Giro 2014 Stage 16 - There's Snow Stopping Quintana

They'll be talking about today's stage for a while to come.  A trip up the Stelvio pass is never easy, but the weather today made it extra fun.

Mindful of the fact that racing down an icy mountain pass might be a bit dangerous, (let's not forget people have died on this race) the organisers allegedly neutralised the race on the decent.  I say allegedly, as some people apparently didn't get the message.  Pierre Rolland must have had a bad radio or something, because he started a move on the descent that saw a select group go clear.  Rolland claims he never heard nothing about it, which reminds me of how he never heard about that tacks incident at the Tour a couple of years ago.  Not to mention that stupid Polka Dot outfit at the Tour last year, I'm beginning to think he might be a bit of a dick, I wonder where he gets it from?

Rolland may have started it, but Nairo Quintana definately finished it.  He took the stage win and put himself into the race lead.

It was a good day for Enrico 666.  And a bad day for the Bile Beans, only Drew did worse.

League Standings - Stage 16

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	1	394
	Ollysaurus	OJ	2	391
	Charmers	Craigatron	3	368
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	4	346
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	5	342
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	6	326
	Rouleurs	tdm911	7	303
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	8	280
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	9	258
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	10	221
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	11	219
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	12	152
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	13	128
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	14	80
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	15	4

The Charmers stay at the top of the table then.

League Standings - Overall

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	Charmers	Craigatron	1	3446
	Ollysaurus	OJ	2	3066
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	3	2923
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	4	2823
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	5	2714
	Rouleurs	tdm911	6	2595
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	7	2563
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	8	2543
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	9	2359
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	10	2056
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	11	1931
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	12	1781
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	13	1720
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	14	1464
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	15	745

There's still plenty of racing to come and Quintanna's antics may have lost him some allies amongst the other teams.  The fun will continue with stage 17, but might be more for any remaining sprinters.