Update #29: Tour GC sees some shakeup in CQ GC
The biggest race of the year has reached completion, and with the top scoring riders on GC being very rare picks, that meant that a few teams had very good weeks.
This Week's Top Scorers
As the only team to pick repeat Tour champ Jonas Vingegaard (now 311 points in profit), Jon Ezeitza was going to be in a good position to win the week. The wildest thing about their team's total of 1195 points are that they basically come from two riders - aside from Vingegaard (890 points) and Carlos Rodriguez (290 points, 8 teams), only one other rider scored points for their team (Thibau Nys got 15 points for second on the Wallonie stage). will10 finishes 2nd 100 points behind, with a team a bit more spread out headlined by the likes of Simon Yates (421, 7), David Gaudu (196, 12), Kasper Asgreen (160, 82) and Tom Pidcock (121, 76). bminchow comes in just behind in third with a similar makeup to will10 minus Gaudu and including a few more <100 point riders such as Wilco Kelderman (83, 13) and Tobias Halland Johannessen (66, 20).
This Week's High Movers
With some rare riders scoring big, there was relatively huge movement for this time of year in the standings. Jon Ezeitza doubles up in first (and bminchow double podiums, landing in second), with Armchair Cyclist ending up in 3rd, jumping 23 spots thanks to Yates/Asgreen/Pidock/Chris Harper (99, 4) and friends.
Green Jersey Competition
Blues in the bottle holds onto a relatively comfortable lead, but others come into plausible competition, with Jon Ezeitza (45 points this week) and bminchow (30) jumping into the other podium spots to come a weekly win away from the lead. With high scoring rare riders, that's always possible, although it's hard to know what the post-Tour calendar might yield for high scorers in the Tour.
Top 10 Overall
Similar to the Green Jersey, BITB holds onto a very healthy lead, actually gaining 150+ points on former #2 Kazistuta, but others pop into the picture. With big weeks, will10, repre and tobydawq position themselves best to upset the applecart, joining BITB in the 10000 point club. Aside from tobydawq, AlfaLum vaults into the top 10, while Riverside and oliveira tumble out.
With the Tour in the rearview mirror, we move onto the later summer racing - the Tour de Wallonie is already underway, while a brace of races (1.1, 2.1 and 1.WT) in Spain await this week as well, and the 2.1 Czech Tour sneaks in, and even the first couple of stages of Pologne sneak into the week.
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