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La Vuelta Stage 21
So who's in your team today, I went out on a wing and a prayer. Changed everything up
Rinaldo Nocentini
Gianni Meersman
Luca Paolini
Michael Matthews
Klaas Lodewyck
Maximiliano Ariel Richeze
Tyler Farrar
Juan Antonio Flecha
Edvald Boasson Hagen
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Without adding up id hazard a guess that Gilbert scored more fantasy points than Pozzovivo, as although high on GC didnt have that many stage placings, but could be wrong, as Gilbert scored more than Sammy
Top 20 Scorers in the Vuelta
Nicolas Roche 504
Alejandro Valverde 481
Christopher Horner 477
Vicenzo Nibali 422
Daniel Moreno 358
Joaquin Rodriguez 331
Domenico Pozzovivo 199
Edvald Boasson Hagen 178
Leopold Konig 171
Fabian Cancellara 160
Thibaut Pinot 156
Philippe Gilbert 156
Rigoberto Uran Uran 150
Maximiliano Ariel Richeze 149
Michael Matthews 143
Daniele Ratto 141
Nicolas Edet 131
Gianni Meersman 128
Bauke Mollema 126
Samuel Sanchez 125
I live for moments like this
Fair enough, I hadn't added it up, it was just a guess, but its quite tight
Zubeldia shouldn't have been a surprise, he's finished inside the top 20 of a grand tour 9 times
Richeze was a good sprinter before his ban and has got some of his form back lately, but getting a little old for sprinting
The best Purist team possible for the Vuelta? Mostly climbers, of course... Here's my stab at what would have been the best possible Purist team :
40.0 Alejandro Valverde
29.1 Vicenzo Nibali
20.9 Daniel Moreno
14.3 Nicolas Roche
12.9 Christopher Horner
12.8 Domenico Pozzovivo
9.5 Leopold Konig
6.1 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze
3.0 Haimar Zubeldia
For a total of 2792 points... benwatson1989's Rouleurs Revenge Purist) got 2229 points with the following riders:
Alejandro Valverde
Vicenzo Nibali
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
Samuel Sanchez
Nicolas Roche
Tomasz Marczynski
David Arroyo Duran
Ivan Basso
Christopher Horner
I guess the biggest surpises for me were Richeze and Zubeldia, well, at least for the beginning of the Vuelta...
1= on a stage.
24th in purist overall and 1st in the forum.
187th overall but wasn't really playing for that after a bad start.
So not bad at all!
Congrats Alan! Foiled again - I've not won a purist or standard forum comp yet this season, despite being 25th overall in standard and 3rd (somehow) in purist!
50th in Vuelta purist and 95th in standard - I'll take that considering I came 575th in the Vuelta last year!
Thanks Chris. Wished I'd believed in Nicholas Roche but wasn't convinced by him even though he's the favourite rider of Phil Unwin, an erstwhile colleague. (Not convinced by Horner then or now but that's another thread and I don't want to set Gkam off on a rant
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13th on stage. unlucky in the sense that i mostly sucked otherwise
My best finish in a Grand Tour 82nd overall
& up into the top 50 overall!
1,2,5,8,13 + GC for Horndog, Nibs, Valderde & Roche.
60th on stage, finished 421st overall
Still, highest placed I've been on the whole of this Vuelta.
One winner on the final stage
1 Anaheim Dreamers capitalgull 185
I was MILES behind on 121 - 10
1,4,5,8,13 + Horner, Valverde, Nibali, edet
1,2,4,5,13,16
1,2,4,5,7,13
and a full house I think
Rubbish, just 1,5,13 for m
1 Michael MATTHEWS AUS OGE 23 2:44:00
2 Tyler FARRAR USA GRS 29 +0
3 Nikias ARNDT GER ARG 22 +0
4 Gianni MEERSMAN BEL OPQ 28 +0
5 Maximiliano Ariel RICHEZE ARG LAM 30 +0
6 Grega BOLE SLO VCD 28 +0
7 Adrien PETIT FRA COF 23 +0
8 Reinardt JANSE VAN RENSBURG RSA ARG 24 +0
9 Francesco LASCA ITA CJR 25 +0
10 Robert WAGNER GER BEL 30 +0
11 Lucas Sebastian HAEDO ARG CAN 30 +0
12 Daniele RATTO ITA CAN 24 +0
13 Edvald BOASSON HAGEN NOR SKY 26 +0
14 Rigoberto URAN URAN COL SKY 26 +0
15 Klaas LODEWYCK BEL BMC 25 +0
16 Zakkari DEMPSTER AUS TNE 26 +0
17 Tosh VAN DER SANDE BEL LTB 23 +0
18 Anthony ROUX FRA FDJ 26 +0
19 Vladimir ISAICHEV RUS KAT 27 +3
20 Michael MORKOV DEN TST 28 +3
Changed all bar two even though I had the subs for 9
Meersman
Valverde
Nocentini
Paollini
Farrar
Richeze
EBH
Horner
Flecha