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Giro d'Italia - Tappa 12
Well im out all day playing Golf, then going to work, so I thought I'd get this rolling and post my team. Surely today and tomorrow have got to be sprints?
My team is this
Cav (for Nibali)
Viviani
Bouhanni (for Santambrogio)
Gavazzi
Battaglin
Di Luca (for Pirazzi)
Evans
Betancur
Majka
Ok so its not the most sprint heavy team, but should have 3 of the top 5. Then ive kept the GC etc who will score me the most, but also based on price. Evans would score more than Nibali due to points, Betancur and Majka will score the same as Santambrogio and Pirazzi. No sprinter for Vini, so Di Luca is as good a shout as anyone to give it a go, and cheap. Just hope I haven't missed a trick not going Mezgec now Degenkolb is out
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I think the time bonuses will still be taken at the line, but none of the GC riders would have been likely to get them today anyway. It's the times for the overall which will be taken at the 3km mark.
That makes sense. What happened with the crash, hopefully no one hurt.
Four of the five went down. Peleton now going very slow. Rain bad. De Backer seems to have disappeared from the front group
All five are there
Eurosport have just said that there is snow on top of the Galibier and it is still snowing, which is stage 15 on Sunday
M1
1 Marcato
2 Belkov
3 Felline
I think that puts Belkov into 5th in mountain class.
Colbrelli has pulled off the peleton to try to bridge the gap
He didn't make it
More info :-
@WWCCScorer
@daniellloyd1 Will the time bonuses still be awarded at the finish line?
@daniellloyd1
@WWCCScorer I think so yes, but will be of no consequence anyway as sprinters will take them all.
Sean Kelly is questioning whether the organisers mean 3k from end or 3k from when they cross finish line for the first time because the circuit around Treviso will be very tricky in the rain. In which case it will be 10.5k from the end.
S2
1 Lammertink
2 Belkov
3 Marcato
4 De Backer
5 Felline
6 Pauwels
Which puts Belkov into 4th in points class and drops Santambrogio to 6th
M2
1 Belkov
2 Felline
3 Marcato
Mountain class
1 Pirazzi
2 Rodriguez
3 Chalapud
4 Belkov
5 Visconti
Wiggins and all the Sky team have been detached at the back.
In real trouble over a minute back as peleton speed increases.
Now 2 mins back, will lose more time today.
What a shame, Wiggo could lose 5 mins here easy
I think Uran has stayed in the main group
Come on Peleton! chase them down, got far too many of you to not!
Shit it. Mezgec 3rd, Modolo looked like getting third but messed up and sat up, prob lost ten places for it. Picked the wrong guy again!
Well, I cocked up a little and forgot to make transfers for today
At least I still have Cav in my purist team though
1,2 missing number 3, bah!
1,2,3 BUT I fully expect Bouhanni to get bumped down after cutting Modolo up like that.
I took Viviani in over Nizzolo
Bye Bye Wiggo, I fell asleep, so didn't see what happened to him, just saw him rolling in nearly 4 minutes down
Nothing 'happened', he's ill.
u think Bouhanni will get bumped???
Fairplay, just read this properly laughed , the first two are definitely true
Perhaps he should start taking his vitamins
Thanks for your very insightful reply.....I've known he was ill since Sunday
I meant, did he come off, have a mechanical, lost time downhill again......
Something must have happened before he lost 3 minutes. He's been ill all week and this was a fairly easy, shortest stage.
Got detached on the descent again
Got a little detached on a descent then BMC forced the pace to distance him completely.
Sky tried to get him back on but their pace was too much and they dropped him. He ended up riding alone at one point before Sky picked him back up and tried to coax him to the finish.
He lost his bottle in the first week when he spilled , that has cost him every stage that even hinted at being mildly moist on any descent , it showed in the ITT after the bike change if you ask me .
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