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My team for the final stage –

My team for the final stage –

ROGLIC
DENNIS
KUNG
VAN EMDEN
YATES A.
CASTROVEIJO
HEPBURN
VELASCO

Which probably means, Campanaerts, Dumoulin & Kragh Andersen do well, Ganna too maybe.

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I brought Gaviria & Viviani

I brought Gaviria & Viviani in.

Similar thing happened in Oman, people who had saved transfers for the last sprint lost out to people without transfers after Bonifazio rode the top picks off the road.

5 transfers left for tomorrow, which usually means something unexpected will happen and people withbno transfers beat me.

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After recovering from a poor

After recovering from a poor start to the race

I messed the final stage up, bringing in DeMarchi for Sanchez. Stupid decision again.

Having transfers left isn’t always a good thing. 🙁

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Gkam84 wrote:

I was disappointed not to get the win today by two points and when I looked why. It’s because the results show Alaphilippe ahead of Berhane in the KOM, which shouldn’t be right, as Berhane has won more climbs….Strange. Else I would have one more point and todays winner would have one less….haha

The KoM competition in T-A is a bit unusual. There are only 2 grades of hill, one gives 5 KoM points and the other 15 points, even though the climbs may be a similar difficulty. Berhane has won four 5 pointers, Alaphilippe won one 15 pointer and came 4th on another, scoring 5 points. So they both have 20 points but Alaphilippe has won on a higher scoring climb and as a result he is ahead of Berhane in the classification.

Personally I find the system unfair and as all the 15 point climbs are near the finish of stages it makes it almost impossible for a non-GC rider to win the jersey. This makes it worthless for riders to go for KoM points after stage 3.

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Condor Andy wrote:

Cheers, keeping a close eye on it myself today as well.

Very difficult to follow the Sprints and KoMs today, and the published results I have seen don’t include the individual results.

But from information on the live ticker and the increase in points from the previous stages I managed to figure out the results.

SPRINT 1 – MAESTRI, PETERS, MAS, BURGHARDT

SPRINT 2 – LUTSENKO, YATES, DUMOULIN, FUGLSANG

KoM 1 – VISCONTI, MAESTRI, POWERS, PETERS

KoM 2 – LUTSENKO, BENOOT, CLARKE, FORMOLO

KoM 3 – LUTSENKO, BRAMBILLA, FUGLSANG, ALAPHILIPPE, ROGLIC, YATES, FORMOLO

KoM 4 – LUTSENKO, YATES, ROGLIC, FUGLSANG, FORMOLO, BETTIOL, PINOT

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stevemarks wrote:

Really felt I had made a mess of this too, so one last throw of the dice and Up pop Martinez and Ciccone. My purist has been dire I am not even in the top 250 before today. lol

Jungels & Kelderman adding to my purist misery today.

I should have brough DeMarch into my standard team rather than Bardet.

But perhaps Bardet goes on a crazy attack tomorrow.

After today, I hope Kwiatowski finally learns that he will never be a GC rider, and goes back to doing what he does well – classics.

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Not looking great for me

Not looking great for me today. I had De Plus & Vuilermoz & both got dropped after crashing. 🙁

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Condor Andy wrote:

Cheers Minardi, that’s where I went in the end.

Sprint 1

Traguardo volante di Monticiano vinto da 1. S. KURIYANOV (102) 2. M. MAESTRI (43) 3. A. TONELLI (46) 4. A. CATAFORD (123)

KoM 1

Berhane won it but the live feed deleted the result

KoM 2

Berhane, Schonberger, Cataford, Maestri

Sprint 2

Traguardo volante di Chiusi vinto da S. KURIYANOV (102). 2. M. MAESTRI (43)
3. A. TONELLI (46)
4. A. CATAFORD (123)

 

 

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Dr Winston wrote:

You think you have problems with purist?…try mine…worst two teams I’ve ever had.  Up to 9th in standard Paris/Nice though…so not all bad.

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Your purist team is doing considerably better than mine 🙁

Probably my worst in 3 years.

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Condor Andy wrote:

Update coming now, tricky to find intermediate and KOM results.

They are announced during the race on the Tirreno live feed – http://www.tirrenoadriatico.it/it/live/ . The feed is still there in the evening.

Although they did mix up Maestri & Bresciani on the firsr KoM.

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Sniffer wrote:

Did use three transfers, but they were Yates, Bettiol and GVA.  With Alaphippe too, not a bad day.

You could have done worse :).

Stage win ?

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Just when I thought things

Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse.

Jungels, Kelderman and Grosschartner did nothing for me today.

My purist team is now a complete disaster. I’ll be dropping way out of contention in the main competition after an awful week. I dropped out Groenwegen & Kwiatowski for DeMare & Colbrelli for some reason :(.

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Not too bad for me today

Not too bad for me today despite not having Alaphilippe, Bettiol doing a great job for my team :).

Same team with Gaviria & Viviani for tomorrow. Saving transfers for later.

Glad I swapped out Thomas for Poels before the race started, looks like Thomas might be carrying a bug. That would explain why the TeamSky TTT was so disappointing.

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Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

I heard stage 6 could be neutralised or cancelled becasue of high winds. 🙁

Source?…Makes the picks easier though….

Cyclingmole on twitter.

I have looked at the weather forecast and it is pretty windy, 45kph wind with guts of 70kph.

It could well be worse when they cross valleys and gulleys.

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Dr Winston wrote:

Was it known then?…I saw nothing online.

I saw something online before the race but can’t remember where.

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