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Tour of California stage 2
What are we expecting today then? I had a very sprint-biased team yesterday which obviously didn't work out too well, so have taken a ten-point hit, but still not really much of an idea who will do well.
Brought in Westra, and Tejay, and someone I didn't expect to go for all season - Andy Schleck - who looked fairly comfortable and interested yesterday.
Still have 4 sprinters though, so won't be a good day - expecting to lose my 2nd place in the Forum Scorum's league tonight! (And then take it back tomorrow with an 80-point solo win from Wauters in the Giro. Maybe.)
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you get the impression that it had to be an american based winner and they put that stage in to prove it.
Ridiculous place / time to hold such a stage.
How come Matthews has been removed?
2,5,8, normal service restored form me after a good first stage. I did the classic - must get an expensive rider in- mistake, was gonna go deignan but took zabriskie instead... someone shoot me! i was vaguely aware of acevedo, but didnt get close to choosing him so cant kick myself too much. wont forget him now though!!
Because I couldn't find him listed in the finish results, lots of places have him down as DNF, but on the UCI results, he isn't even there.
Will go double check now
Ok, he'll go back in, he's appeared overnight
Points will be done at some time during the night, I can't keep my eyes open, so 40 winks time
Tejay van Garderen (BMC)
Gianni Meersman (OPQ)
Matthew Busche (RSN)
Kris Boeckmans (VCD)
Gavin Mannion (BLS)
Sylvain Chavanel (OPQ)
John Murphy (UHC)
Chris Butler (CHA)
Francisco Perez Mancebo (FHE)
Here's my team. Go Sylvain !!!
19k left to go and gap is steady at 3mins.
JJ Haedo has abandoned, dont think that will affect to many.
Apart from Chavanal I think I've got 4/5 could score ok today, but no TJ.
Bit late, but my team for today:
Sagan
Westra
Van Garderen
Zubeldia
Rogers
Mancebo
Schleck
Konig
Deignan
Chavanel + 1 other caught.
Sagan and Gilbert have blown on the final climb along with 3/4 of the peloton
And Westra
Westra has blown too! this is bad for both my teams, oh dear
Race in pieces. Schleck, Gilbert and Westra out the back
Deignan attacks! Bit early I think.
I didn't pay enough attention to this stage as I expected 1,3,4,5 to all be sprints
A Deignan win would be good for my team, but I think he will be caught.
Deignan is gonna ruin me anyway.....Ive given up on this race now, today has been nothing short of a disaster for me!
Apart from picking the winner TER......
1 Acevedo
2 TJVG
3 Deignan
1,2,3 so far for me.
There will be ALOT of DNF's today. and timed out riders.....
Deignan Busche Mancebo and Meyer for me. OK I think.
This is a brutal finish. It hurts just watching it.
your gc is now
Acevedo
TJ
Deignan
Frank
Rogers
Mancebo
Haga
Busche
Craddock
Meyer.
1, 3, 20. Not bad considering I missed deadline.
Yeh 1 and 8 for standard, I can't believe I chose not to bring in Tejay
1,2,8 for purist should be ok, considering I have Sagan, Meersman and Matthews for the next 3 days as well as the top 2 in GC, and should be solid in the TT.
Still think no Deignan could cost me
1,2,5,8,13,18
Probably not worth the 40 point penalty...
1,2 and 8 i think for mancebo from the top 10.
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