Fantasy Giro Stage 17: Visconti The Pope of Giro Town

In the never-ending battle against drugs in cycling, the UCI, WADA and the rest spend a lot of money on complicated lab-tests to find minute traces of drugs which only stay in the human body for a couple of days.  There must be a better way.  And after my auto-fill discovery yesterday, I think I’ve found it.  All you have to do is type the name of a pro into a well-known search engine and see if “doping” is the first one that comes up in the suggestion box.  Allow me demonstrate.  Getting the all-clear:

And getting a ban. 

This method can be quite discriminating, Andy's in the clear, Frank not so much.
 

 

Although my system may generate a few false negatives.
 

 

 

And possibly some false positives.

 

Enough of this nonsense though.  Let’s get down to business and take a look at what happened at the Giro today.  What happened at the Giro today was that Giovanni Visconti, (not to be confused with Giovanni Visconti) won himself another stage.  He broke away from the pack on that climb that got rid of Cav and held on till the line.

 

 

 As the only team with Visconti, hitfbsuckers did the nicest out of today's antics

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	252
2		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	192
3		Rouleurs	tdm911	121
4		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	119
5		Charmers	Craigatron	118
6		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	116
7		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	111
8		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	108
9		Amgen	Bradley Dean	96
10		MDR	Matt Reeve	92
11		Get Jacked	robert thompson	83
12		Return of Reflex	Karlos	78
13		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	76
14		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	62
15		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	61
16		Team Doodle	RobbieT	58
17		Camembert Electrique	Mark	56
18		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	53
19		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	45
20		Dudes Riding Using Great Substances	Drew Stephenson	38
21		Cornerstone Clydesdales	James Patterson	28
22		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	6

While in the overall battle, things couldn't be closer between Cat 2 Groupetto and Amgen.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Cat 2 Grupetto	Sherwood	3424
2		Amgen	Bradley Dean	3325
3		Zero Resistance	Christopher Rowley	3317
4		Rouleurs	tdm911	3289
5		MDR	Matt Reeve	3258
6		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	3147
7		Return of Reflex	Karlos	3146
8		hitfbsuckers	Warwick Anderson	2911
9		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	2865
10		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	2849
11		Get Jacked	robert thompson	2686
12		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	2652
13		Camembert Electrique	Mark	2469
14		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	2315
15		Synergy	Adrian Leggett	2271
16		Dudes Riding Using Great Substances	Drew Stephenson	2263
17		Evil Chan Bots	Evil Dr Chan	2258
18		Team Doodle	RobbieT	2043
19		Charmers	Craigatron	1966
20		Sit up and beg	Denspeck	1927
21		Cornerstone Clydesdales	James Patterson	1760
22		Kiwi Nation (no actual kiwis)	Eddy	1286

More time trial miles on Stage 18, but this time up a big hill.  I think Nibali should go pretty well.