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by team fl » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:55 am
Funny that SM mentions Antiga as second best rated rider for white, a rider that already has a gap of 6 min to the favorites... I guess Hlohosky will win that classement without a big fight, as all his opponents seem to be helpers for the real GC contenders. Even a double victory in the youth classement together with Skvarka is possible.
After the result yesterday, I also think that the GC victory will be decided among the Steinsson twins and Alfaro. Depending on the development of the stages, Sportsfreunde with Valuev or even Kim might have chances too together with Hlohovsky from SM. Bezjak in my eyes really has to less mountain to be dangerous in the GC. Beletti from UC PonteVecchio though might be an interesting opponent. The rest of the classics union is already too far behind the mentioned riders to be a serious threat, esp as they will lose a lot of time today too, very likely.
Rest of the classements, meaning green and team, seems to be wide open, although in the team classement, Sportsfreunde has a little advantage after the stage win yesterday. But in a pavé stage race, this may change quickly. On paper we, Team FL seem to have the best chances to win it. Green is even harder to tell. I say, the one of the three main GC favorites (Arni, Kari or Eloy) wins it, this one will also win the GC. Besides that, almost everything is possible, depending on the situations in the GC and esp. among the three of them.
Btw, maybe SM could change the title of the race thread to "Pavé Tour 10h"?
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