Vuelta Stage 2 - Rubber's Lead Erased, Beans Bounce Back

Alrighty. Lets get those Stage 1 scores out of the way first. Although I don't wish to dwell on them too much, as the Bile Beans under-performed. Sorry, if you're not in the top ten, I can't fit you on the results.

So yesterday, I left you with the hope that Chris Sutton and Marcel Kittel would do well today. The Gods of Fantasy cycling must have been reading. For today, Chris Sutton won, and Marcel Kittel was third.

And Danielle Bennati's sixth place was enough to earn him the race lead, after time bonuses. So the Red Jersey stays with the Lay-O-Pard Trek team.

Mostly good news for me then, and the Bile Beans are now top of the table, ahead of bean-themed-upstarts "Full Beans!".

The Grand Tour organisers seem to be doing their best to put a stop to the winning antics of Mark Cavendish, by making the final kilometers a bit tricky. He may be the fastest sprinter in the world, but if there's too many corners or hills on the run-in to the finish, he can come unstuck. It should be another sprint tomorrow, but that hill near the finish might suit someone like Peter Sagan or Jon Degenkolb, rather than the Manx Missile.