The Tour de Suisse can be everyone’s warm-up for the Tour de France, including all you VSP dreamers. The big show seems to be the Critérium de Dauphanié this year, as far as Tour de France contenders go but the Tour de Suisse still has some big guns showing up. Twiggo is here, not for a Tour warm up, unless people are worried about Richie Porte’s lack of form. If Wiggins was drafted, we would have the potential for another Stephen Roche-Roberto Visentini affair. That would be the best but I’m getting ahead of myself.
The Swiss tour is a proper mix of time trialing and climbing but one might lose more time in the climbing than the time trialing. Rui Costa, the defending champion, has the need to win in his new white kit. Twiggo may have a need to win just to make Sky management sleep badly between now and July. Cancellara has won his home tour but he would need some special mojo to win this one. The racing may well be more interesting than the Critérium de Dauphiné as the eventual winner most likely won’t be decided on the very first day.
As always, look to the countdown timer to avoid a Delgado situation. Here is a start list.
Prizes, we remember the prizes don’t we?
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VSP PICKS:
1. Roman Kreuziger
2. Bradley Wiggins
3. Rui Costa
4. Bauke Mollema
5. Rohan Dennis
VSP PICKS:
1. Bradley Wiggins
2. Peter Sagan
3. Cadel Evans
4. Tom Boonen
5. Fabian Cancellara
VSP PICKS:
1. Wiggins
2. Rui Costa
3. Mollema
4. Kreuzinger
5. Thibaud Pinot
VSP PICKS:
1. Wiggo
2. Kreuz
3. Rui Costa
4. Mathias Frank
5. T Pinot
VSP PICKS:
1. Wiggins
2. Kreuziger
3. Mollema
4. Dennis
5. Costa
Wiggins is the big question mark, isn't he? He probably doesn't have the team support, but I don't get this "he's put all this muscle back on for the track" nonsense, when it will only take a Froomian slip to put him into pole position at the Tour. But maybe he just doesn't care if he's not following this up with a ride around France. Still: it's hard to bet against him...
VSP PICKS:
1. B. Wiggins
2. B. Mollema
3. R. Kreuziger
4. T. Pinot
5. R. Costa
VSP PICKS:
1. WIGGINS Bradley
2. COSTA Rui
3. POZZOVIVO Domenico
4. CANCELLARA Fabian
5. KRISTOFF Alexander
VSP PICKS:
1. Roman Kreuziger
2. Ion Izaguirre
3. Bauke Mollema
4. Mathias Frank
5. Thibaut Pinot
@Steampunk
Depends on which Wiggins shows up Saturday, doesn't it? But after watching him in the TOC and P-R, he's looking tanned, rested, ready, and it seems his head is in a good place (not too mention the pleasure of sticking your thumb in Brailsford's/Froome's eye with a dominating win at TdS). It's hard to bet against him...
VSP PICKS:
1. Bradley Wiggins
2. Rui Costa
3. Bauke Mollema
4. Roman Kreuziger
5. Mathias Frank
VSP PICKS:
1. Pozzovivo
2. Kreuziger
3. Wiggins
4. Pinot
5. Costa