Top placing by Bouygues riders, 2005 TdF

[Robert Chung]

From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news3
"We have decided to take the same team as last year," explained Jean-René
Bernaudeau. "They are nine very self-confident fighters; everyone knows
what he has to do. We will not aim at the General Classification, as all
nine riders are equal in their capacity to join breakaways and to give us
a chance to win on every stage. I expect my riders to be very cunning.
They can win on every ground."

Top stage placing by Bouygues riders, 2005 TdF

Stage, Place
1, 24
2, 8
3, 8
4, 107
5, 14
6, 11
7, 16
8, 35
9, 6
10, 39
11, 52
12, 37
13, 6
14, 15
15, 5
16, 6
17, 11
18, 6
19, 32
20, 35
21, 18

 

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Robert Chung wrote:
> From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news3
> "We have decided to take the same team as last year," explained Jean-René
> Bernaudeau. "They are nine very self-confident fighters; everyone knows
> what he has to do. We will not aim at the General Classification, as all
> nine riders are equal in their capacity to join breakaways and to give us
> a chance to win on every stage. I expect my riders to be very cunning.
> They can win on every ground."
>


They will do great, with news breaking every day, by Saturday, the
peleton will be back to one speed.

 

[Donald Munro]

Robert Chung wrote:
>> From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news3
>> "We have decided to take the same team as last year," explained Jean-René
>> Bernaudeau. "They are nine very self-confident fighters; everyone knows
>> what he has to do. We will not aim at the General Classification, as all
>> nine riders are equal in their capacity to join breakaways and to give us
>> a chance to win on every stage. I expect my riders to be very cunning.
>> They can win on every ground."

dtamasauskas wrote:
> They will do great, with news breaking every day, by Saturday, the
> peleton will be back to one speed.

They're all be riding track bikes for the prologue ?

 

[billyroll]

Donald Munro wrote:

> dtamasauskas wrote:
> > They will do great, with news breaking every day, by Saturday, the
> > peleton will be back to one speed.
>
> They're all be riding track bikes for the prologue ?

No, the UCI is mandating that they all ride high-wheelers.

-B

 

[Snippy Bobkins]

"Robert Chung" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news3
> "We have decided to take the same team as last year," explained Jean-René
> Bernaudeau. "They are nine very self-confident fighters; everyone knows
> what he has to do. We will not aim at the General Classification, as all
> nine riders are equal in their capacity to join breakaways and to give us
> a chance to win on every stage. I expect my riders to be very cunning.
> They can win on every ground."
>
> Top stage placing by Bouygues riders, 2005 TdF
>

Top GC placing
28 143 BROCHARD Laurent

Team GC placing
12/21

Coulda been worse: QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC 21/21


--
Snippy

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On 27 Jun 2006 08:01:22 -0700, "billyroll" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>No, the UCI is mandating that they all ride high-wheelers.

I thought the whole problem was high wheelers.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

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Snippy Bobkins wrote:
> "Robert Chung" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Top stage placing by Bouygues riders, 2005 TdF
>
> Top GC placing
> 28 143 BROCHARD Laurent
>
> Team GC placing
> 12/21
>
> Coulda been worse: QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC 21/21

Stage 2
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step
Stage 3
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step

I guess if you score early the team can spend the rest of the Tour
yakking on their cellphones in the grupetto.

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Robert Chung
('[email protected]') wrote:

> From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news3
> "We have decided to take the same team as last year," explained
> Jean-René Bernaudeau. "They are nine very self-confident fighters;
> everyone knows what he has to do. We will not aim at the General
> Classification, as all nine riders are equal in their capacity to join
> breakaways and to give us a chance to win on every stage. I expect my
> riders to be very cunning. They can win on every ground."
>
> Top stage placing by Bouygues riders, 2005 TdF

Top stage placing by Brioches la Boulangère riders, 2004 TdF?

Let's face it, they're still mostly those same riders. They could do it
then, they can do it again. As Bernaudeau says, his team is strong on
breakaway specialists - Voeckler, Chavanel, Bochard. Breakaways are a
high risk, high reward strategy. You're pretty much certain to get
hunted down, but if you don't you've a good chance at a stage win and a
fair chance of taking big lumps of time out of the peloton.

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