Hello and welcome to Malaysia for this years Tour de Langkawi. The race will be quite different this year since we have a new route with odd things such as hills and a TT.
The Malay bookmakers have divided todays favorites into three factions: B&O, Virgin Media B and Nippo. The Malay bookmakers have also been rumoured to be involved in a deal that ensured malay sprinter prodigy Anuar Manan was in Egypt at the time. The rumours are not completely idiotic since the malaysians have a long tradition of matchfixing in their national football league.
It would only take 15 kilometers for a breakaway to form. Here we have 3 AI riders which shouldnt attack, Nally (Nintendo B), Burke (Virgin Media B) and Walker (Pearl Jam). Also note how good the producers are at editing out unwanted riders from the live broadcast.
Chaos erupted at the first mountain sprint with the AI deciding it was the rightful owner of the 5 KoM points. But Nally did take 2nd.
The AI cleverly ruins another mountain sprint. But Burke crosses as 2nd.
Status update:
E1: Nally, Walker, Burke
E2: Frischkorn - 30 seconds behind
E3: Tuft (Dasani), Martin (Procycling - BBC), Roulston (Irn Bru B) - Another 30 seconds behind
P: Inches behind.
Somehow, all escapees are still ahead of the pack with 30 kilometers to go. Frischkorn has also made it up to the frontrunners by the time of the only points sprint today.
Burke takes the 6 points though and Walker took 2 points.
Its pretty hopeless though. The pack is a mere 45 seconds behind, and soon all the escapees were eaten up again.
Todays chase was sponsored by B&O and Nippo. The worlds favorite provider of Dishwasher/Homecinema hybrids.
Disaster! What appears to be around 20 or 25 riders go down. The good half of Procycling - BBC, Pliuchkin, Jørgensen, Abakoumov and Frischkorn is involved!
5kms to go: Huff leading out Breschel leading out Anuawar. Now that some of the better sprinters are way behind.
2.4kms to go: Cassidy (Irn Bru B) and Keisse (Virgin Media B) is attempting something bold here during the chaos.
And Keisse does it! His gamble pays off!
Huff (TSL) 2nd, Anuawar (Nippo) 3rd, Turano (Dasani) 4th, Cassidy (Irn Bru B) 5th and Breschel (B&O) is a complete failure and finishes 6th.
The crashers came home 2'32" behind.
What followed was a disaster. The game decided to go (and excuse my swearing) tits-up and crash before i could export or take screenshots of the results. But modern science has uncovered what happened afterall:
1
Keisse
VRB
2
Huff
TSL
3
Anuawar
NIP
4
Turano
DAS
5
Cassidy
IBB
6
Breschel
B&O
7
Gallardo
NIB
8
Panayotov
La-MSS-Pearl Jam
Keisse of course leads both the GC and U-25 in front of Anuawar and Walker.
GC
Sprinters jersey
KoM
Its important to remember that the leading rider scores no ranking points from this lead.
And that concludes the nightmare of my last 90 minutes. I need a cold shower...Edited by Roman on 18-10-2016 00:21
