Paris-Nice 2015 *spoilers"

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'll make the decision that this is not a minor race so it can have a thread of its own

Official site:
http://www.letour.fr/paris-nice/2015/us/

 

[raindog]

May I slip a couple of P-N photos in from 1966, M?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

"Hey Raymond, some bloke on cyclechat said you won just cos you were wheelsucking all race"

 

[discominer]

Had just booked a long weekend in Nice, then found out there's some pesky bike race in town on the Sunday.

 

[fimm]

Ah, Nice, the place where our flight was delayed by cyclists.
No, really.

We'd seen the Grand Depart Individual TT in Monaco on the Saturday, and were flying home on the Sunday. Got to the airport, and the flight is already showing as delayed. No worries, we check in our lugguage and watch the TDF on the TV. It is going past the airport, so after a bit we wander out across the car park and watch the peloton go by. All very interesting. Then we go and check in, and carry on watching progress on TV until the flight was called. Onto the plane, and the captian greets us with "We're sorry for the delay to the flight, which was caused by some chaps on bicycles..." the race helicopters meant that they'd closed the airport airspace.

 

[iLB]

Oooscht... https://instagram.com/p/z2vEq6TL2s/?modal=true

 

[Louch]

who is GC for sky in this, is it Brad?

 

[Berk on a Bike]

who is GC for sky in this, is it Brad?

I would've thought Richie Porte.

 

[Louch]

Guess they don't want to win then

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Guess they don't want to win then

Porte's had a good start to the year.

 

[Louch]

When it's time to step up this, he usually finds a way to not win. Fine super Dom, but he's no leader it seems

 

[The Couch]

Porte's had a good start to the year.

Agree... and with Geraint they have a very good co-leader as well
(although this year's PN is a bit uncharacteristic and might be a bit too hard for GT)
(don't think Wiggo is interested in the GC, considering his focus on the 1-day classics)

And indeed TA draws the 4 biggest names (when talking about the grand Tour contenders) but still pretty nice line-up in PN:
GC: Fernandez/Intxausti, Bardet, Kelderman/Kruijswijk, Fuglsang/Aru/L.L. Sanchez, Kwiatek, Jungels, Machado, Wellens/Gallopin, Yates, Tejay/Dennis, Costa/Valls, Talansky, Barguil, GT/Porte, Majka, Sepulveda

And especially on the sprint front, there's no complaining
Sprint: Demare, Bouhanni, Nizzolo, Coquard, Kristoff, Greipel, Matthews, Degenkolb

 

[rich p]

who is GC for sky in this, is it Brad?

Guess they don't want to win then

Odd thing to say. Porte should go well and Wiggins has absolutely zero chance of the GC.

 

[MisterStan]

According to inrng Porte or Thomas should be leading Sky's efforts

 

[tug benson]

who is GC for sky in this, is it Brad?

No...does that mean you won't watch it?