Giro stage 16 **SPOILER**

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    geez... how many times has Rodriguez been in the breakaway this giro...

    And damn, I should have realised before my PTP pick, Cav turns 28 today. Extra motivation to get over that climb and win?

    Birthday boy with his cake at the start today

    There's the reason Cav won't get over the final climb today :wink:
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Blimey I hope they eat that after the stage!
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Any updates?
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  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    After 111km gap is 4'40", there was an attack in the break but all back together now
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Light read on UCI targetting:
    http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getOb ... I&LangId=1
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    goonz wrote:
    Blimey I hope they eat that after the stage!
    they'll wrap a slice in a napkin for everyone to go in their musettes like a party bag
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    edhornby wrote:
    goonz wrote:
    Blimey I hope they eat that after the stage!
    they'll wrap a slice in a napkin for everyone to go in their musettes like a party bag

    On that basis who will be crying on the team bus because they drank too much sugary drinks & lost their bag, you know how it goes there is always at least one.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Well thats me done then, just as ES go live I have an meeting with an estate agent.

    Just catching up on twitter & BMC have the following to say, even happens to the pro's;

    BMC Racing Team ‏@BMCProTeam 1m
    #Giro Stage 16: BMC Racing Team's Taylor Phinney has withdrawn (saddle sores).
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    edhornby wrote:
    goonz wrote:
    Blimey I hope they eat that after the stage!
    they'll wrap a slice in a napkin for everyone to go in their musettes like a party bag

    On that basis who will be crying on the team bus because they drank too much sugary drinks & lost their bag, you know how it goes there is always at least one.

    Visions of floating musettes suspended from helium-filled animal balloons...
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Phinney abandon. Saddles sores. All that riding in wet clothes cant be good for that sort of thing.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting read.
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/sky-rea ... -dominance
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I now want some cake and it's raining outside so I can't even be bothered to got to the yummy bakery around the corner. I'm the one crying on the team bus. :cry:
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Phinney abandon. Saddles sores. All that riding in wet clothes cant be good for that sort of thing.

    Especially for a rider like Phinney who says he avoids even mild paracetamol painkillers in racing.
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  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Phinney = The New Tom Danielson " He's going to do this" "Has the potential" ...still waiting !!! :roll:
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Phinney = The New Tom Danielson " He's going to do this" "Has the potential" ...still waiting !!! :roll:

    Harsh, he's 22. Hardly a Nico Roche.

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  • airwise
    airwise Posts: 248
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Frankly, if it's bad now, what's it going to be like on Friday when they ascend the Stelvio?

    The stage is likely to be diverted from Ponte over towards Merano. Weather in Bormio for Friday is predicted to be 5c and snowing. It's just been one of those Giros. We were baking on the Galibier only an hour or so before the riders came through on Sunday.
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Phinney = The New Tom Danielson " He's going to do this" "Has the potential" ...still waiting !!! :roll:

    Harsh, he's 22. Hardly a Nico Roche.

    2010
    1st Under 23 World Time Trial Champion
    1st National Time Trial Champion
    1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championship
    1st Overall Olympia's Tour
    1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2 & 3
    1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
    Tour of Utah
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    1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque de Monts et Châteaux
    1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
    1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
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    Sorry LL - I stand corrected as said by the man in brown platform shoes. Yes he's hardly Danielson but i remember all the talk of TD. will come back in october and see what he's managed to win 8)
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Interesting conundrum for Astana. Need to keep Caruso under control at 5 mins or so. But allows other teams glimpse of glory if they can close it down a bit prior to final climb.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    60km gap ~3mins. Radioshack chasing. Caruso's breakaway P45 coming soon.
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  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    15:30:49 CEST
    Evans is tucked in safely amongst his teammates, looking grim, as usual.

    :lol:
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    that bike of people @52.5km to go is going backwards
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Phinney = The New Tom Danielson " He's going to do this" "Has the potential" ...still waiting !!! :roll:

    Harsh, he's 22. Hardly a Nico Roche.

    2010
    1st Under 23 World Time Trial Champion
    1st National Time Trial Champion
    1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championship
    1st Overall Olympia's Tour
    1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2 & 3
    1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
    Tour of Utah
    1st Prologue & Stage 3 (ITT)
    1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque de Monts et Châteaux
    1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
    1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
    2011
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    3rd Chrono des Nations
    4th Olympic Road Race
    4th Olympic Time Trial
    2013
    3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
    1st Young rider classification
    1st Stage 2 (TTT)
    3rd Giro di Toscana
    7th Milan – San Remo


    Sorry LL - I stand corrected as said by the man in brown platform shoes. Yes he's hardly Danielson but i remember all the talk of TD. will come back in october and see what he's managed to win 8)

    No need for an apology :D

    TBH I don't think he will have anyting else on his Palmares by then either either...maybe World TT Champion if he's very lucky.

    Must admit, after all his talk I was more than a little upset with his Paris-Roubaix performance.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited May 2013
    Fat lady clearing the pipes for Caruso 8)

    Frenzied attacks in breakaway. 2mins gap. 48kms.

    Sean talking about waste of energy ahead of forthcoming high mountain stages. He needs to see a weather forecast.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    Gap down sub 2 min. Any chance Cav can pick up any points at the second TV - maybe another 20k, or does he now think he can get over hills?
  • islwyn
    islwyn Posts: 650
    I wanna go down this hill please.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    loving all the attacks being made by the breakaway. Will they all have been telling Caruso to eff off?
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Breakaway riding flat-out for last 10km. Gap down to 1:30s. 40km.

    Katusha driving bunch. It's a Katusha finish.
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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Macaloon wrote:
    Sean talking about waste of energy ahead of forthcoming high mountain stages.

    There won't be any !
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,311
    fancy my hometown?
    left the forum March 2023
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Long straight roads. The 15 second gap won't be enough to keep Sella's group out of sight.
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