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Tour de Romandie: Prologue: Ascona
Starting this early(going riding before it gets to wet later) so Enrique can't hijack it either 
I've ignored the high priced riders so that i can get good spread of TTers.
Gone really random with my Purist 
Standard
Tejay Van Garderen (BMC)
Rohan Dennis (GRS)
Andrew Talansky (GRS)
Michael Hepburn (OGE)
Stef Clement (BLK)
Jeremy Roy (FDJ)
Lieuwe Westra (AST)
Riccardo Zoidl (TFR)
Nathan Earle (SKY)
Purist
Mathias Frank (IAM)
Tony Martin (OPQ)
Tejay Van Garderen (BMC)
Andrew Talansky (GRS)
Kenny Elissonde (FDJ)
Riccardo Zoidl (TFR)
Nathan Earle (SKY)
Johann Tschopp (IAM)
Jay McCarthy (TSB)
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just 2,5,9,11 for me
Glad I didn't change my team....Dennis, Nizzolo and Sergent were all in my team that I did not click submit to because I felt it just wasn't right
1,2,12,19 so far with 3 to play in standard
1,3,5,19 in purist with 3 to play
Better hope for no more crashes then.
That will explain how he managed to lose 3:27 to Kwia - might have lanterne rouge for first time this season!
STANDARD:
Panzer
DoubleM
DoubleS
TiVo
The Menace
Freddie K
Pink Shoes
Toby Jug
LPN
PURIST:
Nico in for TiVo
DC in for DoubleM
Top of The Shop in for Toby Jug
JackieBob in for LPN
Koldo in for The Menace
Oh balls! Just realised that t.v. coverage is on sky sports
http://www.sportlemon.tv/20140429/vv535ecce8284297.51799054-809217.html
decent link
Thanks but can't use my computer anyways. I'lljust stick to this http//tissot.matsport.fr/
Don't know how reliable this is but saw this on twitter!
'Tejay Van Garderen has crashed in the Romandie Prologue..!'
That'll be 10 points in the bag for both teams
I was just thinking at least he is not in my purist team when you came up with that gem.....Put a smile on my face. Thank you!
TJ has reportedly crashed - 2:16 (minutes, not seconds) down at the intermediate
Live leaderboard at ...
http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/Tribune/index...
Standard:
Tony Martin
Navardauskas
Rohan Dennis
Mihorific
Spilak
Teacup in the Garden.
Hepburn
Zoidl
Schurtlifter
Purist:
Kettle
Talentatsky
Spilak
Peraud
Chernridersatsky
Zoidl
Dillier
The Menace
Hepburn
Std
Zoidl
Hepburn
Peraud
Kwiatkowski
Earle
Spilak
Roux
Dennis
Schurter
Prologue - wanted to avoid too many transfers out tomorrow
Peraud
Talansky
Dennis
Martin
Hepburn
Zoidl
Armee
Mohoric
Mezgec
Purist - Decided I couldn't afford Froome and I wanted some sprinters. This will either go very very well or very very badly, I see no middle ground.
Peraud
Talansky
TJ
Zoidl
Mezgec
Nizzolo
Reichenbach
Mederel
Armee
After all the usual claptrap about budgets this and difficulty that. The fact that everyone has got quite a fair few different riders (I believe everyone thinks people having different riders is a good thing) all with a good shout of doing well shows the organisers got it right (as usual) and it should be an exciting race. I'm sure this will in no way stop people complaining in the future.
After all the usual claptrap about budgets this and difficulty that. The fact that everyone has got quite a fair few different riders (I believe everyone thinks people having different riders is a good thing) all with a good shout of doing well shows the organisers got it right (as usual) and it should be an exciting race. I'm sure this will in no way stop people complaining in the future.
In fairness it was one person complaining and everyone else disagreeing with him
And that one person complains about everything so it's best just to ignore them.
Standard
Mathias Frank
Simon Spilak
Tosh Van Der Sande
Ion Izaguirre
Thomas De Gendt
Tanel Kangert
Jeremy Roy
Sam Bewley
Koldo Fernandez
Purist
Christopher Froome
Michal Kwiatkowski
Kenny Elissonde
Thomas Voeckler
Laurens Ten Dam
Christopher Sutton
Albert Timmer
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Fredrik Kessiakoff
I didn't know what to do here for standard, so I thought I would go all out on prologue.fingers crossed.
Standard:
Tony Martin
Rohan Dennis
J C Peraud
Navardauskas
Ion Izaguirre
Sven Tuft
Micheal Hepburn
Jack Bobridge
Damien Gaudin
Nice Aussie flavour there:)
Purist:
Chris Froome
TeeJay Van Garderen
Andrew Talansky
Simon Spilak
J C Peraud
Nathan Earle
Edward Beltran
Kolo Fernandez
Nino Schurter
Good Luck everyone.
Std: Have gone for a few on this, but wanted to limit my 10pt deductions a bit for tomorrow.
Michal Kwiatkowski (OPQ)
Rohan Dennis (GRS)
Simon Spilak (KAT)
Ion Izaguirre (MOV)
Tony Martin (OPQ)
Nathan Earle (SKY)
Riccardo Zoidl (TFR)
Damien Gaudin (ALM)
Koldo Fernandez (GRS)
And Purist: Hopefully a few stage winners, but not much in the way of GC contenders
Michal Kwiatkowski (OPQ)
Simon Spilak (KAT)
Riccardo Zoidl (TFR)
Marcel Kittel (GSH)
Tony Martin (OPQ)
Brett Lancaster (OGE)
Oscar Gatto (CAD)
Nathan Earle (SKY)
Damien Gaudin (ALM)
It's only a bit longer than a pursuit today so gone for a few ex-track guys...
Kwiatkowski
Martin
Hepburn
Gaudin
Dennis
Sergent
Kittel
Kern
Hivert
Purist isn't actually all that different with tejay, nizzolo, albasini and roux in for the prologue guys. Not very gc-heavy...
Standard:
Tony Martin
Navardauskas
Rohan Dennis
Kittel
Clement
Grivko
Hepburn
Zoidl
Gaudin
Purist:
Froome
Tony Martin
Spilak
Peraud
Ludvigsson
Zoidl
Ignatyev
Gaudin
Fernandez
I see you found gaudin too Doctor at a bargin price. I couldnt manage to fit him in purist by 0.4
Actually now I look our purist teams are pretty similar.
Martin
Peraud
Hepburn
Spilak
Dennis
Navadauskas
DVP
Zoidl
Earle
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