Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

Without crunching the numbers, I don't think my position has changed in relation to Wig_Billy. Sammy winning and 2nd in GC is not that different points wise from Cunego 5th today, 8th GC and Matrin 8th today and 4th GC.

However, given the performance of Sammy, Cunego, Martin, Uran and Gavazzi, both of us should of increased our lead over the other teams.

So unless major accident or disaster strikes, the only risk to Wig_Billy losing is LuLu winning the stage tomorrow in a breakaway. Because Sammy, Cunego, Martin & a dozen other riders are not going to let each other out of their sight.

My chance of losing 2nd place is for a breakaway without LuLu taking the stage. And given LuLu performance so far, the second is far more likely.

What a pile of horse shit this has been!!! Major learning curve for me.......leave the purist game alone i suck without transfers!

So close yet so far, LuLu out front with a minute lead only to get caught. Hopefully I keep 2nd, congratulations to Wig_Billy

Thanks TERatcliffe26 for doing this.

Thanks for a great game. ShuddA picked Albasini

Thanks TERatcliffe26 for organising this and the scoring, I for on appreciate it.

Anyone up for KBC Driedaagse van De Panne - Koksijde the startlist if full of talent

Thanks for the time taken on sorting this game, appreciated.

Woohoo, I could get used to this winning malarkey , & thanks again for organising this TER.

Mountains:
1 062 ALBASINI, Michael GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM 25 Suiza
2 222 DELAPLACE, Anthony SAUR - SOJASUN 21 Francia
3 094 DUGGAN, Timothy LIQUIGAS- CANNONDALE 19
Estados Unidos de América
4 004 GASTAUER, Ben AG2R-LA MONDIALE 17 Luxemburgo
5 051 MARTIN, Dan GARMIN - BARRACUDA 16 Irlanda
6 151 WIGGINS, Bradley SKY PROCYCLING 12 Reino Unido
7 121 LEIPHEIMER, Levi OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 10 Estados Unidos de América
8 202 EDET, Nicolas COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE 10
Francia
9 056 DANIELSON, Tom GARMIN - BARRACUDA 8 Estados Unidos de América
10 194 PIEDRA, Antonio CAJA RURAL 6 España
11 081 CUNEGO, Damiano LAMPRE - ISD 6 Italia

Now Montana Carrot is down to 3 star riders like everybody else as TJVG climbs off the bike after the 2nd of the 4 climbs today.

All the riders below either didn't start or abandoned!

de Haes
Gaetan Bille LOT
Damauseau
Bessy
Paolo Tiralongo
Julian Dean
Frantisek Rabon
Grischa Niermann
Daniel Navarro
John Horrac

http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,24917_7615565,00.html

Those who jumped off, still might start tomorrow

Cycling news have these results

judges have given the following as stage result:-
1 Janez Brajkovic
2 Michal Golas
3 Matteo Carrara
4 Mikael Cherel
5 Chris Anker Sörensen
6 Christian Vande Velde
7 Thomas Rohregger
8 Johann Tschopp
9 Steven Kruijswijk
10 Romain Bardet
11 Timofey Kritskiy
12 Petr Ignatenko
13 Dario Cataldo
14 Adrián Palomares Villaplana
15 Daryl Impey
16 Levi Leipheimer
17 Michael Albasin
19 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
20 David Arroyo Duran

With the GC looking like this:-

1 Michael Albasini (Swi) GreenEdge Cycling Team
2 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Barracuda
3 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
4 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team
5 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat
6 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Barracuda
7 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto
8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) RadioShack-Nissan
9 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD
10 Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin-Barracuda

They didn't do the cat 1s apparently

I know i'm not playing this, but i thought there were no points or times handed out today, the way they finished on the road was just that and everything else about the stage was cancelled?

I'm pretty sure the stage should not have gone ahead considering these pictures http://www.steephill.tv/volta-a-catalunya/ and that is why this

"There was still some conjecture that riders who abandoned Wednesday would be allowed to take the start Thursday.

“We’re in the dark as to whether they could start tomorrow."

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/03/news/chaos-at-catalunya-nearly-40...

Quote:

Originally scheduled to be held over 210.9 km (131.0 mi) from La Vall d'en Bas to Port Ainé,[22] the stage was shortened to 154.2 km (95.8 mi) due to snow on the hors-categorie climbs of the Port del Cantó and the finish at Port Ainé. As such, both climbs were removed from the itinerary, and the stage finish was moved to Canturri. It was later announced that the stage would not count towards the general classification following the decision to shorten the stage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Volta_a_Catalunya#Stage_3

Just thought i would add, if something like this happened in the game outwith this forum version, there would be NO points for todays stage

I don't care what you do with points, even though all I would get was like 2 or 3 points for 18th. Whatever's fair.

Did you see the pictures of the team cars and buses stuck at the finish??

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11426/Chaos-in-Catalunya-as-snow-tempo...