Quote Originally Posted by endurancerider View Post
slam dunk for Contador. But we do have some people to watch--definitely Wiggins, and Lance (again), plus Andy Schleck...
Quote Originally Posted by Zen View Post
And Tony Martin.
Yes, lots of new & old faces to root for. It'll be excellent.

And "Chicago's Christian VanDeVelde" (I didn't know VDV changed his name ) -- hopefully he returns to top form.

It was interesting to watch the dynamics of the various teams and how they varied depending on the types of contenders they had in the race.

Columbia clearly put its top priority into the sprinter's/green jersey race and had no significant GC contenders.

And Astana had no sprinters, it was all about the GC for them. As with Saxo Bank, as far as I could tell.

The teams that tried to do both had a rough go of it - I'm thinking of Garmin and Cervelo in that regard, among others of course (though Thor smash lucked out with the relegation of Cavendish). It seems to be really successful in either the GC or the green nowadays, a team has to be speciallized for either one or the other.