Giro 2014 Stage 5 - Go Diego Go!

Italian cycling has been in a downward slide since the glory days in the 90's and early 00's, when everyone was on drugs.  Nibali's win at the Giro last year aside, it's been a while since an Eye-Talian (as Sean Kelly would say) has won a big race.  There are however signs of some quality young riders coming through and Diego Ulissi seems to have plenty of talent.  So it shouldn't have come as a huge surprise to see him winning on the uphill finish today.

Coming as more of a surprise was another big points haul for B-List Blogger and A-list Arsehole, Sir Vestan of Pance.

League Standings - Stage 5

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1	360
	Ollysaurus	OJ	2	355
	Rouleurs	tdm911	3	338
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	4	312
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	5	311
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	6	299
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	7	279
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	8	258
	Charmers	Craigatron	9	253
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	10	212
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	11	146
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	12	115
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	13	105
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	14	96
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	15	66

Which means the Bile Beans increased their lead atop the overall.

League Standings - Overall

	Team	Directeur	Rank	Score
	Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1	1113
	Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2	944
	Pretty in Pink	Vincent Paul Lavallee	3	823
	Charmers	Craigatron	4	769
	Evil Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	733
	Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	6	661
	Rouleurs	tdm911	7	650
	ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	8	648
	MADFORITS	Warwick Anderson	9	558
	Ollysaurus	OJ	10	546
	Dead Rubbers Usually Give Surprises	drew stephenson	11	528
	Smugblokes	Mark Philo	12	506
	Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	13	474
	KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	14	406
	Sean Kelly All-Stars	Patrick Hough	15	299

Another cheeky uphill finish tomorrow.  Maybe the rain will ease up a bit so that we'll see the legs and not the weather decide the race.