Tour de Suisse 8-16 June 2013 [spoilers]

[smutchin]

Provisional incomplete start list here:
http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjM2ODA=

Ryder Hesjedal favouring this one over the Criterium. Tejay Van Garderen, Igor Anton, and Bauke Mollema also among the contenders.

I wonder if Thibaut Pinot can also be considered a contender...

 

[thom]

Of obvious interest will be whether Wiggins shows up in this (or the Dauphine).

 

[ColinJ]

Of obvious interest will be whether Wiggins shows up in this (or the Dauphine).

Froome to do one, Wiggins the other ...?

(If they are going to have a bit of a power struggle in the team, surely at least save it for the TdF?)

 

[VamP]

Boonen going to make his mark on this one?

 

[thom]

Froome to do one, Wiggins the other ...?

(If they are going to have a bit of a power struggle in the team, surely at least save it for the TdF?)

Brad surely needs race miles so if he is fit, surely he'll go to one. At TdeS, he can win and if Froome doesn't win, does that mean Sky reassess their options... If he goes to the Dauphine, presumably he'll have to get used to being Froome's domestique sooner rather than later.

 

[smutchin]

Profiles of all nine stages. What do we think? Does this course suit Brad's particular skills? I reckon it might, you know... (apart from the descents at the end of stages 3 and 7)

 

[beastie]

That last stage is tailor made for Brad

 

[VamP]

3, 5 and 6 for Boonen

 

[smutchin]

Of obvious interest will be whether Wiggins shows up in this (or the Dauphine).

I've read this morning that he's doing neither, and possibly won't do the Tour either, due to being still ill. edit: read "knee injury"

 

[thom]

I've read this morning that he's doing neither, and possibly won't do the Tour either, due to being still ill. edit: read "knee injury"

The vicissitudes of bike racing...
Perhaps it will be a good season to try for the Vuelta then - after all, it is unlikely to rain on the descents

 

[dragon72]

JTL FTW?

 

[VamP]

OK so how badly will Roman K want to upstage Bertie and throw down the challenge for Saxo leadership at the Tour? He's won this once already in 2008.

Other than that, I guess the big favourite is Tejay?

 

[Herzog]

OK so how badly will Roman K want to upstage Bertie and throw down the challenge for Saxo leadership at the Tour? He's won this once already in 2008.

Other than that, I guess the big favourite is Tejay?

Costa or Van Garderen for me, though I like to see Albasini do well!

Outside bet for a stage is Marcel Wyss (he's a member of my club so I have to say that). I had the pleasure of watching him at our recent race, which of course he won by a country mile (against a much-less talented field than that of the TdS of course). (http://www.rscaaretal.ch/?p=3313).

 

[jdtate101]

Team Sky line-up:
- Joe Dombrowski
- Josh Edmondson
- Bernhard Eisel
- Mathew Hayman
- Gabriel Rasch
- Luke Rowe
- Ben Swift
- Jonathan Tiernan-Locke

 

[smutchin]

Really like the look of the FdJ line-up. Looking for a big performance from Thibaut Pinot.