Fantasy Tour Stage 13: Wind Blows Race Open

Were you expecting another one of those Zzzzzzprint Zzzzzzztages today? I know I was. And although the Stage was won by Cav from Sagan in a sprint, there was plenty of other stuff going on.

Today was all about the side-winds, which give rise to echelons.

If you're at near the front of the echelon, things are peachy. If you're not, you're fucked. And so, all it took was a badly timed puncture and Alejandro Valverde was fucked. His GC rivals were off up the road and Valv Pitti kissed goodbye to his second place overall by the best part of ten minutes. Good.

But the fun wasn't over there. As the race headed towards the finish, Saxo-Tinkoff decided that it was their turn to give Sky a kicking. They drilled it off the front and took a select group with them. A group that didn't include the Froome-Dog, who lost a minute or so to Conatdor and Mollema.

All the fun and games were good news for WACA today. Pretty good for the Chanbots too.

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Overall Standings

Stage Standings

League Story

League Stats

	Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	3462
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	3280
	KLOEFEKAPPERS	JAN VAN BELLEGHEM	3246
	The Charmers	Craigatron	3217
	ENRICO 666	ENRICO 666	3168
	Market Weighton Pharmacy	Wolds Wonders	2774
	Haxby Group Pharmacy	Isabel Harrison	2740
	FULGAS	Vincent Lavallee	2735
	Huntington Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	2585
	Temple of FROOME	Tom	2559
	Tight white lycra just aint right	WACA	2512
	Team Lampreys	Edgar van Pimple	2490
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2487
	It`s time to froome	Denspeck	2473
	Miffy`s Marvels	Helen	2408
	TEAM ITV4	andrew danson	2404
	Rouleurs	tdm911	1996
	The Atomic Supermen	Toby Hodges	1848
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	1744
	Anyone for tennis?	Andrew Windrum	1730
	The Hopalongs	Dave Robertson	1704
	Return of Reflex	Karlos	1623
	Dudes Openly Performance Enhancing	blinddrew	1560
	Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	1291

Tomorrow is Bastille day, so you can be pretty sure a Frenchman won't win. Lumps aplenty but no big mountains. It should be one for a break, but who knows. Maybe teams will put Sky under pressure again? Probably Sagan again though.