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Yeah but will Sunweb go to the Tour with Dumoulin targeting yellow and Matthews targeting green? If so unless Dumoulin is ridiculously powerful they will struggle to match Sky. Its not hard to suss out Sky: they just don't fuck about, no-one in breakaways hunting stages, no-one targeting green or polkas, just focused on yellow. The other teams struggle to match that professionalism and single-mindedness. They want stage wins and having riders in the break.
I hope to fuck Dan Martin either leaves Quickstep or gets much better support than he did this year. Quickstep may not have Kittel next year but the likelihood they will have Gaviria, which once again they will target stages.
Jimmy_Fingers
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I'm not sure a team will work out how to beat Sky, they've had 6 years to suss it out and no-one has really put them under proper pressure at the Tour. They way Sunweb raced at the Tour, you'd think they might come up with something, but they'll likely be led by Dumoulin, and his best chance would be served by locking the race down in the mountains and using the TTs to make race winning gains.
Ultimately what will beat Froome is having a rider who is stronger than him. Which returns us to Dumoulin I'd think.