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Tour de France - Stage 18, Gap > Alpe-d’Huez
Massive day ahead and I've got the rest of the week off work so I'll be glued to the TV tomorrow afternoon 
Having major problems picking my team. Got a few riders I want to pick but can only afford a selection of them.
Contador and Kreuziger are on the up, could they threaten Froome and try to put a chunk of time into him tomorrow? If so, which is the preferred rider? Contador should be the team leader but he's still not earning any World Tour points after his ban so are the team better off supporting Kreuziger?
Mollema and Ten Dam just seem to be trying to hold on. Can they do anything else now?
Quintana seems to have the white jersey wrapped up, does he think he can win yellow or will he settle for a stage win? Can Kwiatkowski do anything during the last week to catch the Columbian revelation?
Rolland has come out and written off his chances of winning the polka dot jersey. Is he bluffing? If not, which of the last stages will he target for a stage win?
I have no answers and no idea who'll be in my team tomorrow 
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Movistar put their whole team on the front and pulled Contador back.
I think the time gaps are right, time it at 3'20" between TJVG and Froome.
Can't believe Froome, he's popped, had to illegally take on water and food, the race directors won't be happy with that.
Riblon coming back! Think he might haul TJ back, I'll take that, 5 bonus points for Bardet.
Riblon not out of it yet actually, seems to be coming back...
Crap! Anybody put Riblon (!) on their team today?...
Tejay is done, can't respond and is drooped. Fuglsang dropping Contador/Kreuziger, both Saxo boys are buggered. Riblon looks like he'll take the stage as Quintana still 3 minutes behind.
Awesome from Riblon, didn't realise he had that kind of climb in him. Froome will be a footnote in the French papers now, they'll act as if Riblon's won the Tour!
Knew there was a reason I brought in Gadret...
Remember, you will only get the 5's for AG2R riders if they finish the stage, I can see alot of time outs today
Rogers up to 8th on GC Ghedebrav...
3,4,6,7 in my purist team
4,7,9,10,12 standard.
Good work on purist Stumps!
My std was as good as I could've hoped, 4,5,7,9,19 with only Schleck failing and no penalties.
Tomorrow might be tougher to call though, a lot of guys will want to make the breakaway.
Aye, only Ten Dam from my gc boys let me down with my standard but i've got a 20 pointer to take off as well.
Well the first stage this year I actually got to watch live and managed to get 1,4,7 and 10
Awesome! Riblon will get you a bucketload of points today.
4,7,9,10 at least none of the riders i was pondering got in the top 20
.....and Froome fakes a bad day again in the mountains to shake off the accusations that he is a doper!
Not too good a day for me 4,7,9,11 plus schleck for the mountain points and 1/2/3 on the overall Froome still in poker dots. maybe not soooo bad but have to use a transfer for Bonnet and Navarro's a flop so probably take him out. penalties on the final day it will be.
umm from what i've seen he didn't get any kom points!?
running a comp at work and got asked to pick some people for my colleagues team earlier. Told her to put Riblon in her team but then didn't listen to my advice
Gradually starting to slip down the table, not sure whether to stick with Rolland now?
He had a go today and then gave up so may be keen tomorrow.
Nieve v Riblon for the dots could be a decent battle.
Fingers crossed. I'm a closet Aussie for the next three days.
My bad missed the 6 or 7 incognito riders first time up the Alpe who made up nos 4-9
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