The most open ITT I can remember with no Wiggins,Cancellara,Froome,Evans etc.
Martin's form not the best and the course is not really the best for him but class is permanent or can Contador recover after his Vuelta exploits?I doubt anyone will have both with the quality DS' involved.
At least 2 and probably 3 of Chavanel,Kessiakoff,Pinotti and Tejay will most likely be in all teams and that may well be where the scoring splits occur.
Velits may be worth a go? Are we getting 5pt team-mate bonuses for trade teams?
Then the plethora of high priced DS' all with good claims to place highly.
Phinney is always a threat
Larsson may find it too lumpy
Westra will like the terrain and have home advantage
Meyer may be t-o-o-o expensive
Grabsch can destroy anyone on his day
Gretsch rounds out a good German team
Tuft took the ENECO ITT
Castroviejo is in ahead of some other decent Spanish TT'ers so must be in form
Plus a couple of real secret weapons with the right research.
Anyone looking at anyone outside of those mentioned?
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What happened to Westra?! Thought he had a live chance of a podium.
Roll on Sunday...
1,2,4,5 and 15 for me. I also had 21, 22, 23
Puncture or bear attack then!
Westra was 38th, Velits was 34th.
So my first team 2,4,5,9,12 +5 for winning country, also had 21,21,DNF and somewhere else
My reserve team was reserve for a reason then 3,19,23,25,27 and NONE of the stars to be seen
Official results at :
http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&Spor...
Has somebody got Luke Durbridge and Alex Dowsett mixed up? I seem to have 14 points I don't think I should have.
Seems that the above comment is right. Durbridge seems to have all Dowsetts points
I think so, Durbridge should have nothing
Also, Patrick Gretsch got a bonus for Martin winning, but Bert Grabsch not got the +5 for the winner??
I think there are a few mistakes.
How can 3 riders have 5 points but two are not German??
Gretsch gets for the winner, Meyer gets for being 16th home. But Fugly should have 0
Jakob Fuglsang RadioShack-Nissan 5
Cameron Meyer Orica GreenEDGE 5
Patrick Gretsch Argos - Shimano 5
Oh dear, my expensive ds' did nowt
Back to the drawing board, need a bloody marvellous road race to get anywhere near top fifty for comp.
I think a big shout out should go to Riccardo Zoidl, just because I like the team he comes from.
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yeah dream team still has Durbridge in with 14!!
My problem was thinking Martin wouldn't win, I thought he'd be 3rd home today, So I chose to leave him out in favour of having a couple of lower value stars and higher value DS's.
It nearly worked if Marco Pinotti had not gone down. Thats where my team failed. He was on for a top 3
Martin has been shite all year so never thought he would get anywhere near top 3 never mind win.
Not that i believe he has been on something but if he is going in for an op everyone else must have been really poor
Yep i did and he was blown away by Wiggo and nearly Froome as well despite them having buried themselves in completing the TdF and the Olympics road race.
There was no Cancellara either. I stick by my opinion he has been poor all season, but well done to him, you can only beat whats in front of you.
I agree he's had a poor year, but he was always going to finish in the top 3 today (especially with no Wiggins/Canc/Froome).
Poor all season??
He won the Tour of Belgium, 2nd ahead of Wiggo at Algarve and 5th behind some big names at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Not bad going, considering in the TdF he broke his wrist and still kept going for 9 stages before retiring to let it heal a bit before the Olympics. Where it was just a factor in his riding as he could not grip well. So I think he's done not bad.
Contador was shocking today though. I take it his meat products have stopped arriving in special packages
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Broken collarbone confirmed and operation required. Off to Herentals, Belgium tomorrow. Lots of time to think from now on.
Fuglsang's got his points - must have passed him
All fixed now - 14 points down Leagues still need updating
Kept Martin after nearly taking him out for Contador but decided this would be the one he'd be aiming at. Had Pinotti as well (looks like collar bone but let's hope not, nasty crash) but still got 1,2,4,5 + 12 and 5 points for Grabsch (had him in for a place but 5 still useful). Think I was one of the highest of the teams with Pinotti on 149. Lucky some of the other stars around that price didn't do so great; Velits, Chavanal, de Gendt all scoring low. Changed Velits for Kessiakoff fortunately.
Roll on road race. That's going to be very difficult to predict, could be another Amstel Gold with very low scores.
Did you watch the Olympics?
He thought so too! Apparently, he cannot TT in the rain or in wet conditions. He chickened out in the corners and couldn't find his mojo on the straights. So much for his nickname "the Animal"...
Top 20
Martin
Phinney
Kiryienka
Van Garderen
Kessiakoff
Gruzdev
Barta
Dowsett
Contador
Malori
Grivko
Tuft
Kangert
Zoidl
Chavanel
Meyer
Koren
Roy
Larsson
De Gendt
21+
Durbridge
Castroviejo
Sergent
Vandewalle
Kelderman
Bodnar
Gretsch
Tamouridis
Fisanov
Jurco
Bewley
Oyarsun
Last man :- Lengyel
2 DNF, Pinotti and Borgersen
Abit rubbish, 4,5,9,16 and then 21,22,25,27 and who knows here velits came
1 Martin
2 Phinney
3 Kiryenka
4 TJVG
5 Kessiakof
6 Gruzdev
7 Barta
8 Dowsett
9 Conrador
10 Malori
11 Grivko
12 Tuft
13 Kangert
14 Zoidl
15 Chavanel
16 Meyer
17 Koren
18 Roy
19 Larsson
20 De Gendt
Or 9th as he comes home behind Dowsett
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