Milan - San Remo

Sounds about right, the break will have about 10 minutes when they get on the shuttle buses so seems fair.

Odd though that they're all getting on buses, wonder how long they'll be off the bike and whether they'll warm up again before carrying on.

Yeh i did a similar thing with my purist team changed it up from my standard but couldn't drop Sagan, so hoping at least 1 of my teams does well.

Almost zero thought went in to this. And the purist looks seriously left field.

STD:

Sagan
Cancellara
Thomas
Moser
Hushovd
Kiryienka
Offredo
Schar
Nordhaug

PURE:

EBH
Viviani
Bozic
Haussler
Stannard
Tjallingi
Oss
Flecha
Terpstra

This is going to turn into a MESS. No-one will go in the break, because they are just going to get stopped at 117km to be put on buses for 50km....

A few retirements already

The race will re-start in Arenzano in two hours: 137km from San Remo. Gap between six leaders and bunch is now at 9:15. 10km to Ovada. #msr

Well my standard team has already scored 10

Peter Sagan
Fabian Cancellara
Geraint Thomas
Tom Boonen
Juan Antonio Flecha
Vincent Jerome
Dominik Klemme
Pablo Lastras
Maarten Tjallingii

My Purist should do not to bad either

Peter Sagan
Vicenzo Nibali
Philippe Gilbert
Tom Boonen
Marcel Sieberg
Oscar Gatto
Jonas Aaen Jorgensen
Yoann Offredo
Grega Bole

https://mobile.twitter.com/taylorphinney/status/313261700155592704/photo/1

Tyler the snowman.

Ovada, km 117, the cyclists will be taken up by coach and across the highway, moved up to Arenzano, km 160, where it will be made again at 14.30 the gaps detected before Turchino. At that point they will be 137.2 kilometers to the finish line on the waterfront Italo Calvino. (Google translate with one change).

Just in time for Eurosport coverage we hope. Is this going to help the sprinters? I haven't got Cav this year as do few other teams. This will surely help him and Greipel or will the cold favour other riders?

a mentally tough MSR this year due to weather......Race will re-start at 15:00 and skip Le Manie

I'm not going to say this lightly, but I think there should be NO scoring today.

The goal posts have been moved and its screwed the race right up.

They have taken out nearly 100km now with some of the major parts of the race being cut. Its totally turned the race upside down....

NO SCORES

Scoring should go ahead regardless.

Its got to be a hard man today.

And they don't come much harder than Cancellara.

My line is its luck of the draw, and also because Le maine has been missed out still doesn't mean it will be a sprint and whoever will win will win. Scoring should go ahead

Organisers have cut Le Maine, and there are now 85K left to race at #msr for a race distance of 202K (down from 298K).

Cipressa is going to be very important now, which it hasn't been recently. Sprinters in with a better chance but the cold and rain don't suit them that much! The favourites are still the favourites, but Cav and Greipel could easily top ten. Degenkolb could do well I hope. If a race isn't cancelled scoring must go ahead. I would have thought Gkam84 would be happy; he's got someone in the break and maybe the unthinkable will happen and the break will stay out.

keep the scores its a fun game and its a bit petty to make it a zero score stage when technically the race is still running and has a winner.

its unfortunate and im sure we are all going to loose points in it but the end of the day its fun.

Boonen abandons

The have cut the heart out and made it like two stages now.

SHITE race now and I think 0 points all round is the fairest way. If I had thought this would happen, make picks would have been totally different

Terpstra, Boonen & Vandenbergh all out for OmegaPharma

Have to agree, we should still score it, this was unpredictable and to be fair nobody really should gain an advantage unless they specifically picked a team hoping for half the stage to be snowed off. If they did that then fair play to them, that's a hell of a risk to take. If half the field crash we'd score it, this stuff happens.

No one can say how the race will play out, the climbers and strong men will go hell for leather up any climb to drop the sprinters so anything could happen.

Zero points is utterly ridiculous! It's a race, if half the peloton woke up this morning and DNS because they didn't fancy it, you wouldn't zero the scores.
Plus with the recent late changes to stages, the game would lose a lot of credibility.

Still 130km to race not 85km

I don't think this race has changed at all, because the pace will be higher now

Scores should stand, a race is a race, if it starts and it finishes, its tough what happens between those two points.
When you pick a team you are not picking a guarantee and that has not changed in anyway. What you thought may happen may have changed, but what you thought may happen may not have happened anyway

You pick your team based on the route given and the startlist.

You don't pick it on 2/3 of a course. Taking out nearly 100km had totally changed the route and which riders should be picked.

Well if you are all wanting points, then at least this race should be taken out of the pot for winning the Garmin, to make things fair on everyone.

exactly no one in the right mind would pick it on 2/3 of a course so we should all be in the same boat and it is still all fair.

buy a lamp and lighten up

I make it they only took out about 50km anyway, they rode 120km stopped, then another 130km to the finish

Goss is out, theres one sprinter down

score it. These things happen.

Score it, looks like i've lost 2 riders from same team, these things happen.

You can't go around saying this race counts and this one doesn't, right in the middle of a race.

Stop throwing your toys out of the pram just because you're scared of getting a low score.