Giro Stage 5 - Spoiler Thread

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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited May 2013
    When Cav gets up again he can look forward to 4km of 5-6%...

    matera.jpg
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Commissaire nearly ran over Cobo there!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Cobo down.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    They're over the top. 19kms to go. Could pull it back maybe?

    3Kms downhill & 20Kms to the finish
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    Cav did well there, looked grim!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited May 2013
    Says 15km to go on TV. Maybe they shortened the stage because of the rain?

    *edit*
    Doh! The breakaway time...
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  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    They're over the top. 19kms to go. Could pull it back maybe?

    Cav should be able to pull that gap back with three helpers.... setup for an interesting finale, rest of the stage totally uneventful!
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited May 2013
    Hardly all flat to the finish though. From the profile there is still another albeit UC climb to go.

    Good work by Pate. Sacrifices a wheel to Uran.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    No about right just top of climb @182.7kms & total stage is 203kms
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Look at that angry sky!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Bak Bak Bak Bak!!!!

    Go on, son!!!!
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ThomThom's doing a virtual Marc Madoit from the BR team car...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Today’s stage finish at Matera is notoriously tricky. It gets three stars out of five for difficulty in road book.
    “It’s not at all easy,” says BMC’s Max Sciandri, who was racing the Giro in 2003 when Fabio Baldato won there.
    “They were trying to set things up for [Alessandro] Petacchi and Fabio locked on behind to get the win and beat him in the sprint.”
    “It’s big roads, it can bite some sprinters for sure. You do the last corners, left and left, and then in the last 800 metres it really kicks up. There’s a headwind today, which could make it more complicated.”
    Sciandri predicts “some, but not all sprinters will get dropped. It’s difficult, visually it’s right there, but with that headwind and kicking up.”
    “It’s always like that in the Giro, there’s always a little twist at the end.”
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Leaders just at the start of the climb to Matera and the finish.
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    That town at the finish is awesome!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    This town of Matera looks beautiful. UNESCO site.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Looks like something out of Game of Thrones.

    That's one to add to the list of holiday destinations.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Game over for Cav.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    5 miles to go
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    RonB wrote:
    2 min gap 30km to go. This could be back together before the climb. Opportunity for attacks to lose some of the sprinters?


    Cue OGE and Argos-Shimano putting down the hammer to try to drop Cav...

    And Cav is out of it...
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Cameras finally catch up with Goss & Cav, both looking around to see if anyone else can help bring them up to the peloton but looks like a done deal :-(
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    No sign of Sky in the top 20. Could be more time gaps at the finish if they're not careful.
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    edited May 2013
    Cav's really got to be in the running on this sort of stage to have a good shot at the red jersey.
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  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    RonB wrote:
    No sign of Sky in the top 20. Could be more time gaps at the finish if they're not careful.

    appear to be about 1/3 down in the peloton and just watching the other GC contenders
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cav hardly has any teammates at all...
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Fancy Henao for a boner here
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cav hardly has any teammates at all...

    He sure isn't impressive on the ascents either.

    At all.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Ventoso still there...
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cav hardly has any teammates at all...

    Because they are in front of him? Or behind him? I presume the 3 that were with him have been let go?
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    ThomThom wrote:
    He sure isn't impressive on the ascents either.

    At all.

    Shock as the World's best sprinter sucks at going up hill :P

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