rider, Merkcx- no not Stu- won every jersey one year - could be wrong tho'
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Postby Phil H » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:00 pm

[quote="Ian A4size"]I think one rider, Merkcx- no not Stu- won every jersey one year - could be wrong tho'

Correct. Merckx 1969 won yellow, green and polka dot. Had there been a white jersey competition he would've won that too.
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