Update #11: Contadories conquer the Top 10
A solid week for Geraint Too Fast was enough to manifest his newly gained lead, but with Alberto Contador stepping up and winning Tirreno Adriatico, there is some new competition he has to face over the coming weeks. Pentacycle, the best placed team including COntador, managed to move up 15 places, but while 9-week-leader wizard of oz dropped from 3rd to 10th, it was still not enough to step up on the podium, as Steely Dan only just managed to defend his 2nd place - and the last podium spot was taken over by Yellow Knight - one of the very few to have Milano - Sanremo winner Alexander Kristoff in his team.
This week's top scorer is MCardinalR, scoring a massive amount of 867 points, mainly from Contador, Quintana and the big surprise of the weekend: Ben Swift. Not too surprisingly, all the remaining placed in the Top 5 were taken by teams that include Contador as well.
The same picture is to be seen in regard of this week's high movers: 4 out of 5 mentioned team include Contador, earning keithjamesmc a massive move of 58 places. The only mentioned team without Contador is Bicycle_Boy, one of the only three participants to have chosen Alexander Kristoff.
This Week's Top Scorers
1 MCardinalR 867
2 Pentacycle 678
3 keithjamesmc 675
4 del1962 639
5 minessa 636
This Week's High Movers
1 keithjamesmc (+58)
2 MCardinalR (+54)
2 Bicycle_Boy (+54)
4 minessa (+53)
5 gustienordic (+49)
Top 10 Overall
1 (-) Geraint Too Fast 3104
2 (-) SteelyDan 2816
3 (+1) Yellow Knight 2805
4 (+15) Pentacycle 2794
5 (+9) freshman 2764
6 (+1) lenissart 2693
7 (-2) Froome19 2673
8 (+2) Ruvu75 2659
9 (+13) Martin 2644
10 (-7) wizard_of_oz 2607
No doubt this is just an introduction of what will happen in the following weeks. With the Volta a Catalunya, the Criterium International, Coppi e Bartali and the great belgian classics, loads of points are on the table again to mix up the standings.
Spreadsheet / CQ Update #11