Vuelta stage 15

I think Luis Leon Sanchez should have 4 points for today.

yeah i'll re-update that

Sammy should have 11 (3 GC +8 stage). Lulu 4 so no change for me.

Lulu is 2nd in the KOM so should have 4 points. Valverde is top, had him and Martin as yesterday. 41st on stage and should go up a few places with a few extra points although I do have Sammy as well so maybe not.

LL Sanchez showing as zero points today but I think he's still top 5 in the KOM. Have the points been given to Sammy by mistake or something?

Hmmm, not what i wanted, Froome lost a few seconds.

3,4,5,6,13,18 + Mas - standard.

6,7,18 + Mas and Lulu - purist

http://cricfree.sx/update/snone.php

working feed

cat 2
1 Niemiec (LAM)
2 Vandewalle (TFR)
3 Meyer (OGE)
30k left gap 5'
Martin a further 1'30' back

32 km to go lead down to 6'
Danny Martin 1' down on the main field

Sprint 2
1. John DEGENKOLB
2. Przemyslaw NIEMIEC
3. Cameron MEYER
Lead 9' 30'' 40k to go

Lead 10' 40'' 71km to go

Lead now 8'25''

Sprint 1
1. John DEGENKOLB
2. Przemyslaw NIEMIEC
3. Francisco Javier ARAMENDIA

John DEGENKOLB
Cameron MEYER
Kristof VANDEWALLE
Francisco Javier ARAMENDIA
Przemyslaw NIEMIEC
have a lead of 3' approaching the first sprint 100k to go

Well I decided not to take a penalty to get Lulu in today, as he is gonna need tomorrows points for KOM as would need to win today to make going in the break worthwhile.

So my team I hope to put me back on the podium and to close down Enrique

Froome
Aru
Contador
J-Rod
Sanchez
Navarro
Kudus
Craven
Mas

(oh and if Barguil wins, I will cry)

My team for today. With the way Caja Rural are riding i'm hoping either Mas or Domagalski go in the break today and you never know Koldo might have got some inspiration from yesterday and actually bothers his backside to do something.

Christopher Froome
Koldo Fernandez
Alberto Contador
Fabio Aru
Daniel Navarro
Joaquin Rodriguez
Samuel Sanchez
Karol Domagalski
Lluis Guillermo Mas

dropped valverde, and feel better and more loyal for having Froome back in the team!
Go Froome!!!

Froome
Contador
S Sanchez
Purito
Aru
Navarro
Mas
Le Mevel
Fominykh

I'm hopeless at "guess the breakaway". 23 riders yesterday and I had none of them. It'll be a different 23 today and I STILL won't have any of them. Perhaps this is why I don't threaten the rarefied upper reaches of the table.

Stage 15 of the 2012 Vuelta finished here and marked the beginning of the end of Froome's podium chances. He lost over half a minute to the unholy trinity of Bertie, Alejandro and Purito and after that he just went backwards...

Having foolishly dropped lulu I've brought him back in as a punt......

Froome
Contador
JRod
Sammy S
Navarro
Mas
D Caruso
Kudus
Lulu

I've kept Valverde. Couldn't afford Aru and Froome together so not worth the change.

Yeah, I haven't had Valverde in at all this Tour. Done my transfers, still have Uran and no Froome, if I had 0.1 more I could swap them for a ten-point pen, but I'm hoping Uran might fare better on the climb today. Paddy Power have Froome as favourite for the stage and Uran at 80/1 so they would certainly disagree!

Replaced Meintjes with an equally unlikely breakaway pick but after three in the top 7 yesterday I'm on a roll so why not?

Valverde is just too expensive to justify being on the roster when Aru and Martin are out there.

ive axed Valverde, need to make points up, ive had a terrible week, I could have had the Vuelta in the beg by now, Id still be leading but for two silly un-needed transfers in the first week

It may have a downhill section, but the last couple of km are uphill, if not slightly steeper than the finish for stage 13.