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Tour of Beijing Stage 1
WELL.....here we are, the last race of the season.
This year, been busy with the background of the game, so I haven't been sitting on the forum keeping stage update's going for those who may not get to watch it.
Stage one has just started. It goes live on Eurosport at 7.45am, I might put some update's in before that.
How do you think the whole race is going to play out, I don't see Martin (Tony) taking the win this year 
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Crap, I was travelling yesterday and forgot to submit a team... Oh well!
Wrong Argos(Veelers instead of Mezgec)
Wrong OPQS(Stybar instead of Maes/Petacchi)
Other than that pretty happy with 80 pts considering I set up for stage 2 anyway.....Thor winning a day early!!
I'll probably make my changes for stage 2 now due to the start times and go Matthews and Wauters in for Viviani and Ferrari.
Two winners today
1 Dave's Dawdlers davidh 155
1= ProVelo ricycle 155
That's a pleasant surprise - my first stage victory! I've missed a few races/stages recently (e.g. Binche-Chimay-Binche which I'd never heard of), but I'm glad I remembered to put a team in for Beijing.
2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 20 could've been better but oh well. knew not picking hushovd would bite me!
Only having a BMC rider in the squad stopped me from getting a flat zero in my purist! It's actually pretty tricky to pick a non-comedy team and get no points.
1 Thor Hushovd
2 Luka Mezgec
3 Nikolas Maes
4 Alessandro Petacchi
5 Michael Matthews
6 Enrique Sanz
7 Rüdiger Selig
8 Nacer Bouhanni
9 Jonas Vangenechten
10 Roberto Ferrari
11 Alexey Tsatevitch
12 Steele Von Hoff
13 Yauheni Hutarovich
14 Kenny Van Hummel
15 Wouter Mol
16 Chan Jang
17 Elia Viviani
18 Marco Haller
19 Matti Breschel
20 Juan Jose Lobato
153 Davide Vigano
not very good for me, hopefully saving all my luck for the final Autumn classic race!
1,2,8,17,20
Irritatingly, dropped Sanz for Cimolai (who was waaaay off the pace) but otherwise fairly happy. Doubt I'll make any changes tomorrow; save the transfers for the lumpier bits.
Should that be Mezgec in 2nd ? If so 1,2,5 for me standard
Bah, 1,4,8, wrong Katusha sprinter, wrong Lotto sprinter and wrong Argos sprinter! Thor in purists tho', thats my main priority...
I'm on the scores today because TER has some work to be done.
I'm off to the Dr's just now, will update scores on my return
Official
Hushovd
Mezec
Maes
Petacchi
Matthews
Sanz
Selig
Bouhanni
Van Genechten
Ferrari
Hushovd
Mezec
Maes
Petacchi
Mathews
I think
I went
Elia Viviani
Nacer Bouhanni
Alessandro Petacchi
Luka Mezgec
Yauheni Hutarovich
Michael Matthews
Takashi Miyazawa
Gorka Verdugo
Marc Goos
standard
Matthews
Viviani
Bouhani
Merger
Von hoff
Hutarovich
miazawa
Winden
Nishizono
yes msn in the break
Not got Eurosport, not to worry
They are broadcasting live on Youtube every day
http://www.youtube.com/TourofBeijing
From what I understand its P&P doing comms
Right, its live on Eurosport and there should be feed's for those without.
Gap at 2.10 with around 70km to go
Sprint 2 114km
1.Wauters (VCD)
2.Cordeel (LTB)
3.Vigano (LAM)
4.Nishizono (CSS).
Gap +3.20
No worries, I was waiting for someone else to waken up. I was up all night watching the F1 and Moto GP, so thought I might aswell report on the stage
With all these classics n one day races. I'd forgotten about kom and sprint points
Cheers for the updates Gkam
100km down, gap sitting at 5.10 now. Next sprint at 86km to go.
Going live in 15 minutes on Eurosport
90km down 100km to go. Cannondale are hammering on the front to bring the gap down.
Its now sitting at 5.35
KOM result 71.5km
1.Cordeel (LTB)
2.Wauters (VCD)
3.Vigano (LAM)
4.Nishizono (CSS)
Gap +7.10
The gap is slowly coming back, 53km's in and down to +7.25
Loving the tour's official twitter
Km 50 of 190.5km. Wauters (VCD), Vigano (LAM), Cordeel (LTB), Nishizono (CSS). Gap +8.41. No signs of a panda yet for @DanMartin86 #ToB2013
First sprint point at 39km
1. Vigano (LAM)
2. Cordeel (LTB)
3. Wauters (VCD)
4. Nishizono (CSS)
Gap +8.50.
Crap, the break is offski today.
22km in and its at 8.30
15km gone. Wauters (VCD), Vigano (LAM), Cordell (LTB), Nishizono (CSS). with a gap of 5 minutes
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