Tour des Pavés - 20 h

[el Galactico]

First galactic tour since 3 months and first Tour des Pavés ever for the team.

Line-up:

-1- Joao Sabrosa
-2- Arturo Sarrabal
-3- Thiago de Lemos
-4- Inacio Araujo
-5- Ricardo Junqueira
-6- Joaquim Tigre
-7- Johnnie Walker
-8- Thor Hjelmstad
-9- Manuel Sosa

Salary: 404.399

Iguacu and Soares still possible to join the team instead of Sosa/Araujo

Who will join?

I hope i can be there every day

[el Galactico]

OK nobody writes something, i will. Maybe someone is interested. I kind of like the peloton 'cause the GC seems to be still veeery open.
The first stage was really soft ridden so that Thiago from my team was able to win the stage and maybe more important - he lost no time to the strong flat pave riders.

Second stage, again not much action. Nobody wants to ride it seems. Actually i did the most according to my jerseys. Finally this result which is still very good for me. Dont know how the others think about the past 2 stages.

GC
1. Manfred Neumann (EQUIPE LEGENDE, 53-84;83.4 pave)
2. Daniel Hoelgaard (Team planet-X, 54-85; 82)
3. Indra Shetol (team cuki, 50-90;80.1) +0:03
4. Joao Sabrosa (Galacticos,59-84; 81.3) s.t.
5. Björn Spinat (UC Nantes, 53-85; 83,8) s.t.
6. Massimo Bernardi (TT Sports, 49-91; 79.3) s.t.
7. Marc Bleuet (MACRAMET, 58-83; 82,4) s.t.
...
11. Thiago de Lemos (Galacticos, 66-80; 74,6) +0:22
16. Arturo Sarrabal (Galacticos, 60-86; 77,6) s.t.
17. Laurent Mignon (Equipe Legende, 65-85; 76,6) +0:37

This should be the riders with chances for the final GC. The flat pave riders havent won that much time and they will definitely suffer on the last day so maybe Thiago, Sarrabal and Sabrosa have good chances to win this tour. I dont really know as my experience is not that big for pave races. Mignon was my favorite before tour start but he already lost time on thiago and i dont think he is able to win time on him as his form also seems to be not that good. Sabrosa is the joker if the flat pave riders use the chance on stage 4 and maybe win some more time to the hill pavelers. Tomorrow will only bring some second differences, but maybe some deciding seconds. We will see. The GC will be decided on the last stage finally.

White will be a pure Galacticos fight: Sabrosa against Thiago.
Green should be for Thiago or Indra Shetol, but could still change as the point system is very close.
Team classement should be for me or TT if he is able to hold the gap little on the last stage.

GC proposal is difficult: I would give me some good chances but as already said i'm not sure about it and i see the problem that i have to decide which rider gets the complete help to ride for the GC, Thiago or Joao.