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  1. Original post
    Robert Chung
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    #1

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning on doing the TdF instead,
    including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    Report
  2. Brian Roth
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    #2

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning on doing the TdF instead,
    including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    Interesting that Rodolfo Massi is still knocking around for Selle Italia....

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  3. Dan
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    #3

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning on doing the TdF instead,
    including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?) 3--- 4 Pantani

    Report
  4. Ronald
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    #4
    Quoted message said:

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?)

    Nobody will win the Giro?

    "Dan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message


    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning


    on

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?) 3--- 4 Pantani

    Report
  5. Ronald
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    #5

    What happened to Oscar Sevilla? Or should he be the missing no. 105 in the Kelme team?

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning


    on

    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    Report
  6. Tom Schulenburg
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    #6

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning


    on

    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    One solution - Find a sponsor to come up with a "Triple Crown" of stage racing. Give a huge cash
    reward, and entry into all three tours the following year for the team (or teams rider) that places
    highest in two of the three tours. This would give the middle and lower tier teams incentive to
    perform well in the Giro and Vuelta.

    -T

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  7. Robert Chung
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    #7

    "Ronald" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

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    What happened to Oscar Sevilla? Or should he be the missing no. 105 in the Kelme team?

    This is part of what I meant when I wrote that many teams and riders seem to be giving the Giro
    short shrift. See cyclingnews.comnews for its item about Kelme.

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  8. Dan
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    #8

    "Ronald" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?)

    Nobody will win the Giro?

    still thinking.

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  9. Peter Allen
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    "Tom Schulenburg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning


    on

    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    One solution - Find a sponsor to come up with a "Triple Crown" of stage racing. Give a huge cash
    reward, and entry into all three tours the following year for the team (or teams rider) that
    places highest in two of the three tours. This would give the middle and lower tier teams
    incentive to perform well in the Giro and Vuelta.

    The TDF organisers are no doubt very happy with being the dominant grand tour, and will probably try
    to keep themselves that way. Therefore they would not want something such as you describe, and
    they'd not give the automatic entry for the next year. They'd be particularly unhappy with the '2 of
    3' bit, because if you want to do well in 2 tours, you'd choose the two most separated. Namely the
    Giro and the Vuelta. A sponsor is going to give a huge amount of money only in return for a huge
    amount of publicity. The way things are now, whoever won the triple crown would probably place
    somewhere in the top 10 in each tour, but never get on the podium: not much publicity there, whereas
    if you did it on team positions - well, not many people really care about team positions in one
    grand tour, let alone playing with statistics from all three. The middle and lower teams would not
    have much incentive to perform well in all three tours, because the winner would almost certainly be
    a top team anyway, and going for something you're never going to get is fairly pointless, e.g. last
    year USPS with 1 and 2 in the Tour and Vuelta would have won if you did it on riders (and that would
    not, ever, get beaten by a middle or lower tier team); ONCE with 1 and 4 in the same on team
    performance (which I suppose would be beatable, but given they weren't even trying to get that
    statistic, and probably stopped trying to improve their team performance in the Vuelta as soon as it
    got obvious they weren't going to win teams...).

    Peter

    Quoted message said:


    -T

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  10. Robert Chung
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    "Tom Schulenburg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning


    on

    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.


    One solution - Find a sponsor to come up with a "Triple Crown" of stage racing. Give a huge cash
    reward, and entry into all three tours the following year for the team (or teams rider) that
    places highest in two of the three tours. This would give the middle and lower tier teams
    incentive to perform well in the Giro and Vuelta.

    Right now with existing rules the top 10 teams on UCI points get a free pass into all three Grand
    Tours, with the additional rule that a top team must participate in two of the three GTs to maintain
    its status. Among the top clubs are USPS, Telekom, CSC, and Coast, none of whom appear to be doing
    the Giro (which means that they will do both the TdF and the Vuelta).

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  11. Ronald
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    #11

    Is Oscar Sevilla one of the two sick guys? Is it something serious? I don't remember him in any
    races this year.

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    "Ronald" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    What happened to Oscar Sevilla? Or should he be the missing no. 105 in


    the

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Kelme team?

    This is part of what I meant when I wrote that many teams and riders seem


    to

    Quoted message said:

    be giving the Giro short shrift. See cyclingnews.comnews for
    its item


    about

    Quoted message said:

    Kelme.

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  12. Ewoud Dronkert
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    #12
    Ronald said:

    Is Oscar Sevilla one of the two sick guys? Is it something serious? I don't remember him in any
    races this year.

    cyclingnews.comnews

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  13. Ewoud Dronkert
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    #13
    Robert Chung said:

    Among the top clubs are USPS, Telekom, CSC, and Coast, none of whom appear to be doing the Giro
    (which means that they will do both the TdF and the Vuelta).

    And Rabobank.

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  14. Robert Chung
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    #14

    "Ewoud Dronkert" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Robert Chung said:

    Among the top clubs are USPS, Telekom, CSC, and Coast, none of whom appear to be doing


    the

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    Giro (which means that they will do both the TdF and the Vuelta).

    And Rabobank.

    Yeah. The Giro is allowed to take as many as 21 teams but there appear to only be 18 teams
    listed. Rabo, Telekom, CSC, and Coast all did the Giro last year (though Coast wasn't a top 10
    team in 2002).

    I'm disappointed.

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  15. Tom Kunich
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    #15

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are


    planning on

    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    After looking at the listing yesterday I had exactly the same reaction. No Levi, no Tyler. No real
    Spanish winners except Aitor and he says that it's just a warmup for the Tour.

    I would probably keep a sharp eye on Tonkov's team though. I think it likely that they're gong to
    try to get a lot of exposure in the Giro.

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  16. Me
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    #16

    no see other threads with possible outcomes revolving around fighting dope and other pitfalls..
    seriousely? Simoni - Pink Shirt Cipo - Points unless AS announces that Dominica is going to the tour
    in which case he may retire so he can race in july.... the tour wild cards appear to come out during
    the Giro.. Perez Cuapio - Mountains (Paneria) Verbrugge (if he's upright) for stage wins... 🙂
    everyone else is waiting for the tour except the spanish teams which are [censored] because of the TV
    coverage or lack there of.... Caucchioli is the only member of the 2002 podium to race this year....

    :( Ronald said:
    Quoted message said:

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?)

    Nobody will win the Giro?

    "Dan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Finally. I've been waiting. Here's the provisional list:
    cyclingnews.comgiro03

    My reaction? The TdF is too dominant. Many teams and riders are planning

    on

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    doing the TdF instead, including two-thirds of last year's podium.

    My prediction:

    1--- 2 Perez (Mexican climber?) 3--- 4 Pantani


    Report
  17. Me
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    #17

    Postal and Telekom ride the vuelta.. postal to fulfill contact agreement with heras

    Ewoud Dronkert said:
    Robert Chung said:

    Among the top clubs are USPS, Telekom, CSC, and Coast, none of whom appear to be doing the Giro
    (which means that they will do both the TdF and the Vuelta).

    And Rabobank.

    Report

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