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what a drama this last stage
i was thinking it would be safe to dump thomas
and take kittel causse thomas would get onley 8/9 points
for his rankings in GC and sprint GC
now this welsh lad has been scoring lots of points on the intermediate sprints
i know its a "what if" but at first i was planning to take fenn and leave thomas now i'm onley 8th and otherwise i would have had my first win:(
164 points for this stage( my best score for the week) and 4 Badges overall
Better than last year already
So glad i can never pick my transfers straight away and went for Cantwell over Demare!! come on Qatar
My biggest disappointment, although I never picked him was Boy Van Poppel....after his Tour of Britain showing, I was sure he could do something
Foolishly included him in my Purist team (along with fellow-misfirers Gerrans, Tanner and EBH). After Greipel, my second best Purist points-scorer was Jordan Kerby (3.0m)!
He was in my purist team too, along with EBH and Gerrans, at least Gerrans won a stage. Im more disappointed with Schleck and Kittel from my purist team, as EBH at least contested a few sprints and had stage 2 gone differently would have gone for the overall
Put Cantwell in my team last night then re-did my team and forgot to keep him so missed out on my Lanterne Rouge badge AGAIN. Also had two of the top three AGAIN and what were Demare, Kittel and VonHoff doing not scoring?!
32nd overall; I'll live with that. Four badges achieved (KoM, Sprinter, Lanterne Rouge and Full House) and bloody close to a couple of others (Podium and High Stage Score).
Also numero uno in the North West
I had a crap last stage, ive lost 85 points over the last 2 stages due transfers Ive made
So it was Gerrans for Gilbert on stage 5 and then for today I brought in Ferrari and Kittel in for Gilbert and Thomas! Oh I also sat debating on Kittel or Renshaw and picked the wrong one
I didnt do well overall but it would have bumped me over 500 points
Think I will just put it down to a bad tour
Well, I thought I was going to have a crap last stage and I got 189 and shot up to 8th. Picking Renshaw paid off and Cantwell came last! Two Lanterne Rouge's in one race!! If I hadn't swapped Howson for Pietropolli the night before Howson finally went on a break and I'd chosen Jon over Gorka I could have been top 3, but never mind!! Top 10 ain't bad for a start
With that, I'm off to finish the scores. Grab some munch and hit the hay again. I'll be back later to see that everything is ok with the scores and no-body is having a grump at me
Take it easy and get out on the bike, see you at the Tour of Qatar.....
Final GC
1 Tom Jelte SLAGTER
2 Javier MORENO BAZAN
3 Geraint THOMAS
4 Jon IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI
5 Ben HERMANS
6 Gorka IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI
7 Daniele PIETROPOLLI
8 Wilco KELDERMAN
9 Tiago MACHADO
10 Jussi VEIKKANEN
Finish Line top 10
1 André GREIPEL
2 Mark RENSHAW
3 Edvald BOASSON HAGEN
4 Matthew Harley GOSS
5 Tyler FARRAR
6 Geraint THOMAS
7 Klaas LODEWYCK
8 Barry MARKUS
9 Yauheni HUTAROVICH
10 Kenny Robert VAN HUMMEL
Sprints
1st Jayco Sprint : Geraint Thomas (GBR) - SKY, Wilco Kelderman (NED) - BLA, Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) - SKY
2nd Jayco Sprint : Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) - SKY, Juan Jose Lobato (ESP) - EUS, Geraint Thomas (GBR) - SKY
KoM
KOM, lap 10: Garikoitz Bravo (ESP) - EUS, Tomasz Marczynski (POL) - VCD, Alan Marangoni (ITA) - CAN
KOM, lap 15: Martin Kohler (SUI) - BMC, Jordan Kerby (AUS) - UNA, Blel Kadri (FRA) - ALM