Tour de Med - Stage 1

drheaton, February 6, 2013

Tour de Med starts with a 'flat stage'. However, the stage is pretty bumpy for the first half and there's a real chance that some sprinters may get dropped if the peloton is going for it.

My team is sprint/climbing TTers split with

Griepel, Feillu, Oss, Turgot, Nizzolo, Navardauskas, Clement, Roy, Pauriol

and my Purist team is:

Voeckler, Talansky, Izagirre, Roy, Roux, Boom, Sicard, Pellizotti, Routley

So, hands up, who's picked Schleck?

Tags

Fantasy Cycling

I've gone for a mix it up thinking of the lumps and the TT but hoping for some kind of bunch sprint

Greipel
Navardauskas
Kiserlovski
Vichot
Turgot
Ligthart
Quitero
R Kreder
Larsson

and Purist
Rolland,Pinot,Talansky,Roche,
Ista,Bole,
Quitero,SCHLECK,Ghyselinck........

posted by livestrongnick [692 posts] 6th February 2013 - 18:23

*Hand shoots up*

I've got Schleck in purists(as discussed elsewhere with the good Doctor).

Standard:
Treated myself to the best sprinter in the peloton for stage one only but otherwise all solid guys I think so here goes...Greipel,Chaves,Talansky,Monfort,Mollema,Rogers,LeMevel,Pellizotti,Pauriol.

9.2 credits in reserve for replacing Greipel in stage 2.

Purist:
Montaguti,Mollema,Pellizotti,Schleck,Voeckler,Taciak,Taaramae(wrong age for him admins),Talansky,Duarte.

I make Talansky favourite for the overall win.

posted by ray silvester [661 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:36

And Taaramae's withdrawn Duque also

Routley,Vimpere and Vaubourzeix have 3'00" or so on the field.

posted by ray silvester [661 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:49

Bad luck for me and others - non-starters Taaramae and Duque. At least neither are in my purist team

posted by simon F [659 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:49

Live ticker for those interested (in French)

http://direct.directvelo.com/live-course/1526/tour-mediterraneen-1ere-et...

posted by simon F [659 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:50

I'm trying for some badges today.

Greipel
Oss
Gavazzi
Nizzolo
Napolitano
Belletti
Pelucchi
R.Feillu
R.Kreder

My purist team has Taaramae.

posted by Wig_Billy [448 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:52

Cheers for that

posted by jimmythecuckoo [1021 posts] 6th February 2013 - 12:53

At least it is my standard team with Taaramae

Standard

Nizzolo
Simon
Vichot
Gavazzi
Roelandts
Roy
Boom
Talansky
Taaramae!

purist

Voeckler
Roux
Pellizotti
Roelandts
Boom
Nizzolo
Dekker
Peraud
Izagirre

posted by TERatcliffe26 [2662 posts] 6th February 2013 - 13:00

1st cat climb result:

Col du Paradis - 1ère catégorie
1 Théo Vimpère (BigMat-Auber 93)
2 Thomas Vaubourzeix (La Pomme Marseille)
3 Will Routley (Accent Jobs-Wanty)
4 Garikoitz Bravo (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
5 Olivier Kaisen (Lotto-Belisol)

so, 5 points down to 1 for those riders.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 13:39

Vimpere away on his own, Euskatel seem to have chased that 4th place pretty hard so we could see Bravo going after more points later on.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 13:40

"Theo Vimpère (BigMat-Auber 93)

45'': Will Routley (Accent Jobs-Wanty) and Thomas Vaubourzeix (La Pomme Marseille)

to 4'45'': Peloton"

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 13:49

I have Taaramae in one team and Duque in the other

posted by Gkam84 [6242 posts] 6th February 2013 - 14:05

Live text seems to have missed the cat 2 climb and gone straight to the intermediate sprint:

Résultat du sprint intermédiaire :
1 Thomas Vaubourzeix (La Pomme Marseille)
2 Will Routley (Accent Jobs-Wanty)
3 Théo Vimpère (BigMat-Auber 93)

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 14:22

Schleck's been dropped it seems

posted by ray silvester [661 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:04

Perhaps might get some Lanterne Rouge points...?

Standard Team...
I too had Taaramae
Greipel (to be replaced after stage 1)
Mollema
Kiserlovski
Sutherland
Navardauskas
Morabito
Klemme
Dekker

posted by d_jp [40 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:29

ray silvester wrote:

Schleck's been dropped it seems

d_jp has a good point though, maybe some Lanterne Rouge points for you today.

Gap of 1'32" at 25km so it looks like it'll come back together for a Griepel win.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:34

Just switched on and seen withdrawals. Mt pursit team has lost vanmarcke, nordhaug and duque so thats me buggered. With taaramae in my standard (not to bad i suppose)

Stumpy

posted by stumps [1424 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:41

Greipel wins - to nobody's surprise

posted by simon F [659 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:55

Changed...

Classement non-officiel :
1 André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol)
2 Matteo Pelucchi (Iam Cycling)
3 Maxime Daniel (Sojasun) ?

posted by simon F [659 posts] 6th February 2013 - 15:59

What does Greipel do now.....withdraw?

posted by ray silvester [661 posts] 6th February 2013 - 16:06

Top 7 non-officiel :
1 André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol)
2 Matteo Pelucchi (IAM Cycling)
3 Maxime Daniel (Sojasun)
4 Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack)
5 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto-Belisol)
6 Mathieu Drujon (BigMat-Auber 93)
7 Klaas Lodewyck (BMC)

posted by andynic [14 posts] 6th February 2013 - 16:10

1 GREIPEL Andre Lotto Belisol Team 16 20 2 PELUCCHI Matteo IAM Cycling 11 12 3 DANIEL Maxime Sojasun 6 7 4 NIZZOLO Giacomo RadioShack - Leopard 5 5 5 ROELANDTS Jurgen Lotto Belisol Team 4 4 6 DRUJON Mathieu Big Mat - Auber 93 2 3 7 LODEWYCK Klaas BMC Racing Team 2

posted by The Instigator [72 posts] 6th February 2013 - 16:10

posted by NeilG83 [109 posts] 6th February 2013 - 16:12

ray silvester wrote:

What does Greipel do now.....withdraw?

He's not terrible against the clock and the TT isn't particularly long so I think he tries to put in a good time and show off the leaders jersey. After that? Who knows.

Friday is a bumpy stage rather than hugely difficult and all the climbs are decent practice for the Tour and some of the classics like Milan-San Remo.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 16:13

Top 10 de l'étape :
1 André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol)
2 Matteo Pelucchi (IAM Cycling)
3 Maxime Daniel (Sojasun)
4 Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack)
5 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto-Belisol)
6 Mathieu Drujon (BigMat-Auber 93)
7 Klaas Lodewyck (BMC)
8 Moreno Hofland (Blanco)
9 Thor Hushovd (BMC)
10 Raymond Kreder (Garmin-Sharp)

posted by livestrongnick [692 posts] 6th February 2013 - 18:25

really glad I took out Greipel and Husvold in the last moments before the deadline.

posted by leortp [35 posts] 6th February 2013 - 18:35

Etapa 1 y General:
1 GREIPEL André LTB 3:25:23 Palmarés completo
2 PELUCCHI Matteo IAM à 0''
3 DANIEL Maxime SOJ ''
4 NIZZOLO Giacomo RLT ''
5 ROELANDTS Jurgen LTB ''
6 DRUJON Mathieu BIG ''
7 LODEWYCK Klaas BMC ''
8 HOFLAND Moreno BLA ''
9 HUSHOVD Thor BMC ''
10 KREDER Raymond GRS ''
11 TURGOT Sébastien EUC ''
12 LÖVKVIST Thomas IAM ''
13 NAPOLITANO Danilo AJW ''
14 KREUZIGER Roman TST ''
15 EL FARES Julien SOJ ''
16 LE BOULCH Dimitri BIG ''
17 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTB ''
18 BOL Jetse BLA ''
19 BACON Romain BIG ''
20 ROCHE Nicolas TST ''

result availeble at biciclismo

andy
rein
duque
scherlincks

DNS or DNF

peraud allready lost 33 secconds

and a group with gavazzi and kern lost over 9 minutes

posted by The Instigator [72 posts] 6th February 2013 - 18:38

at procycling stats you can find the rest of the results

posted by The Instigator [72 posts] 6th February 2013 - 18:43

Ok, scores updating as I type. Have a look and let me know if you don't agree with anything.

Note, I haven't been able to find a combative rider prize award anywhere so haven't added the points in (even though you can guarantee they would go to Vimpere). If I spot a combative award anywhere I'll add it otherwise it'll have to stay out.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 19:24

Wig_Billy wrote:

I'm trying for some badges today.

Success . I got the Stage Podium, High Roller & Podium badges. But I think there's been a mistake with the Podium badge because I only had 1st, 2nd & 4th. Has Nizzolo been credited with 3rd?

posted by Wig_Billy [448 posts] 6th February 2013 - 20:13

No, ill check the spreadsheet but I'm pretty sure I scored him for 4th.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 20:45

Yeah, my bad, I'd mis-scored Maxime Daniel (20 instead of 25) so he was being picked up as 4th highest scorer and not third.

Updating now.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 6th February 2013 - 20:53

Is there a badge for scoring 1 point?

J Andrew Hill

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

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posted by JAndrewHill [922 posts] 6th February 2013 - 22:03

Andy Schleck has done a Schleck already??? He has cost me money at the bookies, he has reneged on the solemn bond of choosing to be in my fantasy team, and now he has gypped me again. What a schlecker!

posted by Sanderville [139 posts] 7th February 2013 - 0:20

Sanderville wrote:

Andy Schleck has done a Schleck already??? He has cost me money at the bookies, he has reneged on the solemn bond of choosing to be in my fantasy team, and now he has gypped me again. What a schlecker!

If only we had a pic of Andy in happier circumstances to take away your pain... ooh, hang on...

Andy Schleck at 2013 TDU (Santos Tour Down Under, Regallo).jpg

posted by Simon_MacMichael [6189 posts] 7th February 2013 - 0:26

This tactic of trying to get as much racing in as possible before the TdF is really working well for him...

You get the impression that he doesn't really want to struggle along like all the other guys and if he can't be great he doesn't want to take part. From the sounds of it the only reason he managed so much of the TdU is because Voigt kept shouting at him.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 7th February 2013 - 9:16

looks like those 3 points are not such a bargain after all.

There is one poni though. Whilst Andy is not making a miracle recovery and is struggling we know there's a pretty good chance he's clean. If he had come back and torn up the hills in the TdU, maybe we'd be unsure.

meanwhile looks like Jens and Fabian and Chris and Andreas and Yaroslav and Gregory and Haimar get to spend another year yelling at another Schleck.

I do agree though, I think both Schlecks have motivational issues and rely purely on talent. They seem ready with the excuses too quickly when other riders grit their teeth and fight on. Odd when you look at who their team mates are.

posted by robdaykin [119 posts] 7th February 2013 - 10:30

JAndrewHill wrote:

Is there a badge for scoring 1 point?

I can beat that i scored 0 on my purist team

Stumpy

posted by stumps [1424 posts] 7th February 2013 - 10:38

robdaykin wrote:

looks like those 3 points are not such a bargain after all.

There is one poni though. Whilst Andy is not making a miracle recovery and is struggling we know there's a pretty good chance he's clean. If he had come back and torn up the hills in the TdU, maybe we'd be unsure.

You mean, like Contador did....

I know that was different and that he came back from a ban and not from an injury but it never felt right how good he was so quickly after getting back into racing.

robdaykin wrote:

I do agree though, I think both Schlecks have motivational issues and rely purely on talent. They seem ready with the excuses too quickly when other riders grit their teeth and fight on. Odd when you look at who their team mates are.

Agreed, they seem far too eager to give excuses when things go wrong. I think though that that is part of their cycling experience, even from a young age they've both been protected and molly-coddled as stars whereas other riders have had to work their way up the hard way (including the likes of Wiggins) and perhaps have 'earned' their status whereas, to a certain extent, the Schleck haven't.

posted by drheaton [2222 posts] 7th February 2013 - 10:39

I transferred in Pinotti and Navardauskas for Nizzolo and B.Feillu having missed Greipel on stage 1 and scoring only 34 points.

Rogers
Navardauskas
Monfort
Talansky
Roy
Chaves
LeMevel
Santaromita
Pinotti

I've already lost Schleck AND Taaramae from my purist team leaving just Nieve,Roche,Martin,Montaguti,Mollema,Quintero and LeMevel to try and improve on my 1 pt from stage 1

posted by silas chime [199 posts] 7th February 2013 - 12:24

stumps wrote:

JAndrewHill wrote:
Is there a badge for scoring 1 point?

I can beat that i scored 0 on my purist team

Same here 'Stumps' I got 0 as well, on my standard team with eight riders , but I managed to squeeze a whole 50 points out of my decimated purist team, five riders left . Stage two will be a shocker as well because I couldn't change anything as I was away