TDF 2014 Stage 10 - Nibali Crushes, Contador Crashes

Stage 10 was another tough day for the peloton.  And it was a tough day for us Velogames managers, as chances are if you didn't already feel the pain of losing the Froome-Dog, then you felt the pain of losing Contador.  He went down hard on a wet descent and broke his leg, not that it stopped him trying to ride another 20km after the crash.

There are conflicting reports of how it happened, some say he was reaching in his pocket for a snack and hit a pot-hole.  Others say he was riding like a dick.  Others say he was trying to impress some girls with some stunts like Peter Sagan.  Luckily my favorite Cycling News commenter ellenbrook2001 has assessed the situation and reached a logical and clear conclusion.

With Bertie and Froomey out of the picture, there doesn't seem to be anyone around who can stop Nibali .  He won another stage and re-took the Yellow Jersey.  At the moment it looks like the only thing that will stop him are an unpleasant crash or a failed drug-test.

In the scores for the day, it was Tour-de-Pance-Tosspot, Vestan Pance in the lead.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1	386
Olliepops	OJ	2	369
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	3	354
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	4	326
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	311
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	6	244
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	7	224
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	8	222
The Hopalongs	Dave	9	218
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	10	213
Rouleurs	tdm911	11	211
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	12	186
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	13	179
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	14	135
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	15	123
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	16	102
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	17	100
Stans Finest	Mark	18	96
2.35.24	Den	19	92
Charmers	Craigatron	20	87
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	21	80
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	22	64
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	23	48
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	24	43
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	8

Olliepops stay ahead in the overall, but Mungo are close behind and have Nibali.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Olliepops	OJ	1	2915
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2	2707
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	3	2563
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	4	2238
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	2087
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	6	2068
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	7	2060
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	8	1904
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	9	1896
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	10	1875
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	11	1813
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	12	1806
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	13	1801
Rouleurs	tdm911	14	1780
2.35.24	Den	15	1766
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	16	1715
Stans Finest	Mark	17	1664
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	18	1583
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	19	1461
Charmers	Craigatron	20	1345
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	21	1327
The Hopalongs	Dave	22	1016
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	23	947
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	24	799
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	129

And if you're doing the KOM thing, here's how that league looks.  I don't know about you, but I think I might transfer Contador out of my team before the next mountain stage.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Rouleurs	tdm911	1	880
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	2	776
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	3	752
Dropped Propulsive Pedalling	Vincent	4	716
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	5	696
Alive the Hills are	Mark	6	596
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	7	551
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	8	496

After today's rest day, the peloton should have it relatively easy on Stage 11 - if it doesn't rain that is.  No big climbs, but the hills towards the end should keep the big sprinters from contesting the win.