Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2012, Stage 16

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• No clue, but first?!

  VSP PICKS:

  1. Nibali
  2. Froome
  3. Wiggins
  4. Van Garderen
  5. Van Den Broeck

• No clue, but first?!

• Happy to sacrifice points in the name of fandom. Wiggo has Un Jour Sans & the Froome dog is finally let off the leash. Unfortunately he can't keep up with the descending skills of the front two.

  Good thing my new shoes were one of the few bits of clothing undamaged in my crash earlier this year...

  VSP PICKS:

  1. The Bum Chin
  2. Nibbles
  3. Froome
  4. JVDB
  5. Rolland

• Extra prediction: Froome in yellow!

  VSP PICKS:

  1. Froome
  2. Nibali
  3. Van der Broeck
  4. Pinot
  5. Wiggins

• VSP PICKS:

  1. KESSIAKOFF
  2. ROLLAND
  3. FROOME
  4. WIGGINS
  5. EVANS

• I'm tipping Tommy to go for the spots, tounge out. And Team Sky to crack enough to make it all interesting. I agree that Froome is looking a bit stuffed. He will probably hold his powder for the Vuelta after his wife instructs him to tell the modfather to go fuck himself.

  Shame Bertie isn't here, that would be guaranteed fireworks, and he would crack Wiggo like a walnut at Christmas.

   

  VSP PICKS:

  1. Tommy V
  2. Cadelephant
  3. Nibbles
  4. Van Den Broke
  5. Albasini

• Can't wait

  VSP PICKS:

  1. Nabali
  2. Evans
  3. Van Garderen
  4. Wiggo
  5. Rolland

• Lots of attachs, with those out of the money seeking their chance for glory and/or redemption.  (I'm looking at you, Piti.)  But unfortunately Nibbles and Cuddles and VDB know time is short and are more desparate than most, so no break sticks and the leaders all summit the Peyersoude together at the front.  On the descent, Nibbles smokes 'em, and Cuddles is not far behind.  Further up the hill, VDB rides the descent of his life, as does Steve Krrujjjjjiiiiswich who somehow managed to insinuate himself  into the big boys' group on the way up.  As for Wiggo, his sideburns prove too much drag and slow him down (though he will later claim that people who say that are wanker cunts and he was just playing safe knowing the race was won).  But he lets Froome have a crack himself to protect the #2 spot, because Sean Yeats is too pissed to realise what's happened until it's too late.

  for those hot fans of Lewis Caroll, "Bandersnatch" is Froome - from The Jabberwock. ("Beware the Jub-Jub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." I have a head cold.  Best I could come up with.  Apologies.)

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  VSP PICKS:

  1. Nibbly Shark
  2. Tacky Cuddles
  3. Van Done Broke
  4. Bandersnatch
  5. Kruiiiijjjjwwsich

• Lots of attachs, with those out of the money seeking their chance for glory and/or redemption.  (I'm looking at you, Piti.)  But unfortunately Nibbles and Cuddles and VDB know time is short and are more desparate than most, so no break sticks and the leaders all summit the Peyersoude together at the front.  On the descent, Nibbles smokes 'em, and Cuddles is not far behind.  Further up the hill, VDB rides the descent of his life, as does Steve Krrujjjjjiiiiswich who somehow managed to insinuate himself  into the big boys' group on the way up.  As for Wiggo, his sideburns prove too much drag and slow him down (though he will later claim that people who say that are wanker cunts and he was just playing safe knowing the race was won).  But he lets Froome have a crack himself to protect the #2 spot, because Sean Yeats is too pissed to realise what's happened until it's too late.

  for those hot fans of Lewis Caroll, "Bandersnatch" is Froome - from The Jabberwock. ("Beware the Jub-Jub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." I have a head cold.  Best I could come up with.  Apologies.)

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• @G'phant  I meant, of course, 'for those *not* fans of Lewis Carroll'.  Both times. No-one should admit to being a *hot* fan of Lewis Carroll.

  VSP PICKS:

  1. Nibbly Shark
  2. Tacky Cuddles
  3. Van Done Broke
  4. Bandersnatch
  5. Kruiiiijjjjwwsich