Tour de Romandie - Stage 4

88 i think.... Dropping Pinot and taking a penalty try to squeeze in Froome

96 for me with Hoogerland being my only non scorer. My purist team just lost 3 riders

139 purist and 110 standard with 10 penalty points as well.

Haha, 87th place on today's stage because of my 10 penalty points. Now I've 2 riders not in the ITT and their combined value is 6. More penalty points shall be incurred tomorrow, so I'll be lucky if I hold onto this race.

Average-ish, I think. Points mostly from Burghardt, Froome and Rui Costa.

Talansky left behind a little today; despite his TT skills will be dropping him for Martin tomorrow.

My big question is whether Pinot will perform in the TT, or should I take a hit on the penalty points and drop him for Kelderman, who is a mere second behind him in GC and has a better TT record?

Rubbish for me, gonna do the scores now

1,3,5,6,7,18....

Thank you Mr.Spilak for rewarding my faith in you....

2, 3, 4, 12 today. Anxious wait ahead now!

1 Simon SPILAK
2 Christopher FROOME
3 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA
4 Alejandro VALVERDE BELMONTE
5 Wilco KELDERMAN
6 Carlos Alberto BETANCUR GOMEZ
7 Marcel WYSS
8 Jean-Christophe PERAUD
9 Robert KISERLOVSKI
10 Igor ANTON HERNANDEZ

1,2,3,7 and Vichot for my purists

1 Spilak
2 Froome
3 Costa
4 Valverde
5 Kelderman

Bought in the top 3 overnight

Gutted I couldn't squeeze Brandle in, but super happy that Burghardt is scooping up all the points for me today

Km 119.5, 1er sprint PMU:

1er Burghardt , 6pts.
2e Vichot, 3.
3e Brändle , 1.

Also abandoned - Rasch, Bookwalter, Sabatini, Mori and Lancaster.

Km 89, GPM 1ère cat, Col de la Croix:

1er Burghardt , 12pts.
2e Vichot, 8.
3e Dumoulin, 6.
4e Brändle, 4.
5e Garate , 2

Off to the cinema - hoping to come out to discover a marvellous Brajkovic solo victory!

According to radsport Vandewalle (OPQ) and Gavazzi (AST) have also abandoned

More DNFs: Florencio, Cavendish, Meersman, Navardauskas, Sutton,Capecchi, Viviani, Pineau (?), Marcato and Vanendert.

Cavendish and Meersman abandoned

Lead 5.50 Nobody chasing at the moment

Col des Mosses
1. Burghardt
2. Brandle
3. Vichot

GPM 1ère cat, Col des Mosses:

1er Burghardt, 12pts.
2e Brändle, 8.
3e Vichot, 6.
4e Dumoulin, 4.
5e Bravo, 2.

Radsport has been giving out dodgy info the lead group IAM rider is not Reichenbach but Brandle. 4min lead

Lead now 2.38

The second climb of Col de la Croix has been taken out of the race. After Pas de Morgins, the race will go to the finish (Les Diablerets) via Aigle and Le Sepey.

Dumoulin (ARG)
Reichenbach (IAM)
Vichot (FDJ)
Burghardt (BMC)
have a lead of 1min

Ferrari, Goss, Rujano and Da Haes are all DNS

Uphill finished confirmed. Betancur or Pinot for me.