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Giro stage seven
Thoughts on the day's picks?
I was a bit overburdened with sprinters, so have taken a ten point hit to bring in Nibs, Uran and Visconti. The big news for stage will be bringing in Brad plus a.n. other cheapish tt-er (or a versatile chap like Betancur?).
Suspect Paolini and Katusha may give it one last push to keep the pink before he well-and-truly loses it after the time trial.
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GC
1 Benat INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Spain MOV 27 28:30:04
2 Vincenzo NIBALI Italy AST 29 +5
3 Ryder HESJEDAL Canada GRS 33 +8
4 Giampaolo CARUSO Italy KAT 33 +10
5 Mauro SANTAMBROGIO Italy VIN 29 +13
6 Cadel EVANS Australia BMC 36 +16
7 Robert GESINK Netherlands BLA 27 +19
8 Ivan SANTAROMITA Italy BMC 29 +28
9 Pieter WEENING Netherlands OGE 32 +29
10 Robert KISERLOVSKI Croatia RLT 27 +34
Mountain
1 Giovanni VISCONTI Italy MOV 30 14
2 Emanuele SELLA Italy AND 32 13
3 Stefano PIRAZZI Italy BAR 26 12
4 Adam HANSEN Australia LTB 32 12
5 Willem WAUTERS Belgium VCD 24 9
Pirazzi got the last point on the last climb
11 CARUSO Giampaolo ITA KAT 4:36:56 1:07
12 SERPA PEREZ Jose Rodolfo COL LAM 4:36:56 1:07
13 BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos A. COL ALM 4:36:56 1:07
14 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat ESP MOV 4:36:56 1:07
15 VALLS FERRI Rafael ESP VCD 4:36:56 1:07
16 KELDERMAN Wilco NED BLA 4:36:56 1:07
17 KRUIJSWIJK Steven NED BLA 4:36:56 1:07
18 MAJKA Rafal POL TST 4:36:56 1:07
19 GESINK Robert NED BLA 4:36:56 1:07
20 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel ESP EUS 4:36:56 1:07
Watching it on the tv Wiggins didn't try hard to get back and was virtually creeping down the descent.
So as for tomorrow it wont effect him and to be honest if that little bit of effort does have an effect he is not the rider everyone knows he is.
Not a single rider in top twenty for me. A few jersey crumbs but otherwise a shocker - and with a ten point penalty on top!
Need a big 'un tomorrow.
Is there a bonus prize for scoring the same score on both your Standard & Purist teams with a different mix of riders?
148 points for Purist team
Finally Gavazzi gets the Lanterne Rouge. I've only been keeping him in as he has been trying for it all week. Time to ship him out now.
???????
Weighing up how many changes to make, planned two teams, one with 4 changes, one with 7.
The 4 change team is probably a safer bet as the TT is always unpredictable and there's another road stage on Sunday but the 7 transfer team has Gesink and Intxausti in it...
Decisions decisions.
Im up to 75th, don't think Im out of the overall yet, but gonna need some risks
First risk leave out Wiggo tomorrow? or make penalty transfers
decisions
Penalty transfers all the way where Wiggins is concerned, unless you think he was seriously injured yesterday then he's as close to a banker as you can get.
-10 points for the transfer, +45 for stage win and pink.
For now....I still expect him to be in pink after the ITT although the major Disadvantage is that all of his GC rivals will have his time/splits to dose their efforts by.
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