TDF 2014 Stage 15 - Kristoff Crushes Bauer's Breakaway Bid

We like to see a plucky breakaway succeed don't we?  Like Tony Gallopin the other day?  Jack Bauer was off the front for most of stage 15 and he looked like he might make it.  But  after a few too many looks over his shoulder in the last km, the the sprinters swamped him on the line and Alexander Kristoff took another stage.

You have to feel bad for Bauer, like his team-mate Talansky, there was nothing left for him to do but cry on the roadside.  I don't blame either of them though, I hear those POC helmets are made out of compressed onions.

Not crying was blog-curating cocksucker Vestan Pance.  Who did quite nicely for points for the day.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1	311
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	2	256
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	3	230
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	4	203
Olliepops	OJ	5	195
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	6	195
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	7	191
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	8	184
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	9	171
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	10	159
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	11	156
Rouleurs	tdm911	12	152
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	13	142
Stans Finest	Mark	14	128
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	15	118
The Hopalongs	Dave	16	102
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	17	93
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	18	73
2.35.24	Den	19	65
Charmers	Craigatron	20	59
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	21	54
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	22	50
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	23	22
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	24	21
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	25	20

The Olliepops show no sign of giving up the top spot in the overall table.  Possibly because the Olliepops still have all 9 riders still in the race, while some other teams will be lucky to have enough riders to fill a tandem by the time the race hits Paris.

TEAM	DIRECTEUR	RANK	SCORE
Olliepops	OJ	1	4407
Mungo Cycling	Mungo	2	3623
Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	3	3602
Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	4	3478
Evil Yorkshire Chanbots	Evil Dr Chan	5	3140
KLOEFEKAPPERS FC	Jan Van Belleghem	6	3028
Expensive Bike Pumps due to Inflation	Vinny PL	7	2857
Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	8	2760
ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	9	2666
The Doom of Froome	Warwick Anderson	10	2550
Rouleurs	tdm911	11	2509
Drews Riders, Useless Generally Speaking	Drew Stephenson	12	2471
Three Little Pigs	Isabel Harrison	13	2408
Holy Toledo	Andrew Ramos	14	2395
Earligold	Ed Rawlings	15	2379
Huntington Pharmacy	Late night meds from	16	2266
Stans Finest	Mark	17	2136
2.35.24	Den	18	2104
Wilko	Oliver Wilkens	19	1934
Smugblokes	Mr Smug	20	1860
Charmers	Craigatron	21	1696
The Hopalongs	Dave	22	1560
Miffy`sMountain Goats	Helen S	23	1131
School of Hardknotts	Jonathan Wilcox	24	1050
A True Underdog Story	Patches O`Houlihan	25	491

Stage 16 will see battle re-commence after the final rest day.  It doesn't look like anyone is going to be able to take the Yellow Jersey away from Nibbles, but there's still plenty of fighting to be done amongst the rest of the peloton.