Eneco Tour: Predictions

The Tour de Pologne finished with a home win for Rafal Majka and the Tour of Utah is still in progress. Tomorow the Eneco Tour is going to start and the startlist is filled by great riders. The Race will cross The Netherlands and Belgium, so we will be able to watch some sprints and classic stages. Last years Eneco Tour winner Zdenek Stybar, but also Cancellara and Sagan should be enough to predict some great race stuff. The deciding stages are the following:


Stage 3:
A timetrial about 9,6km in Breda. Here you should see some small gaps, definetly nothing special.

Stage 5:

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Around Geraardsbergen the field is going to ride 20 hellingen, some of them cobbled. The 3rd lap will be deciding and going to tell, who will fight for the win. After this stage the gaps wont be bigger than 20 Seconds between 1st and 3rd.

Stage 6:

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My favourite stage of this Eneco Tour. There are some hellingen from Liege-Bastogne-Liege like "La Redoute" and without Gerrans participating this will be some fun!

Stage 7:

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If the gaps are not bigger than 30 seconds, than the riders behind the leader are going to attack and ride agressive. But it really depends on the gaps.

My prediction for the Eneco Tour:

- Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma Quickstep)

- Greg van Avermaet (BMC)

- Peter Sagan (Cannondale)

- Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Shimano)

- Lars Boom (Belkin)

- Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma Quickstep)

- Sebastian Langeveld (Garmin Sharp)

- Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Cycling)

- Björn Leukemans (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)

- Yves Lampaert (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)

This year, the field is a bit stronger than 2013. I think Stybar can repeat the win. His team has a strong classics team, like everytime. There are Boonen and Terpstra in the team. I am not sure if Sagan and Cancellara are taking this race for real, but if so, than Cannondale has a bad squad to help Sagan. So he should attack the last stage most, because it wouldn't help him carrying the leaders jersey for like 3 days and loosing it without a good team on the last stage. Greg van Avermaet is in some decent form and for me he is the biggest rival of Stybar. I don't think, Gilbert is here to win. GvA will be stronger than Philippe. Tom Dumoulis will have his ambitions after his 2nd place last year and this race is like the only stage race, Giant Shimano can win. ;) I don't want to underestimate Lars Boom. He could take the leaders jersey after the timetrial. Yves Lampaert is my surprise pick here. The Topsport Vlaanderen Team will try a lot to place one of there guys into Top 10.

Have a good ride!