TDF 2014 Stage 8 - Blel of the North(East)

You don't meet many Blels do you?  At least I don't.  In fact the only Blel I can think of is cyclist Blel Kadri, who just so happens to be the Blel who won today's stage in the Vosges region.  He's always one for a plucky breakaway and today he got it right and took the win.

Hot on his heels were the GC favourites, well some of them anyway. Contador had a few digs, but he couldn't shake Nibali until just before the finish line.

But enough of today's stage and lets get onto today's scores.  Because at long last, the Bile Beans have taken the most points for the day. 

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1	398
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	2	362
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	3	361
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	4	298
The Hopalongs	Dave	5	275
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	6	271
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	7	262
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	8	260
Olliepops	OJ	9	254
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	10	250
Rouleurs	tdm911	11	242
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	12	219
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	13	204
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	14	201
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	15	176
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	16	173
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	17	163
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	18	159
2.35.24	Den	19	148
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	20	123
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	21	116
Charmers	Craigatron	22	73
Stans Finest	Mark	23	71
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	24	45
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	10

The Olliepops still lead the overall, but Mungo is moving on up.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Olliepops	OJ	1	2422
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2	2273
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	3	2249
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	4	1983
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	5	1791
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	6	1756
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	7	1718
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	8	1705
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	9	1634
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	10	1621
2.35.24	Den	11	1608
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	12	1561
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	13	1533
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	14	1483
Rouleurs	tdm911	15	1475
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	16	1387
Stans Finest	Mark	17	1344
Charmers	Craigatron	18	1223
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	19	1187
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	20	1033
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	21	866
The Hopalongs	Dave	22	743
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	23	674
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	24	577
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	106

More TV friendly mountain action tomorrow.  It's a bit flat on the run-in to the finish though, so there should be time for it to come back together.