Nosková has used her good from from Australia to attack on the early slopes of La Frontera, and her gap is growing to about 30 seconds at the moment.
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Koppenburg, Magnaldi and the new Movistar duo of Floortje Mackaij and Liane Lippert now up front, with a small gap from Nosková and Mareille Meijering. The tickers are now contradicting each other as to where Magalhães is.
She won.
Your biggest buys are Cille and Kasia, I'm always going to support that. Even I didn't go that heart-over-head in the CQ game (although I did go pretty heart-over-head with Demi and Cille as my most expensive two picks in fairness). I also back the Fidanza pick, I think she's an under-the-radar chance for some good cheap points because Ceratizit don't really have a better sprinter and she's pretty quick and decent for some placements even if she likely won't win too much. Manly is poised for a good year and she can motor over most terrains, while Kool is a pick I made on the CQ game too, I think she's a definite star pick here because DSM have a very good sprint train but now having lost Labecki and Wiebes over the last couple of years, Kool will be the main one on the end of it. I'd only say that you have invested heavily in the FDJ team with Grace Brown AND Cille whose goals are likely to be subsumed to one another when they race together in many major races (this was also why I rejected my initial plan to use Liane Lippert in my CQ Game, because I figured that with that game focusing primarily on WWT races, being on the same team as Annemiek van Vleuten will limit the number of points available to her) and similarly Henderson's freedom will likely be clipped by being on the same team as Vos and being likely to focus on the same types of stages/races; Szkalniak is an interesting gamble as her successes in the B-races last year mean she costs a fair bit so it's potentially high risk high reward as if she can replicate that kind of form on the WWT you'll be laughing to the (points) bank, and...well...of course I have to subtract some style points for picking Lizzie Deignan
2nd version of my fantasy cycling team. Thoughts?
I'd forgotten Vos was injured - see, this is why I come to the experts.
I can replace her with one of Labous, Garcia, Lippert, Norsgaard, Reusser, Fisher-black or Audrey Cordon-Ragot. Any idea?
I could do, but is she really going to have a good enough season to justify her price tag? Maybe. The others just seem more likely to
The Women's Clasica de Almeria is tomorrow. The other reason race with 'Almeria' in its name was apparently not a Women's Clasica Almeria(ish).
HPH mixed things up today, and victory wne to their other super mom, Vandenbulcke, while Christoforou finished second.
And only 13 rider finished, with another 13 OTLing, two DNFing, and two DNSing. That's "DNS-ing", BTW, not "DN-Sing".
It's a worry that a WWt team is doing .2 races and they have more on their calendar.