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  • July 31, 2014 at 9:53 am #22038
    Ghedebrav

    I have never watched this race. Usually I’m taking a break from cycling, on holiday or whatever. Is it usually any good? I’ve had a look at the profiles and there seems to be one crazy stage (the penultimate one), another standard high mountain stage, an ITT and the rest largely flat-to-punchy.

    Apart from the aforementioned crazy stage, I can’t much that makes me think ‘yeah, I’ll try to catch a bit of that’. What is the atmosphere like? Should it be a WT race (the number of really good Polish riders at the moment suggest that maybe it should)?

    Oh yeah, and when does it open!? 😀

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  • August 3, 2014 at 11:59 am #807001
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    ray silvester

    enrique wrote:Joelsim

    enrique wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    … Points jersey scored will be the Lotto Most Active Rider (intermediate sprint points)…
    Is there a ‘true’ Points jersey in the competition? 😕 … If there is, why can’t we just stick to scoring that?…. I think we should always (!) honor the ‘true’ Points jersey in the game, maybe we can add the IMS Jersey if it’s offered, but I think we should make it a rule to always award points for the true ‘Points’ jersey, not ignore it… It is a trip to the Podium and probably a more prestigious, if you will, jersey to have on your shoulders, I guess it’s a matter of opinion, but can we go back to always scoring the ‘true’ Points jersey for every race?… 😕 I think it’s a good practice… And it seems fair to me… By the way, does the Vuelta have a Young Rider classification?… :?

    Indeed it does enrique…..I think Chris Horner won it last year :))

    In all seriousness though they don’t have a youth classification

    They have Red Jersey for GC,Green for points,Blue & White polka dot for mountains.

    There a white jersey for the ‘combined’ jersey where all of your rankings in each of the three competitions(GC,Points,KOM)are added and the lowest total wins with the proviso that you have a ranking in all 3 competitions.

    August 3, 2014 at 11:46 am #806999
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    ray silvester

    Joelsim wrote:Agree. It

    Joelsim wrote:
    Agree. It doesn’t make any sense to do scores on intermediate sprints. It is confusing and is pure luck.

    Any more luck involved than picking someone in the break?……because that’s what it will reward….those who pick the breakaway riders(e.g the wildcard polish riders!!) consistently?

    August 3, 2014 at 11:35 am #806997
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    enrique

    Joelsim wrote:… Points

    Joelsim wrote:
    … Points jersey scored will be the Lotto Most Active Rider (intermediate sprint points)…
    Is there a ‘true’ Points jersey in the competition? 😕 … If there is, why can’t we just stick to scoring that?…. I think we should always (!) honor the ‘true’ Points jersey in the game, maybe we can add the IMS Jersey if it’s offered, but I think we should make it a rule to always award points for the true ‘Points’ jersey, not ignore it… It is a trip to the Podium and probably a more prestigious, if you will, jersey to have on your shoulders, I guess it’s a matter of opinion, but can we go back to always scoring the ‘true’ Points jersey for every race?… 😕 I think it’s a good practice… And it seems fair to me… By the way, does the Vuelta have a Young Rider classification?… 😕

    August 3, 2014 at 11:32 am #806995
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    Joelsim

    Agree. It doesn’t make any
    Agree. It doesn’t make any sense to do scores on intermediate sprints. It is confusing and is pure luck.

    August 3, 2014 at 11:18 am #806993
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    ray silvester

    Joelsim wrote:Maybe.
    The

    Joelsim wrote:
    Maybe.

    The summit finish only looks like 5% average for 12km, not totally sure there will be massive time gaps, and Majka will need to take some time there to protect himself on stage 7. Poels could go well for sure.

    Majka may be on a victory tour after the TDF….look at the last 2 winners for the sort of race it is(Moser and Weening).

    My standard team has a nice little Scandinavian flavour

    Hansen
    Hushovd
    EBH
    Moser
    Bos
    Hutarovich
    Matthews
    Gasparotto
    Fernandez

    My Purist has even more Vikings and is based on perhaps trying to nick a Forum Scorum stage win on the climb or TT stage

    Hansen
    EBH
    Nordhaug
    Hushovd
    Sammy Sanchez
    Jungels
    Henao
    Hesjedal
    Franczak

    August 3, 2014 at 11:02 am #806991
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    Joelsim

    What does this mean?
    Points
    What does this mean?

    Points jersey scored will be the Lotto Most Active Rider (intermediate sprint points)

    If the points jersey is only based on intermediate sprint points then it is a complete lotto.

    August 3, 2014 at 11:01 am #806989
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    Joelsim

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:Similar

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Similar from me for standard

    Modolo
    Mezgec
    Lobato
    Bos
    Matthews
    Gatto
    Silvestre
    Matysiak
    Vakoc

    Much bigger difference for purist

    Mezgec
    Lobato
    Bos
    Matysiak
    Majka
    Capecchi
    Poels
    Zakarin
    Hansen

    I think Cannondale said Boivin was their sprinter for this race.

    Let’s hope so :))

    August 3, 2014 at 10:52 am #806987
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    TERatcliffe26

    Similar from me for
    Similar from me for standard

    Modolo
    Mezgec
    Lobato
    Bos
    Matthews
    Gatto
    Silvestre
    Matysiak
    Vakoc

    Much bigger difference for purist

    Mezgec
    Lobato
    Bos
    Matysiak
    Majka
    Capecchi
    Poels
    Zakarin
    Hansen

    August 3, 2014 at 10:39 am #806985
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    Joelsim

    And my Purist team. Ahem, 9
    And my Purist team. Ahem, 9 sprinters.

    Luka Mezgec (GSH)
    Tyler Farrar (GRS)
    Thor Hushovd (BMC)
    Fabio Silvestre (TFR)
    Konrad Dabkowski (POL)
    Theo Bos (BLK)
    Marco Haller (KAT)
    Jacopo Guarnieri (AST)
    Juan Jose Lobato (MOV)

    August 3, 2014 at 10:37 am #806983
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    Joelsim

    Here’s my team for the day.
    Here’s my team for the day. Hopefully few changes before the Queen stage. 9 sprinters.

    Sacha Modolo (LAM)
    Luka Mezgec (GSH)
    Yauheni Hutarovich (ALM)
    Marco Haller (KAT)
    Theo Bos (BLK)
    Thor Hushovd (BMC)
    Fabio Silvestre (TFR)
    Juan Jose Lobato (MOV)
    Konrad Dabkowski (POL)

    August 2, 2014 at 7:39 pm #806981
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    Joelsim

    Maybe.
    The summit finish only
    Maybe.

    The summit finish only looks like 5% average for 12km, not totally sure there will be massive time gaps, and Majka will need to take some time there to protect himself on stage 7. Poels could go well for sure.

    August 2, 2014 at 7:28 pm #806979
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    TERatcliffe26

    Poels is my big tip though
    Poels is my big tip though

    August 2, 2014 at 7:26 pm #806977
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    TERatcliffe26

    For me Cummings and Weening
    For me Cummings and Weening have decent shots. I think if Majka is up to it, his TTing has improved enough to win this. Izagirre/Capecchi will both go well, and De Gendt has a shot if he has his climbing legs, id say the same for Riblon but he has been out of sorts. Aru and Hesjedal could also do something

    August 2, 2014 at 7:17 pm #806975
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    Joelsim

    Looks to me like the best
    Looks to me like the best TTer on the last stage will win this one unless one of the lesser TTers manages to take an awful lot of time on stage 5.

    To my mind that leaves Cataldo, Izaguirre, Siutsou, De Gendt, Formolo and even Malori as the favourites.

    August 2, 2014 at 7:10 pm #806973
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    Dux89

    Saw a lot of cheap sprinters
    Saw a lot of cheap sprinters and got pretty excited but then I saw the budget. Wowzers. Tough decisions to be made here.

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