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Volta ao Algarve - Stage 1
Cards on the table time, I've gone for mostly punchy sprinters and climbers today, apparently the finish is very tough to control for a full sprint train to the extent that a win for Cav is far from guaranteed even at full fitness.
Costa
Machado
Modolo
Napolitano
Majka
Selvaggi
Kelderman
Coquard
Livramento
My purist team is stacked towards GC rather than sprinters
Kwiatowski
Costa
Machado
Kelderman
Modolo (my token sprinter)
Coquard (my cheap sprinter)
Paulinho (top 20 last year)
Sancho
Livramento
Annoyed I couldn't squeeze Coppel in there, he's my outside shot for a top 5.
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Scores going up, missing intermediate sprint points because only the finish line points seem to be included in the Points competition. Will investigate further and may update scores later.
1, 4, 6, 12, 19.
And there was me thinking I was being clever picking Modolo. Seems like everyone's a teeny bit cleverer than me.
Just 1,4,6,10,12
My purist may be in good nick if no more sprints, only 2,4,12 today though
1,2,4,5 & 12 on my standard team.
Will make a start on the scores in a bit.
Well if anybody thought Rui would be showboating the rainbow's in his home tour they made a sad mistake!!
1,2,4,6,10 for me - having a much better week. Keep narrowly missing out on badges though!
1,2,4,6,10,12
Nice one - glad I avoided Cav. Sacha has really hit the ground running this year, impressive stuff.
1 & 2 on both teams
Glad I left Modolo in my purist now after really considering dropping him this morning.
Modolo
Rui Costa
Petacchi
This is what they call a bad day at the office!!!
Sprint Stage I reckon in standard:
Cavendish
Modolo
DeMare
Coquard
Engoulvent
Martin
Mestre
Machado
Oliviera
Purist
DeMare
RuiCosta
Spilak(my idea of the winner overall to be honest)
Coquard
Oliveira
Martin
DeMare
Engoulvent
Machado
Izagirre
I agree but couldnt get him in my purist team with the others id chosen most of whome should be ok for hills and the ITT
on the plus side for me Afonso in the break
standard team
Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Arnaud Demare
Sacha Modolo (LAM)
Juan Jose Lobato (MOV)
Jerome Coppel (COF)
Lucas Sebastian Haedo (SDD)
Danilo Napolitano (WGG)
Samuel Jose Caldeira (OFM)
Bruno Matos Sancho (BBC)
Sounds like they have about three minutes on the peloton.
STD
Juan Jose Lobato
Angel Madrazo
Alessandro Petacchi
Rui Faria Da Costa
Omar Fraile
Mirko Selvaggi
Tiago Machado
Ricardo Vilela
Arnaud Demare
As you can guess not a clue with these profiles so randomish
Purist
Michal Kwiatkowski
Rui Faria Da Costa
Wilco Kelderman
Tony Martin
Sergey Chernetski
Antonio Molina
Mickael Delage
Henrique Casimiro
Luis Afonso
Again random
Hmmm, looks like a few sprinty teams out there for today, fingers crossed it all goes horribly wrong and I can get the jump on some of you
Thats why I had Kwiatkowski, because if it does go wrong, he could still will the sprint
Here goes for me, gone sprinters and TTers in the hope I don't loose out too much on stage 2
kwiatkowski
Malori
Chernetski
Demare
Modolo
Lobato
Coquard
Selvaggi
Leezer
My purist is either gonna be a win or bust strategy, in the hope that only stage 1 is a pure sprint
Kwiatkowski
Rui Costa
Majka
Machado
Chernetski
Cattaneo
Coquard
Selvaggi
Leezer
Purist:
Rui Costa
Tony Martin
Sacha Modolo
Alexandre Geniez
Jesus Herrada
Tiago Machado
Jerome Coppel
Bryan Coquard
Sergey Chernetskiy
Standard - take out Tony, Costa, Geniez,and Coppel. In comes Lobato, Demare, Cav and Ovechkin. I bloody hope its a bunch sprint today
I have to say I didn't really look into this one, just a quick glance at the profiles and a couple of Portuguese wildcards. Quite like my teams tho'...
STD
Demare
Modolo
Lobato
Coquard
Sancho
Rui Costa
Kelderman
Malori
Ricardo Mestre
PURIST swap Demare, Modolo, Sancho and Malori with...
Tony Martin
Machado
Drucker
Jesus Herrada