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TdF Stage 10 – Mâcon to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine

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  • July 11, 2012 at 8:27 am #16298
    drheaton

    Hurray! Mountains!

    This is where the tour gets exciting, the first HC climb of the race, the Col du Grand Colombier, awaits the riders today (fewer than finished the TT). I can’t wait! Today and tomorrow should go some way to answering some of the many questions such as how will Sky handle the consistent attacks that are bound to come from those 4-5 minutes down. Who will end up working together to beat Sky and in the end can Wiggins/Froome be put under enough pressure to crack?

    I’ve made my transfers but a heads up for those who haven’t Di Gregorio is in jail and Matt Lloyd bumped his elbow so neither will feature.

    What’s your tactics? Are there enough KoM points to tempt you to chase breaks or is it all about the GC contenders? Does anyone not have Wiggins, Evans, Froome and Zubeldia in their team?

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  • July 11, 2012 at 11:00 am #690873
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    Gkam84

    Purist team
    Bradley Wiggins
    Purist team

    Bradley Wiggins (SKY)
    Fabian Cancellara (RSN)
    Luis Leon Sanchez (RAB)
    Peter Sagan (LIQ)
    Andriy Grivko (AST)
    Giovanni Bernaudeau (EUC)
    Mikel Astarloza (EUS)
    Gorka Izagirre (EUS)
    Kris Boeckmans (VCD)

    Just started my stage hunting team, so gone for

    Bradley Wiggins (SKY)
    Cadel Evans (BMC)
    Christopher Froome (SKY)
    Haimar Zubeldia (RSN)
    Sylvester Szmyd (LIQ)
    Julien Simon (SAU)
    Pablo Urtasun (EUS)
    Matthieu Sprick (ARG)
    Anders Lund (SAX)

    I could really do with that break getting away for my purist team though, but 12 chasers, Sagan’s got 40 seconds over peleton but 20 over the chase……

    July 11, 2012 at 10:52 am #690871
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    chrisdstripes

    livestrongnick wrote:Well

    livestrongnick wrote:
    Well i’ve been split between a few riders but kinda played safe-ish….. 😕

    Wiggo
    Menchov
    da Costa(showed form this season)
    van den Broeck(lost alot of time so poss break away)

    Vichot
    Izagirre
    Lund
    Engoulvent
    Edet

    Just 1 in the break would be nice X(


    I admire you for going for van den Broeck, I was considering him for tomorrow as he does look good and lost most of his time due to a crash rather than any loss of form, plus he’s so expensive that not many people will have him. Chapeau!

    July 11, 2012 at 10:48 am #690869
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    drheaton

    Pfft, if he was a real man
    Pfft, if he was a real man he’d do a Hushovd and just go solo.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:47 am #690867
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    chrisdstripes

    Gotta love Sagan trying to
    Gotta love Sagan trying to get in the break.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:40 am #690865
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    drheaton

    Sagan in the early break,
    Sagan in the early break, come on, hands up, who predicted that?

    Early break is Sagan, Lemoine and Grivko.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:25 am #690863
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    Wig_Billy

    I’m just hoping my climbers
    I’m just hoping my climbers keep their powder dry for tomorrow. B-)

    July 11, 2012 at 10:23 am #690861
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    londonplayer

    Wiggins
    Evans
    Kessiakoff
    Zube
    Wiggins
    Evans
    Kessiakoff
    Zubeldia

    Sandy Casar (for the break)
    Urtasun
    Kasechkin
    Bernaudeau (because i havent got the points to buy anyone else)
    Boeckmans

    I was thinking of doing wiggins, evans, froome for my star riders but then I would have had to slash all my DS’s to the lowest priced riders I could find. My tactics are to try to get all 9 riders scoring (if that doesn’t sound crass!). It’s worked for me in previous tours.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:18 am #690859
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    drheaton

    The
    The obligatory

    Wiggins
    Froome
    Evans
    Zubeldia

    for guaranteed GC and finish line points (they should end somewhere near the front) then my breakaway guys.

    Jeandesboz (TdRomandie KoM)
    Vichot (won this exact stage in the Criterium du Dauphine)
    Egoi Martinez (came third to Vichot on this stage)
    Julien Simon (who’s bound to do something eventually)
    Izagirre (you can’t win a stage without him)

    Hoping for solid points from my stars and a couple of guys in the break but it just hasn’t happened so far this tour.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:07 am #690857
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    chrisdstripes

    Wiggins (pretty much my only
    Wiggins (pretty much my only points scorer since Saturday!)
    P Velits (could be dangerous at the end if he stays with the lead group)
    Brajkovic (was thinking about replacing him but Di Gregorio forced my hand on that one)
    Chris-Anker Sorensen for the KOM today and/or tomorrow I hope
    T-bo (might go for the KOM now he has his stage win? We’ll see)
    Kevin De Weert (was top 15 overall last year so might do something in a break)
    And my perpetual “might-get-in-a-break” French DS’s – Bouet, Jeandesbosz and Julien Simon.

    Obv would be great to have someone go big in a break, but I’ll be watching more as a Wiggins fan and if I happen to get fantasy points then even better.

    Getting very nervous – he should be fine today but we won’t know for sure that he can handle the big mountains until the finish tomorrow – until then I refuse to get too carried away…

    July 11, 2012 at 9:55 am #690855
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    livestrongnick

    Well i’ve been split between
    Well i’ve been split between a few riders but kinda played safe-ish….. 😕

    Wiggo
    Menchov
    da Costa(showed form this season)
    van den Broeck(lost alot of time so poss break away)

    Vichot
    Izagirre
    Lund
    Engoulvent
    Edet

    Just 1 in the break would be nice X(

    July 11, 2012 at 9:34 am #690853
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    TERatcliffe26

    Well this is how ive
    Well this is how ive gone

    Wiggins
    Evans
    Zubeldia
    Chavanel (didnt have enough transfers and was the best option i already had, could go in a break, could be there at the end, or could do nothing)(also transfer out tomorrow)

    Roux (my break guy)
    Izagirre
    Grivko (transfer out tomorrow)
    Lancaster (aim to replace later in the week)
    Boeckmans (cheap, could be useful later in the week)

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