[Dr Winston]

Fingers crossed for an uninterrupted Giro.

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[11waterloo]

If you think adding Viviani

If you think adding Viviani was an odd decision, I chose him INSTEAD of Gaviria! Was convinced that Gaviria was more seriously hurt in crash yesterday than his team were letting on & that Viviani was the answer. Moral of the tale is that, whatever the question, Viviani is never the answer! 
 

[Dr Winston]

Matthews tested again today

Matthews tested again today and returned a negative result….pffft…My strategy in the purist game was to go with all of Sagan, Demare and Matthews. My four riders looking very thin now in the purist game.
 

On the plus side I suppose it takes some pressure of the race to abandon the whole thing.

[Sniffer]

Just before the deadline I

Just before the deadline I convinced myself it was worth a punt on Viviani.  The transfer might have been a waste anyway, but the moto can’t have helped.

My other last minute decision in today’s Classic was to dump Pedersen for Theuns (picked up that he might not sprint).  Maybe that will work out better with Mads abandoning.

[stevemarks]

stevemarks wrote:

So now what? Sagan is 25/1 for a stage that looks made for him. Is every stage going to be a breakaway winner from now on? with the possible exception of the sprint stages if the wind is not blowing?

should have taken the 25/1 

[11waterloo]

I put him in the file

I have him in the file labelled Mikel Nieve…….

[Dr Winston]

Shame I missed it. Bilbao

Shame I missed it. Bilbao trying to out sprint Sagan may not have quite turned out how Bilbao may have liked. Fair play to him for attacking though. There’s something about Bilbao that I really like…ever the underdog that’s just a whisker away from the rest. 

[11waterloo]

He basically got up to front

He basically got up to front but Sagan attacked immediately leaving Bilbao second & Swift getting swept up by GC group. Bilbao got caught in last 2-3 Km’s – shame as he ended up 10th & I needed the points!!

[Dr Winston]

I didn’t see the end of the

I didn’t see the end of the race due to my second round trip of the day. I did see on OCS that Bilbao attacked….how close did he get?

[Dr Winston]

I had to take my son to

I had to take my son to Lancaster from Preston (don’t want him using trains at the moment) I waited as long as I could before bringing Matthews in and got back with literally 10 mins to spare. The round trip is 1 hour 10 mins. That was really unfortunate timing and the oddest way I’ve ever wasted two transfers. He must have been ruled out literally as I was walking out the door.

[Sniffer]

Ulissi didn’t do much anyway.

Ulissi didn’t do much anyway.

[Anonymous]

With none of the GC teams –

With none of the GC teams – that is, the teams of the guys who happen to be high in GC – strong enough to control the breaks, I think it’s going to be won from the break every day.

[Anonymous]

I was lucky – did my

I was lucky – did my transfers last night and avoided Matthews – but it’s really looking like the winner will be the last man standing when (and not if) the race gets stopped 🙁

 

[11waterloo]

The way it is going, saving

The way it is going, saving transfers may not be that important! Unluckily for you, I have brought Vendrame back in as well, so that guarantees nul point!! 

[Sniffer]

I did no transfers as it was

I did no transfers as it was just too uncertain this morning.  Thought it would be a breakaway stage and picking the riders for that would be difficult.  Through in a testing day and I just sat on my hands.

I do have Ulissi though, it was a punt for the breakaway Sunday and today.

[Gkam84]

Pressure on Sunweb now. They

Pressure on Sunweb now. They pulled Benoot from GW because he’d been in contact with someone who tested positive, but the whole team have been in contact with Matthews…

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