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La Vuelta
Favourite race of the year.
No idea who to pick, such a strong field I could have picked two or three teams. Just have to see how it pans out and react accordingly.
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Yeah..will do. In fact better than that, I'll get them to do it.
Mohoric and Pinot DNS
Gosh. A few purist teams will have those two.
Mine for one.
Ouch. I think I've got lucky with my purist team. I swapped and changed umpteen times and so far I'm ok. The Giro team looked ok straight away.
Only Nibali Valter and Sagan left in my hopeless Giro purist team makes me think only losing Pinot so far in the Vuelta is a result.
Yeah...I'm down to four. What I meant was the team almost picked itself. Thomas, Yates, Sagan, Nibali, Demare, Matthews and co meant there wasn't much to dither over. Could have had three different teams completely for the Vuelta...even doing without any sprinters at all was an option in this.
Well, it looks like Hugh Carthy is firmly on his own if he wants to go for GC. The nearest teammate was nearly 19 minutes down. AG2R lost another rider today, 3 in the first 2 stages, I wonder if they will complete or find a "positive" to withdraw the whole team.
My home town rider Hugh Carthy sprinting with Roglic at the top of a summit finish in the Vuelta....what a lad.
Froome is valued at 3.0 and I still wouldn't pick him.
Same here. I went with Izagirre and Valverde for the first three stages (maybe). I kinda fancy both will want to put a show on, but neither will last in that strong field. I think this may be a step too far for the latter based on his form, and Izzy is bit flaky anyway.
My team
Standard or purist?
Both, I've gone for something different as I CBA with racing at the moment, it shouldn't be happening. I've got my purist squad and my standard the same, so both will run "as is" until someone isn't there and I can replace them in my standard. See how I get on.
Yeah, all good. I went with Martin, Elkssonde, Martinez, Chaves > Woods, Dumoulin, Mas and Izagirre. In truth I've had them all about three times over.
Martinez was in a crash and hurt his ankle, has got back in but looks sore.
Mathias Frank and IIan van Wilder have abandoned already, don't know if they were in a crash or not.
Woods comes to grief on road furniture poles. EF aren't having a great start to La Vuelta. He waved his team mates off aswell. Similar to what Martinez did.
Froome off the back, he's cooked already, no team mates or support
They must be the unluckiest team in the peleton by miles. Whoever approached that unmarked street furniture on that side was destined to hit it.
I would agree, but then I saw that Ag2r have lost two riders today. Ouch.
Woods is 18 minutes down, Froome and Ion Izagirre are 11 minutes down. I'd say unless you are in the top 40 on GC today at 4.30ish you are not winning La Vuelta.
Hadn't realised Martinez was so far down. Now what?...ride for Carthy?
He's not out of it by any means, but I think plan B will be actioned, with Woods riding for both and ultimately as the race progresses, either Carthy or Martinez will be shown as strong, with all weight being put behind one. Carthy is a decent rider and has been showing it for a few years, whether he's good enough to challenge for GC, I'm not sure yet as he hasn't really been tested like that.
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