Vuelta - Stage14

No points for Lulu as he wont get any in the race

This could be ok for me I think, but we shall see. this was my team

Basso (out)
Petit
Moreno
Nibali
Horner
Valverde
Roche
Pinot
Txurruka

It's going to be a while before I get the points up today. There could be alot of time out's and abandon's to come

2 3 5 6 8 17 20 so far. Anyone have Ratto. Should have left Gilbert in!

1 Daniele RATTO ITA CAN 24 4:24:00
2 Vincenzo NIBALI ITA AST 29 +3:53
3 Christopher HORNER USA RLT 42 +3:55
4 Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER ESP KAT 34 +4:11
5 Samuel SANCHEZ GONZALEZ ESP EUS 35 +4:19
6 Alejandro VALVERDE BELMONTE ESP MOV 33 +4:43
7 Thibaut PINOT FRA FDJ 23 +4:46
8 Domenico POZZOVIVO ITA ALM 31 +4:46
9 Mikel LANDA MEANA ESP EUS 24 +5:17
10 Leopold KONIG CZE TNE 26 +5:21
11 Tanel KANGERT EST AST 26 +5:27
12 Mikel NIEVE ITURALDE ESP EUS 29 +5:33
13 David ARROYO DURAN ESP CJR 33 +5:33
14 Andre Fernando S. Martins CARDOSO POR CJR 29 +5:40
15 Philippe GILBERT BEL BMC 31 +6:14
16 Daniel MORENO FERNANDEZ ESP KAT 32 +6:19
17 Igor ANTON HERNANDEZ ESP EUS 30 +6:27
18 Robert KISERLOVSKI CRO RLT 27 +6:44
19 Jakob FUGLSANG DEN AST 28 +7:05
20 Nicolas ROCHE IRL TST 29 +7:22

could have been worse I guess!!

2,3,6,7,16,20 + Txurruka will get something for the HC, Basso out and nothing from Petit.

Maybe a penalty tomorrow

Just a quick calculation, Ratto will have scored 78 points today

Finally may have had a better day

Basso out

Valverde
Nibs
Horner
Moreno
Konig
Arroyo
Roche
Pozzovivo.

Finally some points for my Spaniards
Lander and Nieve

I also have Landa in my purist as well.

At the very least I shouldn't fall any further today. Hoping for something better.

103 riders home so far

8 from 9 in the top 20 with only Basso not scoring so decent for me today

Still waiting for a few to come home, else Brown and Chainel will join Sanchez in the 0 scores

2,3,6,7,8,10,11,20 with basso abandoned so one change to make for me , not a bad day

Brown's home in 153rd at 20.43

159 home so far

Made 4 changes for tomorrow. No pens!

My purist has done canny,

1,2,5,12 + Txurruka and Majka. Happy with that.

PROVISIONAL points going up now

One winner

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10 riders missing somewhere

Zubeldia? DNF? HD? Fell down a ditch and vanished? or lost transponder? He's not on any of the finish lists I can see but not shown as abandoned.

Gkam84 wrote:

10 riders missing somewhere

I see he's not the only one

Purist team up to 21st overall. Still leading chris by nearly a 100 points But 2 down today so not all good news

DNF Steve CHAINEL FRA ALM 30
DNF Ramon SINKELDAM NED ARG 24
DNF Luis Leon SANCHEZ GIL ESP BEL 30
DNF Ivan BASSO ITA CAN 36
DNF Cyril BESSY FRA COF 27
DNF Michel KREDER NED GRS 26
DNF Nick NUYENS BEL GRS 33
DNF Greg HENDERSON NZL LTB 37
DNF Jurgen VAN DE WALLE BEL LTB 36
DNF Jelle VANENDERT BEL LTB 28
DNF Haimar ZUBELDIA AGIRRE ESP RLT 36
DNF Roman KREUZIGER CZE TST 27
DNF Wouter POELS NED VCD 26
DNF Lieuwe WESTRA NED VCD 31
DNS Simon GERRANS AUS OGE 33
DNS Sam BEWLEY NZL OGE 26

Thank you Ratto!!!

Surely nobody can still believe Nibali's spiel about just using the Vuelta to race into form for the worlds.

I doubt he'll ever again have as clear-cut a chance of winning a grand tour as this.

No Sanchez gets 0 because he didn't finish the stage

LLSanchez abandoned from my purist. Not sure about his points. I think he still gets them for today. Now Basso from my overall team. Good thing I've got a couple of extra transfers for tomorrow as I think I'm going to need them!

This stage is just...

Valverde is now 45secs off the GC group

Basso has abandoned