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Stage 5 Rouen-StQuentin

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  • July 5, 2012 at 10:42 am #16253
    silas chime

    The second of a 3 part sprinters trilogy.

    Will Cav recover?,can Greipel do it again?,is Kittel feeling better?

    All will be revealed I guess

    I currently lead the Tour and have this team for today(and tomorrow barring any abandons).

    Cavendish
    Grepel
    Sagan
    Veelers(for Freire)
    Cantwell
    Morkov(for Urtasun)
    Impey
    Boeckmans
    Cooke

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  • July 5, 2012 at 11:59 am #690043
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    silas chime

    Put Morkov in for Urtasun but
    Put Morkov in for Urtasun but not too bothered as Morkov is guaranteed to lead KOM competition at the end of today and tomorrow and I feel he’ll rest up and challenge for more climbs on stages 7-8.

    The Veelers for Freire swap was based on Oscar seemingly intent on crashing or causing one and Veelers being Argos’ DeFacto sprinter with Kittel struggling(knee problems on top of stomach bug).Kittel even backs Veelers for a win today!!

    July 5, 2012 at 11:58 am #690041
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    chrisdstripes

    I kept simon so hopefully a
    I kept simon so hopefully a nice 12-15 point bonus coming… I LOVE the way you can score big points on breakaways like stage 8 – some will take risks and others will play safe, makes it more fun for me! And in a tour, if you go 200 points behind early on, it gives you more of a chance to come back.

    July 5, 2012 at 11:42 am #690039
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    dave atkinson

    Cav
    Sagan
    Veelers
    Goss
    Lancas
    Cav
    Sagan
    Veelers
    Goss
    Lancaster
    Bernaudeau
    Cantwell
    Boeckmans
    Morkov

    for me. come on you sprinters. no-one in the break for me today, but no climbs so shouldn’t be too much of a disadvantage…

    July 5, 2012 at 11:22 am #690037
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    TERatcliffe26

    drheaton wrote:I’m gambling

    drheaton wrote:
    I’m gambling on Cav having recovered and being properly pissed off šŸ™‚

    Cavendish
    Sagan
    Goss
    Van Hummel
    Arashiro
    Ladagnous
    Levarlet
    Boeckmans
    Izagirre

    Looks like four are trying to get away up front.

    Urtasun
    Ghyselinck
    Simon
    Ladagnous

    Kinda hacked off as I had Simon until last night! The break shouldn’t take too many points today as there are no categorised climbs.

    You must be making the same picks as me! i had simon till last night…

    my team now is

    Cav
    Sagan
    goss
    Veelers

    Izagirre
    Edet
    Arashiro
    Lancaster
    Zabriske

    July 5, 2012 at 11:22 am #690035
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    silas chime

    A lone breakaway rider in
    A lone breakaway rider in first place over all the checkpoints in stage 8 for example would get:

    Climbs 1-5 5pts each
    Intermediate sprint 15pts
    climb 6 5pts
    climb 7 10pts
    likely combative award 10pts
    at least 4 end of day KOM comp pts

    69 points and could still bump that up by finishing last(unlikely but not impossible) and on the winners team!!!

    July 5, 2012 at 11:08 am #690033
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    ray silvester

    Shocking opening to the TDF
    Shocking opening to the TDF so far probably due to too much concentration on those in guaranteed points positions when 1 breakaway intermediate sprint first 5 placing gains enough to wipe out a 1st place GC plus holding Cancellara is s-o-o-o expensive.

    Took out Cancellara and Boassen Hagen today for my expected top 2 Cavendish(he likes stage 5 in previous TDF’s) and Greipel(form + train).

    Greipel
    Cavendish
    Chavanel
    Oss
    Cantwell
    Morkov
    Edet
    Engoulvent
    Albasini

    That will stay the same tomorrow then looking to bring in the likes of Pinot/Van Garderen/Evans/Rogers for stage 7.

    If that fails my head will be swerving towards Poland :/

    July 5, 2012 at 11:03 am #690031
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    drheaton

    As I said yesterday, I don’t
    As I said yesterday, I don’t like how heavily the breaks are scoring this year and it’s only going to get worse in the mountains. It makes not guessing a breakaway guy really penal as you’re losing out on upwards of 20 points per breakaway rider on flat stages (5 points for every poxy cat 4 :() and it could make a different of 50 points in the mountains. Still, at least for now we’re all getting intermediate sprint points.

    Cav for the win today, Goss to be useless again, Van Hummel to crash at the intermediate sprint and Sagan to just be there somewhere. Also hoping Arashiro’s recovered enough to contest the sprints.

    July 5, 2012 at 10:55 am #690029
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    Raleigh

    Yeah, Greipel again today for
    Yeah, Greipel again today for me.

    Not getting guys in the break REALLY annoys me. šŸ˜

    July 5, 2012 at 10:55 am #690027
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    Marauder

    drheaton wrote:I’m gambling

    drheaton wrote:
    I’m gambling on Cav having recovered and being properly pissed off :)

    That was my thinking too.

    July 5, 2012 at 10:53 am #690025
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    drheaton

    I’m gambling on Cav having
    I’m gambling on Cav having recovered and being properly pissed off šŸ™‚

    Cavendish
    Sagan
    Goss
    Van Hummel
    Arashiro
    Ladagnous
    Levarlet
    Boeckmans
    Izagirre

    Looks like four are trying to get away up front.

    Urtasun
    Ghyselinck
    Simon
    Ladagnous

    Kinda hacked off as I had Simon until last night! The break shouldn’t take too many points today as there are no categorised climbs.

    July 5, 2012 at 10:50 am #690023
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    Wig_Billy

    I’m gambling that Cav won’t
    I’m gambling that Cav won’t have recovered fully from yesterdays crash.

    Sagan
    Greipel
    Goss
    Van Hummel

    Simon
    Arashiro
    Cantwell
    Boeckemans
    Gallopin

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