Tour of Beijing Stage 3

Gkam84, October 11, 2012

Come on people's, who is out of bed? I've just to grab my 40 winks. Been up all night analysing the USADA documents. There are MANY interesting parts to it.

If anyone would like a copy of all the documents. Give me a shout. I now have them on DVD, just incase the site is taken down for any reason. Plus it means you can read it all offline

So back to Beijing, Who's your man for today?

I have Sanchez, Martin, Hesjedal and Nocentini in my team and hoping FDJ will stick to their promise of breaks. So Roux has stayed in my team

Tags

Fantasy Cycling

I've gone with the following:-

Ryder
EBH
Capecchi
HH

Marczynski
Nocentini
Howard
Geslin
Cummings

Wanted SS but messed up my transfers, so will prob have too settle for another below 50 score!

posted by livestrongnick [760 posts] 11th October 2012 - 8:31

I've stuck with Roux as well... Made the transfers I planned on for today - Sammy Sanchez (he said Euskatel had targeted this stage) and Dan Martin. Have Ligthart in the break who seems to be picking up KOM points.

The BREAK is - Ladagnous, Grivko, Ligthart, Hoogerland, Nieve, Bennett, Meier. They had 4:41 with 90km to go, which I think was about 15 mins ago.

My TEAM is...
Dan Martin
Sammy Sanchez
Edvald BH
Greg Henderson for tomorrow
Roux
Ligthart
Slagter
Fenn
Guarnieri (wish I'd gone for Gavazzi from the start but never mind...)

posted by chrisdstripes [855 posts] 11th October 2012 - 8:37

Actually that was ages ago - its now 3:40 with 63km left...

posted by chrisdstripes [855 posts] 11th October 2012 - 8:38

Ligthart is your man so far - two mountains and 1 sprint to him.

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:03

Yep - "Pim's number one"!

Sorry.

posted by chrisdstripes [855 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:09

Well laurel and Hardy seem to be bigging up all my riders for this stage!
Which def isn't good for me!

posted by livestrongnick [760 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:14

"Chink in the armour" from Harmon. Really?

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:20

Drinking too much Pim's - he gets most aggressive rider of the day.

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:45

NO.....Don't let EBH go away

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:52

Go EBH!!!

posted by livestrongnick [760 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:53

Beauty.....What perfect timing

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:57

Noooooo!!! that was the longest last 1km ever wasn't it??

posted by livestrongnick [760 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:56

Tell you, they couldn't have gone any closer. EBH though he had it and slowed a touch to be caught ON THE LINE.

I was wanting Martin to get it, but he got second. EBH thrid

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 9:58

1 Francesco GAVAZZI ITA AST 28 4:05:07
2 Daniel MARTIN IRL GRS 26 +0
3 Edvald BOASSON HAGEN NOR SKY 25 +0
4 Rinaldo NOCENTINI ITA ALM 35 +0
5 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA POR MOV 26 +0
6 Tom Jelte SLAGTER NED RAB 23 +0
7 Eros CAPECCHI ITA LIQ 26 +0
8 Moreno MOSER ITA LIQ 22 +0
9 Mathias FRANK SUI BMC 26 +0
10 Daniele PIETROPOLLI ITA LAM 32 +0

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:02

Gavazzi
Martin
EBH
Nocentini
Rui Costa
Slagter
Capecchi
Moser
Frank
Piertropolli

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:02

I think...
4 Nocentini
5 Rui Costa
6 Slagter
So I got 2,3,6 - better than usual!

posted by chrisdstripes [855 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:01

3,4 & 7 for me, vast improvement on stages 1&2

posted by livestrongnick [760 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:01

2,3,4 for me

posted by TERatcliffe26 [2822 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:03

2,4,8 for me so far and I must go out again then time for a wee sleep before I finish of reading USADA's stuff. Not much left to go

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:03

1,3,4,6,7,8 in the GC too...question is what will happen tomorrow, do i bring any sprinters in

posted by TERatcliffe26 [2822 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:05

GC :-
1 Tony MARTIN GER OPQ 27 9:35:52
2 Francesco GAVAZZI ITA AST 28 +40
3 Daniel MARTIN IRL GRS 26 +50
4 Edvald BOASSON HAGEN NOR SKY 25 +52
5 Eros CAPECCHI ITA LIQ 26 +52
6 Rinaldo NOCENTINI ITA ALM 35 +56
7 Tomasz MARCZYNSKI POL VCD 28 +56
8 Rafal MAJKA POL STB 23 +56
9 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA POR MOV 26 +1:00
10 Tim WELLENS BEL LTB 21 +1:00

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:07

11 Simon CLARKE AUS OGE 26 +0
12 Tomasz MARCZYNSKI POL VCD 28 +0
13 Samuel SANCHEZ GONZALEZ ESP EUS 34 +0
14 Rafal MAJKA POL STB 23 +0
15 Tony MARTIN GER OPQ 27 +0
16 Ivan VELASCO MURILLO ESP EUS 32 +0
17 Tim WELLENS BEL LTB 21 +0
18 Steven KRUIJSWIJK NED RAB 25 +0
19 Tanel KANGERT EST AST 25 +0
20 Stephen CUMMINGS GBR BMC 31 +0

posted by simon F [691 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:21

so not bad 7 of 9 in the top 20, only bos and guarneri (but will get 5 points) not in there

2,3,4,11,12,14,15

then 6 in the top 10 of GC

1,3,4,6,7,8

posted by TERatcliffe26 [2822 posts] 11th October 2012 - 10:34

poor 2,3,5,11 and 12 plus whatever gc points. Not going to climb at all today.

Stumpy

posted by stumps [1561 posts] 11th October 2012 - 11:07

1,2,3 .....not too bad . . .where did Theo Bos come? And Andrew Fenn?

J Andrew Hill

Www.conjunctivitis.co.tv, now thats a site for sore eyes

...

posted by JAndrewHill [957 posts] 11th October 2012 - 12:43

2,3,5,12 13; would have liked Slagter but couldn't quite afford him. SS a bit of a disappointment, but brought in Henderson and Fenn for tomorrow.

posted by Alan Tullett [908 posts] 11th October 2012 - 19:22

@Gkam84 Also went to bed late yesterday as I didn't realise the time after looking through the reasoned case bit. have you looked at VeloNews or velonation, quite a few blogs on it. Still some deniers or doubters. We're getting down to philosophical scepticism now.

posted by Alan Tullett [908 posts] 11th October 2012 - 19:24

I'm through most of it now. All the pdf's have my computer going mad, lol

There will always be doubters and reading through it all, there is still room for the doubters. A bit like area 51, 9/11....etc

Its mainly a case of he said, she said, he saw, she saw and since Lance didn't dispute it, we've just got to go with what we've been given. So as much as I liked Lance (more for his charity work than cycling) I have to say, its pretty clear that he was doping. To what level and how much will never be known, but he was using substances.

posted by Gkam84 [6476 posts] 11th October 2012 - 20:20