As was to be expected, today's stage made no impression on the Yellow or White jerseys so the points scored today is much the same as yesterday. Tony Martin tops the charts once again, ahead of Contador and Wiggins with Cancellara the 4th best scorer.

Showing the benefits of making the breakaway today, Stef Clement is the 6th top scorer. Already ranked in the Top 50 GC, he picked up points for the Green and KoM jersey competitions as well as being named the most combative rider. Another rider to buck the trend was Nicholas Roche - 11th top scorer thanks to 43rd in GC, 8th in points and 7th in the young rider class. The stage win for Cavendish earns him the full 50 pts for taking control of the green jersey, so although it vindicates many picking him over other sprinters, it still shows that over half the teams could well have been better off in avoiding the sprinters altogether.

Onto the teams and the Top 3 remains the same with matt493 leading. He clearly chose well in terms of good time trial riders, and the first test to his lead will come on Tuesday with the TTT. There are actually just two new entries into the Top 10, Turbojugends half their position to go 7th while Fenian's Boys take 10th.

Turbojugends were not the only ones to make strides up the table though. The Animals gained 16 places, Team eBAY gained 14 places and Deadpool's team moved up 12 spots. 12 teams have now passed 2000 pts already, with 100 teams over 1000 pts. It's still all very close!

The current top 10:

Read the extended article to see the full standings and the best 20 scoring riders

It really was a great result for Fabian Cancellara today as he took a dominant victory in the Monaco ITT. However, 2 slight problems. He didnt score KoM pts (Only Contador, Martin and Wiggins did) and he doesnt qualify for the young rider jersey.

Today it was always going to be vital to be in Top 10 - aswell as the greater points from the yellow jersey gains, they are the only ones to be ranked in the points jersey. 10th placed Armstrong therefore took 41 pts in the Points category - 11th placed Larsson gets nothing there.

So infact it was Tony Martin who tops the tables today, the only man to score in all 5 categories. Contador was 2nd, Wiggins 3rd and Cancellara only 6th in terms of points gained today. The top 20 riders can be seen by viewing the full article.

Now, onto the teams. Already 4 have had to call in their reserves as they did not remove unselected riders from their team selections. But who tops the game after Stage 1? It's matt493! With Martin, Kreuziger, Cancellara, Leipheimer, Armstrong, Zabriskie and Vandevelde all scoring well, he has built a 47 point lead over Eoin's EDTeam. 100 of the 104 teams scored at least 500 points with 14 also managing to cross the 1000 point barrier.

Here is the top 10:

Read the full article to see complete article and the top 20 riders.

Entries have closed and amazingly we have 104 teams entered into the Fantasy Tour de France. So while we wait for the Prologue, here are some stats:

104 teams
36 teams with reserves - 2 of which have 3 reserves
69 teams chose Mark Cavendish
59 teams chose Alberto Contador
57 teams chose Fabian Cancellara
44 teams chose Andy Schleck
31 teams chose Cadel Evans
29 teams chose Roman Kreuziger
24 teams chose Tony Martin
20 teams chose Jens Voigt
19 teams chose Bradley Wiggins
18 teams chose Lance Armstrong
18 teams chose Oscar Freire
18 teams chose Robert Gesink
17 teams chose Sandy Casar
17 teams chose Thor Hushovd
16 teams chose Vincenzo Nibali
49 riders out of the 180 were not selected by any team
The most popular reserve, with 5 choices, is Stuart O'Grady
Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Dmitri Muravyev were both selected as reserves 4 times
2 teams picked riders entirely from 1 squad (One for Columbia, One for Milram)
Only 12 teams did not pick either Cavendish, Contador or Cancellara - 30 teams have all 3
Only 4 teams did not pick either of the 5 most popular riders - 21 teams included 4 of them.

Le Tour de France on PCM.Daily

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