USPS TdF Team

Time to start speculating.

For sure: Armstrong Heras Rubiera Pena Hincapie (If healthy) Ekimov

Rounding out the Field: Padrnos Landis Vande Velde Joachim Beltran

Did I forget anyone? Hincapie and Landis are coming off illness / injury. Vande Velde may have rode
well enough in the Vuelta to get another shot at the TdF. Which two stay home?

-T

 

Tom Schulenburg wrote:

>Time to start speculating.
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>For sure: Armstrong Heras Rubiera Pena Hincapie (If healthy) Ekimov
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>Rounding out the Field: Padrnos Landis Vande Velde Joachim Beltran
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>Did I forget anyone? Hincapie and Landis are coming off illness / injury. Vande Velde may have rode
>well enough in the Vuelta to get another shot at the TdF. Which two stay home?
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>-T
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Landis is going to have to do some big things in the next little while to get on the team. It sound
like he's not healing very well. Vande Velde has been having knee problems most of the spring so he
also has a bit of work to do.

Can they send 11 guys to the Tour?

S

Vande Velde

 

"Tom Schulenburg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Time to start speculating.
>
> For sure: Armstrong Heras Rubiera Pena Hincapie (If healthy) Ekimov
>
> Rounding out the Field: Padrnos Landis Vande Velde Joachim Beltran
>
> Did I forget anyone? Hincapie and Landis are coming off illness / injury.

I'd list Heras, Rubiera, and Beltran as locks for Armstrongs support.

I'd predict Kjarrgarrd (sp), Padrnos, Joachim, Ekimov, and perhaps Landis as the final 5.

I think Hincapie's health problems will prevent a start this year, but the rest might pay off next
spring........
> Vande Velde may have rode well enough in the Vuelta to get another shot at the TdF. Which two
> stay home?
>
> -T