Giro Stage 14

Its going to be a nice day for my points if they can reel in the 3 break away guys because there are only around 30 riders in the pack left and most of my guys are still there

J-Rod going to catch Hesjedal, Tiralongo, Scarponi, Pozzovivo and Kreuziger trying to keep with and there are two sky riders in there

Heano and Uran

SH*T i just noticed i didn't put Hesjedal back in, Come on De Marchi

1 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team
2 Jan Barta (Cze) Team NetApp
3 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
4 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Barracuda
5 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team

GC now looks like this

Hesjedal
J-Rod +9
Tiralongo +41
Casar +1.05
Basso +1.06
Kreuziger +1.07
Intxausti +1.07
Uran +1.19
Scarponi +1.20
Pozzovivo +1.21
Henao +1.39
Cataldo +1.42
Pardilla +2.06
De Gendt +2.14
Schleck +2.20

Cav might be timed out today aswell

God damn

Amador
Barta
De Marchi
Hesjedel (now in pink)
Tiralongo
Uran
J-Rod
De Gendt
Scarponi
Gadret
Schleck
Pozzovivo
Basso
Henao
Intxausti

4th, 5th, 7th, 12th, 16th for me. Surprised by Hesjedal, disappointed with Kreuziger.

I didnt do so well again argh

I didnt do so well again argh

Damn! Why did Rujano attack early when he can't descend. If he'd waited till the last 2/3k he could have done it as he obviously had some good legs, just no brain

Surprised by Hesjedal a bit as well, but the flatter climbs suit him better. Not sure if I'll change my team though. Might wait and see if Rujano tries again tomorrow as he obviously wants a stage win and he could do it if he uses his grey matter a bit. Might switch Scarponi for Purito tomorrow as it suits him better though. Glad I didn't put in Kreuzinger for Basso though, but De Gendt did well. Maybe going for the GC after all as he can TT very well. He's not out of it yet.

Going to lose ground today.

1 AMADOR
2 BARTA
3 DE MARCHI
4 HESJEDAL
5 TIRALONGO
6 URAN
7 RODRIGUEZ
8 DE GENDT
9 SCARPONI
10 GADRET
11 SCHLECK
12 POZZOVIVO
13 BASSO
14 HENAO
15 INTXAUSTI
16 KREUZIGER
17 MORENO
18 PARDILLA
19 NIEVE
20 CATALDO

For me 5,7,12,15,16,20 +5 for winning team

Rujano got 24th Was going to take Moreno over him, but only lost 4 points by not doing that

Cav in at 32.04 down, Inside the time limit??

Last man home might be good for someone

GUARDINI at 35.59 all on his ownsome

The Cav bus had 80 riders in it!
180 riders home
Sky have all 9 riders still in race

Have mountain points accidently been awarded for todays finish? I've got 5 more points than I was expecting.

Didn't fall back as much as I expected but 200 points is a lot to make up. If I'd played more defensive today and stuck with Purito and Hesjedal I would have got within 150 points. Still not completely out of it yet though. Still a few unpredictable stages to come. May have to be a bit more risk-taking with the DSs and play safer with the stars rather than the other way round.

Tiralongo is definitely undroppable, but I would have thought tomorrow suited Purito more than Scarponi. Was hoping Scarponi would make a bit more of a move at the end today like Hesjedal did, but maybe he doesn't have the legs or not just yet. Maybe he'll (S) wait until people are more worn out. But there's only one really difficult stage left. Tomorrow isn't that bad, 7k at 7/8%. Wed is downhill finish, Fri is short and sharp, only next Sat is long and hard, about 20k at 7%. Leaving everything to one stage is a dangerous game. Don't think Scarponi is going to win it now, think Purito might hang on and win.

After taking the extra hit of a 20 point penalty to drop Hesjedal for Basso it bloody backfired big style

Never ever thought he could climb like that !

3km 1.34 of a gap and Hesjedal is going for it

Going on your team drheaton

Rodriguez ✔
Hesjedal ✔
Rujano ✔
Henao ✓

Pozzovivo ✔
Tiralongo ✔
Caruso ✓
Rubiano ✓
Golas

I think the smaller ticks "might be"

Rujano having another punt off the front......Come on you ugly little man

But FAIL, he's going no where

5km 3.25 gap to De Marchi, Amador and Barta

Might just about make it to the finish

De Marchi looking stronger than Amador which is good for me having two Androni riders in my team

But 11km with 6,39 gap, big enough? Hmmmm

No Hesjedal or Pozzovivo in the maglia rosa group???

No time gaps being show, But Amador has exactly 5km ahead of the peleton as they went through the 30km banner just as he went through the 25km one.

Cunego going to be caught as Astana still hammering out the pace on the front. I think Rujano may have been swept up on the descent