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Tour de Pologne
I have never watched this race. Usually I'm taking a break from cycling, on holiday or whatever. Is it usually any good? I've had a look at the profiles and there seems to be one crazy stage (the penultimate one), another standard high mountain stage, an ITT and the rest largely flat-to-punchy.
Apart from the aforementioned crazy stage, I can't much that makes me think 'yeah, I'll try to catch a bit of that'. What is the atmosphere like? Should it be a WT race (the number of really good Polish riders at the moment suggest that maybe it should)?
Oh yeah, and when does it open!? 
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The TSB riders are there now - cheers.
On a similar note, what does the "all riders" filter actually mean? There's about 2.5K riders in the rankings list, but only 557 if you set that filter in the TdP pick team screen. I assume some of the missing ones are women, but surely not 2000 of them .
The missing ones are the riders for all the teams not taking part, ie Bardini, Cofidis etc and that value is so high as for races such as Algarve there are riders for local Portuguese teams in the database, as well as riders that race in international races such as World champs that don't have a trade team
Should be fixed, let me know if now
Im gonna have a look once Ive just done the CSS scores.
If its anything I can't fix I will get onto Dave asap
What's wrong with a 150 budget for all races?...
150 budget....not this year. you'll never get a full house in this stage race !
At least it's not just me then
Including Majka who a few people may want to pick.
Same here with Tinkov no riders show in any of the lists.
Actually, even with all the filters wide open (all riders etc) I can't see any Tinkoff Saxo riders - does anyone know why?
Shouldn't TSB be in the start list? 21 teams/8 riders should be 168 riders shouldn't it? or have I lost the ability to count correctly?
Jaruslav Dabrowski should be Konrad Dabkowski
Dave, how do I search for polish riders, not just those who ride for the POL team?
I seem to remember watching it last season and the coverage was helicopter based....very difficult to see what was going on except at set vantage points.
By the way, if anyone likes a flutter there are some very good valye odds going around for stage one. As far as I can see there are only five or six likely winners (barring a late crash or similar), one of whom - Matthews - I've backed at 22/1. Shortened now, but still at 18 if you're looking around. Plus there are a few other outside contenders for podium placings that could be backed at e/w very long odds (up to 150)
N.B. what you do with your money is your own call, I'm taking no responsibility!
gkam doing this one? transfer deadlines bear no relation to the race start times.
it's open now. I've checked it over, but let me know if you spot anything wrong
no Tinkoff?
Not sure all the Poland (the team, I mean) riders are present and correct.
When's this going to open? It starts in two days.
It is a World Tour race in fact, and as the only one in that part of Europe the locals turn out en mass and the atmosphere is definitely good!
It has a fairly long history, going back to 1928, but only went pro in the last 20 years or so. I think it doesn't get much attention on account of being squeezed between TdF and La Vuelta, with a lot of the bigger-name riders taking a break, but not all. Nevertheless, usually some good stages in the mix, definitely worth a watch, lots of nice scenery
First stage is this Sunday, usually Eurosport carries it.
For those interested:
http://tourdepologne.pl/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Pologne
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