5 July - and TdF game?

15 Responses to “5 July - and TdF game?”

1. Doug says:
   17/06/2009 at 09:44 am

   Armstrong to win - a fiver

2. Alastair Wareham says:
   17/06/2009 at 09:53 am

   Ha. Not a chance - Contador to wipe the floor with everyone.

   Evans to finish second again.

   Sastre to finish third.

   Armstrong to win up Mont Ventoux and then get busted for cheating.

3. Steve McCall says:
   17/06/2009 at 10:12 am

   I’ll only play if I can win this time.

4. Doug says:
   18/06/2009 at 12:11 am

   Alastair - youth really is no substitute for wisdom acquired over many years of quiet reflection. You are speaking ill of a living legend who transcends our sport. Contador isn’t worthy enough to tie his shoelaces. Contador wriggled out of Operation Puerto - if anybody is likely to get busted, it is him. Still, I suppose he can always get another job as a waiter - “Camerero, el proyecto de ley, por favor”!!

   Oh, and I’ll give you odds, if you’re a betting man.

5. Alastair Wareham says:
   18/06/2009 at 09:03 am

   Doug - I’ll take you up on your offer. I’m supremely confident Lance will not win the tour. He may win a stage but he’s certainly not the time trialist he used to be. Three years out of the competitive cycling mixed with drinking copious amounts of beer and consuming large quantities of Tex Mex do not constitute a TDF winner for me.

   However, I suspect Lance is a pretty shrewd character and he may have been calling everyones bluff with his ‘average’ performances at the Giro, amongst other events - so, bearing that in mind, it will be difficult to propose a reasonable set of odds given his past performances at the Tour and his mind games.

   Let me hear your proposals and I’ll give it some consideration.

   P.S - Thanks for the kind words that you posted on my Facebook gallery yesterday.

6. johncal1 says:
   18/06/2009 at 06:06 pm

   I agree with al, Lance will finish top 10 at best at the tour, hes just not good enough anymore at either time trialing or climbing to win it.

   I think the top 5 will be.

   1.Contador (best climber, suprisingly good time trialist too!)
   2.Evans (eternal bridesmaid)
   3.Menchov (Strong all round but maybe not strong enough to beat the above riders)
   4.Sastre (Great climber, decent time trialist but maybe a bit past it)
   5.Andy Schleck (amazing climber, will lose too much time in the time trial)

7. Steve McCall says:
   18/06/2009 at 08:01 pm

   John you nailed it mate, exactly what I’d have gone for.

8. jack the flying dutchman says:
   23/06/2009 at 11:36 am

   OK - let’s do this proper.
   If you can all submit your team to me, i.e. 9 riders - I will set up a scoring system (points per stage, nrs 1 to 5 of each stage get 10 - 8 - 6 - 4 and 2 points and an additional 2 points per yellow jersey per day) and double points for the final classification.

   So my team will be:
   Alberto Contador
   Cadel Evans
   Oscar Feire
   Mark Cavendish
   Andy Schleck
   Carlos Sastre
   Robert Gesink
   Roman Kreuziger
   Sylvain Chavanel

9. Alastair Wareham says:
   23/06/2009 at 11:42 am

   You’ve clearly got too much time on your hands, Jack!

10. jack the flying dutchman says:
    23/06/2009 at 12:21 pm

    24 hours per day Mate! Make the most of it…..

11. Doug says:
    24/06/2009 at 06:06 pm

    My team - Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, L Armstrong.

    Alastair - congratulations on your news.

12. Steve McCall says:
    24/06/2009 at 07:19 pm

    Cavendish
    Contador
    Pelizotti
    Gerdermann
    Kirchen
    Menchov
    Bennati
    T Dekker
    A Schleck

13. Doug says:
    24/06/2009 at 08:24 pm

    Ricco, Landis, Schumaker, Valverde, Vinokourov, Hamilton, Ulrich, Basso, Verenque, Heras, Mayo.

    “Team EPO”

14. jack the flying dutchman says:
    25/06/2009 at 08:30 am

    Doug, were those the cyclists we saw in black this weekend on the Galibier, I thought they were going rather fast…..

15. Doug says:
    25/06/2009 at 08:47 am

    Faster than me, that’s for sure.

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