Criterium-du-dauphine stage 2

Not sure for tomorrow, think Demare may win from Nizzolo, but stage 4 has Meersman v Gerrans written all over it (providing both are in good enough form). Fancy Nava and Iglinsky to top 10 in both stages

Taking a 40 point hit for tomorrow; that should be it then (barring swapping out Demare and maybe one other) until we get back to the real hills.

Bit of a crapshoot with the various MM-ers, plus I fancy a breakaway wins on possibly two stages. So who knows? Made room for Chava, a choice I may regret.

I fancy Alaphilippe could do well tomorrow, but I haven't picked him. Hmm.

Another disaster, lost interest, 40 penalty points for tomorrow

In come Meersman, Demare, Iglinsky, Kelderman, Duchense and JVDB for Taaramae, Spilak, Jungels, Larrson, TVG and Contador

Another poor day. If you have a bad first stage it's impossible in a short race.

I think there are more to come in

167 Zandio Echaide XabierTeam Sky 31:44

Plus 168 started, I'm not aware of any DNFs

1 Christopher FROOME GBR SKY 29 4:24:41
2 Alberto CONTADOR VELASCO ESP TCS 32 +0
3 Wilco KELDERMAN NED BEL 23 +4
4 Jurgen VAN DEN BROECK BEL LTB 31 +10
5 Andrew TALANSKY USA GRS 26 +12
6 Vincenzo NIBALI ITA AST 30 +27
7 Igor ANTON HERNANDEZ ESP MOV 31 +40
8 Adam YATES GBR OGE 22 +42
9 Sébastien REICHENBACH SUI IAM 25 +44
10 Daniel NAVARRO GARCIA ESP COF 31 +45
11 Haimar ZUBELDIA AGIRRE ESP TFR 37 +45
12 Kenny ELISSONDE FRA FDJ 23 +51
13 Jakob FUGLSANG DEN AST 29 +53
14 Tanel KANGERT EST AST 27 +55
15 Tony GALLOPIN FRA LTB 26 +1:04
16 Leopold KONIG CZE TNE 27 +1:17
17 Mikel NIEVE ITURALDE ESP SKY 30 +1:27
18 Kristijan DURASEK CRO LAM 27 +1:27
19 Romain BARDET FRA ALM 24 +1:33
20 Jesus HERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ ESP TCS 33 +1:33

Last man home

167 Xabier ZANDIO ECHAIDE ESP SKY 37 +31:44

One rider failed to meet the time limit

OTL David BOUCHER FRA FDJ 34

Not bad Mr Froome, i ended up with 1,2,4,18 plus brandle.

1,2,8,16

1,2,4,16 Intxausti and Spilak went missing

Unbelievable ending to the stage!

Get in there Froome! And totally awesome to see Adam Yates up there in 8th.

Team did alright, but realised all through the final climb that Kelderman would have been a much better choice for both standard and purist teams than Nibali.

Great finish!

1,2,4,7,9 for me I think, but loads of pens.

Just stage-hunting this week, I'm not taking things as seriously as I did last season when I was trying to get as high as I could overall. My philosophy is that if I'm doing well after two days then I'll take the race seriously, if not then I'll have a bit of fun, take some risks and not worry about my overall position.

Don't know where Spilak disappeared to...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROOOOOOME!!!!!!!!!!

That was amazing!

Kwia, Thomas, Barta and Vorbyev, for all the good they did me yesterday, out. 2pens

Froome
Contador
Konig
Spilak
VDB
Intxausti
Jungels
Gougeard
Beltran

Purist
Froome
Contador
Spilak
Peraud
Konig
Jungels
Beltran
Gougeard
Vorobyev

Peraud finished 3 seconds down on Bardet yesterday and I assume he will be doing bugger all for the rest of the week.

Intxausti and Contador in for Kwiatkowski and Navardauskas

Froome
Contador
Jungels
Intxausti
Cunego
Spilak
Gougeard
Vorobyev
VanDenBroeck

Purist out-performed my standards yesterday(and may well do so again today).

Froome
Nibali
Contador
Spilak
Howard
Larsson
Gougeard
Berhane
Vorobyev

I had to make wholesale changes to get FroomeDog in.

Also decided to take a punt on Voeckler and Reichenbach, and put in Intxausti too.

Team is:

Froome
Contador
Voeckler
Reichenbach
Intxausti
Jungels
Spilak
Matzka
Vorobyev

Just one change for me , peraud out bardet. In