It was a rest day today, but I’ve still got the small matter of yesterday’s stage to deal with. So let’s do this thing....
One man who you wanted on your Fantasy Team last year was Philippe Gilbert. He won shed-loads of races, and earned plenty of points for anyone that picked him. This year things haven’t gone so well for Pip, and despite plugging away all season, it’s taken him until now to get his first win.
Being the well travelled jet-setter that I am, I’ve actually been up the Montjuic climb in Barcelona where the finish was. Not on a bike mind, but I remember thinking it was a bit steep as I walked up, it’s not that long though...... there were also a lot of stray cats around, and I had a bit of a hangover from drinking too much Estrella Damm, but I digress.
Anyhooze, so Gilbert won, and just behind was J-Rod. They had a bit of a gap over the rest, so J-Rod got himself a few more seconds over his rivals, most notably the Froome-dog, who looked to be suffering a bit, and finished towards the back of the main group.
And so, the continuing failure of Quintana and Seeldrayers to do very much, means that the Bile Beans now languish in fourth place. While I reckon the Rouleurs should be comfortable on top for a while.
MINI LEAGUE SCORES
Tour De PanceRank Team Directeur Score 1 
tdm911 Rouleurs 3057 2 
Mungo Cycling Mungo 2659 3 
TEAM ITV4 Andrew Danson 2654 4 
Bile Beans Vestan Pance 2579 5 
GB expects Warwick Anderson 2146 6 
ENRICO 666 Eric Mortier 2101 7 Dangerous Rogues Under Grey Skies Blinddrew 2044 8 Charmers Craigatron 2038 9 Flying Hutchmen Hutch 2037 10 
Bertie Frooms all Flavour Beans Mark 1869 11 
Evil Penguinbots Evil King Penguin 1792 12 
Cofeedis Tom Fee 1628 13 Haxby Group Pharmacy Richard Harrison 1617 14 
Hell of the North Vincent Lavallee 1564 15 
Ph.Dizzles Ben 1417 16 
Team MacDream Elizabeth MacKenzie 1396
Stage 10 tomorrow could well go the way of the sprinters. Let’s hope it doesn’t go too much in the way of Viviani and Bouhanni.
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