I hope none of you put any money on John Degenkolb today. The odds were crap anyway. If you did, I hope that you wagered he would finish 7th.…..... So as happens every once in a while, the sprinters’ teams got their sums wrong, and left the catch too late. There were six men away in the break, and thanks to some smart riding, Steve Cummings got the win, ahead of pesky Rouleur Cameron Meyer.
Things continue to go well for Rouleurs then, but they are now a man down, as Nacer Bouhanni quit the race, after a tumble he had yesterday.
MINI LEAGUE SCORES
Tour De PanceRank Team Directeur Score 1 
tdm911 Rouleurs 4504 2 
Mungo Cycling Mungo 3985 3 
TEAM ITV4 Andrew Danson 3862 4 
Bile Beans Vestan Pance 3749 5 
ENRICO 666 Eric Mortier 3115 6 Flying Hutchmen Hutch 3104 7 
GB expects Warwick Anderson 3099 8 Dangerous Rogues Under Grey Skies Blinddrew 2987 9 Charmers Craigatron 2816 10 
Bertie Frooms all Flavour Beans Mark 2600 11 
Evil Penguinbots Evil King Penguin 2513 12 
Cofeedis Tom Fee 2489 13 Haxby Group Pharmacy Richard Harrison 2296 14 
Hell of the North Vincent Lavallee 2175 15 
Ph.Dizzles Ben 1952 16 
Team MacDream Elizabeth MacKenzie 1922
The real meat (and maybe some potatos) of the race is coming up in the next three days. There should be some quality racing between the top four on GC, and after it all, we might just have an idea of who’s going to win the whole thing. I’ll be hoping for some epic rides from Quintana and Seeldreyers to get the Bile Beans back in contention......It’s a bit of a long shot isn’t it?
