Update #37: Crevaison fully pumped up after weekly win
Only a couple of weeks to go now folks! The Tour de Langkawi and CRO Race satisfied our stage racing needs this week (or at least some CQ points got scored), while the normal brace of late-season Italian races interspersed with the European championships following on the heels of the Worlds.
This Week's Top Scorers
It was within 10 points at the top this week, but Crevaison came out on top, besting the field thanks to the continuing points magnets Isaac Del Toro (130, 8) and Paul Magnier (108, 37), as well as the precocious Paul Seixas (72, 66), Lenny Martinez (66, 4) and Filippo Ganna (49, 25). triley36 ends up just a shade back with the Del Toro/Magnier/Seixas combo as well as solid weeks from Magnus Sheffield (50, 7) and Ben Tulett (46, 56). Nyssinator rounds out the podium with the same main characters as triley36 minus Sheffield.
This Week's High Movers
Crevaison pulls off the double, moving up 8 spots in the overall, while karaev nabs 2nd over a 4-way tie for 3rd.
Green Jersey Competition
SafeBet is the only team in the top 5 to score this week, getting 20 points but staying in 4th thanks to the stratification in the top spots. It's still
technically possible for Squire to catch Salvarani with two weeks to go, but it'd require Squire to finish with either 2 first places or 1st and 2nd, and hope that Salvarani scores nothing.
Top 10 Overall
It's even less likely that top spot gets overtaken on the overall rankings; although Squire gains back 128 points on Salvarani, the lead is about 950 points with 2 weeks to go, and it's unlikely that any teams will get that many points total in the next two weeks, let alone gain that many. Things are tightening up between 2nd and 3rd, with SafeBet gaining 128 on Squire (a coincidence that this is the exact same amount Squire gained on Salvarani) to pull to 111 points back.
Further down the top 10, Devils Elbow is more than 300 down on 3rd and more than 300 up on 5th, and then 5th through 8th are clustered closely, while a few other teams could conceivably move up or down as well. No movement in the top 10 aside from triley36 and Earns1985 swapping spots.
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