Gent Wevelgem

Crash at the end ROJAS still down BUT

Boonen wins ahead of
Sagan
Breschel
Freire
Eddy Boss
Bennati
Marcato
Chainel
Pozzato
Visconti

What is going on, the ticker says

1 Tom Boonen OPQ 5:32:44
2 Peter Sagan LIQ +0
3 Matti Breschel RAB +0
4 Óscar Freire KAT +0
5 Grega Bole LAM
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen SKY +0
7 Daniele Bennati RNT +0

Spot the mistake, I've made it easy for you

Argh i dropped Eddy Boss for Gilbert last night

But so far i have 1st 2nd and 10th plus 5 bonus for OPQ rider who i also think was in the top 20

Rubbish!!! why does marcato do something when i dont have him! and man why did i go degenkolbn and ballan argh

Boonen
Sagan
Breschel
Freire
EBH

1,2, and 4, with a bonus for an OPQ DS. 120 I think. Had Sagan in and out near the end but finally stuck with him. He'll win one eventually.

Only failure was Degenkolb but at least he had a try to catch the first group. Off for a ride now, lovely weather in Cambridge.

Ballan might score you something, i don't know 11-20th but i think he might have rolled through after the crash from the tv replay

Degenkolb tried with some of the Cav group to get back, but no-one was willing, I think Sky listened to us and pulled all of the Sky boys off the front of the chase because Eddy Boss and Knees were up in front

In better news for British cycling Lizzie Armitstead won the woman's version today http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17506154

Have to stop letting my heart rule by putting Cav in every time!! Took Sagan out last thing last night

Here were my last min changes

Mar 24, 20:10 Peter Sagan Edvald Boasson Hagen
Mar 24, 20:10 Philippe Gilbert Mark Cavendish

So i swapped 6th for 2nd and 0 points for 0 points, should have just kept Eddy and swapped Cav for Sagan

Thought Cancellera might be sore so substituted him for Sagan

Original plan was Pozatto but he looked tired in E3 so subbed in Degenkolb and Pozatto did look tired in today's sprint, but he was in the 1st group and top 10.

Stuck with my original 2, Boonen & Freire

Picked wrong FDJ DS Chainel has been good past few years but I chose Ladagnous on E3 form

Hopefully Paolini just finished outside top 10.

Hopefully 1st, 2nd, 4th & 11th+ should see me hold my place in the overall, if not move up a couple of spots.

1, 2, 4 and 9 (out of the top 10 that I know about)

11. Van Summeren
12. Goss
13. Cancellara
14. Knees

according to Cyclingfever

That would suit me, i had Vansummeren

I don't know where Road.cc get the break away stats from, but Infostrada had 63 G. Izagirre (ESP, EUS) where as other places had Jon Izagirre, who was number 64

I had Rojas and I'm gutted that he fell in the last few metres. That's cycling I guess.

1 Tom Boonen OPQ 5:32:44
2 Peter Sagan LIQ +0
3 Matti Breschel RAB +0
4 Óscar Freire KAT +0
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen SKY +0
6 Daniele Bennati RNT +0
7 Marco Marcato VCD +0
8 Steve Chainel FDJ +0
9 Filippo Pozzato FAR +0
10 Giovanni Visconti MOV +0
11 Johan Vansummeren GRM +0
12 Matthew Goss GEC +0
13 Fabian Cancellara RNT +0
14 Christian Knees SKY +3
15 Jon Izagirre EUS +4
16 Daniel Oss LIQ +4
17 Anders Lund SAX +4
18 Maarten Wynants RAB +6
19 Vladimir Isaichev KAT +6
20 Oscar Gatto FAR +8

So it was Jon Izagirre that was in the break and will score 10 so that was another transfer i missed points on

Mar 23, 10:39 Pablo Urtasun Jon Izagirre

I had 1st, 2nd, 10th, 11th plus bonus 5 for team win so 116 points

Cav not even in top 50

http://skysports.html.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/event/wccycling/index...

So just 1st and 2nd....not good but nevermind

I could bet that Boasson Hagen crossed the line before Freire.

Dave, when are the scores going up?

1st, 2nd, 5th, 16th and not sure what else but looking fairly positive!

1st, 2nd, 10th, 13th and team bonus.happy days

45km to go

Leader(s) - 2 riders 3m12s ahead
63 G. Izagirre (ESP, EUS)
164 Lund (DEN, SAX)

7 riders def. 0m33s
94 Isaichev (RUS, KAT)
106 Y. Krivtsov (FRA, LAM)
184 S. Neirynck (BEL, TSV)
192 Barbé (BEL, LAN)
207 Van Melsen (BEL, ACC)
213 Fouchard (FRA, COF)
222 T. Bertolini (ITA, FAR)

First points of the day

63 G. Izagirre (ESP, EUS)
94 Isaichev (RUS, KAT)
106 Y. Krivtsov (FRA, LAM)
164 Lund (DEN, SAX)
184 S. Neirynck (BEL, TSV)
192 Barbé (BEL, LAN)
207 Van Melsen (BEL, ACC)
213 Fouchard (FRA, COF)
222 T. Bertolini (ITA, FAR)

All score 10 for leading by over a minute at the half way point with there being only 9 of them

The lead currently stands at 7m30s as they are about to hit the climbs

If you want a stream, its showing that it will go live around 14,30 Does that account for the clocks change?? your guess is as good as mine

http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/#

Still 9,20 gap, another 40 odd KM and those 9 riders above will get bonus for the break leading at half way

2 day, 3 stage Criterium

They have to fit other things in around and showed extended highlights of first 2 stages

I'm not finding ANYWHERE showing Gent though, so i'm guessing thats why Eurosport aren't showing it, they normally just leach of others TV camera's and have their own commentary

In other news, the break is now

max. lead 09m20s

And

Withdrawals
101 Bole (SLO, LAM), Abandoned

Yeah but only showing 1 day of the 3 day criterium!? What's that all about?

To be fair to Eurosport, There are 3 top races today and they are showing 2, they only have 2 channels (3 + HD), but i don't count that

So we cant have it all