Oh brothers and sisters, we find ourselves here again. It was but a few moments ago when the Milan-Sanremo VSP went up. Racers fought the sleet, producing an unforgettable start to the Velominati VSP season. Cancellara, Nibali, Froome and, and Horner were all big points winners for our astute and well informed audience. But now it has come to Paris-Tours, the last big road race of the season, unless you count the Tour of Beijing, which we don’t.
Authon-du-Perche to Tours, 235 km of relatively flat riding; a sprinters route. Or a passista’s route judging from some of the former winners: Tchmil, Tafi, Museeuw. Or if you inject enough epo into him, a climber’s route: Richard Virenque. I say this every year when this race comes up; his win here almost made me like him. I actually liked him a lot for this win but his overall obnoxious quotient kept him firmly in the hate.
So place your bets carefully. This race is quite hard to predict, it could go so many ways. And this is almost the last chance for bragging rights in the 2013 VSP so pray to your gods for guidance and make a move before Sunday. It would be a shame to Delgado the penultimate event of the VSP season.
Start list is here. Here is the very classy Andrea Tafi showing how you win a sprinters race the hard way.
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Picking one great name and the funniest name, there were plenty of contenders to choose from but Ivar edges it
VSP PICKS:
1. CHAVANEL Sylvain
2. DEGENKOLB John
3. HINAULT Sébastien
4. CIOLEK Gerald
5. SLIK Ivar
Need to think this through...initial picks in case the Nyquil renders me unconscious for the weekend.
VSP PICKS:
1. John Degenkolb
2. Niki Terpstra
3. Tommy Voeckler
4. Greg Van Avermaet
5. Mercato
VSP PICKS:
1. Degenkold
2. Demarre
3. Ciolek
4. Farrar
5. Sylvain Chavanel
VSP PICKS:
1. Degenkolb
2. Demarre
3. Ciolek
4. Farrar
5. Sylvain Chavanel
VSP PICKS:
1. DEMARE
2. Syl CHAVANEL
3. VAN AVARMAET
4. DEGENKOLB
5. BOOM
VSP PICKS:
1. J Degenkolb
2. A Demare
3. G Van Avermaet
4. T Farrar
5. G Ciolek
I'm not taking these picks as super cereal as I should.
VSP PICKS:
1. Greg Van 'Avinit.
2. Boom boom shake the room
3. Tryer Failure
4. John Dodgytash
5. Arnold Demure
In a pleasing act of symmetry the German closes the curtain he opened in March. Was it March, or April, anyway he's bound to do it.
VSP PICKS:
1. Ciolek
2. Danny Van Poppel
3. Degenkolb
4. Dehaes
5. Belkov
Puncheurs Paradise
VSP PICKS:
1. voeckler
2. van avermaet
3. ciolek
4. mercato
5. Demure
VSP PICKS:
1. Degenkolb
2. Demare
3. Van Avermaet
4. Farrar
5. Ciolek