USA Pro stage 1

It was good for me, in that I didn't bother with sprinters and most of my gc picks were in the lead group, and I had Jacques-maynes. However it's probably the first race reijnen has been in where I haven't picked him. Should be set up well for today tho...

And the to DNF, OTL riders were not apparent at 2am in the morning

Using the UCI as I normally do for the USA pro, the end of the stage looks like this

125 Jure KOCJAN SLO SSC 30 +12:11
126 Kevin DE MESMAEKER BEL TNN 23 +12:11
OTL Graham BRIGGS GBR RCJ 31 +26:46
DNF Fred RODRIGUEZ

Kocjan, J. Last according to the results. Does he not get 10 points?

Hmmm... You know you aren't too good at picking for a race when your purist significantly outscores your standard on day one! Still, had Reijnen in both, so not all doom and gloom.

Results seem abit of a mess on the official site, as they have Formolo and Kiserlovski as riding. 100% certain Kiserlovski isn't riding and pretty certain neither is formolo, seems they have just subbed in the riders from the provisional list into there results. Oh and Beltran is in the results twice

Anyway scores going up as I don't think there results affect what we score and are correct as far as they go

and I picked the winner of the stage...woohoo
Kiel wins the sprint

Anyone tell me whether it was cooke or maynes 2nd and who was 4th at 1st mountain?

Got the 1st sprint and 2nd mountain and 1st and 3rd on 1st mountain, and im informed it was cooke 2nd on 1st mountain (but may have been maynes)

Standard

Viviani
Routley
Cooke
Reijnen
Cantwell
Fast freddie
House
Oram
TJ

Purist

TJ
Zoidl
E King
Oram
Kocjan
Euser
H Carthy
Norris
Rosskopf

Standard is the below 7 plus House and Jacques-maynes. Purist is the same 7 plus viviani and kocjan. Wrote off today as too hard to call and picked a team with stages 2 & 3 in mind...

Tejay
Acevedo
Danielson
Zoidl
Beltran
Carter Jones
Euser

My teams

Majka
Tejay
Danielson
Rosskopf
Viviani
Reijnen
Kocjan
Zabel
Norris

Purist

Majka
Tejay
Danielson
Carter Jones
Euser
Rosskopf
Vivani
Kocjan
Norris

well I have at least one in the break.

Looks like Rosskopf,Kocjan and Carthy will be riding shirtless?

Earliest live video is 9.10pm GMT

http://www.steephill.tv/usa-pro-cycling-challenge/

I thought that it might be a sprint so had what i think are the 2 fastest(Viv and JayCee) in the race plus GC guys and Cycling News special recommendations

STANDARD
Viviani and Cantwell the sprinters

Carthy,Kocjan and Rosskopf the CN picks

Tejay,Magicman,RickyZee,LionKing the GC guys

PURIST
Viv,Rosskopf,Magicman,Tejay,Kocjan,LionKing,Carthy,Busche,Huzarski

Didn't really research any of the 'Board and Planks' other than the aforementioned CN 10 to watch article

Purist:
Rosskopf
Kocjan
Van Garderen
Rogers
Putt
House
Konig
Jones (Carter)
Voigt

Stage 1 is very hard to call. Was a reduced field sprint last year where Sagan beat Van Avermaet. My team:
Reijnen
Danielson
Voigt
De La Cruz
Kocjan
Jones (Carter)
Euser
Van Garderen
Cantwell (a bit a gamble, but only 6.7 pts)

Rafal Majka
Leopold Konig
Will Routley
Ivan Basso
Kiel Reijnen
Peter Stetina
Jose Joao Pimenta Costa Mendes
Zachary Bell
Graham Briggs

Christopher Jones
Jacob Rathe
Riccardo Zoidl
Michael Schar
Martin Kohler
Janier Alexis Acevedo
Will Routley
Ivan Basso
Jonathan Clarke