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Paris-Nice: Stage 1
Right, team picked. Five sprinters, three sprinting all-rounders and the current leader's jersey holder. Hoping he remembers his track legs For the final km's after a day on the roads.
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Balls out of the bath time for me as well - mine's a sprint-heavy squad.
Couldn't resist tinkering with my squad, which I had picked specifically with saving transfers in mind. Brought in Kelderman and Soupe in the hope they'll finish at the front somewhere and get me GC points (no Viviani though, which seems to run contrary to most others - could be egg on face time come this evening).
Expecting big things from Bouhanni today and tomorrow...
bouhanni
Renshaw
porte
Chav
Kittel
Vivianni
Peraud
kristoff
Westra
Personally my pick for leader at the end of the day is Viviani, especially given that three have gone up the road so there shouldn't be any bonus seconds available out of the peloton to the likes of Chavanel.
In fairness though my extra sprinter is Hutarovich who is either great, or awful, and could do absolutely nothing today. Having Meersman may put you ahead tomorrow (assuming you keep him) as it's not such an easy finish.
I too have also gambled on the enigma that is `Hutarovich`.....Good....Bad.....and nothing in between...
I was thinking he could actually do something on stage 3, same with Hivert.
Actually hoping Grivko goes in the break to try and take the bonus seconds
My team still not looking great
I dont even have all the sprinters you guys have, and you guys have GC points too!
Bouhanni
Kristoff
Kittel
Renshaw
Viviani
Hivert
Meersman
Grivko
Tejay
You're right, Viviani and Renshaw have the chance of taking the lead at the finish plus there are 3, 2 & 1 seconds available at each of the two intermediate sprints.
My team for today:
Westra
Chavanel
Hivert
Renshaw
Viviani
Kittel
Bouhanni
Hutarovich
Kristoff
Mine is as above, except replace Hivert and Westra (incidentally both in my purist team) with Matthews (bit of a shot in the dark) and Gallopin.
I had 6 sprinters and 3 TTers for yesterday, so kept Chavanel and brought in 2 more sprinters as the winds don't look like they'll cause problems today. Hoping for a good day - although I'm sure a lot of people will have similar teams...
My French isn't great, but from scanning the rules, I think that the stage winner gets 10 secs bonus, then 6 and 4 - so sprinters that had a good prologue will have their eye on the Yellow Jersey...
Made 4 transfers which will hopefully pay off next 2 days and give me some green arrows??
Got rid of geniez and larsson...heres hoping for better scores on stage two
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