Tirreno-Adriatico Post Race Thread

I’m happy.

GC didn’t change, right? So, Lovkvist: 4th for T-A=125, young rider’s jersey=60, plus his previous 170=355.

1.Scarponi 250 + 40+40= 330
2.Garzelli180 + 25+20= 225
3.Kloden 150 40= 190
4.Lovkvist 125 +10 +1060= 205
5.Basso 100 10= 110
6.Rebellin 80 +2520= 125
7.Gerdemann 60
8.Hesjedal 40
9.Siutsou 20
10.Nibali 10+40= 50

Others
Devolder 25
Rodriguez 40
Farrar 40+25+20=85
Cavendish 25+40+40= 105
Rossi 10
Petacchi 40
Bennati 25 10- 35
Fernandez 10
Duma 25
Cooke 10
ElFares 60 +4060= 160
Martinez 60
Capelli 40
Gesink 20

majope- is this right?

I’m having good sensations for the Giro!!!

Eh. Could have been worse, but I really thought Lovkvist was going to win and Gerdemann place top 5, plus either Dekker or Schleck to make it to the top 10. So, as a prognosticator I have some work to do. But my team isn’t doing badly—I’ll have some VDS stats to put up later today, unless ursula or Chris beats me to it.

I forgot to add in the GC leaders points. Here’s updated totals:

1.Scarponi 250 + 40+40+6= 336
2.Garzelli180 + 25+20= 225
3.Kloden 150 +40+6 = 196
4.Lovkvist 125 10 +1060= 205
5.Basso 100 10= 110
6.Rebellin 80 +2520= 125
7.Gerdemann 60
8.Hesjedal 40
9.Siutsou 20
10.Nibali 1040= 50

Others
Devolder 25
Rodriguez 40+6= 46
Farrar 40+25+20=85
Cavendish 25+40+40= 105
Rossi 10
Petacchi 40
Bennati 25 10- 35
Fernandez 10
Duma 25
Cooke 10
ElFares 60 +40+60+6+6+6= 178
Martinez 60
Capelli 40
Gesink 20

I think that puts me at about 770 for both P-N and T-A

Final general classification
 
1 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
2 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana
4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Columbia-Highroad
5 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas

Top 12 VDS top scorers through Tirreno-Adriatico
Thomas Lovkvist 355 (25.36 pps) 22 teams
Alberto Contador 328 (13.12 pps) 99 teams
Lulu Sanchez 316 (52.67 pps) 50 teams
Sylvain Chavanel 288 (24 pps) 24 teams
Thor Hushovd 250 (15.63 pps) 31 teams
Frank Schleck 225 (14.06 pps) 16 teams
Tom Boonen 220 (11 pps) 40 teams
Juan Antonio van der Flecha 215 (26.88 pps) 24 teams
Stefano Garzelli 205 (51.25 pps) 13 teams
Kevyn Ista 200 (100 pps) 0 teams
Andreas Kloden 196 (24.5 pps) 14 teams
Antonio Colom 185 (92.5 pps) 37 teams

VDS Club 67
(riders who have returned 67 or more per point spent)
Julien El Fares—118 (0 teams)
Jonathan Hivert—105 (1 team)
Kevyn Ista—100 (on 0 teams)
Pieter Weening—100 (21 teams)
Antonio Colom—92.5 (on 37 teams)
Ruben Plaza Molina—82.5 (on 1 team)
Graeme Brown—80 (on 42 teams)
Xavier Tondo—80 (3 teams)

Island of Misfit Toys: Available, but nobody wanted them (508 points)
Kevyn Ista, 200 (100 pps)
Julien El Fares 118 (118 pps)
Greg Henderson 80 (40 pps)
Jaume Rovira 60 (60 pps)
Geoffroy Lequatre 50 (25 pps)

Land of the Lost: Not listed riders who’ve scored points (821 points)
Michele Scarponi 296
Frederic Amorison 120
Kevin Seeldrayers 120
Jeremy Roy 60
David Boucher 40
Matthieu Ladagnous 40
Carlos Nozal 40
Ruben Perez 30
Vladimir Duma 25
José Herrada 20
Francisco Perez Sanchez 20
Christophe Le Mevel 10

Hey, wait—should the goal for an elite team still be 10,000 points, given that there are more races this year, and therefore more points available?
Well, if you’re going to be picky about it…by my admittedly imperfect (but probably somewhere in the neighborhood) calculations, a team last year needed to snag 11.95 percent of the available VDS points to reach 10,000 points. The same percentage of this year’s available points would equal about 10,860 points. Am I going to redo all my calculations because of this? No. So there.

Speaking of percent of available VDS points: if, like me, you’re still satisfied with gunning for the 10K, you’ll need about 11 percent of this year’s available VDS points to hit your target. Through the end of Tirreno-Adriatico, 7813 points have been up for grabs. To be on track for 10,000, then, your team should have about 859 points. Well, does it?

so much more aesthetically pleasing to look at than 1150 or 1186. (Pathetic attempt at a positive spin, I know—but at least I’m over the 11 percent line!)