Giro stage 17 **SPOILER**

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    ThomThom wrote:
    Goss has been underachieving because he has been sick.

    Didn't know that, makes sense. Doesn't explain his sub par results last season and so far this year though. For a guy who Cavendish himself said was they one rider that he really fears, you'd expect much better.
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  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    The peloton ready for the off this morning

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  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Breakaway of Rubiano, Durbridge, Dockx and Belkov has a gap of 4'40 on the peloton.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Anything else happening?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,174
    Be interesting if OPQS pull any breaks back before the TV sprints. Two wins in those could do Cav a few favours and give him some breathing space but they are quite close together and not too far from the finish. The second one also seems to be on the descent of a small hill.

    Actually edit that last bit, not sure what I had looked at!
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    How many points cushion does he have over Cadel? Bearing in mind the next couple of stages wont be kind to him...
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Macaloon wrote:
    I thought Cav had no chance on Stage 13, and got schooled. Not making that mistake again. He's shown a few times that when in with a sniff of a big prize he can climb OK. OTOH his team will probably have a torrid day chasing everything down.

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    Agree that Cav surprised me too at Cherrasco, and has been climbing very well, but those climbs were all around 4% with no really steep bits. Today has a km over 10 % and the whole climb is much steeper. I'd be very surprised if Cav wins it today
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Not going to start a new thread for this but anyone know how the points are allocated per stage. The Road Book doesn't have it and it seems to vary by the stage.

    FYI As at the end of Stage 16:
    Cav 109
    Cuddles 103
    Betancur 85
    Santambrogio 84
    Nibs 78
    Uran 76

    Looks probably like a straight fight between Cav and Cuddles.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,563
    For the stage 25, 20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
    For the intermediate 8, 6,4, 3, 2, 1

    Last four winners on paper have been climbing types. Bennati won in 2008.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    TheBigBean wrote:
    For the stage 25, 20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
    For the intermediate 8, 6,4, 3, 2, 1

    Last four winners on paper have been climbing types. Bennati won in 2008.
    And if at the end, two or more riders have the same number of total points, then the one of them who won the most stages takes the prize.
  • ed_209
    ed_209 Posts: 17
    re: red jersey competition. There are no points awarded in the time trial. So if Cavendish were to win today and get 25 points then he would have a lead of 31 points over Evans. With a sprint likely on the final day and the two mountaintop finishes subject to the vagaries of weather, this could put Cavendish in a very solid position.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,563
    Why do you say there are no points for the TT?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Been watching Belgium.
    Tommy Voeckler in the wars again.
    His own bottle jumps out and got stuck in his back wheel. Very unusual.
    Tommy does not look good. Possible abandon.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    125 kms left as live coverage starts.
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Been watching Belgium.
    Tommy Voeckler in the wars again.
    His own bottle jumps out and got stuck in his back wheel. Very unusual.
    Tommy does not look good. Possible abandon.

    Take it to the Belgium spoiler thread.....Oh.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Been watching Belgium.
    Tommy Voeckler in the wars again.
    His own bottle jumps out and got stuck in his back wheel. Very unusual.
    Tommy does not look good. Possible abandon.

    :cry:

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Macaloon wrote:
    Who's this Ulrika Greenedge SK was talking about?
    A podium girl in the Tour of Norway :wink:
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Cav, bluffing ferociously behind the entire OPQS Armada.

    Do the teams object to broadcasting speed telemetry from the TV motos? Or is it a cost/technology issue? It would have been fantastic info yesterday as the group hammered after the break, and especially the descent.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,563
    Someone has been removed from the Giro for hanging on to cars.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    goonz wrote:
    Goss has to be the biggest underachiever in sprints...

    His MSR win says you're talking out of your bottom TBH. Besides, everyone knows that it's really Donkey Farrar who is the biggest underachiever in sprinting... :P
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Someone has been removed from the Giro for hanging on to cars.
    Mattia Gavazzi, the lantern rouge, got the boot for drafting yesterday, I'm not sure about hanging on to cars? Was someone else chucked off for hanging on to cars?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Above The Cows wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Someone has been removed from the Giro for hanging on to cars.
    Mattia Gavazzi, the lantern rouge, got the boot for drafting yesterday, I'm not sure about hanging on to cars? Was someone else chucked off for hanging on to cars?

    Inner Ring said it was Gavazzi that was hanging onto cars (and thus booted out).
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Huh... Declan just suggested replacing the feedzone with air dropping musettes from a helicopter. I'm fairly sure that would be MORE dangerous and the riders would be LESS likely to get fed than they are now, which is surely the wrong way round.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    MrTapir wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Someone has been removed from the Giro for hanging on to cars.
    Mattia Gavazzi, the lantern rouge, got the boot for drafting yesterday, I'm not sure about hanging on to cars? Was someone else chucked off for hanging on to cars?

    Inner Ring said it was Gavazzi that was hanging onto cars (and thus booted out).

    Ah ha. Thanks, have been caught up with things today and so have not been keeping up with my 'social media'. I'd seen elsewhere (can't remember where now) that it was for drafting.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    How bad must you be to be caught hanging onto cars and still be the lantern rouge :lol:
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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    How bad must you be to be caught hanging onto cars and still be the lantern rouge :lol:

    :)
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Huh... Declan just suggested replacing the feedzone with air dropping musettes from a helicopter. I'm fairly sure that would be MORE dangerous and the riders would be LESS likely to get fed than they are now, which is surely the wrong way round.

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    :shock: :roll: :shock:
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  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    How bad must you be to be caught hanging onto cars and still be the lantern rouge :lol:

    They were going the other way.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Is it the final stage already?
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    MrTapir wrote:
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    How bad must you be to be caught hanging onto cars and still be the lantern rouge :lol:

    They were going the other way.

    :lol::lol:
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