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Giro stage 9
This is a big chance for the climbers and GC to rest their aching legs and let the sprinters have some fun, mind you Garmin & Hesjedal will need to keep an eye on things but as GT says Sky will probably help out to bring it all back together for a sprint.
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Well that was naff!! Gonna ruin me big time in the overall! Haven't got a clue what to do with my team now for tomorrow
Well i went from a possible 1, 2 plus any other sprinters in the mix to getting 6 and 7 plus gc points. A complete disaster but thats cycling for you, one day on top of the world the next sitting on your arse as everyone whizzes past
Only 14th today, not a whole load of GC points either, but i have 4 transfers over the people who brought back in sprinters. So i could make it up
But I'm pleased that Izaguirre has finally scored me some points and sticking faithfully with him
3,6,7,15,16,20th.... hmmmmm
Bollox. Dropping J rod and Scarponi for Goss and Cav has backfired just a wee bit.
I may have a near early season classicesque points failure on my hands
well considering i dropped trod for cav i picked up 93 i think!
Worst day of the Giro so far for me
thats gonna see me drop like a stone! need some luck tomorrow now!
That's 4, 6, 7, 16 and a boat load of GC/Jersey points, solid day today.
Unless the GC/Jerseys change I'm looking at 99 today.
1 Ventoso
2 Felline
3 Nizzolo
4 Caruso (yay!)
5 Schorn
6 Kristoff
7 Hesjedal
8 Brandle
9 Belletti
10 Impey
11 BRAMBILLA
12 VISCONTI Giov
13 CATALDO
14 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon
15 SOUPE
16 GASPAROTTO
17 DE GREEF
18 LAGUTIN
19 AGNOLI
20 TIRALONGO
Glad I brought in Caruso for the 'safe' points.
Ventoso
Felline
Nizzolo
Caruso
Schorn
Kristoff
Hesjedal
Brandle
Is all i got and then my sky cut out with "no signal"
Why is it only Eurosport i'm having an issue with
Arguably happier than if Goss had gone on to win, not because I've done particularly well but because those who're sprinter heavy won't score as many more points than me as they could have
I went from thinking "I'm going to go 1-2-3 with Cav Goss and Pozzato" to "They all crashed into each other!!!!!"
Crap.
Yeah, I was thinking similar with Cav and Goss, but I've been lucky and come out OK with Felline 2nd, Kristoff 6th and Hesjedal 7th on what will presumably be a low-scoring day... I'd have preferred to have seen them all stay up and taking each other on though. One thing - chances running out for the sprinters, so this might mean its unlikely they'll let anyone get away on Weds...
Either that or Goss will be so injured he'll drop out and every man and his dog will have Cav in their team making it a complete non-issue really.
If they had all stayed up on the corner, You could have had a massive haul today, unlucky
WTF are they doing putting a corner in like that, Also, What was my guy for today Pozzato playing at.
The only benefit to me was Goss and Cav getting held up and doing down
Wow. All my riders took each other out. Wow.
Pozzato, Goss, and Cavendish all crashed into each other.
Attack already over. J-Rod has to worry about losing time now!
Hope this sticks!
Wow. Rodriguez attacks with 6k to go. Strange.
Interesting - Cav goes for the intermediate sprint points...
Oh. Now RAI are saying it isn't raining. The clouds look pretty ominous going from those pics just now though.
Giro have confirmed raining at finish. Pozzovivo probably knew that already - apparently when not on the bike, he's either playing the piano or dabbling in amateur meteorology.
I love background like that
Fingers crossed it rains
anything to stop Cav from winning today.
But no KoM points on offer and (I think) only one sprint so not many points to be had from those riders.
My full team, hoping for a sprint today, is...
Cavendish, Goss, Modolo, Hesjedal
Kristoff, Guardini, Pozzovivo, Felline, Barta
For tomorrow I'll bring in Rodriguez and a cheap-ish star that I have a good feeling about for the stage win...
With not having much access. I left my team as was and will have 4 transfers tomorrow because i missed the deadline
Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Filippo Pozzato (FAR)
Daniel Moreno (KAT)
Jose Humberto Rujano (AND)
Domenico Pozzovivo (COG)
Dennis Vanendert (LOT)
Stef Clement (RAB) (withdrawn)
Arnaud Demare (FDJ)
Jon Izagirre (EUS)
According to FDJ's twitter, Soupe will be their protected rider today.
Rodriguez
Goss
Hesjedal
Gasparatto
Kristoff
Demare
Guardini
Caruso
Pozzovivo
expecting an average score, somewhere around 80, assuming no major changes in GC or other jerseys, I work it out as 38 points guaranteed before the actual stage result, max of around 120 if my DS sprinters do well.
My ideal situation today is for Cav to end up in a hedge 10km from the finish and for all the GC guys to be up in the top 20 to keep out of trouble.
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