[Philip Unwin]

After about 20k
Solo breakaway
Laborie (BSE) 7’30”

Topic

[chiv30]

Well I’ve taken a peek at
Well I’ve taken a peek at your team vs mine and I have Chavanel and Costa different I think but other than that the big name sprinters are mainly the same ….interesting indeed for the end results 🙂

[chrisdstripes]

chiv30 wrote:chrisdstripes

chiv30 wrote:

chrisdstripes wrote:

I went sprinty with both teams, didn’t think it would be worth picking gc contenders in purist if the sprinters nail the first three stages…

Surely that’s gonna depend on if your sprinters snaffle enough points to see you through the mountains which I can’t see happening , hence I’ve gone down the sprint/puncheurs route with the majority of the team should be interesting to compare teams and placing at the end of the race :)

Yeah, will be interesting to compare at the end! My purist team came 9th on stage one so its a good start. Needs Kristoff to come to the party today tho.

I have a feeling the “mountains” are actually not really mountains at all, and that people like Degenkolb and Meersman might be in the reckoning for most of the stages. Plus to be honest if I was going to pick GC contenders there are just so many to choose from that I thought it was safer to pick sprinters. If it gets windy today/tomorrow it could totally backfire!

[rjl]

Sorry TERatcliffe26! I
Sorry TERatcliffe26! I usually see the standings in Biciclismo and Soupe was dissapeared 😀 😀
http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=69920
Sorry again.

[TERatcliffe26]

rjl wrote:There’s a mistake

rjl wrote:

There’s a mistake with the standings. I had Von Hoff in my team, he’s been the last man today but he doesn’t have 10 points!!

Soupe was the last man home

[rjl]

There’s a mistake with the
There’s a mistake with the standings. I had Von Hoff in my team, he’s been the last man today but he doesn’t have 10 points!!

[chiv30]

chrisdstripes wrote:I went

chrisdstripes wrote:

I went sprinty with both teams, didn’t think it would be worth picking gc contenders in purist if the sprinters nail the first three stages…

Surely that’s gonna depend on if your sprinters snaffle enough points to see you through the mountains which I can’t see happening , hence I’ve gone down the sprint/puncheurs route with the majority of the team should be interesting to compare teams and placing at the end of the race 🙂

[TERatcliffe26]

Gkam84 wrote:I’ll cover you

Gkam84 wrote:

I’ll cover you tomorrow if you want Ter, I’m only sitting in the workshop sorting things out and I’ll be trying to get the womens races set up

Fine by me

[Gkam84]

I’ll cover you tomorrow if
I’ll cover you tomorrow if you want Ter, I’m only sitting in the workshop sorting things out and I’ll be trying to get the womens races set up

[TERatcliffe26]

Scores are done…
Now the
Scores are done…

Now the bad news is, the scores wont be as up until about 8.30 tomorrow, thursday and friday, as im at work until 8 those days.

[Gkam84]

1 Nacer
1 Nacer BOUHANNI FRA FDJ 24 3:53:11
2 John DEGENKOLB GER GIA 25 +0
3 Gianni MEERSMAN BEL OPQ 29 +0
4 Jose Joaquin ROJAS GIL ESP MOV 29 +0
5 Tyler FARRAR USA GRS 30 +0
6 Bryan COQUARD FRA EUC 22 +0
7 Luca WACKERMANN ITA LAM 22 +0
8 Fabio FELLINE ITA TFR 24 +0
9 Fabio SABATINI ITA CAN 29 +0
10 Francesco GAVAZZI ITA AST 30 +0
11 Mathew HAYMAN AUS OGE 36 +0
12 Cyril LEMOINE FRA COF 31 +0
13 Elia FAVILLI ITA LAM 25 +0
14 Romain ZINGLE BEL COF 27 +0
15 Gert STEEGMANS BEL OPQ 34 +0
16 Geraint THOMAS GBR SKY 28 +0
17 Greg VAN AVERMAET BEL BMC 29 +0
18 Nikolay TRUSOV RUS TCS 29 +0
19 Alexander KRISTOFF NOR KAT 27 +0
20 Romain FEILLU FRA BSE 30 +0

[Wig_Billy]

TERatcliffe26

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

1,2,4,6,19….wont be very good, but hey ho

1,2,6 or purist, even worse

You need to stop being so self-deprecating.

[TERatcliffe26]

1,2,4,6,19….wont be very
1,2,4,6,19….wont be very good, but hey ho

1,2,6 or purist, even worse

[chrisdstripes]

TERatcliffe26 wrote:drheaton

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

drheaton wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Philip Unwin wrote:

Abandoned
van Garderen

Good job I took him out of my purist team….

Any reason why? Or will he end up in Tirreno on Wednesday :?

He shouldn’t be allowed in TA if he already started an overlapping race, you’re generally not allowed to start one then start another while the first is still running.

That is true however you can apply for dispensation, I know its happened before, he has withdrawn with stomach issues, so they could say he is over them by tuesday and apply for permission to race?

That’s right, I remember cav riding tour of Britain a couple of years back after dropping out of the vuelta…

[chrisdstripes]

I went sprinty with both
I went sprinty with both teams, didn’t think it would be worth picking gc contenders in purist if the sprinters nail the first three stages…

[Philip Unwin]

2nd sprint
1 Meersman
2 Van
2nd sprint
1 Meersman
2 Van Avermaet
3 Chavanel
30k to go

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