Giro d'Italia stage 2

The break today

Alfredo Balloni (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia)
Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Androni Giocattoli)
Olivier Kaisen (Lotto Belisol)

They have 13 mins 15 at the moment

Gap down to 10.30

With 109k remaining, the gap has dropped by almost another minute. 9:40.

Today's stage has been ridden at a fairly moderate 39.6kph, which is below the slowest pace on the time tables, so unless things pick up, we'll be behind schedule and see the finish between 5:30 and 6:00.

With 102k to go and the gap is down to 7:57... that's down from a high of 13:15.

Dennis Van Winden hit the deck in the peloton. He looks like he's really sore, but is getting back on the bike.

It's Sky doing the bulk of the work at the front of the peloton. It's working, too. The gap continues to drop.

94k to go and the gap is down to 6:28

Live on TV now, so that means streams should be live aswell. I'll leave you all to it and come back with the results at the end

cycling news do a livestream which I follow

http://live.cyclingnews.com/

They had a mare yesterday, not that i ever follow them

But the had riders in wrong places, with wrong times and they were about 15 minutes behind everyone else

I was following Charles Pelkey's updates here

http://liveupdateguy.com/

Phinney dropped his chain with 8km to go, WAY off the back now. So i hope Hushovd stays in and goes for the sprint

There goes some GC points......Thomas to take the lead? after I axed him for Cav.

No respect from BMC there. Good to see him back

Nah Phinney back in there. Nice work, 3km to go, Cav keeps getting boxed in, I predict a crash

Im delayed as im watching through my xbox...

No-one is letting Cav back onto his lead out train

I was aswell for a while because i kept switching between the football

1km to go, NOT Cav's day i dont think, fingers crossed

Cav gets it F*******************Ker then Goss and someone else in 3rd, then Farrar

Knew there would be a nice crash

Boss's back wheel came round and highsided him into Kristoff, OUCH

1,2 for me

on another note that means my planned transfer of bringing in Kristoff tomorrow will now not happen

Demare was 3rd i believe, nope he wasnt

Cav
Goss
Soupe
Farrar
Ferrari
Renshaw
Hushovd
Bennati

No Modolo anywhere

Hmmm, not the end of the world having Hushovd but Cav will be coming in tonight I think, although I might wait and see how much Bos suffers from his crash.

I'm slightly happier that Hushovd finished in 7th, but thats the end of my Giro after making my transfers and them not registering

So i'm not making any more transfers and going purist

Also didn't realise we had 4 transfers for the TTT which changes my plans slightly

Nah, you've got 4 transfers now, if anything you're in a better position than me who chose to transfer in Chicchi and Guardini who've done naff all. I'd love to have 4 transfers tonight to bring in Cav, possibly Ferrari, Bonnet and someone else.

Really Thought it was after tomorrows stage....as they fly to Italy after tomorrorows stage, so an unusual but enforced early rest day. Its sort of given me some options todays result

Tuesday's a rest day isn't it? I figured it'd be four transfers, not that I have any idea what I'm going to do with them yet.

EDIT: Gkam's four are because his first two didn't register last night, so they carry over, it'll be four on Tuesday for everyone.

Yeh tuesday the rest day, and the TTT after the rest day

Yeah i only have four just now because of the system being an arse and taking my transfers and then spitting them back out......I'll sell them to you for 10 points rather then the 20 you would incur

So 40 transfers 10 points each, then i make back my loss of Cav not going into my team. Pissed off, but laughing about it. Still not playing the rest of the Giro, concentrating on the ToC now

current results http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/classifiche/it/t_02_cla...

you might find you're in luck with your transfers

1 CAVENDISH Mark
2 GOSS Matthew Harley
3 SOUPE Geoffrey
4 FARRAR Tyler
5 FERRARI Roberto
6 RENSHAW Mark
7 HUSHOVD Thor
8 BENNATI Daniele
9 BONNET William
10 THOMAS Geraint
11 SEUBERT Timon
12 DELAGE Mickae
13 HUNTER Robert
14 BRANDLE Matthias
15 IMPEY Daryl
16 HAEDO Juan Jose'
17 ROHREGGER Thomas
18 SELVAGGI Mirko
19 BEPPU Fumiyuki
20 MAES Nikolas

Good result, 1,5,8,10. Although a couple of my riders got caught up by the crash i think.

Dave, your a legend

Did you find out what had happened?

Ok guy's, i'm back in the saddle and hunting you all down again. My planned transfers can still go ahead. I've got my txt documents sorted right up until the weekend

1st and 10th +5 for Thomas, then whatever in the GC, I think i still have 1,2,3 in GC

1st, 8th, 10th, 16th. I'll take that.

1,2,10,13 for me plus some GC and stuff, reasonable

Reasonable day today, decision is, do I ditch Hushovd for Cavendish and what do I do about Bos? Likewise, keep guaranteed (ish) GC points with Rasmussen or pick up Bonnet as another sprinter?

Still not certain Bonnet is the no 1 sprinter in his outfit. I'm going for Demare. Then again, I transferred Bennati out last night, which clearly wasn't the best move...

Think im gonna axe modolo and rasmussen...and keep demare

Narrowed my choices down, bringing in a cheap-ish DS and I can afford to swap out GT for Cav, or I can ditch Hushovd... Guaranteed GC points would be nice but if it's a straight finish this time I can't see Thomas scoring another 10th.

Delayed bringing in Cav by a day which is a shame, but I have him now so hopefully he gets another win later. Had Bos and Kristoff so shame about the end yesterday. My team of 9 now consists of 6 sprinters, and the top 3 overall, so hoping for good points today...