Riders: Citrosol: Phinney, Markus, Steegmans, Breschel, Durbridge, Castroviejo, Bak Dereks: Mohoric, Dumoulin, Burghart, Jungels, Meyer, Dennis, Barguil Fosters: Cantwell, Hayman, Gavazzi, Bole, Rast, Popovych, Pate Hoegaarden: Modolo, Ligthart, Keukeleire, Gatto, Van Keirsbulck, Bobridge, Vansummeren LLDC: Blythe, Belletti, Chicchi, Kreder, Ventoso, Felline, Clarke MMPC: Sutton, Morkov, Dehaes, Millar, Marcato, Hansen, Oliveira Rohan: Gallopin, Henderson, Oss, Roulston, Bauer, Offredo, Monfort Notable riders from other teams: Kruopis, Lancaster, Golas, O'Grady (OGE), LS Haedo, Hondo, Hermans (Radioshack), Veelers, Grabsch (Argos-Shimano), Boy Van Poppel, Danny Van Poppel, Tomasz Marczynski (Vacansoleil), De Clercq (Lotto), Ferrari (Lampre), Haller (Katusha), Von Hoff, Hunter, Haas, Lastras (Garmin), Kocjan, Lobato (Euskaltel), Wyss, Tanner, Tosatto (BMC), Guarnieri, Tjallingii, Kruijswijk (Astana), Hutarovich, Roux (AG2R)
The contenders: Sprint stages: Phinney, Markus, Breschel, Cantwell, Keukeleire, Modolo, Blythe, Sutton, Morkov, Gallopin, Henderson, Kruopis, Guarnieri, Hutarovich, Van Poppel, Veelers, Hondo Hill stages: Dumoulin, Meyer, Dennis, Barguil, Gatto, Clarke, Gallopin, Monfort Wildcards: Bak, Mohoric, Bole, Rast, Vansummeren, Ventoso, Millar, Hansen, Offeredo, Oss My prediction: Points: Modolo Overall: Clarke Team: HFF
Interesting start. Doesn't seem to be any game plan for my team at the moment given that they're finishing all over the shop.
Early season is often very erratic in pcm, form is very important as is condition and it's all over the shop early season so until mid march things might be a little wacky. Nobody's really taken a strong team to the TDU anyway. Rather like real life, to be honest.
Stage 3. Taylor Phinney the first of us to win a stage and Tom Dumoulin the first to wear a leader's jersey. Clarke extends his lead in the mountains classification by 10 to 26 points, 2nd is on 12. MMPC lead the teams by a minute over the Dereks.
