St Gotthard Pass- A Cobbled Swiss Dream
Why would the VSP use the Tour de Suisse instead of the Critérium de Dauphiné? The Dauphiné is looking like the pre-Tour de France. Sky and Garmindale are already giving their GC men nightmares by screwing up on the team time trial front. Practice, practice, practice, lads; it’s better to cock it up now than in the real Tour. Every TDF buck has bailed on the Swiss race in favor of anything else.
Where does that leave us and the betting window? Points are points so it’s time to channel your inner DS and copy @xyxax’s picks. Though the main GC riders may be elsewhere, there are many great riders here; enough to make this an interesting stage race. Maybe even a great race with no obvious overall contender. Bertie is racing but hopefully he is hanging in with the gruppetto everyday. The man needs some rest damn it, not 15,000 meters of climbing. Then there is his teammate Rafal Majka, I’m not sure I trust him. And I sure don’t trust Schumacher or Rebellin who are also racing on the orange CCC team, but that’s another issue and I shouldn’t be putting Majka in the same paragraph. But he shouldn’t wink at the camera while he is crushing everyone on a climb; it’s a little like the Italian Cobra Riccò taunting everyone for not keeping up.
I digress. Here is a start list. Consider this one’s warm up VSP for the Tour de France.
Don’t forget, points go toward great end-of-season prizes.
[vsp_results id=”33213″/]
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@Gianni
More like Super-Delgado'd. He wasn't late to his own race.
@eenies
I think the route and list will make for an exciting race. There's not enough big climbing for the hard core climbers to dominate the GC. The sprinters will have plenty of action but it's hilly enough for them not to be able to keep good time. The time trial will probably be critical. A good but not great climber who has some serious TT chops would be a good chance at the GC.
Oh bollocks, Delgado-ed. I think that's the nail in the coffin of my VSP campaign.
ah feck!
Apparently Kwiato didn't get the memo that I picked him to win... Over 10 minutes down today? The fuck...
@justinevan88
You and me too!
@Julez
Don't beat yourself up -I've been banging nails in mine since the start of the season!
@dancollins
I had exactly same issue when using Explorer 11, even mailed Frank about it. So now I use Firefox which works. Btw, it's raining cats and dogs today in the land of cheese and chocolate...so hope not too many crashes!
@Teocalli
We had a meeting as well, minutes of the meeting where taken and seconded.
@Barracuda
Yeah, I was there too. I remember it well.