Le Tour de France will start soon and I think it would be awesome, with a thread about it here on steamgifts. We already have threads about other major sports events and alot of friendly people come there to discuss and predict, so I want to make it possible, for all the other Cycling fans to talk about the Tour aswell.

So what do you cheer for ? Team and individuals and who do you think will win the different jersey's ??

Personaly I think it will end like this.

GC (yellow jersey)

  1. Van den Broeck 2. Nibali 3. Evans (I think this will be the year where VDB pulls it off, if not Nibali will)

Polka Dots Jersey

  1. Anker Sørensen 2. Hoogerland 3. S Sanchez (All of Saxo Bank will work for Sørensen to get that Jersey, my bets are on him)

Green Jersey

  1. Sagen 2. Goss 3. Greipel (Sagen looks strong this year and I think he will do very very well)

White Jersey

  1. Taaramae 2. Kruijswijk 3. Van Garderen (Taaramae have been sick and abit out of form, but I think he will still win)

We can also talk about Team Classification if you guys want too

Flop Predictions.

Cavendish, he wont do well in this Tour and will leave it early on, thats my predictions. Wiggins will fail at the MT stages and he wont be top 3 (many have him as nr 1) "no I don't hate Brits!!"

If people want, we can predict abit on the individual stages when the time comes. if you have any suggestions for the thread, leave it in the comment.

If you want to talk about Doping or the current Armstrong case, I suggest we make another thread for it.

I look forward to predictions and casual talk!!

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Official link for Stage by Stage

http://www.letour.fr/2012/TDF/COURSE/us/le_parcours.html

I will post info on each Stage before it starts.

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I really like to watch TDF but I never make predictions because it his so unpredictable and I like to be surprised. I agree with almost everyone you pointed, but I don´t know if Rein Taaramäe will pull it off. But non the less, this year TDF is going to be great!

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Making Crazy predictions is part of the fun ^^

I agree the press put only 2 as big favourites, but I think its very very open this year.

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Yeah a topic on Doping on the Tour. Make predictions on who will be found last as being dopped :p

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Well again, depending on what people want, we could include a prediction on who gets busted this year or if people think none will. but I really hope we get some predictions.

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I'm not particularly an fan of the Tour, but being french I am a bit more sensible to it than other non fans, and it truly has been long since had a Tour without a good amount of dopping going.

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I don't think it will be that crazy this year, the reason is so "obvious" in a sport like cycling is because its an endurance sport. I bet you that many football players dope aswell, hell they even did a test on american baseball players and it showed 80% used doping ^^

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Or "technological doping", like a certain runner who had an electric motor on his bike.

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Ye haha..

But rejoyce the peleton wont be to "obivously" doped this year and it will be very even. I think it will be a great tour.

But its a shame there is so few Cycle fans on SG :/

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Its pretty expenssive on steam, you could get it cheaper alot of other places.. ^^

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