Giro D'italia Stage 19

Well Ive left my team be for today

So 6 sprinters in for the last stage

Brought in Visconti for Stage 18 which looked so good for him and he did nothing... pleasantly surprised to wake up and see him picking up points left and right today. I wonder whether he or Intxausti will be active tomorrow...

Dropping Aru a bit of a mistake but with no Visconti I wouldn't have won the stage in any case. Four tied at the top. Made three changes and still got eight left for a final crack at the sprint.

Fair enough decent take, we shall see tho. The question now is what to do for tomorrow. Do i take out trofimov or intauxsti, hmmmm

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Esp) Tinkoff - Saxo 78:48:40
2 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team +4:37
3 Mikel Landa Meana (Esp) Astana Pro Team +5:15
4 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team +8:10
5 Leopold König (Cze) Team Sky +10:47
6 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha +11:11
7 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Cannondale - Garmin +12:05
8 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team +12:14
9 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL - Jumbo +12:53
10 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ +15::07

Mountains
1 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 125
2 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL - Jumbo 109
3 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Esp) Movistar Team 107
4 Mikel Landa Meana (Esp) Astana Pro Team 76
5 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Ag2r La Mondiale 75

1,2,5,6,7,12,15 for me + intauxsti, betancur. May be an ok score but not good

1 ARU Fabio ITA AST 6:24:13 0:00
2 HESJEDAL Ryder CAN TCG 6:24:41 0:28
3 URAN URAN Rigoberto COL EQS 6:25:23 1:10
4 KANGERT Tanel EST AST 6:25:31 1:18
5 KRUIJSWIJK Steven NED TLJ 6:25:31 1:18
6 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto ESP TCS 6:25:31 1:18
7 LANDA MEANA Mikel ESP AST 6:25:31 1:18
8 KONIG Leopold CZE SKY 6:25:34 1:21
9 NIEVE ITURALDE Mikel ESP SKY 6:25:37 1:24
10 GENIEZ Alexandre FRA FDJ 6:26:37 2:24
11 CARUSO Damiano ITA BMC 6:26:40 2:27
12 AMADOR Andrey CRC MOV 6:26:40 2:27
13 MONFORT Maxime BEL LTS 6:27:02 2:49
14 MONSALVE Jonathan VEN STH 6:27:02 2:49
15 TROFIMOV Yury RUS KAT 6:27:02 2:49
16 VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen BEL LTS 6:27:02 2:49
17 ATAPUMA HURTADO Darwin COL BMC 6:28:56 4:43
18 FELLINE Fabio ITA TFR 6:29:27 5:14
19 MOINARD Amael FRA BMC 6:29:27 5:14
20 PELLIZOTTI Franco ITA AND 6:29:27 5:14

Bah thats not a good day for me with trof and amador nowhere to be seen

Amador and Trofimov nowhere to be seen.

Uran goes ahead of Contador group. Whoever left him in should be happy.

Aru
Hesjedal
Kruijswijk
Contador
Konig
Landa
Nieve
Kangert
Uran, now goes ahead of the two above.

Aru drops Hesjedal. Not quite so predictable as I thought. Uran and Nieve also doing well.

Hesjedal again and gets a gap. Now Landa.

Aru attacks Hesjedal follows.

Hesjedal on the attack but Aru looks stronger today. Kruijswijk also there.

Took out Intxausti and he finally gets some points but not many thank god. Visconti the big winner but Kruijswijk will probably get more points at the finish as I think Visconti will be caught.

Betancur first over cat 3
Battaglin abandoned

Break
Betancur and Montaguti (Ag2r), Rutkiewicz (CCC), Ulissi (Lampre), Visconti (Movistar), Chaves (Orica), Kochetkov (Katusha), Van der Lijke (Lotto NL), Kiryienka (Team Sky).
35''

Identical teams is boring, but it doesn't look like Pirazzi or Pellizotti have made the break this time (still early tho...) Nearly brought in Trofimov for one of them but would've been too pissed off if I'd have dropped the wrong one!

Original plan was to bring in Kiryienka, but decided to save a transfer and had a fiver on him at 150/1 instead...

Contador/Aru/Landa
Hesjedal/Kruiswijk/Betancur
Pirazzi/Pellizotti/Intxausti

didn't quite have the nerve to take Aru out for Hesjedal.