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EF Edu roster - Could this be the year when the first ever Colombian wears the Golden Fleece onto the Champs Elysees

 

Alberto Bettiol
Simon Clarke
Tejay van Garderen
Tanel Kangert
Sebastian Langeveld
Tom Scully
Rigoberto Uran
Mike Woods

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"I'm fresh and my condition is really good. We’ll see in the next few weeks. I’m fresh, we’ve a good team and that is perfect. The Tour is always difficult, and I know that not many people are talking about me because I crashed out of the Tour last year and I didn’t race much this year, but I hope that they’ll be talking about me at the end of this year’s race."

 

 

MIck

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Mmmm wonder what Aru's form is like, his opp was a success occording to our insider info. He will be fun to watch on some stages..

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EF Edu roster - Could this be the year when the first ever Colombian wears the Golden Fleece onto the Champs Elysees

 

Alberto Bettiol

Simon Clarke

Tejay van Garderen

Tanel Kangert

Sebastian Langeveld

Tom Scully

Rigoberto Uran

Mike Woods

Rigo's got a strong team around him and I daresay that he would prove to be a popular winner should he manage it.

 

Personally I think that the GC race might just prove to be even more open than in the past few years.

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EF Edu roster - Could this be the year when the first ever Colombian wears the Golden Fleece onto the Champs Elysees

 

Alberto Bettiol

Simon Clarke

Tejay van Garderen

Tanel Kangert

Sebastian Langeveld

Tom Scully

Rigoberto Uran

Mike Woods

Tejay has great form and has underachieved, possibly making some bad career decisions - that’s if you consider two 5ths at the tour underachieving. Point is EF have good options and are so easy to like. They seem to love cycling

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Tejay has great form and has underachieved, possibly making some bad career decisions - that’s if you consider two 5ths at the tour underachieving. Point is EF have good options and are so easy to like. They seem to love cycling

Teejay does well when he doesn't know he is supposed to do well.. also he should do a virtual race on rest days.
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“I’m here to be active and influence the outcome, so that some Canadian kid back home can watch and say: ‘That’s Mike Woods. I want to grow up and race like Mike Woods.’ That’s what motivates me.”

 

????

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"I'm fresh and my condition is really good. We’ll see in the next few weeks. I’m fresh, we’ve a good team and that is perfect. The Tour is always difficult, and I know that not many people are talking about me because I crashed out of the Tour last year and I didn’t race much this year, but I hope that they’ll be talking about me at the end of this year’s race."

 

 

MIck

Mick who?

El Anda?

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“I’m here to be active and influence the outcome, so that some Canadian kid back home can watch and say: ‘That’s Mike Woods. I want to grow up and race like Mike Woods.’ That’s what motivates me.”

 

????

I really like this guy. Listened to a few interviews and podcasts and he got something about him. He’a Not shy to call bull on people and races strong and with a lot of heart. Coming late to the sport really seems to be working in his favor. Holding thumbs be has a good one. At the other end if the spectrum is TJ and his ‘i’m A GC guy despite. It doing squat for aaaasages... he needs to pack it away and help the other guys, win some stages again see where that takes him. Pressure us back on after his recent good result so knowing how he likes pressure he’ll be 20 mins down at the end of the 1st week and thinking of wrapping up his season early.

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I think TJ (and the team) is over his GC expectations, more a team player / helper now. 

 

Last year ToC he got left pedaling backwards up a hill by the Colombian boy wonder.

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I think TJ (and the team) is over his GC expectations, more a team player / helper now.

 

Last year ToC he got left pedaling backwards up a hill by the Colombian boy wonder.[

 

 

I’m sure in his mind his GC expectations aren’t over but he’s got a job to do. Whilst I think we all agree the Columbian boy wonder is something special, Tejay was once the American boy wonder. Sport can be cruel and opportunity fleeting.

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That's what Bob Roll your Own was saying on the NBC preview show - the burden of  the weight of expectations on young riders (TJ vs Bernal), certainly didn't pain out for TJ once he became the GC hopeful for BMC post Cadel, he came to EF on much less generous terms, was it a headspace thing?   but we will see I guess, 

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