Monday, July 6, 2015

FTDF 2015 Stage 3 - Cancellara in Crash Carnage

Poor Fabian Cancellara eh? His Classics season came to a premature end when he crashed at E3 Harelbeke and he had spend the rest of the spring sitting on the couch watching other people win the races that he normally owns. I'm sure he worked hard to get back in shape for the Tour and it was all going pretty well, but you know how it is, one minute you're rocking the Yellow Jersey, the next you're in the ditch watching your yellow bicycle cartwheel down the side of the road.

The same crash and maybe another one - I'm not quite sure - put an end to more than just Spartacusseseses hopes, so we say farewell to Tom Dumoulin, William Bonnet, Dmitrii Kozonchuk and Simon Gerrans. Not to mention several other guys who are all kinds of battered and bruised, they'd probably go home if they knew what was good for them, but are instead sticking to the bed-sheets as I type this. Such was the extent of the smasharoo, that the  race was neutralized while riders and bikes were scraped up off the road. 


Still the show must go on, and after everyone who was left had hung around for a bit and taken a whizz and stuff, they were off again. Up the Mur de Huy, J-Rod proved to have the best legs.

The Froome Dog had the second best legs and earned himself the Yellow Jersey by just one of your Earth seconds.

Over to the league scores then and the big news is that I've worked out how to do stage scores - so here they are:

In the overall scores we have our third leader in as many days with Poor De Yorkshire. The Bile Beans are off to a slow start, but at least I'm beating 75% of Richard Harrison's teams.

 Stage 4 is like a mini Paris-Roubaix, which means there will be cobbles and carnage.
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  1. jonathanJuly 7, 2015 at 1:46 AM

    Yes! Absolute certainty this won't continue but I shall enjoy the moment while it lasts.

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