I know Manon and Tahnnee are training like mad this winter, Manon seems to incorporated her training into her degree course (perhaps I’ve got that wrong but that how it looks from her social media output) but of course she started the winter with a nasty shoulder break. Rachel has been under the knife too this winter, but it doesn’t seem to have slowed her down much. I’d like to see more variation in the Women’s and I guess seeing Danny Hart being so fast last year tell you that you don’t need to have a big muscular build to be very fast, it’s relative of course, but Harts not built like Gwin. I fancy it might be Tahnee’s year this year.
In the Men’s, Gwin will be fast, Danny will be fast, Minnar the silent assassin will ALWAYS be in the mix, but I reckon it’ll be the 2 new Synicate lads who are going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons and they’ll help Minnar – I don’t think he benefited from a season with a retiring Peaty taking his swansong and Ratboy who in hindsight didn’t 100% want to be there. I reckon Loris Vergier.
Tahnee Seagrave and Loris Vergier for the over-all, what sort of odd would I get for that?