Giro 2014 Stage 18 - Arredondo's Daring Dig Does It!

Those Colombians eh? They've done well at the Giro so far haven't they? And today it was the turn of the current King of the Mountains Julian Arredondo to win a stage.

Of course, I remember the last time the Colombians were good at riding bikes. Back in the day, the likes of Louis Herrara were fearsome riders in the mountains. And they rode tasty Vitus bikes with Mavic groupsets.

Fabio Parra was the last Columbian I remember being any good, he could have been a TDF contender, but he had a bad habit of crashing and breaking bones. 

The widespread use of EPO is allegedly responsible for the downturn in results for the boys from South of the Border for the last while. But luckily those days are totally behind us and drug use is a thing of the past. So the road is now clear for the likes of Movistar's Nairo Quintana to most likely win the race.

All of today's action saw the Bile Beans near the top of the table for the first time in a while, but maximum points go to the Chanbots.

League Standings - Stage 18

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	1	368
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	2	357
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	3	220
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	4	215
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	5	197
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	6	193
	Rouleurs	tdm911	7	172
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	8	164
	Ollysaurus	OJ	9	164
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	10	127
	Charmers	Craigatron	11	122
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	12	102
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	13	80
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	14	78
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	15	4

The Charmers are still in the lead in the overall, with just a few stages to go can they hang on until the end?

League Standings - Overall

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	Charmers	Craigatron	1	3641
	Ollysaurus	OJ	2	3298
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	3	3166
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	4	3160
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	3091
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	6	3076
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	7	2821
	Rouleurs	tdm911	8	2817
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	9	2799
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	10	2243
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	11	2176
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	12	2062
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	13	2018
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	14	1594
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	15	757

A few more hills are still to come and tomorrow it's the mountain time trial. I'm going to say that Quintana can probably keep his lead, but there's still plenty of fighting to be done over the other top 10 spots.