Giro Stage 11 *spoiler*

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    100km to go, still over 16 minutes. Cadel's going to be a grumpy man tonight! :wink:
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    sweepstakes on the gap?

    nearest minute?

    I'm going for 8 mins
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    100km to go, still over 16 minutes. Cadel's going to be a grumpy man tonight! :wink:

    wheres burghadt and hincapie when you need them?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The lead group isn't hanging around. Jufre, Vanotti and Stangelj dropped, down to 50 riders.

    Interesting options on the stage finish and the overall too. Gerdeman or Voeckler for the stage? Sastre or Wiggins for the GC?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    mididoctors wrote:
    sweepstakes on the gap?

    nearest minute?

    I'm going for 8 mins
    The bunch would have to "motor" (ahem) to do this. Given they are not chasing at all, merely level-pegging, I can't see the gap coming down too much. I mean start now and you'd be lucky to limit the gap to 8 minutes, still a massive gap.

    One option is for the GC candidates to team up, attack together and ride like the wind to get to the finish.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mididoctors wrote:
    sweepstakes on the gap?

    nearest minute?

    I'm going for 8 mins

    Is that stage winner to Vino? I'll say 11 minutes 43 seconds.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    The lead group isn't hanging around. Jufre, Vanotti and Stangelj dropped, down to 50 riders.

    Interesting options on the stage finish and the overall too. Gerdeman or Voeckler for the stage? Sastre or Wiggins for the GC?

    tondo porte and efimkin are all in there along with half of LIQ
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Bl00dy arroyo is in there as well....
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Tondo's one to watch, the only rider to ride away from the main group on the Terminillo.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited May 2010
    RichN95 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    sweepstakes on the gap?

    nearest minute?

    I'm going for 8 mins

    Is that stage winner to Vino? I'll say 11 minutes 43 seconds.

    yeah to the jersey... you get everything from 11 to 12 mins no one else can choose 11 mins...
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • El Imbatido
    El Imbatido Posts: 144
    Santambrogio and Gasparotto both abandoned
    Do you have any Therapeutic Use Exemptions?
    No. Never have.
    Never? What about the cortisone?
    Well, obviously there was the cortisone
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    El Imbatido wrote:
    Santambrogio and Gasparotto both abandoned

    ouch and it all went wrong

    all those sastre and Possivio picks dont look quite as doomed now
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rumour has it Cadel has been ill overnight.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope the advantage is SIGNIFICNTLY reduced. I don't see that as an admirable way to get a great placing - more like a gift as the effort involved with 56 riders pulling is much smaller.

    What you talking about Willis?

    That must be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read :shock:
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Dicky tums alround chez BMC I hear
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Kléber wrote:
    The lead group isn't hanging around. Jufre, Vanotti and Stangelj dropped, down to 50 riders.

    Were they dropped though? Considering they are two Astanas and a Liguigas, they're more likely to have been called back.

    (I'm not watching yet so I don't know)
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Maxim Iglinksiy as well

    astana melt down

    I wonder what Basso and Nibs think?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    wouldnt hold your breath for cycling on ES as scheduled.. Some Tennis match went an extra set..
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Any feeds?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    iainf72 wrote:
    Rumour has it Cadel has been ill overnight.

    would have been funny if all the others had based the day round him and waited for him to react and he taken them all down with them
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Doobz wrote:
    wouldnt hold your breath for cycling on ES as scheduled.. Some Tennis match went an extra set..

    Oh FFS!
    I like bikes...

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  • Oz Chief
    Oz Chief Posts: 176
    Any internet live feed?
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Oz Chief wrote:
    Any internet live feed?

    should be on rai streaming. I got it on rai 3 starting in 10 mins but on sat
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    http://videochat.gazzetta.it/index_giro.shtml
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Picked a great day to go out........... :x
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    The big boys all calling their guys back out of the break now
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I hope the advantage is SIGNIFICNTLY reduced. I don't see that as an admirable way to get a great placing - more like a gift as the effort involved with 56 riders pulling is much smaller.

    Smaller than what? The effort being put in by the near 150 riders chasing? [/quote]
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Leakygas chasing now.
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  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    Gap down to 15:45
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    You have to wonder if this is going to turn out to be a Óscar Pereiro moment - the day the peleton let someone get too far up the road - only to have them end up winning the whole thing.

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