Giro 2014 - Stage 6 - Sassano-Montecassino * Spoiler *

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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    The chasing group is 40 seconds behind. Contains people like J Rod and Scarponi. And Quintana I think.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Caruso looks really, really bad.
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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Evans owes Movistar so quite right to push on ... Shame for some of the others though ...
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    How can it take that long to get a medic and an ambulance? Very shabby.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    BMC should sit up. Shouldn't take advantage of a situation like that.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Well unfortunately it looks like a crash is going to have a major affect on the GC.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    A lot of riders down and out. What is it about these Italian Roads that makes them so insanely slippery?

    2 years in a row now it's been like a Paris-Roubaix GT!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    I'm not happy with taking advantage of this crash. Evans with 40s in group of 10 ot so. Last 6km.
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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Caruso looks really, really bad.

    Conscious and moving (barely) though so that's a good sign ...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    ....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Rodgriguez looks really awkward on the bike. Out the back of the chase.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    J Rod looks like he's been down and he is off the back of the chasing group. He's going to lose big time unfortunately.
  • r0b1et
    r0b1et Posts: 14
    Macaloon wrote:
    Lack of medical attention for caruso is terrible.
    This, horrible, not moving and no medics... just terrible.

    BMC should be ashamed.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Pirazzi having to be pushed up the hill by Enrico Barbin.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    And that's pathetic for Movi. Quintana no help from 4km. They've done nowt all day.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    BMC not making any friends there. Poels chasing hard.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Evans owes Movistar so quite right to push on ... Shame for some of the others though ...
    Evans has been ambushed before at the end of Giro stages in the past; he's just giving some payback to the Italians.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Matthews with a great chance to keep the Maglia Rosa - the Shroud of Montecassino - albeit stained with the blood of the fallen Caruso.
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Sometimes pro cycling amazes me. We spend all day complaining nobody's racing, then when they start racing everyone complains it's the wrong moment!
  • Give me more
    Give me more Posts: 487
    Disappointed. Boring day and then an attack off a crash has a massive impact on GC.

    Credit to Orica for making sure Matthews got into that move though.

    Purito is even more screwed now unless he managed to claw his way back off camera. Movistar let Quintana down, which is not exactly a great sign before they even hit the big stuff. Very little organisation from any of the other teams really.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    40-odd seconds. Massive gap.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Sometimes pro cycling amazes me. We spend all day complaining nobody's racing, then when they start racing everyone complains it's the wrong moment!
    The Italians hate the rain, it seems.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Sometimes pro cycling amazes me. We spend all day complaining nobody's racing, then when they start racing everyone complains it's the wrong moment!
    Not really a race though when a load of riders are held up by a crash that leaves one rider in a serious state?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Every single stage BMC work their butts off to keep Evans right up the front out of trouble just in case something like this happens. So I don't see why they should stop riding now because other teams don't.
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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Evans happy to pace Matthews to keep some friends in the peleton?
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Horrible day. All over for J Rod.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Not a fun first week.
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Sometimes pro cycling amazes me. We spend all day complaining nobody's racing, then when they start racing everyone complains it's the wrong moment!
    Not really a race though when a load of riders are held up by a crash that leaves one rider in a serious state?

    BUT that's the essence of a RACE surely? Had to be right to press on.
    d.j.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    You can see the difference between Evans and Quintana. Evans just put everything in to gaining every second he possibly could, it didn't matter who a lead out for the finish.

    When Quintana ran out of domestiques he just sat up and waited for someone else to do something rather than taking responisbility himself.
  • keef_zip
    keef_zip Posts: 295
    If riders are supposed to stop every time there is a crash, why do we bother with all these stages - just have one time trial to decide the overall GC.

    BMC right to press on. Racing incident. Movistar have done the same in the past - what goes around, comes around.

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