Tour of Switzerland

What happened to Tschopp? He was in there yesterday, now I wake up after the window closed and my purist squad is down to 8 guys.

Fabian Cancellara (RSN)
Peter Sagan (LIQ)
Roman Kreuziger (AST)
Levi Leipheimer (OPQ)
Moreno Moser (LIQ)
Lars Petter Nordhaug (SKY)
Simon Spilak (KAT)
Kris Boeckmans (VCD)
Salvatore Puccio (SKY)

Hoping for a better start than I had in the Dauphine.

Just logged on to find I had 3 mins to pick team PANIC went top 4 then from the bottom ran out of dosh quick adjustment all in 2 mins phew good job im not on here to win lol

My team is based for tomorrow, and will get spartacus out, save a transfer then have 3 going into monday to get sagan et al in

Here goes

Cancellara
Mollema
Danielson
Velits

Caruso
Pinot
Gavazzi
Nordhaug
Izagirre

My initial prolouge. Not expecting to atain dizzy heights of success mind
Roman Kreuziger (AST)
Ben Swift (SKY)
Tom Boonen (OPQ)
Fabian Cancellara (RSN)
Michael Albasini (GRE)
Simon Spilak (KAT)
Timothy Duggan (LIQ)
Alex Howes (GRM)
Giampaolo Caruso (KAT)

Horner not racing messed my plans up a bit.However I'm happy with my starting line-up;

Cancellara
Velits
Leipheimer
Danielson
Konovalovas
Lofqvist
Kohler
Spilak
Albasini

http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/en/tour_de_suisse_2012/teams/riders_list/

Final riders list is up

Just picked my provisional team and I'm pretty happy with it - only 1 rider I'm a bit unsure about.

Starts with the obligatory prologue type TT(hard to see past home hero Spartacus there),followed by a BIG mountain stage where perhaps Horner,Nieve and Gadret should shine.

There follows 4 Sagan/Haussler/Boonen type stages in the middle(Stages 3,4,5 & 6) where points can also be accrued by breakaway guys.

Stage 7 sees a longer bumpy TT(Spartacus or perhaps Velits?) before getting the oxygen masks back on for 2 Mountain stages with a HC and Cat 2 finish respectively

A couple of solid GC guys like Gesink,Mollema or even Roche might be my mainstays.

Possible DS's Kovalanonas,Navardauskas,Albasini,Bookwalter,Tschopp?

What if Mr Cancellara started going up hills as fast as he goes down them? I'd be like the bloke off the Ladbrokes adverts.

As it is, I reckon my team is unstoppable in the Tour de Suisse. I can't believe I managed to afford the line-up that I have. I can't wait to rise up into the top third of mediocrity. My Swiss train is going to be like the Cassandra Crossing but this time the drugs will work!

It is the tour de suisse....

Mollema? Gesink? Leipheimer? Velits? Danielson?