Volta ao Algarve Stage 3

Sitting in 10th and looking for a 3rd High Roller badge in a row so made 3 of my 4 transfers today:

DeGendt(in for Nizzolo)
Kelderman(in for Cav)
Henao(in for Boeckmans)
RuiCosta
Machado
Bos
DeMaar
Kwiatkowski
Paulinho

Then looking to bring in Westra( I seem to remember him beating Wiggins in a similar sort of uphilly TT),Martin and either Castroviejo or Dowsett for the ITT.

Unless of course Chavanel gets himself high up in GC.

Taken a risk today and made 6 transfers.

Kelderman (for Cavendish)
Atapuma (for Manuel Cardoso)
Westra (for Boeckmans)
Caruso (for Tsatevitch)
Henao for (Nizzolo)
Tiernan-Locke (for Bos)

Machado
Kwiatkowski
Ruin Faria da Costa

So in theory I have a really strong team but I have no idea how it'll play out.

Purist team is

Cavendish
Nizzolo
Bos
Martin
Boeckmans
Westra
Machado
Tiernan-Locke
Ribeiro

Any streams for this race?

Mark Cavendish
Thomas de Gendt < Nizzolo
Alberto Faria Da Costa
Jon Tiernan-Locke
Theo Bos
Paul Martens
John Darwin Atapuma < Sanz
Tsastevitch
Jan Bakelants
Well thats my standard anyway, dont even look at my purist, its all sprinters haha

No im afraid not

Highlights are on eurosport 2 at 10.30

Machado - Cav
Martin - Bos
Henao - Nizzolo
Poels - Boeckmans
Atapuma
JTL
Rui Costa
M Cardoso
Paulinho

10 point penalty which should help come ITT

I was too indecisive at the beginning of this one, ended up leaving Bos out of my standard and Nizzolo out of purist, rather than picking both for both.

Std for today...
Martin
Kwiatkowski
Westra
De Gendt
Rui Costa
Machado
Nizzolo
De Maar
Kocjan

Purist could end up fairly high if I'm lucky...
Martin
Cav
Westra
Boeckmans
De Maar
Machado
Marque
Kelderman
Bos

Both my teams look like they are gonna get murdered today!

peleton still together after 24km

Martin
Kwiatowski
Kelderman
Henao
Costa
Westra
Machado
Bos
Sanz

My purist team is exactly the same.

1st cat 3

1.Poels
2.Txurruka
3.Marque

Martinez and Zubeldia have 55 seconds on the peleton

Sprint 1

1.Sousa
2.Pires
3.Zubeldia

I went Colombian in my transfers

Thomas de Gendt
Sergio Luis Henao
Rigoberto Uran
Michal Kwiatkowski
Sep Vanmarcke
John Darwin Atapuma
Marc De Maar
Alexandr Kolobnev
Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa

Chavanel, David Lopez and Jose Herrada are in a group of 12 that are 5 mins up the road

Looks like Chava could be about to light up the race!!

1.Henao
2.Costa
3.Westra

Podium badge #2

Sounds like Machado up there too, how successful I am though probably depends on JTL and Kwiatkowski.

Fingers crossed for a full house.

A 1-2-3 so far for me!

Classificações
3.ª Etapa: Portimão – Alto do Malhão, 193km
1.º Sergio Henao (Sky), 4h53m15s
2.º Rui Costa (Movistar), a 3s
3.º Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM), 5s
4.º Rigoberto Urán (Sky), a 7s
5.º Tiago Machado (RadioShack-Leopard), mt
6.º Andreas Klöden (RadioShack-Leopard), mt
7.º Joshua Edmonson (Sky), mt
8.º Denis Menchov (Katusha), mt
9.º Jesús Herrada (Caja Rural), a 12s
10.º Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), mt
11.º Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), a 18s
12.º Miguel Minguez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), a 24s
13.º André Cardoso (Caja Rural), a 33s
14.º Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil-DCM)), mt
15.º Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar), mt

Geral Individual
1.º Sergio Henao (Sky), 14h50m49s
2.º Rui Costa (Movistar), a 7s
3.º Tiago Machado (RadioShack-Leopard), a 11s
4.º Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM), mt
5.º Andreas Klöden (RadioShack-Leopard), a 17s
6.º Rigoberto Urán (Sky), mt
7.º Denis Menchov (Katusha), mt
8.º Joshua Edmonson (Sky), mt
9.º Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), a 19s
10.º Jesús Herrada (Movistar), a 22s
11.º Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), a 28s
12.º Miguel Miguez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), a 34s
13.º André Cardoso (Caja Rural), a 43s
14.º Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar), mt
15.º Jan Bakelants (RadioShack-Leopard), mt

1,2,3,5,10 on the stage and 1,2,3,4 on GC.

1,2,3,5,10,11 for me. Looks like TER did very well.

Yeah Edmondson was a good call.

What happened to DeGendt? I thought he would be up there

So I left Westra and Menchov out

1,2,3,5,7,10,11 for my standard team

2,3,5,7,11 for my purist team

Scores will be u as soon as the official PDF is posted on the website

Full scores are out at http://www.voltaalgarve.com/classificacoes/Etapa3.pdf

Alex Dowsett DNF. Glad I hadn't brought him in for tomorrow.

I'm off to check the scores.....TERatcliffe26 has won the stage on his own tour

Stewards enquiry launched into unusual betting patterns, illegal substances, non UCI approved parts.....

Feel free to check Gkam....Id have scored 3 more points more had Bos finished the stage

Well played! VoA has been a disaster for me! My first bad tour of the year!

But didn't R Mestre get 3 mountain points?

Yes he did, given them to the wrong Mestre, gonna update now

Thanks. Not gonna make a big difference but every little counts!

Gonna have to do a bit more research on the next couple of races I've never played before. Your practice last year on all the races obviously gave you a good idea of what to do. I did much better this year on Qatar and Oman having done them before, but I know very little about Catalyuna and Pais Basco.

Hey, how bout some props for me? I tied TERatcliffe for 1st place... And then I went and won the next stage, too!