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Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

with another probable sprint stage tomorrow I only made 1 transfer

brought Froome in for Impey 

Big day for you tomorrow.

All depends if some of the sprinters show up. Greipel was dreadful again on Tuesday, as was Manzin. I don’t expect Ballerini to do as well again either.

Van Aert will probably top3 again tomorrow but I can’t use up another transfer with 3 mountain stages coming up.

 

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with another probable sprint

with another probable sprint stage tomorrow I only made 1 transfer

brought Froome in for Impey 

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Crazy race to pick.

Crazy race to pick.

Kwiatowski playing super domestique. Alaphilippe playing something I don’t quite understand.

On holiday and no time to plan.

Dlamini dropping out forcing my hand for tomorrow.

Just spotted Armee DNF too.

 

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Sniffer wrote:

It was only your Van Emden pick that hurt.  I dropped Carthy, Masnada and Ciccone for Haga Campanaerts and Mollema which worked.

I also went all on GC.  Dumoulin and Yates were unfortunate choices.  So too were all the breakaways winning.

Missed out on top 10 by a point but never mind.

It was surprising how tired the GC riders appeared to be and  riders Mollema & Carthy obviously didn’t make much effort because it was vitually impossible to go up or down on GC.

My biggest mistake was not bringing more sprinters in for Stage 8 and saving transfers for later when the changes were ‘lucky dip’ tries to pick the break.

On purist, all the breaks did hurt and all the points lost when the GC riders all dropped out of the top 10.

Not a particularly memorabe Giro, the cock up by Demare to lose the jersey was probably the thing I will remember most.

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MinardiM189 wrote:

I think I need a miracle to sneak into the top 10.

Last 4 transfers used

Landa, Lopez, Ciccone & Masnada out.

Mollema, Campanaerts, Van Emden & Haga in.

Van Emden finished 14th on a very similar Verona ITT in 2010 and I’m hoping he has improved since then.

Another disaster Purist Team – Dumoulin crashed out, Yates didn’t turn up, Jungels (why did I pick him?) and Zakarin being Zakarin.

Last time I go all in GC. Although if I had picked a sprinter would have gone Viviani.

Well I don’t think that worked.

Having the extra transfer left for the last ITT probably cost me a few points again.

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I think I need a miracle to

I think I need a miracle to sneak into the top 10.

Last 4 transfers used

Landa, Lopez, Ciccone & Masnada out.

Mollema, Campanaerts, Van Emden & Haga in.

Van Emden finished 14th on a very similar Verona ITT in 2010 and I’m hoping he has improved since then.

Another disaster Purist Team – Dumoulin crashed out, Yates didn’t turn up, Jungels (why did I pick him?) and Zakarin being Zakarin.

Last time I go all in GC. Although if I had picked a sprinter would have gone Viviani.

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jonscottclark wrote:

Hey all, are there points awarded at the end of the tour for the eventual Maglia Rosa winner and final GC places?

No

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Empty victory for Chaves imo.

Empty victory for Chaves imo.

His and other GC teams blocking riders chasing the break handed it to him.

What a shame Vendrame had the mechanical, I would have loved to se him beat Chaves.

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Condor Andy wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Neither of Masnada or Ciccone in the break. HasCiccone won the KOM competition yet?

He pretty much has (I think mathematically at this point), he’ll be in the break tomorrow I reckon, try to win the new Cima Coppi.

I have Yates instead of Roglic, other than that it’s identical.

I thought about Yates rather than Roglic but Yates has been worse than Roglic the last few stages & Roglic should be top2 in the ITT.

How many KoM points are there for Cima Coppi in the Giro not the game?

If there are 50 or more Carapaz can still get KoM if he is 1st on every summit & Ciccone doesn’t score.

Ciccone could be working for Mollema tomorrow.

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I suspect most players will

I suspect most players will have very similar teams to mine for the next 2 stages –

ROGLIC
NIBALI
LANDA
CARAPAZ
LOPEZ
CICCONE
CARTHY
MASNADA

5 transfers remaining

 

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Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Demare blew it.

What a total screw up from Groupama FDJ, serves then right.

Badly. They were never committed to today…further interview this morning confirmed it. Is there an intermediate left that they can try for?

Demare is now 13 points behind Ackermann.

There is a sprint tomorrow that might be possible but he would need Ackermann not to score and then pick up 2 points in the ITT on Sunday.

Saturdays intermediate sprint is after a mountain on the uphill start of the next mountain. So not much chance of scoring there.

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Demare blew it.

Demare blew it.

What a total screw up from Groupama FDJ, serves then right.

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Sniffer wrote:

Just the three riders up the road.  Sprint looks more likely.

Just as well – I brought in four sprinters.

Riders will possibly attack on the Cat4 climb and attempt to bridge to the break.

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Dr Winston wrote:

Wel…yeah..agreed, kind off. The complicating factor is that Demare currently wears the pts jersey…it would suit them nicely if there was no sprint at all tomorrow wouldn’t it?…or do you think a stage win and risk losing that jersey if they lose on the day is more compelling?

In yesterday’s press release Demare said – “we are strong and our clear goal is to bring back the cyclamen mailllot to verona. we do not know yet how we’re going to go about it, we’ll talk about it tonight.”

If they are absolutley determined to win the jersey they won’t chase. Even if they get points at the intermediate sprint there is the possibility Ackermann wins and Demare finishes 3rd or 4th.

If Groupama decide to let the break win, it would be a very negative way of winning a points jersey.

I suppose the way the route has been planned was asking for this.

I’ve brough 4 sprinters in anyway.

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