Milan - San Remo '07

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
wrote:
Bennati

Ignatiev.



Nice pick, but this is a hard race, it seems, to win w/o any experience.

Dan

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On Mar 23, 12:32 am, "
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On Mar 22, 9:34 am, "
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On Mar 22, 1:44 am, Howard Kveck YOURhow...@h-

So I'll say... Oscar Freire.

Put me down for McEwen

dumbass,

i just watched the opening stage of tirreno and McEwen (led out by a
teamate) broke away around 500m and two turns before the finish,
opening up a lead of a few seconds. i didn't see if he was counter-
steering though.

Has Mackie Wen ever won a sprint at the end of a really
long race? Long tour stages don't count (in my mind)
unless they were going reasonably hard, which they often
aren't in the long ones. I haven't checked but IIRC
Milan-San Remo is rather longer than a long flat Tour
stage. Not to disrespect McEwen, I just think it's a
slightly different set of aptitudes.

The longer Tour stages are typically mountain stages where he isn't a
factor. I can't recall a recent TdF stage being even close to 296km (as
M-SR is), especially one that ended in a field sprint. It *is* a different
set of aptitudes. Zabel was good at that kind of thing (a big sprint at
the end of a crazy long race), now guys like Boonen, O'Grady, Friere and
Petacchi are good at it. Robbie McEwen, not so much.

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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
wrote:
Bennati

Ignatiev.

Nice pick, but this is a hard race, it seems, to win w/o any experience.

Except that kid has looked like an early Eddy Merckx so far.

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"bjorn" wrote:

On Mar 22, 9:40 am, "Kurgan Gringioni" wrote:
On Mar 21, 10:44 pm, Howard Kveck wrote:



Boonen

I was gonna go with Boonen, too. But that was before I read that
Pozzato will be hard to catch:

http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2722

"The mercury coloured paint used on the bike was developed
for Ferrari, and costs ¤1000 per litre. "

Still less than erytropoeitin.
--
Michael Press

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" wrote:

On Mar 23, 12:32 am, "
wrote:
On Mar 22, 9:34 am, "
wrote:

On Mar 22, 1:44 am, Howard Kveck YOURhow...@h-

So I'll say... Oscar Freire.

Put me down for McEwen

dumbass,

i just watched the opening stage of tirreno and McEwen (led out by a
teamate) broke away around 500m and two turns before the finish,
opening up a lead of a few seconds. i didn't see if he was counter-
steering though.

Has Mackie Wen ever won a sprint at the end of a really
long race? Long tour stages don't count (in my mind)
unless they were going reasonably hard, which they often
aren't in the long ones. I haven't checked but IIRC
Milan-San Remo is rather longer than a long flat Tour
stage. Not to disrespect McEwen, I just think it's a
slightly different set of aptitudes.

Zabel has a cold, so I think it's Bennati's year.

Is that a "cold" or a garden variety rhino-virus?
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Michael Press