Tour de France Stage 16

De gendt and Kadri in the break. Only brought in De Gendt so pretty happy. Still got points for Froome and Quintana. So now it depends on what happens.

65km ish to go, break 8'20" ahead. I can't see anyone trying to claw this back now so I reckon your top 20 will come purely from the break.

Now, who's the favourite? Costa? Gilbert? Gallopin? Albasini? Voeckler? De Gendt? Maybe the Honey Badger (Navardauskas)?

Gosh darn it, dropped out Kadri yesterday in favour of Chavanel, who I thought would get into a break.

Now just have Hoogerland in the break. Reckon a one of the various Frenchman will be desperate to grab a win. Can see either Voeckler pulling away for a solo, or if it comes down to the bunch, maybe Gallopin at the finish.

Got Rui Costa in my roaduk team as well. Going better than Sat.

De Gendt takes maximum points at the sprint. Break now nearly 10 minutes behind with 50km to go. Peloton having an extended rest day by the sounds of it.

Boo! Hoogerland picks up sprint points:

1. De Gendt (VCD) 15pts
2. Hoogerland (VCD) 14pts
3. Jeannesson (FDJ) 13pts
4. Gilbert (BMC) 12pts
5. Meyer (OGE) 11pts
6. Albasini (OGE) 10pts
7. Riblon (ALM) 9pts
8. Kadri (ALM) 8pts
9. Marino (SOJ) 7pts
10. Trofimov (KAT) 6pts
11. Velits (OPQ) 5pts
12. Didier (RTL) 4pts
13. Narardauskas (GRS) 3pts
14. Gautier (EUC) 2pts
15. Kloden (RTL) 1pt

Maximum sprint points for De Gendt, Thank you Dave Atkinson!

Marino/Kadri on the attack, this is good for me as I have neither, hopefully they'll burn themselves out and not feature at the finish.

25km to go, Marino/Kadri 25" up on the break, the break itself is more than 11'30" up on the peloton.

At this rate Navarro will be up to 13th overall.

De Gendt dropped

i got 15 for de gendt and 14 for hoogs at the sprint, which is probably enough to be above average on this stage on its own

Costa is going to win but it's all kicking off behind, Contador and Kreuziger are trying to 1-2 Froome and break him on this final climb. Race wise it's interesting, fantasy wise it's not as it'll do nothing except possibly shed Mollema and change the GC points slightly.

There are no words

epic fail

Shame about Voeckler but glad I kept Quintana - should be 20pts for him!

56 points despite having four in the break. Not good

25-30 escapees, that's almost 17% of the riders left in the race.....and I manage pick none!! 24 lousy points..

Improbably, despite something of a 'jour sans' (sixty points), I ended up rising 17 places in the competition overall. Now broken into the top 300 for the first time, hopefully keep making these slow rises now, maybe make the top 200? I'd be happy with that.

Not really sure what to do, maybe froome in and 1 or 2 penalties.

Can't see Martin or Castroveijo doing too much if im honest

Shhh! You should have claimed to have been targetting a breakaway stage win with your purist team

Mine has one in the break, Coppel, who's been a total waste of space (as has Gadret). I'm about 280 points of the purist leader but I reckon I can make that up over the next few days, I have Froome and Quintana whereas they only have sprinters. The problem is, I'm sure lots of people ahead of me will have Froome/Quintana too so I'm not holding any hopes of winning.

6 in the break from my disastrous purist team...

Game on, Dan! I need Froome and Quintana's GC points, plus Hoogerland, to total more than Kwiatkowski plus whatever Navarro and Gilbert get if I'm to beat you...

Mwahahaha

My plan appears to have worked. I have Gilbert, Voeckler, Navarro and De Gendt in the break

Unfortunately Bakelandts missed out but you can't have everything I guess.

Also very glad Sagan missed the break in the end, I'd considered him for today and I think a lot of people will have brought him in so if this stays out I'll be very happy.

Didier and Kloden are also in the group but were omitted from the list I pasted...

So I have my wish of 3 in the break, didn't think Astana would want to miss the break but maybe they tried. If it stays out, I'll be cheering on three of my favourite riders (De Gendt, Voeckler and Hoogerland) so should be a fun afternoon!

i was just un-jinxing you. seems to have worked