Spartacus Wins Game of Stones

It seemed like the build-up lasted for ever, but we finally got to see an epic battle played-out over long distances, as a large cast of protagonists fought to claim a coveted title.  Yes folks, season 3 of Game Of Thrones started last night.

 

And in other news, it was the Tour of Flanders.  Or the Ronde as us snobby types like to call it.

 

Last year Fabian Cancellara took a tumble at Flanders and Tom Boonen went on to win the race.  This year Tom Boonen took a tumble at Flanders and Fabian Cancellara went on to win the race.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, (probably after Paris-Roubaix) but giving Fabian Cancellara any kind of a gap in a bike race is a bad idea.  Peter Sagan had the right plan by trying to sit on Fabian’s wheel for a while, but even the Slovak Sensation couldn’t hold on to him for long.

And so the podium looked like this.

Although most of the attention now seems to have focused on Sagan’s wandering hands while he was up there.  Unacceptable behavior or boys will be boys? 

 

On the plus side, at least she was wearing underware.

Anyway, the results were all very good news for those crafty Rouleurs.  They were off to a slow start, but underestimate them at your peril.  Their score for the day was bigger than  Bodged blaggards! score for the entire series so far.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Rouleurs	200
2	Fulgas	154
3	Evil Chanbots	153
4	ENRICO 666	149
5	KLOEFEKAPPERS	149
6	Caffe Americano	134
7	Bile Beans	122
8	synergy	70
9	Mungo Cycling	60
10	Bodged blaggards!	50
11	vicarious victors	49

 

In the overall league then, it’s now Rouleurs on top, and a tie between Bile Beans and Kloefekappers for second.

 

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Rouleurs	tdm911	461
2		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	428
3		KLOEFEKAPPERS	Jan Van Belleghem	428
4		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	406
5		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	404
6		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	349
7		Caffe Americano	Sherwood	302
8		synergy	Adrian Leggett	233
9		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	228
10		vicarious victors	eddy wu	210
11		Bodged blaggards!	Warwick Anderson	161

The Daddy of the Spring Classics, Paris-Roubaix, is now less than a week away.  As usual, I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for some rain to make it a truly epic race. 

 

Before that though, we’ve got the Scheldeprijs  on Wednesday.  It’s a tricky little one to figure out, the past winners reads like a who’s-who of bunch sprinting, but most of the likely riders and winners won’t be doing Paris-Roubaix.  Time to waste some transfers, or sit tight till the big points on Sunday?  If you’re Danny it’s a pretty easy call, as he’s only got one transfer left.