The inaugural Velominati Super Prestige makes an unscheduled stop this week at the Tour de Suisse. Originally left off the VSP roster, it was decided among the Keepers that the ‘fourth Grand Tour’ is indeed worthy of inclusion in our humble tipping competition. As one of the final hit-outs for many Tour de France contenders, the Swiss race shows who might be ready to step up in July, who’s needing to pull their finger out, and who might be targeting this race as a worthy addition to their palmares. With a couple of TT’s, stages that could go to the sprinters or a daring breakaway, and some of the most picturesque mountain passes in Europe, it has something for everyone, and anyone could win.
Can Motorcus find an ‘extra gear’ and back up his 09 victory? Will the EgoTesticle show signs of his old self on the bike, or just behave like his old self off it? And are the Brothers Grimpeur finally going to do something, anything?
Let us know your thoughts, and make your picks to pick up a sweet Obey The Rules bumper sticker, in the posts section on this page. For a full rundown on the competition scoring etc, visit our VSP Schedule, Rules and Results page.
Good luck!
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Velominati, this is Gary. His delicate sensibilities are offended by Mark Cavendish's two-fingered salute to the media.
"By making an obscene gesture in victory, Cavendish has shamed our sport. He has shown immaturity, but worse than that, a lack of respect for all the suffering that his competitors and he himself has endured in this noble and humbling sport."
Gary Westby, Velonews letter to the editor.
Gary, harden the fuck up.
@david
Well played, my son. You must have gotten back out on your bike. Did you put on a big, fake handlebar mustache before writing that?
@all
This being the inaugural VSP, we're adjusting and ammending the rulebook as we go along. Today I've added some Minor Stage Race scoring rules, which will apply to the Tour de Suisse.
@all
How about little Frankie Schleck Rule 5-ing the snot out of the bunch, eh?
@andy
You might find it suprising, but I think Cavendish won't be short of friends in the peloton, it's just that he's smart enough to realise that there is a psychological element to being the top sprinter and not being friends with your rivals can help in that department. Seems he get's on with his team-mates just fine
@ben
Your insistence on referring to Spartacus as "Faboo" has led me to add it to the Lexicon. I think that's a record for amount-of-time-on-site to name-added-to-lexicon. Keep it up.
@frank @ben
I've been trying to ignore that name, but how do you go from Sparticus, to Faboo? It's akin to calling The Terminator, Pee-wee Hermon (note: I couldn't think of an outwardly camp person that people in the US would know-of)
Peter Sagan is out, bruised his mangina.
1. Tony Martin-a Fabian understudy, strong climber and strong TT'er
2. F. Grimpeur-looses too much time in TT to win
3. Spartacus-even without good form he will wail on some pussies
4.
Peter Sagan-just on a hunchSimon Gerrans More wild guessing but what's new?5. Cameron Meyer-fuck it. Insane, yeah.
Unfortunately as Michael Rogers is also out, please put Mr. Kreuziger in 4th
1. A. Schleck
2. Cancellara
3. Armstrong
4.
Michael RogersKreuziger5. Cristian VDV
@Jarvis
Well, that's just it, isn't it? It's so incredibly tongue-in-cheek and so far off the target that it comes around full circle back to "awesome". Take, for example, the phrase "Faboo straight carvin' on dudes last year." It's at least 87% genius.