Stage 19 La Vuelta

57km and peloton closing to 4 mins 59 secs with the first of the 2nd cat climbs coming up. There's a sprint point after the 2nd cat so the GC teams might be lining up their teams for bonus secs.

64km to go and peloton down to 5 mins 22 secs, still 4 out front.

There's only 14kms to the end after the 2nd cat, perhaps Froome might get Wiggins to try and blast it up the 2nd cat and time trial it home, dont think Cobo could live with that, but then again he has lived with everything else.

escape at 5:50, no-one chasing yet.

put in Verdugo as well. Thought about Anton but wasn't sure he's be that many places above Wiggins even if he did win. Beginning to change my mind now, but we'll see.

On another note anyone tried the game Zweelers. You pay for a team, €1 for this stage, get 15 riders from various groups and play for prizes, €50 for top of stage. Got Anton for that but took out Verdugo this morning for Montaguti and left in Txurruka instead. Damn!!

Good call Gkam, never saw your advice to be honest, my loss, still he wont score too many points unless the break stays away for the win

Verdugo looking a good move - 2mins ahead with Igor Anton, Bruseghin and Dyachenko.

haha you took out lastras and i bought him in, oops

poor effort from sky to let mollema take more bonus seconds

First sprint:-
J-Rod
De La Fuente
Mollema

Also i think froome and sky need to go for the first sprint today looking at how close to the start it is

well ive kept montaguti incase and replaced poels with lastras, my allrounders are martin and ive brought in sagan as he should have enough to be there at the end today

Gkam84 wrote:

To me, Sky have the power to keep a break from getting away, so why not use it to get a time bonus, either that or send one of the not so great sky riders into the back of Cobo's wheel, send him tumbling and then drill it so he's no chance to get back on.

Something tells me that might be deemed as slightly unethical.

My men for today? LL Sanchez, Moreno and Nieve.