trail wrote:
Jason N wrote:
Never was really interested in the TTT from a prediction perspective. The course for the men does look to have some action in there. There's even a short and very steep descent that may create some pucker factor riding together on TT bikes.
I'm excited about next year's TTT, with the 6 person men's-women's combined national team format. Should be really good for the U.S. I can imagine like Quintana / Taylor Phinney / Rosskopf (McNulty?) as the men's team with, say, Wiles/Stephens/Dygert. That would be hard to beat. The Dutch might be the favorite with Dumoulin/Kelderman, and the Dutch women being a juggernaut with Vleuten/Breggen/Dijk (skipping all the 'vans' and 'ders')
But I'm getting a year ahead of this thread. Sorry.
The coed ttt should be cool. How to keep the group together, who drops when...pretty intruiging....
I think Rolland is a good dark horse, Woods, too. A Yates ( maybe both) will hang on the final 20+ percenter on Holl. I think someone gaps at the top but gets caught then a small, maybe 4 man group goes to the line.
I keep thinking Roglic factors, but what’s he been up to lately? And Sagan will be compelling, maybe a dramatic attack, but fall short. Would love to see him survive and have a legit shot on the descent before the line. Dan Martin? Tough as nails and can hang on too. He’s a guy that should sport the rainbow jersey.
Larry Warbasse signed with Ag2r. That’s cool.