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Should be good. Quite looking forward to seeing Sky squaring off against Porte - both at Catalunya and Paris Nice

Volta Catalunya Line up
Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), Chris Froome (Team Sky) and Fabio Aru (Astana), and two-time Tour de France runner-up Nairo Quintana (Movistar).Richie Porte (BMC Racing), Rafal Majka (Tinkoff), Robert Gesink (LottoNL-Jumbo), Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge), Daniel Martin (Etixx-Quick Step), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing), Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin) and Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale).

Barguil is mentioned ^ but I think Tom Dumoulin will be the Giant Alpecin guy in the Volta

Latest forecast for Saturday is for wind and rain, which would make things interesting. That great wet and filthy 2010 Giro stage on the same roads...

Never an easy race to pick a winner, but given the above, head says Styby, Nibali; heart says Vakoc, Vino.

Yes Strade Bianche when wet will make for an extra interesting race. I know firsthand since last year's L'Eroica ;-)

Go e/w with your heart on Vakoc and you could be laughing at 66/1.

Even Nibali is quite a good price at 16/1.

What's Kwiato on?

12/1

53/39 x 11-28 I'd guess. Maybe even a compact for those 18% stretches

Ask Tim Kerrison.

Top efforts, thanks all.

Ha!

Heart says Fabs and now he's got a top drawer lieutenant in Stuyvens he may have a chance.

Head says one of the recent winners or Sagan/Valverde. Looking forward to it.

Am I missing something?

No Kwia on the startlist...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/2016-strade-bianche-start-list/

He's listed on ProCyclingStats and an article on Sky's site from yesterday.

When I rode the Strade around Siena there was better weather. So want to go back, such a beautiful place to ride and the food is fucking incredible.

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Never mind Froom and Can't-e-rah-rah anyway, what's Big Carlos up to these days?

From the Cycling Podcast - Luke Rowe said that when GVA came through to do his turn at Omloop, he was hurting everyone.

I'm going to have a couple of quid on him for SB.

About 65 kg? Bananito out for a ride yesterday...

...and might even pin on a race number somewhere in preparation for Ardennes Week.

That earring is truly rancid. He's like a mini Uran.

A maxi Uran, surely?

Loved that stage, Cuddles' finest moment.

Holy shit, cheekbones and everything!

They've cropped out the emapanada dangled from a fishing rod by his trainer on the moped in front

Paolini decision today. I expect the UCI will come down hard on him after the outrage over the Katusha decision - which isn't really how these decisions should be made. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Those addidas glasses are horrific.