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Is that what happened…I wondered what was going on. Why did he not renew?…was it because they actually don’t seem to want anything to do with sprinting really.
I assume he switched to EF becuase he will get more support and get the chance to ride GTs.
Given Sky’s history with sprinters I was surprised he signed for them to begin with.
Aren’t Ineos being a bit
Aren’t Ineos being a bit rotten with Halvorsen.
Taking him to the last race of the season in China & then not letting him sprint because he didn’t renew his contract seems a bit OTT.
OK… Stage 4; cat 1 KOM appears to be 1.4km before finish.I have scored by working backwards from Points & KOM classifications. No other info I can find.
So have used the following for Int Sp and KOM points
Unless you watch the replay of the race on Tiz-Cycling I guess that is the best you can do, I’m away and haven’t been following the race so have no idea what happened.
Looks like this competition
Looks like this competition is going to be a combination of 3 lotteries –
1. Which riders will sprint for Mitchelton, Trek, Ineos, Quickstep, Sunweb ?
2. Which riders will have the form to compete for GC ?
3. Will Cavagna be able to escape and gain enough bonuse seconds to win GC ?
Not planning on doing it, but I’ll take a look and see if it’s worth it. Only thinking we’ll get about 150 players for it maybe.I just had a look at my competition archive.
There were 307 peope did the standard competion last year.
Went for Yates & Fuglsang
Went for Yates & Fuglsang rather than Bernal & Haig.
I would appreciate having
I would appreciate having this one last race this year.
Missed all of that Milan race apart from literally the last minute. What happened to Higuita?No idea, I had the stream on but forgot about it and had a bath.
I got lucky this morning, I saw that Lopez was a non-starter, and swapped him & Landa out for Woods & Yates but wasted 2 transfers. Hopefully I have enough transfers left for the last few races.
I never realised this.
I never realised this. Interesting tool.
Has Madrazo scored the ‘highest points per cost’ ever ?
Also missed doing my Spain team as well.I may as well have missed doing the Spain team too.
Fraile, Mate & Nieve have managed to do pretty much nothing.
Not sure what happened with Mate, he hasn’t hit a break all race.
So many unknowns…and all quite exciting. I think we also have to factor in that one or two top riders may now be coming to the end of their time. Quintana struggles with consistency, Valverde May pop in very short order, Froome may struggle to recover as a dominant force, Thomas may have another winter on the mince pies…all sorts of stuff.Everywhere I look I see young riders lighting it up.
It is brilliantly refreshing too, the young riders appear to have a very different mentality and are prepared to attack much more readily than the older riders.
The World Championship race should be very interesting to see how the different teams race against MVDP.
Fortunately I managed to ignore your earlier comments for my purist team..but actually I had the same thoughts myself…almost too good to be true really, he really has bucked the norm. I didn’t finish picking my team and was going to take him out along with Gaviria…but something happened and I was late doing it. Also missed doing my Spain team as well.Next season it will be interesting to see which GTs different riders are doing.
I can see Pogacar doing the Giro and challenging.
What do Ineos do? Does Bernal defend the TdF, do they send Froome & Thomas to support him? What races will Carapaz do ? Will TGH and Sivakov have to take a back seat ? What about Sosa & Dunbar? Will Kwiatowski get the message that he isn’t seen as a GT rider at Ineos ?
What have JumboVisma promised Dumoulin ? Roglic surely merits leading the team at the TdF.
Quite amazing that, after Bernal’s success, a 20 year old Pogacar should be quite so fancied to do well in the Vuelta. The times really are changing.Undoubtedly Pogacar is very talented but he has never done a GT before and hasn’t done a race with lots of hard climbing. Bernal had done a lot more serious racing before winning the TdF and is 2 years older, expecting Pogacar to do well in GC is a bit premature, imo.
He may have won in Algarve and California but there wasn’t any ‘difficult’ climbing in either and there wasn’t a lot of serious competition in either race. Kragh Andersen was 2nd in Algarve and Asgreen 3rd in California, neither of whom are exactly GC candidates.
Yeah…..He’s picked his moments and taken them well. My point was just the fact he can be held in such high regard at such a young age is an achievement in itself. We seem to be in the middle of a real collection of new young riders coming through from every direction.
Pogacar has been amazing, particularly when you consider that his team crashed in the TTT losing him loads of time & that he has had virtually no support whatsoever in the mountains.
Bring on Bernal v Pogacar next season.
Are all fantasy games not like that?..the more you know the more you talk yourself out of the blindingly obvious.I could do to make a second team called “the blindingly obvious” that I spend exactly 2 minutes on…and pitch it against my actual team…i’m Sure it would win by a very long way.
More making stupid decisions playing catch-up.
I can see Aranburu winning the stage today now I have taken him out. One of those weeks.
Ouch, Giro D’Emilia is
Ouch, Giro D’Emilia is included in the Autumn Classics, I was planning for one less race, time to start saving transfers.
