[Ghedebrav]

I have never watched this race. Usually I’m taking a break from cycling, on holiday or whatever. Is it usually any good? I’ve had a look at the profiles and there seems to be one crazy stage (the penultimate one), another standard high mountain stage, an ITT and the rest largely flat-to-punchy.

Apart from the aforementioned crazy stage, I can’t much that makes me think ‘yeah, I’ll try to catch a bit of that’. What is the atmosphere like? Should it be a WT race (the number of really good Polish riders at the moment suggest that maybe it should)?

Oh yeah, and when does it open!? 😀

Topic

[ray silvester]

To be fair to enrique I
To be fair to enrique I ‘Zeroed’ as well with my purists although they only exist to try and get FSUCI ranking pts on stages 5/6/7

[Joelsim]

Well I’m 13th with 75 points
Well I’m 13th with 75 points so it should be easy to climb.

[enrique]

Joelsim wrote:I’m impressed

Joelsim wrote:

I’m impressed enrique.

Nil point.

Sprint stage.

A team full of sprinters.

Lol.

F*%&#@g awesome, wasn’t it?… :W Sometimes I wonder why I bother to even put a team together. Might as well have started the competition on Stage 2… I hate this game… sometimes… :W

[Twybaydos]

Joelsim wrote:I’m impressed

Joelsim wrote:

I’m impressed enrique.

Nil point.

Sprint stage.

A team full of sprinters.

Lol.

Ovechkin and Hansen are more TT riders in fairness.

[Joelsim]

I’m impressed enrique.
Nil
I’m impressed enrique.

Nil point.

Sprint stage.

A team full of sprinters.

Lol.

[Joelsim]

Well that’s put a few
Well that’s put a few potential GC contenders out already including my £2.50 EW bet on Siutsou.

[Stumps]

Some massive losers today,
Some massive losers today, Swift 11 mins down, Aru 10+ and Matthews nearly 8.

[Joelsim]

1,5,14 for me
1,5,14 for me

[Twybaydos]

2,5,6,14 so far. I think a
2,5,6,14 so far. I think a few of the big sprinters took the day off today

[Joelsim]

It’s not going to be a very
It’s not going to be a very high scoring stage!

[debbieg]

Think that was Mezgec into
Think that was Mezgec into the barriers in the final sprint 🙁
Win for AG2R

[debbieg]

Amazing weather conditions in
Amazing weather conditions in Poland – the hailstorm was spectacular – viewing on Eurosport and there’s been lots of crashes so far due to fallen trees and debris in the road !

[Joelsim]

Armee and Bonifazio have
Armee and Bonifazio have abandoned already

[Twybaydos]

Standard – Taking a lay
Standard – Taking a lay against Swift, Modolo and Thor

Matthews, Lobato, Haller, Mezgec, Maes, Bos, Dabkowski, Maikin, Guarneri

Purist – no idea, maes and guarneri out for Jungels and Cunego. Cunego can’t flat TT, this is silly.

Bum – Barry Markus started for Belkin instead on Graeme Brown, Plugge will lose patience with Bos after the first two stages and set the team up for Barry.

[enrique]

Joelsim wrote:… It doesn’t

Joelsim wrote:

… It doesn’t make any sense to do scores on intermediate sprints…

ray silvester wrote:

Any more luck involved than picking someone in the break?…

Just so we’re clear, I’m not against scoring the IMS jersey at all, no, no, no… I just wish it didn’t come at the expense of scoring the ‘true’ Points jersey… I’m ok with scoring with both… I just wish we didn’t ‘ignore’ the ‘true’ Points jersey at will or at the game manager’s discretion when the ‘Points’ jersey is awarded by the race organizers, there’s a trip to the Podium invloved and I consider it a prestigious jersey to earn and wear… Why should it be ‘ignored’ by the game at the game manager’s discretion?… 😕 I think it’s prudent to score it and then, at the game manager’s discretion, add the IMS jersey if it’s offered… I see it as a way of being consistent throughout all competitions… 😕

[Author]

Replies