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paris nice prologue
Deadline less than three hours off. Is it too short for a swede to win?
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Incidentally
Bouhanni leads with 3'47"
Early doors yet though.
Boom Bouhanni goes quickest (after 15 riders) but its a decent time of 3'47"
May as well name my purist team, I think its well balanced, and has some in form riders too
Bouhanni
Renshaw
Quintana
Coppel
Monfort
J Izagirre
Peraud
Westra
Tejay
Standard
Grivko
Renshaw
Viviani
Howard
Kittel
Matthews
Westra
Spilak
Porte
Purist - I'm aiming for finish line points more than GC.
Viviani
Howard
Kittel
Bouhanni
Meersman
Westra
Spilak
Porte
Quintana
My Standard then
Bouhanni,Howard,Gallopin,Viviani,Kittel,Tejay,Matthews,Turgot,Kelderman.
A proper young team....odd then that I'm most afraid of The Jensie today!!
Standard
Porte
Westra
Peraud
Talansky
TJ
Kristoff
Larsson
Pauriol
Chav
Standard:
Van Garderen
Westra
Vivia
Renshaw
Bouhanni
Chavanel
Howard
Kittel
Hivert
Purist (for the win):
Van Garderen
Costa
Porte
Peraud
Westra
Spilak
Hivert
Bouhanni
Kittel
My purist team is GC heavy but hoping that pays off.
I had Jimmy Engoulvent until he pulled out, he was a shoe in for victory today!
But here is my team
Bouhanni
Kittel
Renshaw
Meersman
Hivert
Grivko
Larsson
Tejay
De Gendt
AUSSIES!
Standard:
Youth jersey points may come in to play so I've picked my young overall GC pick who will be the one definitely staying in till stage 4 plus young sprinters who can TT or have a solid track grounding as the course looks quite technical.
I only have one guy not eligible for the Youth Jersey.
I'm hoping that they will be high up in GC and pick up pts in the sprints until the 4th stage which looks as though it's the one that will give the first time splits.
Purist:
The new 'SS'
'Roger'
The Dutch Yankee
Prince Harry
'The Boxer'
An Argonaut
A European scratch AND omnium medallist
A Tasmanian Devil
Queen Stage Winner last season
*In other words Spilak,Kelderman,Tejay,Renshaw,Bouhanni,Kittel,Viviani,Porte,Westra
My dilemma for my purist team is do I pick Talansky or go for one of Roche/Costa/Fugslang/Lofkvist?
Is Talansky in form right now? If not then some of the others are but are generally 2nd tier GC guys.
Second-tier GC guys can do well this week though - not many stages to really separate the men from the boys, so could be quite an unpredictable (and close) GC. So I've just gone with gut feeling - which meant dropping Talansky today...
Purist wise, /i want a triple who might win stages and the rest will hopefully stay high in the gc for most of the race.
So . . .
In form american who might win overall.
In form frenchman who might win >1 stage
off centre Dane, who might come good overall
The french option for overall GC
An in form french possible stage winner & high in GC
Cheap sprinter, who mimes
Must have a Sky GC option too
A belgian GC possibility - bit of a gamble
Italian sprinter to make the numbers up.
Think this year might favour the sprinters in the main for the majority of stages, though in the end, overall GC may be decided on the summit finish.
I've gone with 4 time triallers and 5 sprinters today. Hoping for a 1234 and then won't need to change much over the flat days
Its short enough to bring sprinters into the mix although TTers will likely make a showing too. If either Boonen or Gilbert are racing hard they could do something.
Chavanel seems a good bet.
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