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Vuelta VDS: We Have Winners!

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UPDATE! Here's the Spreadsheet.

Another grand tour has come and gone, and with it go more prizes from the Podium Cafe. In the category of best overall performance by a yearlong VDS team, the winner is Big Farmers! Following Johan Bruyneel's lead, the farmers put together a team of Leipheimer and Contador, to predictable effect. Well done to Team Born From Jets, which used a crafty combination of Sastre, Moncoutie, Boonen and Gesink to make a race of it. But there was no stopping the Farmers... future owners of a Podium Cafe wool jersey.

In the category of best performance by someone who sauntered along after missing out on the year-long comp, congrats to Celestin! The Vuelta-only battle was a much more tightly contested affaire, with so many Contador owners and fully seven teams within some 240 points of the win. In the end Celestin's pick of Zeke Mosquera, Robert Gesink and Oliver Zaugg sewed up the win, though big ups to Fish Kebab Bonanza who relied on a host of surprising performances (Egoi, Nick Roche, David Arroyo, Seb Hinault) to nearly pull the upset. Celestin gets an item from the shwag box, which still includes some pretty nice jerseys.

Winners contact me offline. Full results in the sidebar. Well done all!

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Oh god... Jens came in second?

He’s going to be intolerable.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

by crashdan on Sep 24, 2008 8:26 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Odräglig (ooh-dreah-glig) in swedish

and yes, most likely.

Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets

by Jens on Sep 25, 2008 2:13 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Unerträglicher Kerl...

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

by crashdan on Sep 25, 2008 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Chris... is the sheet on the side bar the final one?

I pulled it but I think it only ran through stage 18 or 19.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Sep 25, 2008 12:24 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

oops

I think I left some of the columns hidden. If you can unhide, cool, but I think I need to re-load it. Manana… sorry!

But it’s just hidden; the numbers are actually all there.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Sep 25, 2008 1:37 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Aaaw, so close.

No prizes for second place no? Devastating…..

by Penfold83 on Sep 25, 2008 6:08 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I was doing so well up to stage 17....

from 2nd place to nowhere! I’m going off to sulk in the corner :-(

by Albertina on Sep 25, 2008 6:24 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Final numbers?

Chris,

Thanks for all your work on this. I think I have the same issue Nikki did with the spreadsheet – it looks like it’s missing the points for last four stages as well as the bonus points.

by CJWinSF on Sep 25, 2008 1:54 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

This is the payoff...

…for being the only person in the whole world who was certain—certain!—that ASO would have to relent and let the yellow jersey race.

And a very nice trade-off it is, really.

by ChPitiFuentes on Sep 25, 2008 2:40 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

OK, it should be fixed now.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Sep 25, 2008 3:27 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Gah!

4th in the giro and now 4th in the Vuelta. Dagnammit.

by Rothko on Sep 25, 2008 10:51 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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