#CouchPeloton OK all TDF teams announced so start thinking about your #8NationsTDF squad, and your #7NationsGiroWomen one too!
#CouchPeloton
#CouchPeloton OK all TDF teams announced so start thinking about your #8NationsTDF squad, and your #7NationsGiroWomen one too!
#CouchPeloton
11 Comments
Kirsty@theblower.au · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social
Ok, my #8NationsTDF team is:
Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)
Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark)
Jasper Philipsen (Belgium)
Carlos Rodriguez (Spain)
Ben O’Connor (Aust)
Biniam Girmay (Eritrea)
Matteo Jorgenson (USA)
Lenny Martinez (France)
May the odds be ever in my favour 😜
waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social
It wasn’t easy this time! Here’s my #8nationstdf for 2025 (actually it’s #6nationstdf because the first 2 are fixed):
Vingegaard 🇩🇰
Pogacar 🇸🇮
Van der Poel 🇳🇱
Merlier 🇧🇪
Lipowitz 🇩🇪
Vauquelin 🇫🇷
Girmay 🇪🇷
Mas 🇪🇸
markrprior@ohai.social · 1 pts · 1y
@waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl so far there are 3 fixed as you can add Girmay too (the no conflict sprinter option). Belgium has too many options.
waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social
Playing it safe for #7nationsgirowomen with only favorites. Hardest choice was 🇳🇱 between Wiebes and Demi
Longo Borgini 🇮🇹
Kopecky 🇧🇪
Ludwig 🇩🇰
Labous 🇫🇷
Lippert 🇩🇪
Vollering 🇳🇱
Reusser 🇨🇭
markrprior@ohai.social · 1 pts · 1y
@waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl I don't think Demi is riding. She's not on the PCS listing.
waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social thanks Mark! I’m shocked she isn’t. In that case I’d like to substitute Demi with Lorena Wiebes please. Thanks
markrprior@ohai.social · 1 pts · 1y
@waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl I assumed that's what you should say 😃
I assume she is 100% focused on TDFF. There's no Niewiadoma either, or Realini, Le Court, Faulkner or Ferrand-Prévot.
waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social yes, skipping big faces to focus on other races is a new phenomenon in women’s cycling. Maybe a sign of growing maturity.
markrprior@ohai.social · 1 pts · 1y
@waarismijnhoofd@mastodon.nl and yet the men ride the Dauphiné or Tour de Suisse before TDF. If they move Giro Women into June to escape the shadow of the TDF then there will be quite a gap between the Giro Women and TDFF.
Drbruced@aus.social · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social my picks:
Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
Tadej Pogacar (SLO)
Jonas Vingegaard (DEN)
Biniam Girmay (ERI)
Jasper Philipsen (BEL)
Carlos Rodriguez (ESP)
Jonathan Milan (ITA)
João Almeida (POR)
#8NationsTDF
stufromoz@aus.social · 1 pts · 1y
@markrprior@ohai.social Here you go for #8NationsTDF
Pogacar Tadej
Vingegaard Jonas
Van Aert Wout
Plapp Luke
PARET-PEINTRE Valentin
HEALY Ben
YATES Simon
GIRMAY Biniam