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  • May 2, 2019 at 12:36 am #29603
    Dr Winston

    Thought i’d try an early post for some pre race thoughts…so i’ll Start..

    https://www.cyclingstage.com/giro-2019-route/

    Loving the last stage….for some of us  old timers it’s like Laurent Fignon all over again. Do we approve?..or do we like the procession and sprint?

     

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  • May 12, 2019 at 11:01 am #941221
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    Condor Andy
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    All in for sprinters today –

    ACKERMANN
    VIVIANI
    GAVIRIA
    EWAN
    DEMARE
    CIMOLAI
    HALLER
    LONARDI

    I thought I was being clever with my Haller pick. Should have known you’d get him too. I haven’t gone for Ewan or Demare and I’ve kept Roglic, Nizzolo is my other pick.

    May 12, 2019 at 10:55 am #941219
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    MinardiM189

    All in for sprinters today –

    All in for sprinters today –

    ACKERMANN
    VIVIANI
    GAVIRIA
    EWAN
    DEMARE
    CIMOLAI
    HALLER
    LONARDI

     

    May 12, 2019 at 7:24 am #941217
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    MikaelLie
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Gecko-cyclist wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:

    Mmm….2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition….I can see a pattern developing.

    Well done Gecko…back on top in the purist.

    Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both! Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny…

    Thanks Gecko…but not true….next year i’m changing my name to Dr Yo-Yo….You, me, Minardi, Andy, Tony and everybody else all go through big drops and then rise back up. The game has been kind to me this past month but it’ll bite me again soon enough.

    On reflection I think you’ve called it right for this race (I think I may have wrote it further up before it started) but I really didn’t think many players would be brave enough to backload as much as you have….I seriously think you may win this one if they all stay upright. Two or three of the few sprinter stages may turn out to be nothing of the sort….which will help you enormously…and well worth the gamble.

     It’s the 1st time im playing in here, so I dont know the scoringsystem well enough. But this is my purist team:

    Primoz Roglic
    Elia Viviani
    Simon Yates
    Ilnur Zakarin                                                                            Bob Jungels
    Ivan Ramiro Sosa
    Vincenzo Nibali
    Tony Gallopin   

    May 11, 2019 at 9:31 pm #941215
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    Dr Winston

    Gecko-cyclist wrote:

    Gecko-cyclist wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:

    Mmm….2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition….I can see a pattern developing.

    Well done Gecko…back on top in the purist.

    Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both! Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny…

    Thanks Gecko…but not true….next year i’m changing my name to Dr Yo-Yo….You, me, Minardi, Andy, Tony and everybody else all go through big drops and then rise back up. The game has been kind to me this past month but it’ll bite me again soon enough.

    On reflection I think you’ve called it right for this race (I think I may have wrote it further up before it started) but I really didn’t think many players would be brave enough to backload as much as you have….I seriously think you may win this one if they all stay upright. Two or three of the few sprinter stages may turn out to be nothing of the sort….which will help you enormously…and well worth the gamble.

    May 11, 2019 at 9:10 pm #941213
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    Gecko-cyclist

    Dr Winston wrote:

    Dr Winston wrote:

    Mmm….2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition….I can see a pattern developing.

    Well done Gecko…back on top in the purist.

    Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both!

    Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny…

    May 11, 2019 at 9:00 pm #941211
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    Guzzibear

    Anyone else had issues with

    Anyone else had issues with the Fantasy Team selection for stage 1 ?  I selected my team last night watched the race unfold and was delighted that I had the winner in my team only to find I had no score today and no team.  Anyone else suffered this too?

    May 11, 2019 at 7:39 pm #941209
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    Dr Winston

    Mmm….2nd in the season

    Mmm….2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition….I can see a pattern developing.

    Well done Gecko…back on top in the purist.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:48 pm #941207
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    Condor Andy

    I’ll get the scores up soon,

    I’ll get the scores up soon, awaiting a decision as to whether Nishimura was OTL, as that’ll effect things.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:44 pm #941205
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    A very poor 29th for Izagirre, he’s better than that….Must have had an off day.

    Saving energy to help Lopez later.

    They have a fantastic team….and actually he may well have been doing just that. Quite devious some of those teams. Interesting listening to Wiggins today touching on such subjects.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:38 pm #941203
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    He’s a great rider waiting to happen.

    Who put time into who on the climbs amongst the GC boys?….Lopez must have done really well….

    Time on the climb

    Ciccone 6:03

    Roglic 6:06

    Yates 6:07

    Majka 6:17

    Carthy 6:21

    Lopez 6:25

    Incredibly Lopez was 11th fastest on the flat section (was he getting a tow from the team car?).

    That’s way above his norm. Very odd.  

    As a Preston lad myself I just posted Carthy’s result on a couple of FB sites…i’ll Add that time to my post. Really good stuff from him. Nobody much in our home town has even heard of him…but they will have by the time I’ve finished.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:36 pm #941201
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    A very poor 29th for Izagirre, he’s better than that….Must have had an off day.

    Saving energy to help Lopez later.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:33 pm #941199
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    Dr Winston

    A very poor 29th for Izagirre

    A very poor 29th for Izagirre, he’s better than that….Must have had an off day.

    May 11, 2019 at 6:27 pm #941197
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    He’s a great rider waiting to happen.

    Who put time into who on the climbs amongst the GC boys?….Lopez must have done really well….

    Time on the climb

    Ciccone 6:03

    Roglic 6:06

    Yates 6:07

    Majka 6:17

    Carthy 6:21

    Lopez 6:25

    Incredibly Lopez was 11th fastest on the flat section (was he getting a tow from the team car?).

    May 11, 2019 at 6:18 pm #941195
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    Dr Winston
    MinardiM189 wrote:
    Dr Winston wrote:
    nice team up the hills. I think Carthy will do well….he looked very strong last time out. I thought you would have gone for TDG….

    I very rarely pick TDG in purist.

    Also the Giro isn’t the best for KoM points , not many riders get points.

    Interesting that Ciccone did the whole ITT on a road bike in a non-aero helmet and currently has the best time on today’s climb.

    Looks like he may be hoping to keep Blue Jersey for 3 weeks.

     

    He’s a great rider waiting to happen.

    Who put time into who on the climbs amongst the GC boys?….Lopez must have done really well….

    May 11, 2019 at 5:34 pm #941193
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    MinardiM189
    Dr Winston wrote:
    nice team up the hills. I think Carthy will do well….he looked very strong last time out. I thought you would have gone for TDG….

    I very rarely pick TDG in purist.

    Also the Giro isn’t the best for KoM points , not many riders get points.

    Interesting that Ciccone did the whole ITT on a road bike in a non-aero helmet and currently has the best time on today’s climb.

    Looks like he may be hoping to keep Blue Jersey for 3 weeks.

     

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