MSR wrap up
March 24th, 2007 |So why did I pick Oscar Freire to win?
I figured that the race was going to come down to a mass sprint as opposed to a break away. Odds were with that outcome.
Then I looked at the pure sprinters and decided who had the best chance.
Erik Zabel: Former winner, may be past his prime. Not to say he could not have pulled it off, he almost won the worlds last year after all. But I was looking for better odds than that.
Robbie McEwen: I almost picked him to win over Freire but I recalled the win that Freire took over McEwen in the Tour last year. Freire knows that he can beat McEwen in a drag race and I thought it could give him an edge.
Tom Boonen: Strong team could have set him up for the win. But I knew that he was having some health problems this spring.
Alessandro Petacchi: I was not convinced he would be 100% for MSR due to the effects of his serious knee injury from last year.
So I had to pick somebody, I went with Freire. I doubt I’ll be that lucky to pick the winner of Flanders but I will give it a shot. I’ll run a pool for Paris-Roubaix this year so get ready to win all those prizes that I never delivered from my Tour pool of last year.
