Tour de france book 2015 stage 10 predictions

The final climb has ensured a selective finish but the parcours has become too predictable. Geraint thomas recently predicted it would be the most stressful race of the year. Jakob started the final stage 1 minute 15 seconds down on richie porte but attacked on the final climb to take back the time and won thanks to the 10 bonus seconds he got for winning the stage. The winds often blow in this region of france, and friday looks no different, with a reasonable 15 kph crosswind off the bat in toulouse, still present later in the day at carmaux and even in to the finish at rodez. Kittel marcel quick step floors won the stage in bergerac before degenkolb john trek segafredo and groenewegen dylan team. Chris froome all but secures second tour title despite losing time to quintana follow all the news, images and results from stage 20 the 110. Usually, a flat sprint would favor greipel but in the past, he has proven to be.

Stage 10 is the final day before the rest day and whilst in previous years this has meant gc action, this year it means a nice transition stage and a sprint in all. Ryan cooper, chief scientist of best bike split, modeled out the power, speed, and other metrics that riders may produce for this stage. Any of your riders who reaches paris in the top10 earns you 1 point. On july, between stages nine and ten there was a rest day in pau.

Alberto contador of the tinkoffsaxo team in action during yesterdays 10th stage of the. In august 2012 mark cavendish had landed 23 stage wins. With the way hes cycling right now, it isnt farfetched to see porte win his maiden grand tour. The tour started in utrecht, netherlands on 4 july and finished on the champselysees in paris on 26 july. Its their job to make sure that complaints that are filed are treated according to the rule book. That was a phenomenal attack and finish in the first mountain stage of the 2015 tour. Meanwhile the day should be sunny in spite of this outlook.

There always is a predictions thread, why dont we add some spice to it and give one of us some bragging rights. I have embraced this froomeless tour, because, to be perfectly honest, i have no clue who is going to win. He won stage 2 in holland and got the needed confidence boost, which helped him to power past everybody else in amiens on stage 5. An altitude finish as early on the tour is extremely rare. The stage starts in bourg doisans near the base of alpe dhuez and zigzags its way west toward valence. Its our final day in the pyrenees, and its a day that the climbers will want to make count. Velonation comprehensive coverage of the cycling news that matters. Stage 18 features more categorized climbs seven in total than any stage in the. And i also get their point that, especially for this tdf.

Mauricio pochettino into shock oddson favourite to. The fastest massedstart stage was in 1999 from laval to blois 194. With these excuses in mind, here are 10 predictions for 2015. Team time trials are infrequent and hard to predict. The 104th edition will start in dusseldorf, germany on saturday the 1st of july and will finish in a sprinters paradise on the champs elysees, paris on the 23rd july.

Established in 1903 by newspaper lauto, the tour is the most wellknown and prestigious of cyclings three grand tours. Nobody could have predicted that colombian egan bernal would take yellow like that. If a rider that you chose finishes at the exact spot that you predicted, add 2 points. If youre in a hurry it came down to a contest between two riders and was close right until the end but theres more to it than that. That is because the wind is liable to blow in off the sea. From a cycling front, the race is the high point of the season. From a commercial point of view, the tour secures more mainstream media attention than any other event on the calendar. The riders are in belgium and the finish at the wall of huy is notorious in the fleche wallonne with a steepest section of 19%. Theres been vague talk of a finish in liege itself rather than the drab suburb of ans. Riders start their trip across the south of france in stage 10 with a demanding 167kilometer ride. A breakaway will chase the kom, but the tours first day is for the sprinters. Learn more how the pro riders prepared for the tour and get unique stage predictions and power analysis as the race unfolds on trainingpeaks. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres 2,200. First there might be a new finish for liegebastogneliege.