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Tour of Poland stage 5

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  • August 7, 2014 at 8:33 am #22091
    chrisdstripes

    Weirdly inconsistent start times for the stages this week – yesterday started over 3 hours earlier than today! Its good though, means I can watch it after work (starts 1pm UK time, finish approx 5:45).

    Most of the stage is in Slovakia so I picked Peter Velits as well as three Poles, and the rest seems a bit random too. I don’t think the climbs are that steep, so it really is unpredictable today!

    Majka
    Marczynski
    Niemiec
    P Velits
    Arredondo
    Weening
    Zakarin
    Ignatenko
    Vakoc
    (no pens, but used all my transfers)

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  • August 8, 2014 at 7:26 am #808195
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    chrisdstripes

    enrique wrote:It’s sad and

    enrique wrote:
    It’s sad and confusing… and kind of an irrelevant standing mainly compared to the actual ‘Points’ compeition… Michael Matthews has 47 points in the Points competition and well, Chris says Krizek has 11 on the ‘Most Aggressive’ classification… I still don’t understand why they chose to ignore the actual points competition and instead decided to score this other jersey… It makes so little sense to me… I hope they change their mind next year and if only always score the Points competition and add other ones at will…

    Nah, its better as it is – the more ways for cheap guys to score, the better.

    August 8, 2014 at 7:14 am #808193
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    silas chime

    Just one point short of only
    Just one point short of only my second ever stage win ~X(

    Giro 2013 stage 18 was my last one :”(

    August 7, 2014 at 5:01 pm #808191
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    enrique

    Joelsim wrote:I wish I could

    Joelsim wrote:
    I wish I could work out how the sprint competition works or how points are scored, or how I can see who is in which position at the start and the end of the day. But alas.

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    Its called the “most aggressive rider” classification… Krizek leads…

    Joelsim wrote:
    … Why can’t they just score the points on the points classification…
    It’s sad and confusing… and kind of an irrelevant standing mainly compared to the actual ‘Points’ compeition… Michael Matthews has 47 points in the Points competition and well, Chris says Krizek has 11 on the ‘Most Aggressive’ classification… I still don’t understand why they chose to ignore the actual points competition and instead decided to score this other jersey… It makes so little sense to me… I hope they change their mind next year and if only always score the Points competition and add other ones at will…

    August 7, 2014 at 4:59 pm #808189
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    simon F

    Is there any reason why I
    Is there any reason why I can’t see “all riders” in the filter drop-down, or am I the only one? I can only see “in startlist” and “popular riders”.

    August 7, 2014 at 4:56 pm #808187
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    Joelsim

    1,5,7,13,17.
    Damn!
    1,5,7,13,17.

    Damn!

    August 7, 2014 at 4:40 pm #808185
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    Twybaydos

    1,3,5,6,7 plus Vakoc is
    1,3,5,6,7 plus Vakoc is second in GC, less 20 pens.

    Annoying I took Haller out for Rebellin and a pen

    August 7, 2014 at 1:42 pm #808183
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    Joelsim

    chrisdstripes wrote:Joelsim

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:

    I wish I could work out how the sprint competition works or how points are scored, or how I can see who is in which position at the start and the end of the day. But alas.

    Its called the “most aggressive rider” classification for some reason – they did the same last year. I’ve been looking at it on CN each day, its underneath the mountains standings – http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-pologne-2014/stage-4/results

    There are 2 sprints today and 1 tomorrow, 3,2,1 for the first three – Krizek leads on 11, with Vakoc and Taciak on 6.

    Crazy. Why can’t they just score the points on the points classification. It’s a nonsense.

    August 7, 2014 at 12:18 pm #808181
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    chrisdstripes

    Joelsim wrote:
    I wish I could

    Joelsim wrote:

    I wish I could work out how the sprint competition works or how points are scored, or how I can see who is in which position at the start and the end of the day. But alas.

    Its called the “most aggressive rider” classification for some reason – they did the same last year. I’ve been looking at it on CN each day, its underneath the mountains standings – http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-pologne-2014/stage-4/results

    There are 2 sprints today and 1 tomorrow, 3,2,1 for the first three – Krizek leads on 11, with Vakoc and Taciak on 6.

    August 7, 2014 at 12:06 pm #808179
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    chrisdstripes

    Yeah, Mezgec out – quite a
    Yeah, Mezgec out – quite a few of the sprinters are listed to start Eneco on Monday so wouldn’t be surprised if a few more don’t start tomorrow.

    August 7, 2014 at 11:49 am #808177
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    Joelsim

    Mine for today.
    Rafal Majka
    Mine for today.

    Rafal Majka (TSB)
    Julian David Arredondo (TFR)
    Davide Formolo (CAD)
    Ilnur Zakarin (RVL)
    Peter Velits (BMC)
    Sebastian Henao (SKY)
    Fabio Silvestre (TFR)
    Warren Barguil (GSH)
    Konrad Dabkowski (POL)

    Majka, Formolo, Henao and Bargui have to make time up today ahead of the TT. Zakarin is a good, cheap climber, Velits is Slovak and a good TTer so if he can keep in touch then he will be in with a shout of the overall. And Arredondo is so far back he is just going for stages today and tmw.

    August 7, 2014 at 11:45 am #808175
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    Joelsim

    Twybaydos wrote:Mezgec has

    Twybaydos wrote:
    Mezgec has pulled out. I didn’t think about Peter Velits being Slovak when I picked my team last night. 7 transfers 2 pens

    Samu Sanchez
    Majka
    Formolo
    Geniez
    Rebellin (boo!)
    Ion Izaguirre
    Barguil
    Plus 3-4 points for Vakoc in the sprint comp and Maikin sitting there looking pretty

    I wish I could work out how the sprint competition works or how points are scored, or how I can see who is in which position at the start and the end of the day. But alas.

    August 7, 2014 at 11:22 am #808173
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    Twybaydos

    Mezgec has pulled out. I
    Mezgec has pulled out. I didn’t think about Peter Velits being Slovak when I picked my team last night. 7 transfers 2 pens

    Samu Sanchez
    Majka
    Formolo
    Geniez
    Rebellin (boo!)
    Ion Izaguirre
    Barguil
    Plus 3-4 points for Vakoc in the sprint comp and Maikin sitting there looking pretty

    August 7, 2014 at 10:33 am #808171
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    ray silvester

    That’s a good shout on the
    That’s a good shout on the raid into Slovakia today Stripey……either of the Velits boys are good picks then.

    Has Mezgec pulled out?

    August 7, 2014 at 9:23 am #808169
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    livestrongnick

    Purist should make me some
    Purist should make me some points finally

    Weening
    Arrendondo
    Ryder
    Deignan
    De gendt
    Moser
    Stepniak
    Ignatenko
    Kasperkiewicz

    August 7, 2014 at 9:07 am #808167
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    ray silvester

    This is where my Purist team
    This is where my Purist team should start to make it’s bid for FSUCI pts….people who can handle a minor summit finish,descend and TT

    EBH
    Hushovd
    Sammy Sanchez
    Hesjedal
    Henao
    Jungels
    Nordhaug
    Hamsen
    Franczak

    Used all 5 transfers in standard

    OUT:EBH,Matthews,Hushovd,K.Fernandez,Hutarovich

    IN:Majka,Sanchez,Cunego,Monfort,Hesjedal

    plus:Hansen,Gasparotto,Vakoc,Paterski

    Krizek out for stage 4 wasn’t good but at least it was for Vakoc…..I’ll be interested to see how many go for Ryder(enrique’s normally good at finding that sort of thing out).

    Talking of enrique….his tweet of Le Petit Prince’s knee hasn’t cheered me up much but I’m trying to persuade myself that if he hasn’t abandoned then he must think it’s a race for him?

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