Update #30: Nothing undercover about Sneekes' week
Another late summer week of racing sees some stage points at the Vuelta, the Tour of Norway, Avenir for the youngsters, and a few other races. Not much changed at the top of the rankings, but there's still lots of racing coming up.
This Week's Top Scorers
Sneekes takes the cake this week, nearly getting 500 points thanks to a few riders, most notably the return to form of Fabio Jakobsen, who scored 180 points on the week to get almost back to his CQ score of 2020. Only 3 teams took the chance on Jakobsen in a sporting capacity for this game, and they will be feeling extra good vibes this week, although I'm sure many of us who don't have him on our teams were also smiling this week to see his long road to recovery reach a high point. Another rider that has been less dramatically, but frequently, injured over the last two years is Mike Teunissen, but he is finally back to form in the last two weeks, getting another 117 points for his 34 owners. Sneekes also gets 80 points from Alberto Dainese (19 teams), who is showing some consistency and improvement late into his sophomore year. Nevs gets second place on the week, thanks largely to 227 points from Ethan Hayter (9 teams), reaching a second peak of the year after his stage race win in the spring. Dainese and Hodeg (also 80 points) are other highlights for Nevs. merengues rounds out the podium with the same main trio as Nevs but a bit less support.
This Week's High Movers
No team jumps double digits this week, but Sneekes doubles up on top of the rankings by moving up 9 spots. The rest of the podium is a three-way tie between Amis Velo, Fivezzz and BlueRoads, all of which own one of Jakobsen/Hayter, this week's must-haves.
Green Jersey Competition
There is some scoring in the top 5 this week - Hugo Koblet gets 14 points on the week to move back up to 3rd, his first green jersey points since week 16. It's been a bit of a dry spell for the game founder since being on top (both overall and in this competition) earlier in the season, but perhaps this is a harbinger of an end-of-season resurgence.
Top 10 Overall
Not much change this week - after the big gains of last week, Object gains a mere 2 points on Otoxiep87 this week, although Squire gains a little over 100 on both of them to narrow that gap a bit. MADRAZO jumps into the top 10 at the expense of rote laterne, who falls out.
This week, the second week of the Vuelta is rolling along, there's the return of the Deutschland Tour, the 2.1 Poitou Charentes, and two one-day races in Belgium including the Brussels Classic.
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