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Stage 9 - ITT, Arc-et-Senans to Besançon
Big day today, will Cancellara win? how's Tony Martin doing? will Froome go all out or settle for his domestique roll? Lots of questions today and it should be as interesting.
My team, made four transfers (40 penalty points):
Wiggins
Evans
Froome
Gusev
Zabriskie
Jeandesboz
Levarlet
Boeckmans
Izagirre
Unless I have a good day today I'll be calling it a day on my title challenge (a'la Gesink) and shooting for a stage win.
Oh, and the transfer window has closed and the stage has just started. Good luck everyone.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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I hope Wiggo can put in a good time, but I don't see him doing a 52. As it stands I have 3 in the top 10, so I'm hoping only Wiggo can go under 54.33
With you on this one drh.....Wiggins comfortably....
Sorry, Cancellara is storming it but I still reckon Wiggins is in with a good shout. The climb in particular should help him more than Cancellara, plus, if he's doing his Discovery Channel thing he may even out pace his support car today...
I'm calling it now, without Canc even finished, he's going to win it, Over a minute up at the second split......He's found his TT legs today
Martin had puncture again in an time trial!
so Canc will prob come in nearer 50min mark!
Hat's off to The Jensie......2nd at the first chrono
Shit the bed he's flying
shouldn't be suprised really, he did put in a stormer in California
And he was nailing it for a good portion of yesterday's stage. Chapeau Jens.
He's such a star! I don't think he'll retire quietly and voluntarily - it'll take several big blokes to drag him away in a strait jacket
Currently i've no riders in the top 20
But i do have the current slowest rider Engoulvent
He should stay there unless one of the big guns goes round in under 50 minutes, at which point he's outside of the cut-off and DQ'd
Never trust Gustav Larsson's twitter.
EDIT - Although thinking about it, I brought in Westra for Larsson so I should be happy.
Zabriskie only 7th with probably at least 5 or 6 faster guys to finish, looks like bringing him in was not worth 20 penalty points after all
Always unlikely to finish top 5(minimum requirement for 20 penalty points)and nowhere in any of the GC/pts/KOM comps!!
Martin goes fastest by half a minute!!
first 3 of mine to finish are sitting 2nd,9th and 12th with some major guns to come-really anticipating top50 on the stage
I'm hoping for points from LL Sanchez today
Excellent, I have neither but I reckon more people will have Westra than Martin so the more people quicker than Westra the better
Tony Martin 13 seconds better than Westra at first time check
Current top 5
1. Westra
2. Larsson
3. LL Sanchez
4. Millar
5. Gretsch
Zabriskie 1 minute down at the first check, Lancaster same at first check, 2 minutes down at the second.
Zabriskie,Grabsch and Grivko from the DS' perhaps.....Kessiakoff,Taaramae,Rogers from the stars but probably not good enough to top 4 if Martin's on form.
Larsson,LuLuSanchez,Westra look to be the early 1/2/3.
Everyone seems to be talking up Cancellara and Wiggins as top two, then Evans and Martin as 3 & 4 in any order. Does anyone think there are any other riders capable of breaking into the top 4? Froome, Millar, anyone?
Also probably more importantly, how will Nibali, Van den Broeck and Menchov do in relation to Wiggins/Evans?
took my penalty yesterday bringing in rogers a day early
Evans
Van Garderen
Rogers
Wiggins
Lancaster
Roux
Zabriskie
Boeckmans
Bernaudeau
for me. 5 or six in the top 20 would do
Penalties are an excellent idea if you want a stage victory. In fact they make it a bit easy. Take a big pen one day for glory the next. Useless for the overall though.
Taken a penalty today
had a mare last 2 days so hoping for a better showing today. Couldn't get Evans in either(being biased towards Wiggo was a factor) 
Menchov
Wiggo
Rogers
Cancellara
Vichot
Izagirre
Lancaster
Engoulvent
Morkov
Didn't think martin was worth it today!
Almost as mean as the BBC 'gloating' over Sammy Sanchez' injuries and the so-called 'boost' to Cav's Olympic chances.
Personally,if Sanchez was even a contender then Cav has no chance.....as it is it made no difference to the Olymic Road Race favourites(Greipel/Cav/Gerrans/Goss/Gilbert/Sagan).And if France get their track sprinter Bourgain over the undulations then I think he'll blow Cav away!!
Bouhanni might stand a remote chance of winning but if Bourgain wins his first road race in the Olympics that would be a miracle. I would have thought if the sprinters get dropped then Boonen and the Belgium team in general has the best chance. Sagan has a good chance but he hasn't outsprinted Boonen yet.
I went for these, not ideal but best I could do considering what a mess my team was in yesterday!
Wiggins
Cancellara
Brajkovic
Peter Velits (bad choice for last 2 days but is an improving TTer)
Zabriskie
Grivko
Jeandesbosz, Bouet, Simon
Hopefully at least four of the top six can pick up good points, then I'll recalibrate on the rest day with the four free transfers and have another go...
I wonder how many picked Cancellara and Martin, personally I figured Wiggins, Froome and Evans could well outscore them with their guaranteed GC/KoM standings points.
That's just plain mean
I think I can get 7 out of the top 20 with any luck:
Wiggins
Rogers
Taaramae
VanGarderen
Pinot
Westra
Boeckmans
Grabsch(in for Morkov)
Zabriskie(in for Cantwell)
Hope the early deadline caught a few out!!!
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