Fantasy Giro Stage 8: Dowsett Does It

With all the excitement of trimming my hedges yesterday, I seem to have overlooked doing the update.  So let's start off by congratulating Alex Dowsett on winning the time trial on a tough course and against some quality riders.  Dowsett raised a few eyebrows when he left Sky for Movistar over the winter, but he looks to have made a wise choice.  With Sky's strength, he was often left out of the big races, and his move to the Spanish team means he's now won a stage in his first Grand Tour.  He's also a hemophiliac, but what he gets up to in his personal life is none of my business.

Back in second was the man everyone thought would walk-it, Sir Wiggo of Sky. He had a flat, but still, he would have wanted to pull back more time than he did.

Poor Intxausti lost his pink Jersey. The final climb looked like it went on forever for the little guy.

And a good TT from Nibali put him in the lead.

Best score for the day went to the Evil Chanbots.  Team manager Danny and sometime Tour De Pancer Dave, are currently riding from Land's End to John O'Groats.  You can follow their adventures here,  and while you're at it, why don't you sponsor them?

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	299
2		Return of Reflex	Karlos	294
3		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	274
4		Rouleurs	tdm911	270
5		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	268
6		Camembert Electrique	Mark	263
7		Charmers	Craigatron	259
8		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	238
9		Amgen	Bradley Dean	226
10		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	224
11		Dudes Riding Using Great Substances	Drew Stephenson	213
12		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	211
13		Get Jacked	robert thompson	207
14		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	206
15		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	184
16		Team Doodle	RobbieT	176
17		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	159
18		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	159
19		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	149
20		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	147
21		MDR	Matt Reeve	142
22		Cornerstone Clydesdales	James Patterson	131

MDR still lead the table overall, but there's some quality teams coming up behind.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		MDR	Matt Reeve	1606
2		Amgen	Bradley Dean	1480
3		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	1457
4		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	1420
5		Return of Reflex	Karlos	1373
6		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	1318
7		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	1300
8		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	1260
9		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	1227
10		Rouleurs	tdm911	1202
11		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1175
12		Dudes Riding Using Great Substances	Drew Stephenson	1156
13		Get Jacked	robert thompson	1147
14		Camembert Electrique	Mark	1125
15		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	1103
16		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	1054
17		Cornerstone Clydesdales	James Patterson	952
18		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	947
19		Team Doodle	RobbieT	940
20		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	919
21		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	839
22		Charmers	Craigatron	832

More fun and games are happening right now.  I better watch a bit before I get back to those hedges.