Clean TdF Placings

[Bro Deal]

Thunder posted this link: http://hypotheticalcleantourdefrance.blogspot.com/

The author has a hypothetical placings of riders if the TdF were completely clean. It is as follows.

1. Moncoutie (Cofidis)
2. Ullrich (T-Mobile)
3. Vandenbroucke (Quickstep)
4. Evans (Lotto)
5. Kloden (T-Mobile)
6. Moreau (Credit Agricole)
7. Mcgee (FDJ)
8. Boogerd (Rabobank)
9. Simoni (Saunier)
10. Basso (CSC)
Casar (FDJ)
Bassons (FDJ)
Sastre (CSC)
Brochard (Bouygues)
Gilbert (FDJ)
Tjallingii (Rabobank)
Popovych (Discovery)
Armstrong (Discovery)
Lovqvist (FDJ)
Cunego (Lampre)
Contador (Discovery)
Gerdemann (TMobile)
Voeckler (Bouygues)
Kirchen (TMobile)
Brajkovic (Discover)
Menchov (Rabobank)
Heras (Astana)
Mayo (Saunier)
Soler (Barloworld)
Valverde (Caisse)
Vinokourov (Astana)
Gonchar (T-Mobile)
Di Luca (Liquigas)
Chavanel (Cofidis)

It also includes the points competition and the mountains competition.

1. Hushovd
2. Boonen
3. Brochard
4. Mcewen
5. Mcgee
6. Feillu
7. Zabel
8. Friere
9. Cooke
10. Bennati

1. Simoni
2. Raisin
3. Voeckler
4. Mayo
5. Kohl
6. Gesink
7. Moncoutie
8. Basso
9. Evans
10. de la Fuente

Some of this is tongue in cheek, but is seems like a good topic for discussion anyway.

 

[Bro Deal]

1. Moncoutie (Cofidis)
2. Ullrich (T-Mobile)
3. Vandenbroucke (Quickstep)
4. Evans (Lotto)
5. Kloden (T-Mobile)
6. Moreau (Credit Agricole)
7. Mcgee (FDJ)
8. Boogerd (Rabobank)
9. Simoni (Saunier)
10. Basso (CSC)

VDB is too mentally week to ever place that high. Boogerd would be nothing on GC without dope. Further down the list Cunego should be higher than Armstrong. So should Contador.

 

[DiabloScott]

Ullrich is a product of the DDR sports cabal... any conjecture on what he would have been like as a clean rider is pure folly. He was enhanced from the time he took off his training wheels.

 

[slovakguy]

this list would require a tongue so firmly in cheek as to have pierced the skin to the outside.

 

[IH8LANCE]

You could rearrange the list by printing it out, taking a **** on it, and then listing the names by proximity to the peanuts -- and it's accuracy would be just as likely. What a meaningless exercise.

 

[jimmypop]

Ullrich is a product of the DDR sports cabal... any conjecture on what he would have been like as a clean rider is pure folly. He was enhanced from the time he took off his training wheels.

This.