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Vuelta al Pais Vasco – Stage 4

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  • April 4, 2013 at 6:42 am #18401
    drheaton

    Tough decisions to make today, will Txurruka go in the break again?  Will the same people be racing for the win or will the slightly easier finale make for a different selection.

    My transfer decisions are basically which 2 of 3 riders do I drop for which 2 of 3 I want?

    I can either drop Fuglsang and Barguil for Ulissi and Didier or another sub 6 credit rider or I can drop Peraud and Barguil for Ulissi and Txurruka.

    I don't really want to drop Peraud and I'm worried that Txurruka pretty much has the jersey sewn up now so won't go in the break today but he's a guaranteed 10 points whatever happens.

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  • April 4, 2013 at 12:53 pm #725839
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    Philip Unwin

    Montaguti was almost a
    Montaguti was almost a permanent fixture in my team last year. not touched him this year 🙁

    April 4, 2013 at 12:49 pm #725837
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    drheaton

    Typical, I knew this would
    Typical, I knew this would happen, first day I have Txurruka in my team he isn’t in the break X(

    April 4, 2013 at 12:46 pm #725835
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    TERatcliffe26

    chrisdstripes wrote:Egoitz

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    Egoitz Garcia was a DNF yesterday actually. I only noticed because he was in both my teams and I thought he might have been last man home. Ratto in the break today would make up for it tho – a bit of a bonus for my purists if it sticks… :D

    Same for me with Ratto in my purists, hopefully will take the sprints

    April 4, 2013 at 12:40 pm #725833
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    Philip Unwin

    +1 is Montaguti
    +1 is Montaguti

    April 4, 2013 at 12:38 pm #725831
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    Philip Unwin

    adv 2.20
    adv 2.20

    April 4, 2013 at 12:37 pm #725829
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    chrisdstripes

    Egoitz Garcia was a DNF
    Egoitz Garcia was a DNF yesterday actually. I only noticed because he was in both my teams and I thought he might have been last man home. Ratto in the break today would make up for it tho – a bit of a bonus for my purists if it sticks… 😀

    April 4, 2013 at 12:32 pm #725827
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    Philip Unwin

    A group of five have 30
    A group of five have 30 secs
    Velits
    Vorganov
    Ratto
    Taaramae
    +1

    April 4, 2013 at 12:30 pm #725825
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    simon F

    Typical. Just after I said
    Typical. Just after I said that, 5 riders start to get away and Egoitz Garcia abandons.

    April 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm #725823
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    simon F

    Can’t be a very interesting
    Can’t be a very interesting race today. No escapes allowed and both diariovasco and biciclismo have had nothing to say for 20 mins or so.

    April 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm #725821
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    livestrongnick

    roche in there so saxo don’t
    roche in there so saxo don’t have too chase and sets up bertie 😕

    April 4, 2013 at 12:04 pm #725819
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    Philip Unwin

    8km later caught
    8km later caught

    April 4, 2013 at 11:59 am #725817
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    Philip Unwin

    7 on a break
    Izagirre
    7 on a break
    Izagirre (3)
    Martinez
    Schleck
    Vorganov
    Roche
    Vanendert
    Preidler
    Don’t think the peleton will let that many go

    April 4, 2013 at 11:52 am #725815
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    Philip Unwin

    Van den Broeck abandoned
    Van den Broeck abandoned

    April 4, 2013 at 11:16 am #725813
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    drheaton

    ray silvester wrote:Quintana

    ray silvester wrote:
    Quintana had a good ITT recently too (Paris-Nice Col D’Eze)3rd behind Porte/Talansky and beating Tejay,Kloden,Peraud,Chavanel,Coppel,Menchov,Velits and Spilak amongst others¬!!

    Yeah, but he hasn’t shown as much form on flatter TTs, uphill is different and I wouldn’t expect the same people to be as high up this time around. Porte has shown flat form before, as has Talansky, I’m not sure if Quintana has.

    Anyway, you don’t have to listen to me 😀

    April 4, 2013 at 11:15 am #725811
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    TERatcliffe26

    drheaton wrote:I’ll be

    drheaton wrote:
    I’ll be keeping Betancurt, possibly Txurruka if I can afford to then bringing some of the mid-price TTers at around 15-20 credits. Dropping Contador allows me to do that. In fact I may not bother with Talansky/TJVG if I think I can spread the credits around better but it’ll depend alot on GC points available.

    Also, I don’t want to take too much of a hit on penalty transfers.

    I agree, there aren’t many sub-10 points riders worth picking for the TT. I think that’s just the way the values fall on these short races. One TT stage in amongst 21 in a Grand Tour means it’s has less weight and therefore TTers would be cheaper, one TT stage in 6 means it’s considerably more important.

    Just looked at my team and there will be no real benefit in me dropping Contador, due to the other changes I will have to make

    It will look something like this I think

    Peraud (for Henao)
    Porte
    Fuglsang
    Martin (for Quintana)
    Contador
    Sanchez (for Spilak)
    Serry (for Pineau)
    Txurruka
    Betancurt

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