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.
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Well thank you Rui Costa for making me wonder who to pick for this race. I have no idea. I think Sagan might take the prologue, though.
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Kwiato takes it on stage 9 ITT while Thomas finds the tarmac at some point and goes out of contention. BTW, has anyone seen the stage profiles? A 3D representation of a 2D object... Interesting or ridiculous?
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=149934&c=8
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Switching out Sagan for Thomas - think Sagan won't really push it til the Tour.
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I'm rolling the dice, but I won't be watching. I can't watch any footage of anything in Switzerland; it makes me want to sell everything off (except the steeds + VMH) and immediately claim aesthetic asylum.
Holy fuck. Pozzovivo is back?! Who said little dudes in Lycra aren't tough? A few weeks after crashing on his face at high speeds...Yep, ready to roll out again. HardMan!
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Going with my normally unscientific approach and hoping to not get completely skunked. Good luck to all.
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