July 21, 2004 5:23 am Dave Neary General

Alpes d’Huez predictions

Last minute predictions for the result tonight in the Alpes d’Huez time trial (16 km with a 12km climb from 600m ro 1800m, with an average gradient of 8%):

  1. Ullrich
  2. Mancebo
  3. Armstrong

I expect Ullrich to win back a minute or so off Armstrong. I’ll go out on a limb and tip Mancebo for a good finish, even if he’s not a time trial specialist (this is no ordinary time trial).

If I’m wrong I’ll come back and edit this later so that it looks like I was right 😉

Update

So, in spite of myself, I can’t bring myself to change the predictions. The top 3 were

  1. Armstrong
  2. Ullrich at 1’01
  3. Kloden at 1’41

Poor Mancebo was 24th at 3’30. And Basso did well to only lose 2’20, he’s still well in second place. So Lance has (updated thinko) 3 stage wins from 4 stages now…

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