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Giro Stage 5
So another mass sprint today...it will be interesting to see how sprint heavy/light teams may be with the current terrain change coming up and only 4 transfers able to be had at any one time
I have saved 1 transfer to go with my other 2 tomorrow and ended up with this team for today after 3 transfers
Cav
Goss
Bennati
Visconti
Demare
Kristoff
Ulissi
Meersman
Navadauskas
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Just waiting for what ever sprint and youth points are!
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Top 20 stage
1 CAVENDISH
2 GOSS
3 BENNATI
4 HUNTER
5 MODOLO
6 KRISTOFF
7 FAVILLI
8 BELLETTI
9 DEMARE
10 JORGENSEN
11 CARUSO
12 DELAGE
13 MAES
14 RENSHAW
15 NIZZOLO
16 RUBIANO
17 THOMAS
18 ROBERTS
19 BAKELANTS
20 BENEDETTI
Top 10 GC
1 NAVARDAUSKAS
2 HUNTER
3 HESJEDAL
4 GOSS
5 CAVENDISH
6 THOMAS
7 BOARO
8 VANDEVELDE
9 RODRIGUEZ
10 KRISTOFF
Happy 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 9th today
GC 1st, 4th, 5th, 10th
Points 1st, 2nd
KOM 1st
Young rider 1st, 3rd
Hopefully did a little better than those around me
Big changes tomorrow, have 4 transfers to use
1,2,3,6,9th pretty decent, and much better....now will it be a sprint tomorrow?? gonna axe Cav I think and Bennati, and keep Goss and Demare
1,2,3,6,9th pretty decent, and much better....now will it be a sprint tomorrow?? gonna axe Cav I think and Bennati, and keep Goss and Demare
Meersman may have to be axed though again, and waste a transfer!
1st 4th 6th 7th but shudda kept Cav. . . thought he might be a bit injured for the sprint, and picked farrar . . . sobs . . . good bye bike.
And i've gone for a 20pt penalty for tomorrow so that i can afford to put the winner in the squad, and get rid of theo bos. . . going down a ski jump is too steep for TB
1st 4th 6th 7th but shudda kept Cav. . . thought he might be a bit injured for the sprint, and picked farrar . . . sobs . . . good bye bike.
And i've gone for a 20pt penalty for tomorrow so that i can afford to put the winner in the squad, and get rid of theo bos. . . going down a ski jump is too steep for TB
Woot! one of the stages I needed to make up for a bad Paris-Nice, made up 80 points on No.1 spot and 40 points on most teams above me in overall. Still need a couple more stages like it.
Almost had Modolo in my team instead of JJ Haedo (did on during pre stage 4 workings, but decided Saxobank better chance in TTT & was right).
Still made the right transfers yesterday, Kristoff for Phinney (I wanted Kristoff for stage 6) & Demaere for Rasmusseun (almost went Guardini but wanted option of Pozzato for stage 6 and would be problematic with two FAR riders in my team)
Damn you!! Just when I think I'm getting ahead I f*** up big time. Should have looked at Twittter before I made my transfers and found out wife and kiddy were at the finish. No way would I have changed him then! And what happened to Hushovd! Annoying thing is I intended to have Bennati and Kristoff originally.
The only good thing is the leader of the Giro only scored 4 more points than me so I'm not as far back as I thought.
1st and 2nd +5 plus GC points for me and I think I may have points for the break also
I'm liking the GC,
Navardauskas
Hunter
Hesjedal
Goss
Cav
Thomas
Boaro
Vandevelde
J-Rod
Kristoff
So i have 1,5,6th in that
1,5,6,7th for me.
Sweet!
1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
I've got 1,3,9,17 +5, plus GC 1,5,6
1,2,3 and 9. Nearly put hunter in but saved a transfer for tomorrow
Finally, after a couple of average scores! 1st, 2nd and 4th. Happier.
I'd planned on bringing in Bennati since the rest day, but Farrar's GC points tempted me away.
Similar story for me - almost brought Cav back in but Farrar's GC position swayed me. Still - Goss, Bennati and Kristoff make it my best (least bad?) day since the Prologue...
Get in there woohoo !!!!!!!!
Cav
Goss
Bennati
Hunter
Modolo
Kristoff
Favilli
Belletti
Demare
Jorgensen
Caruso
Delage
Maes
Renshaw
Nizzolo
Cav wins. GREAT train from Sky there for a change, just like HTC last year
Farrar was a waste of a transfer.
At work so cant see tv but thats 3 of my team already out the back.
I now see why Cav is still in there, must be gassed, But Peta and baby Cav are waiting at the finish line for him
Ferrari and Guardini out the back also. Surprised Cav is still in there
Theo Bos out the back, classic commentary today
"There is Bos, thats not surprising, he has trouble with a road bridge, let along this"
He's really not have the best few days is he?
Just got a slap on the backside from the wing mirror
Hushovd dropped. Might not be such a bunch sprint after all... we'll see...
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