TDF 2014 Stage 16 - Rogers Ride Vexes Voeckler

There was more good news for Billionaire Businessman and Bond-Villain wannabe, Oleg Tinkoff today.  After the pain of Contador's exit from the race, his boy Majka took over the lead in the Mountains Classification from J-Rod.

And his man Mick Rogers took the stage.  I was particularly pleased to see that Rogers denied Gurning-Gallic-Gobshite, Tommy Voeckler the win.

On a day where the stage was fought-out between some of the lower-profile riders in the race, it was only fitting that the best scores for the day came from teams who we haven't seen much of at the top of the leader-board yet.  Well, except for Doom of Froome, who you may remember were off to a good start after Stage 1.  And then it all went wrong.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	1	300
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	2	284
2.35.24	Den	3	222
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	4	221
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	5	200
Olliepops	OJ	6	189
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	7	134
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	8	110
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	9	94
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	10	85
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	11	81
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	12	62
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	13	57
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	14	55
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	15	51
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	16	44
Rouleurs	tdm911	17	44
Charmers	Craigatron	18	38
The Hopalongs	Dave	19	36
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	20	30
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	21	27
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	22	26
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	23	24
Stans Finest	Mark	24	20
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	25	20

The Olliepops must be feeling pretty good about their chances of taking the lead all the way to Paris now.  The Bile Beans may have just sneaked into second place, but I don't think they've got enough manpower left still in the race to move up any further.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Olliepops	OJ	1	4596
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	2	3683
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	3	3674
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	4	3612
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	3202
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	6	3085
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	7	2942
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	8	2854
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	9	2850
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	10	2721
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	11	2579
Rouleurs	tdm911	12	2553
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	13	2518
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	14	2501
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	15	2421
2.35.24	Den	16	2326
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	17	2293
Stans Finest	Mark	18	2156
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	19	2155
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	20	1904
Charmers	Craigatron	21	1734
The Hopalongs	Dave	22	1596
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	23	1334
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	24	1151
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	515

In the KOM competition, Mungo have overtaken the Rouleurs to become our new King of the King of the Mountains.  Meanwhile, the 'Late no hopers' are really living up the their name at the bottom of the table.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	1	2822
Rouleurs	tdm911	2	2610
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	3	2367
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	4	2307
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	5	1977
Dropped Propulsive Pedalling	Vincent	6	1807
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	7	1787
Alive the Hills are	Mark	8	1323
Late no hopers	Warwick Anderson	9	40

Stage 17 is a toughie, but also a shorty.  Let's face it, no one is going to stop Nibali, but the race for the remaining podium spots is getting pretty interesting and with less than 125km of racing, the hammer will be down as soon as the flag drops.