
Education First gets my vote, promoting learning seems a good thing
But I guess EF is a bu$in€$$ like all the other sponsors
Brucey wrote:...the first being one of his team mates, who sees it coming and neatly avoids it by bunny-hopping onto the pavement...
Brucey wrote:this is what the bookies thought the GC odds should be, ahead of stage 1
Bernal 2/1
Thomas 9/4
Fuglsang 5/1
A Yates 11/1
Quintana 14/1
Porte 16/1
Pinot 18/1
Kruijswijk 20/1
Bardet 25/1
Nibali 25/1
but what do they know....?
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mattheus wrote:Brucey wrote:this is what the bookies thought the GC odds should be, ahead of stage 1
Bernal 2/1
Thomas 9/4
Fuglsang 5/1
A Yates 11/1
Quintana 14/1
Porte 16/1
Pinot 18/1
Kruijswijk 20/1
Bardet 25/1
Nibali 25/1
but what do they know....?
cheers
I presume that all they know is how much the punters have bet on each of these riders. I'd be interested to see the country breakdown - are the English mainly backing G over Bernal??
Anyway, it looks like a fair ranking (unless Yates S has a secret unannounced plan ...)
And Nibali does indeed look the best of the "outsiders".
tony_mm wrote:Brucey wrote:...the first being one of his team mates, who sees it coming and neatly avoids it by bunny-hopping onto the pavement...
It was Nibali.
Brucey wrote:For years they have avoided the TTT in the TdeF, reckoning that it skews the whole race. This year's course (with the early TTT) will force those who want to win the race to attack to make up losses and furthermore for the strongest team to defend. Even the very strongest team may struggle to defend for the whole race, so it is glorious to have the yellow jersey but it is also something of a poison chalice; I'm sure that INEOS will be gutted to have not taken the stage win today (all that sitting around when they should have been warming down.... gah!) but they were well beaten and they won't have to defend the jersey, so it is not all bad by any means.
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