Update #13: No More Doubting Thomas
In a week that saw the 2.1 Giro D'Abruzzo as the only stage race and a trio of Coupe de France races offer triple points to riders with the races being contested by the same top guys, the Amstel Gold Race was the highlight. Thomas Pidcock won it after losing in a photo finish to Van Aert a few years back (or actually winning it if you ask him), netting 220 points for the 7 teams that took a swing on him this year. No surprise that the winner of the week was one of the seven.
This Week's Top Scorers
Amis Velo is the only team to clear 500 points this week, taking a comfortable win thanks to the aforementioned Pidcock, but also great weeks from Benoit Cosnefroy (151, 16) and David Gaudu (120, 2), which pretty much did it for the win, aside from a few 5 and 10 pointers. Shakes winds up in 2nd place thanks to Pidcock, points machine Lenny Martinez (170, 11), and a bit from Marco Brenner (35, 16), while Lortnoc gets the final spot on the podium thanks to Pidcock/Martinez as well.
This Week's High Movers
The standings are flipped around a little in this ranking, with manafana taking first after ending in 4th on the Top Scorers list. Their team moves up 11 spots due mainly to Cosnefroy, and significant help from Mauri Vansevenant (96, 24) and Harm Vanhoucke (77, 7). Lortnoc doubles up in 2nd, tying with Rakim in moving up 8 spots.
Green Jersey Competition
Shakes moves into the top 5 of this ranking, parlaying 35 points from 2nd on the week into a spot on the overall podium here. No other top 5 teams scored weekly points this week.
Top 10 Overall
Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
1 | (-) | shalgo | 6509 |
2 | (-) | skidmark | 5622 |
3 | (+4) | adamski101 | 5496 |
4 | (-1) | Salvarani | 5491 |
5 | (+3) | Squire | 5371 |
6 | (-2) | repre | 5362 |
7 | (-2) | MADRAZO | 5358 |
8 | (-2) | EvansIsTheBest | 5180 |
9 | (+8) | Lortnoc | 5107 |
10 | (-) | Jakob747 | 5106 |
There may be no difference in the top 2 spots, but that masks the fact that shalgo gained 222 points on 2nd place this week, expanding their lead to almost 900 points over 2nd place and over 1000 to 3rd. Last week's winner adamski101 moves onto the podium, while lower down Lortnoc enters the top 10 at the expense of JPettersen.
This week sees the Ardennes continue, as well as the Tour of the Alps, before we see the last spring Monument on Sunday and get closer to Grand Tour season.
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Programming note: I will be in transit to my seasonal remote work site next week - I will post next week's update when I can but it may be a bit later than usual. After next week, EvansIsTheBest will be taking over the updates through the end of June while I am more limited in my internet access.