DAUPHINE

livestrongnick wrote:Just

livestrongnick wrote:

Just been checking tv schedule and no live coverage listed as yet because of French open tennis! X(

Yes, they seem only to have live coverage for Thur, Fri and Sat. They had Mon and Tue listed earlier so it looks like it is being cut further. Also looking ahead they have nothing listed for the Tour de Suisse. Obviously they think people prefer to watch paint dry at Roland Garros.

enrique wrote:chiv30

enrique wrote:

chiv30 wrote:

… And judging on your finishing position in the Giro…….I’ll ignore the breakaway advice you have given :/

>:D< Come to Papa, little chiv! 😀 I dare you not to put any (!), not one (!) of the riders at the end of my list (below) on your team for the Dauphine under any (!) circumstances for the entire race for any (!) reason! Any (!) whatsoever! B-)

enrique wrote:

… my picks for most points coming from a breakaway:

31.8 Pierre Rolland
34.2 Thomas Voeckler
19.9 Simon Gerrans
19.4 Thomas De Gendt
32.4 Luis Leon Sanchez
11.6 Pierrick Fedrigo
28.0 Sylvain Chavanel

Take the dare, you little wuss! :)

Only time any of those riders will be going i’n my team will be for specifics , ie ITT or GC contention ,none would be picked as breakaway riders simply based on thier values and popularity but by all means carry on and load your team with those above and crash and burn and blame it on the lack of transfers again if you like 🙂

enrique wrote:chiv30

enrique wrote:

chiv30 wrote:

… And judging on your finishing position in the Giro…….I’ll ignore the breakaway advice you have given :/

>:D< Come to Papa, little chiv! 😀 I dare you not to put any (!), not one (!) of the riders at the end of my list (below) on your team for the Dauphine under any (!) circumstances for the entire race for any (!) reason! Any (!) whatsoever! B-)

enrique wrote:

… my picks for most points coming from a breakaway:

31.8 Pierre Rolland
34.2 Thomas Voeckler
19.9 Simon Gerrans
19.4 Thomas De Gendt
32.4 Luis Leon Sanchez
11.6 Pierrick Fedrigo
28.0 Sylvain Chavanel

Take the dare, you little wuss! :)

your list of breakaway riders, does your dare count if you are putting a rider in for reasons other than a breakaway? As I may put Chavanel and/or Gerrans in for certain stages, but due to the fact they can sprint from a select group, but not for a breakaway

Dave Atkinson wrote:stage 7

Dave Atkinson wrote:

stage 7 should have been classified as a summit finish, and now is. admittedly it’s not a very big summit, but it is a summit.

The way the profile photo is cropped on the official site makes it look like its not categorized (I never noticed the 3 dangling in mid air when I first looked), which is why I thought it wasn’t, but noticed it was after being pointed to steephill.

Philip Unwin wrote:… Stage

Philip Unwin wrote:

… Stage 7 Looks suspiciously like a summit finish to me…

drheaton wrote:

… Larger races provide stage profiles and ASO (who run the Dauphine and Tour) classify their own stages so generally we stick with what they provide. … who are we to question that [?]….

Dave Atkinson wrote:

stage 7 should have been classified as a summit finish, and now is…

Ok, so now Stage 7 is classified as as a summit finish… I don’t get this… Are we:

drheaton wrote:

… generally… [sticking} with what they [the ASO are providing]…

?…

’cause I thought somebody said:

drheaton wrote:

… who are we to question that [?]….

… or did Dave make an executive decision to override the ASO?… 😕 😉 Just kidding! 😀

that betancur has got quite
that betancur has got quite expensive 🙂

stage 7 should have been
stage 7 should have been classified as a summit finish, and now is. admittedly it’s not a very big summit, but it is a summit.

enrique wrote:ray silvester

enrique wrote:

ray silvester wrote:

A lot of 30+ credit GC types are riding…

stumps wrote:

Spoilt for choice with the list of provisional starters so far… Had a quick guestimate and my team is around 250 points!… Cant wait :D

Hard not to see why! 🙂

Here’s my preliminary list of the Top 20 GC riders for the Dauphine, based on the start lists available right now, in order of my projected final standing with their values according to the current ‘Rankings’ page:

40.0 Christopher Froome
40.0 Alberto Contador
26.5 Richie Porte
26.8 Nairo Quintana
40.0 Joaquin Rodriguez
16.7 Leopold Konig
28.8 Michal Kwiatkowski
40.0 Alejandro Valverde
28.4 Andrew Talansky
22.3 Michael Rogers
13.8 Kenny Elissonde
27.1 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
25.0 Damiano Caruso
21.6 Samuel Sanchez
30.3 Daniel Moreno
13.8 Daniel Navarro
3.0 Natnael Barhane
15.8 Jerome Coppel
19.2 Jakob Fuglsang
10.8 Damiano Cunego

Of course, the guys below may sneak in and probably will (!) be in the Top 20, too! 🙂 But they’re my picks for most points coming from a breakaway:

31.8 Pierre Rolland
34.2 Thomas Voeckler
19.9 Simon Gerrans
19.4 Thomas De Gendt
32.4 Luis Leon Sanchez
11.6 Pierrick Fedrigo
28.0 Sylvain Chavanel

:)

And judging on your finishing position in the Giro…….I’ll ignore the breakaway advice you have given :/