Subject: »Tour de France 2012

It is here again! The Grand Boucle! The most known road cycling race in the world!

What do you think of it this year? Could Evans do it again or Valverde beat him? :-) There are so many questions so in next month we will see and 22th July we will know winner! :-)

Here is some preview of Tour de France 2012:

The route:



The stages:

-9 flat stages
-4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish
-5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish
-2 individual time-trial stages
-1 prologue
-2 rest days

The Tour summits:




The biggest favourites of this edition of Tour:

Cadel Evans: This could be Tour for him, a lot of TTs kms (about 100 kms). He could win it for twice in a row... :-) In my eyes he is the biggets favourite!

Bradley Wiggins: Another very good time trial specialist! He won Criterium Dauphiné so probably he has very good form!

RadioShack: From this team there are three riders who could be in TOP10-Frank Schleck, Andreas Klöden and Christopher Horner, so we will see who will be the leader! :-)

Samuel Sanchez: Rider from Euskatel-Euskadi, the basque team, every year he could fight for TOP5! :-)

Michele Scarponi: Maybe he could fight for TOP10...but I don't know his form after GdI...

Ivan Basso/Vincenzo Nibali: Two riders from Liquigas. I bet, Nibali will be the leader, because Basso was the leader at Giro... Maybe Nibali could fight for TOP5 :-)

Ryder Hesjedal: He won Giro this year, but I don't think he will be in TOP10 at Tour...but he must be here, after great Giro :-)

Another riders for top calssification: Thomas Voecler, Jurgen Van den Broeck, Levi Leipheimer, Peter Velits, Denis Menchov, Robert Gesink, Alejandro Valverde... There are too many names which still could fight for TOP10!

Some good riders who could take some stages wins:

Mark Cavendish vs Tyler Farrar: Sprinters battle! :-)

Pierre Rolland: Do you remember his win at Alpe d'Huez last year? :-) Maybe he could take some mountain stage this year too... :-)

Philippe Gilbert: Maybe some stage for him? :-)

Fabian Cancellara vs Tony Martin: The battle of the bests time trialists in the world! :-)

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Awesome, I really like the Tour de France, there's only one colombian this year (I think), I hope he does well.

No Columbians this year :(


here a great preview of this years tour :)



grtz a sky-freak :)

A topic like this should be nice ;)

Tour de France 2011 and Tour de France 2010 or Giro d'Italia 2012 and Giro d'Italia 2011

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I opened one in dutch on our national forum :)
with a lot more information :)

you will find it !

Nice :) That's how these kind of topics should be made.

I just found out that Andy Schleck won't participate, too bad.

ok , tomorrow if I will have some time I can do it ;-) :-)

I'm big cycling fan, especially fan of Schleck brothers :-) and, of course, fan of Roman Kreuziger! :-)

Great! :)

And I'm hoping for some nice successes of Rabobank ofcourse ;)

now in RadioShack is very bad atmosphere, Fuglsang is disappointed because he won't participate, Bruynel is caring about Lance now so he won't be as sport manager at Tour, Frank Schleck don't want be leader at Tour and Horner who started to drive last week after his injury was added to startlist because RadioShack want to have him on TdF...

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so I have just added some more info into the first post! :-)

Is Pierre Rolland still under young driver classification?

Hopefully this year Taaramae can beat him and get that white jersey.

Yes, he could fight for maillot blanc ;-) It could be really good battle between them :-)

No , rolland just became 26
It's gonna be for Thibault Pinot , Tejay Van garderen , Kruiswijck ,

PLease can i invite you to a free prono game ?

It's not difficult and very easy :)

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Go for the GC because it has a nice price

HOOFDPRIJS:

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http://www.lipnolakeresort.cz/nl/
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yes. you are right, my mistake ;-)