[TERatcliffe26]

Wll I really wasnt sure what to do today so ive actually gone risky

Davis
Mollema (in for Swift)
Henao (in for viviani)
JVDB (in for Breschel)

Bouhanni
Quintana (in for florencio)
Talansky
Terpstra
Machado

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[TERatcliffe26]

I think ive lost the plot
I think ive lost the plot :/ 😐

[Alan Tullett]

1,2,3 and Talansky and
1,2,3 and Talansky and Moreno. 165 and 8= on the stage. Valverde is really doing the business for me. Won stage 17 with him in TdF (started using the Bryton I won for that now – not bad at all although only just learning how to use it), now dug me out of a hole today after messing up yesterday (only had Swift and not a lot else).

A real race today, good to see Contador’s aggression (let’s hope it’s clean aggression). Froome struggling but hung on. Cobo lost a lot of time, looks like Valverde is the leader now as I don’t think he was just stage hunting today. Purito well in the mix. Not sure Froome will win this one though, reckon it’s between the 3 Spaniards.

[Wig_Billy]

2-3-4 for the second stage in
2-3-4 for the second stage in a row… 😕

[TheBigMong]

OK, they found Machado (and
OK, they found Machado (and 50 other riders.) He finished in 66th today, 3:22 down.

http://www.lavuelta.com/12/en/resultados/index.html?e=3

[rcorbin]

Had Contador, Froome, j rod
Had Contador, Froome, j rod and inxtausti so think I did okay…

[drheaton]

Gkam84 wrote:drheaton

Gkam84 wrote:

drheaton wrote:

Bah, I thought Valverde might win today but figured he wouldn’t score tomorrow, at least I have Froome, Contador and Rodriguez so should do ok today.

You might regret not having him today

Winner, 1st in GC, 2nd in points and also got the Combat number ;)

You may be right but I’m playing the long game so I picked riders for both today and tomorrow. If I picked Valverde I wouldn’t have been able to afford all three of Contador, Froome and Rodriguez and the points lost on one of those today and tomorrow vs the potential points gain from Valverde (and maybe Anton over Henao) was worth it in my opinion. I still think Valverde may struggle tomorrow and I’ll come out on top, maybe 😕
And Valverde was always going to be a risk and I’ve learned this year that generally, risks don’t pay off.

Anyway, that’s the fun of this game, until we’ve run all the stages everything can still change.

[TheBigMong]

Yeah, I’m concerned about
Yeah, I’m concerned about Machado too… 149 riders listed on the Vuelta site, and he ain’t among ’em. The Withdrawals list only has Gasparotto.

I wonder if he got lost along the way today?

[TERatcliffe26]

well i took a risk and it
well i took a risk and it failed….nevrmind!

[Gkam84]

Yeah, I have De Gendt is both
Yeah, I have De Gendt is both my teams, So expect him to be in a break now 😉

[chrisdstripes]

Oh yeah – combativity doesn’t
Oh yeah – combativity doesn’t score. I hadn’t noticed that either, never mind. I had Valverde but not a lot else (Mollema, Anton). However, there were a number of interesting losses…
De Gendt – lost 2:07
Quintana lost 2:57
Van Den Broek lost 3:23

[Gkam84]

Oh yeah, got a bit
Oh yeah, got a bit confused

Winner, 1st in GC and Points, 2nd in KoM

But just looking, Combat doesn’t score? 😕

So around 60 points

[chrisdstripes]

Wonder what happened to
Wonder what happened to Machado? A lot of us had him in, but the top 140 or so are now confirmed, and he ain’t among them… 😕

[chrisdstripes]

Gkam84 wrote:drheaton

Gkam84 wrote:

drheaton wrote:

Bah, I thought Valverde might win today but figured he wouldn’t score tomorrow, at least I have Froome, Contador and Rodriguez so should do ok today.

You might regret not having him today

Winner, 1st in GC, 2nd in points and also got the Combat number ;)

Yep, and second in KOM!

[Gkam84]

drheaton wrote:Bah, I thought

drheaton wrote:

Bah, I thought Valverde might win today but figured he wouldn’t score tomorrow, at least I have Froome, Contador and Rodriguez so should do ok today.

You might regret not having him today

Winner, 1st in GC, 2nd in points and also got the Combat number 😉

[Gkam84]

Top 10
Top 10 GC

Valverde
Intxausti
J-Rod
Froome
Contado
Mollema
Gesink
Uran
Moreno
Anton

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