Fantasy Tour Stage 3: Gerrans Grins, Sagan Scowls

It was a close one, but Simon Gerrans just beat Peter Sagan to the line today.

Another second place for Sagan then, but at least he got himself the Green Jersey for his troubles.

 

In fourth place again, I was pleased to see that Michal Kwiatkowski. I was a bit hesitant to spend 8 points on a Tour rookie, but he's had a great race so far and has earned himself the White Jersey as best young rider. He also took Tony Marin's place in the Bile Beans squad, so I'm doubly pleased to have picked him.

While we're looking at Jerseys, Jan Bakelants held onto yellow.

And Pierre Rolland has the Polka Dots, although you'd be hard-pressed to notice with his subtle and under-stated approach to leadership of the mountains competition.

Over to George for the scores; 

No scores then, but I think we've been doing this long enough to know that if you had Simon Gerrans, he earned you some points.  If you had Geraint Thomas, you probably didn't get so many points. Update, scores in, Chanbots top for the day and Kloefekappers head the table:

	KLOEFEKAPPERS	JAN VAN BELLEGHEM	673
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	593
	Market Weighton Pharmacy	Wolds Wonders	536
	The Charmers	Craigatron	512
	Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	504
	ENRICO 666	ENRICO 666	479
	Miffy`s Marvels	Helen	385
	Temple of FROOME	Tom	373
	Team Lampreys	Edgar van Pimple	329
	FULGAS	Vincent Lavallee	328
	Haxby Group Pharmacy	Isabel Harrison	311
	Huntington Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	298
	Tight white lycra just aint right	WACA	294
	TEAM ITV4	andrew danson	195
	The Hopalongs	Dave Robertson	182
	The Atomic Supermen	Toby Hodges	176
	Anyone for tennis?	Andrew Windrum	174
	Return of Reflex	Karlos	160
	It`s time to froome	Denspeck	150
	Dudes Openly Performance Enhancing	blinddrew	144
	Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	111
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	73
	Rouleurs	tdm911	54
	Smugblokes

So we bid farewell to Corsica, it was quite nice wasn't it. Speaking of Nice, it's the Team Time Trial time tomorrow, along the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice. I would have tipped Sky or Omega-Pharma Quickstep for the win, but that stage 1 crash means a few sore bodies on those squads. Garmin used to be quick in a TTT, but they’ve got a team full of climbers this year. Maybe BMC, but I’m going to have to go with those speedy Spaniards in Movistar for a surprise win. It's all to play for, with nearly every team having a man within one second of the Yellow Jersey, a win in the TTT is good for the race lead.