Tour of Poland

No one seems to have my man who is reazching for the sky. Allez lp

This is an absolute shot in the dark...

Uran
Boonen
Ventoso
Degenkolb
Gavazzi
Machado
Kristoff
Golas
Demare

Treating this race as a bit of fun and picked my team for purist:

Rigoberto Uran (SKY)
Tom Boonen (OPQ)
Jan Bakelants (RSN)
Sergio Luis Henao (SKY)
Paolo Tiralongo (AST)
Domenico Pozzovivo (COG) (weather supposed to be really sunny)
Ignatas Konovalovas (MOV)
Andrew Talansky (GRM)
Alexander Kristoff (KAT)

Simon giving away one of my riders

Thanks for the resource Simon F

Stage 1 - lumpy with last 1km at 2.5% uphill

Stage 2,4,7 - flat

Stage 3 - 2 climbs (actually 1 repeated - looks like cat ears on the profile) then 3.5 100 vert meter (max 13.5%) lumps in a crit. Uphill finish (500m at 4.6%)

Stage 5 - nasty. first cat and second cat climbed 3 times. last 1km at 3.1%

Stage 6 - worse. 2 cat 1's and an evil looking uncategorised climb repeated 5 times. Last 3km - 1km at 8.1% (max 11.5%) then 1km at 2.6% finishing with 1km at 3.6%

This is mostly for my benefit but maybe someone else will find it useful. I'm a bit stuck for who should be in my team at the moment.

I'm thinking along the lines of:

Gasparotto
Uran
Teklehaymanot
Arroyo
Tiralongo
Dekker
Gerdemann
+ 2 Polish guys.

Boonen/Haussler/Degenkolb/Swift for the sprint stages?

Anyone know who the best Polish Climber is? Restricted to WIKI research I'm afraid on this one!!

going to enter as purist. I dont think there will be an awful lot of sprint finishes going by the profiles.

Picking the hometown DS' who go on the breaks will decide it for sure.

yeah, get the guys in that break and you've probably won the tour

stage 6 looks genuinely awful, there's not a metre of flat road in it judging by the profile. just those two categorised hills five times each plus another one that's not categorised, five times. fifteen climbs of 200-400m a pop.

I think it's probably an unwelcome distraction and takes away from the TdF which should be the main focus of the fantasy comp.

I didn't really enjoy the ToC because I was still competing in the Giro but I guess if the TdF is a write off for you then the ToP could be fun. Personally my ToP team will be thrown together at the last minute and will be considerably less well planned than my TdF team.

Thanks

There's going to be a lot of shelling out the back I guess on those days.

I'm still deciding upon a team but have a rough team in my head. Am I right in thinking they are a climbing the same cat 1 mountain 4 times on stage 1?