Il Lombardia

Ooh, I did not realise wiggo had something to ride for...might change my picks...sky might ride from tghe front and try tobreak them all.... tdf style. Porte to speed up the hill, henao to take over, uran to sprint to 500m and wiggins to take tghe win. So ill pick jrod

Aye, until J-Rod came in 3rd in the Vuelta Wiggo was a long way in front but its down to a few points now so it might be interesting.

Depends on which ranking you use.

UCI Ranking

WIGGINS Bradley 601
RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin 592
BOONEN Tom 410

IG Index

WIGGINS Bradley 4964
BOONEN Tom 4532
RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin 4311

CQ Ranking

RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin 2986
WIGGINS Bradley 2687
BOONEN Tom 2202

Personally, I prefer the way IG do their calculations and think its a truer reflection

My gut feeling says that Wiggo couldn't care less about the standings and will not be competitive in Lombardia. Friends tell me he was already sporting a beer belly at the worlds. He's done for this season.

Strangely I cannot seem to get up the Lombardy to pick the riders, it's not part of the premium races either. Maybe I am doing summit wrong.

This might do it Strath

http://fantasy.road.cc/gotocomp?cid=12

Aye, that worked fine, thanks, not sure what was goin' on there.

Is Bradley riding?? He isn't on the team list on sky procycling.

Just incase anyone missed this and had picked him
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/09/analysis/valverde-pulls-plug-on-h...

Is the game start list correct at 163 riders? There's 200 plus on the official start list; http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/GiroLombardia/download/partenti_lombardi...

Some teams (on the game start list) only have 1 rider listed as starting.

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/GiroLombardia/download/partenti_lombardi...

where are the OPQS riders? i have only one to choose from??????

Folks. If you want a certain rider and he's not there. Choose the drop down called FILTER and set it to ALL RIDERS.

Then head to the FIND and put it the riders name.

If he's on the official start list and starts tomorrow. Don't worry about him being greyed out. You will score points if he does.

startlist is up now in the game

Finish appears to be a daredevil descenders paradise and when that's the case I always look at Nibali....that plus decent form and racing in his own country meant he was number 1 on the team sheet.

Nibali
Gilbert
Pozzato
Henao
Santambrogio
Betancurt
Tiralongo
Pinot
Quintana

I need a good result today, few people breathing down my neck in the leagues

Philippe Gilbert (BMC)
Sergio Luis Henao (SKY)
Giovanni Visconti (MOV)
Daniel Moreno (KAT)

Domenico Pozzovivo (COG)
Przemyslaw Niemiec (LAM)
Tom Jelte Slagter (RAB)
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ)
Carlos Alberto Betancurt (ASA)

Gilbert and Contador are my main foils. Contador says he is going for it and even if he dosen't win he'll not give up.

livestrongnick, I like the cut of your jib I had to squeeze out Pinot and Slagter but they are two riders I'd love to see doing well.

I've gone for

Gilbert
Contador
D Moreno
Henao

Nordhaug
Ulissi
M Moser
Pellizotti
Betancurt

This was the only race I won in 2011 and I'm hoping for a repeat this year.

Gilbert
Uran
Kessiakoff
Henao
Betancur
Ulissi
Pozzovivo
Verdugo
Kolobnev

Kaiser wrote:
ivestrongnick, I like the cut of your jib Cool I had to squeeze out Pinot and Slagter but they are two riders I'd love to see doing well.

Cheers
Had Pinot early on, then read Cycling news article which cemented his place.
Slagter was a late pick lastnight, wanted a rider who i've had before and know can do well!

Have I misread how treacherous the final descent is?

No-one else seems to be going for the likes of Nibali or those other arch-descenders SammySanchez or Cunego?

Considered His Nibs but on the other hand I can see him riding a blinder only to get mugged on the line.

Goddamn it missed window and valverde in my team

If it's by Gilbert(or indeed any of my other riders)then that would be a good result.

Yup me too, I' forgot to check yesterday and now I've only got a 3man team.... goodbye points.

Couldn't decide between J-Rod and Nibs and plumped for J-Rod. My team is

Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa
Fabio Duarte
Sergio Luis Henao
Joaquin Rodriguez
Jose Rodolfo Serpa
Luca Paolini
Thibaut Pinot
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Francesco Gavazzi

I jotted down another team on paper just to compare when the result came in - my other team is

Mikel Nieve
Vicenzo Nibali
Samuel Sanchez
Sergio Luis Henao
Thibaut Pinot
Gianni Meersman
Matteo Rabottini
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Moreno Moser.

The more i think about it the more i feel i should have entered this team

Gilbert out! crashed.....

Well my team is fecked. I took Contador out lastnight. Kept Gilbert in.

I trusted the start list that was up last night and ended up with Rolland......Why didn't I not even see Europcar were not riding this one? and I picked a non riding cheap DS to fit the rest of my team

Pointless when the startlist is only updated on the morning of the race...............

Philippe Gilbert
Pierre Rolland
Joaquin Rodriguez
Giovanni Visconti
Mauro Santambrogio
Domenico Pozzovivo
Mikel Landa
Nathan Brown
Gorka Verdugo

Well I've got

Alberto Contador (SAX)
Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Ivan Basso (LIQ)
Fabio Duarte (COL)
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ)
Domenico Pozzovivo (COG)
Mauro Santambrogio (BMC)
John Darwin Atapuma (COL)
Miguel Angel Rubiano (AND)

the big ones still in there. Anyone watching at the moment,

crash with Tiralongo and Mollema? and Nibali

Yep, 31k to go and Nibali and Tiralongo go down heavily. Both back up and cycling but not looking good.

Watching it live on Gazzetta Dello Sport. Nibali currently 53 secs down on leader

Hi stumps

Basso on the front, not looking too bad for me at the mo but treacherous roads so anything could happen

17k to go and we have Faria Da Costa with a 31 sec lead over a small peloton of no more than 30+ riders.

All back together with 13k to go. Nordhaug on the front pushing on.

Just had a view of the finish - chucking it down, going to be fun if they all come in together

final climb, should be a further selection here. I don't think Pinot is there and I'm not sure about one or two others in my team but still quite a few in play. Will Purito take over Wiggo??

Pick your winner and hope you see him cross the line first, you are not going to see anything else

Only 8k to go and J-Rod out on his own, weather is horrendous with standing water on the roads.

Purito ahead with Contador, Uran and Henao. Quintana and maybe Santabroglio. Got 3 of those.

Now Zaugg up there!!

5k to go and J-Rod got 7 secs on chasing group of 6.

Amazing that no Spaniard has ever won. Not much of a gap though so not sure he'll make it. Could all depend on staying upright now.

J-Rod wins

Purito's going to do it

J-Rod
Sanchez
SKY RIDER (Uran)??
Santambrogio

That'll do, 1st and 4th

J-Rod wins it followed by a Euskaltel then Sky rider, haven't a clue who though.

1 Rodriguez
2 Sanchez
3 Uran
4 Santambrogio
5 Henao
6 Hesjedal
7 Mollema
8 Zaugg

J-Rod
Sanchez
Uran
Santambrogio
Henao
Hesjedal
Mollema
Zaugg

1 and 4. Should have had Henao instead of Duarte.

1 Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER ESP KAT 33 6:36:27
2 Samuel SANCHEZ GONZALEZ ESP EUS 34 +9
3 Rigoberto URAN URAN COL SKY 25 +9
4 Mauro SANTAMBROGIO ITA BMC 28 +9
5 Sergio Luis HENAO MONTOYA COL SKY 25 +9
6 Ryder HESJEDAL CAN GRS 32 +9
7 Bauke MOLLEMA NED RAB 26 +9
8 Oliver ZAUGG SUI RNT 31 +9
9 Alberto CONTADOR VELASCO ESP STB 30 +9
10 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm KESSIAKOFF SWE AST 32 +9
11 Nairo Alexander QUINTANA ROJAS COL MOV 22 +9
12 Franco PELLIZOTTI ITA AND 34 +9

1, 4, 9. Not great but not a disaster. Should stay 19th in overall I hope.

3,5,8,10 for me

1, 10 and 12 for me it seems

3, 4, 5 who came last???

Here's your top 20:

RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin
SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel
URAN URAN Rigoberto
SANTAMBROGIO Mauro
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Lui
HESJEDAL Ryder
MOLLEMA Bauke
ZAUGG Oliver
CONTADOR VELASCO Albert
KESSIAKOFF Fredrik
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alex
PELLIZOTTI Franco
CUNEGO Damiano
KOLOBNEV Alexandr
CLARKE Simon
MARTIN Daniel
VAN AVERMAET Greg
PERAUD Jean Christophe
RABOTTINI Matteo

Last man home was Peio BILBAO at 20' 03".

Can't hav been many people with Ryder in their team

So that was crap! Got 5th + team bonus and hopefully breakaway bonus for slagter......Which should give me a grand total of 35

Got six riders in my team in the points:

RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin
CONTADOR VELASCO Albert
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alex
PELLIZOTTI Franco
SANTAMBROGIO Mauro

Went up one place to 18th. Not bad overall position and won a stage in TdF. Think I'll play again next year.