Vuelta Stage 11 - Fabio Fabulous, Quintanna Quits

Poor old Plucky Colombian climber Nairo Quintanna.  He went down hard in the time trial yesterday and today he hit the deck again, with what Dr. Pance has diagnosed as a broken collarbone. 

So he somewhat uderstandably abandoned the race.  It's been a funny old year for GC favorites to be crashing out of races.  The Froome-Dog and Bertie in the Tour and now Quintanna at the Vuelta.  It's a shame for sure, but at least at the Vuelta we still have plenty of potential winners left and we should be spared a the one-horse race that the Tour turned into.  Plus Quintanna wasn't on my team, so I'm not going to get too upset about it.

Still in with a (slim, I will admit) chance of the overall win is Fabio Aru, who timed it right today to take the stage and move on up a little in the GC to seventh.

Not far behind him were the three Spanish amigos, Valverde, J-Rod and Contador.  And just about hanging in there was the Froome-Hound.

In the scores for the day Enrico 666 just nudged-out the Chanbots for the honours.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	1	430
Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	2	403
Rouleurs	tdm911	3	349
Sunburn-Roadrash	Trey	4	312
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	5	241
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	6	232
dudes riding using good substances	drew	7	218
Pincko Pro Cycling	Richard Pinckney	8	179
Froosers	Warwick Anderson	9	165
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	10	148
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	11	144
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	12	43

And it's about time we had a look at the overall, if only to see that the Chanbots are still very much in charge, but are now a man down with the departure of Quintanna.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	1	2940
Rouleurs	tdm911	2	2412
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	3	2261
ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	4	2092
dudes riding using good substances	drew	5	2069
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	6	2048
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	7	1970
Froosers	Warwick Anderson	8	1955
Pincko Pro Cycling	Richard Pinckney	9	1861
Sunburn-Roadrash	Trey	10	1790
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	11	1766
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	12	1434