2015 Giro d'Italia Stage 2 ***Spoiler***

hammerite
hammerite Posts: 3,408
edited May 2015 in Pro race
177km - Albenga - Genoa

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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    5 riders in the break been out pretty much since 0km. Fraporti (Androni), Owsian (CCC), Berlato (Vini Fantini), Zhupa (Southeast) and Linderman (Lotto-Jumbo). At one point they had over 8 mins, now down to 3 mins with 44km to go.

    Tinkoff riding on the front to keep Contador safe. Matthews dropped on last climb and chasing back on.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    I think we can probably get used to most of these teams getting in to the break of the day. Zhupa is Albanian - are there many more Albanians in the pro peloton?
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Stunning route today.

    And Bert-Jan will be in the maglia azzurra tomorrow.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    It's not until now I've realised how poor the startlist actually is for this race.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Crash, Haussler, Colbrelli, Pelucchi down.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    18k to go, 35 sec gap.

    Movistar - Dayer Quintana down.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Dayer Quintana down.

    Gap to the break is 38" with 18km to go.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Amazingly, Southeast's new kit for the Giro is even worse than their old one.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Crash!
    Crash!
    Crash!
    Sprint.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Pozzovivo down.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Splits due to the crashes. Tinkoff on the front keeping Contador safe.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Tinkoff Saxo train out in force.

    Field split up big time.
  • LeePaton
    LeePaton Posts: 353
    Would 150% be a better stage if people could stay on two wheels.
    It's not so much about winning, I just hate losing.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Sky and Astana both have groups near the front too, so those teams seemingly doing a good job for their leaders.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Jurgen VdB out the back too. Quelle surprise.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Pozzovivo is 20" back.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Probably can't read too much in to this, but Tinkoff had a huge number of riders looking after Contador up until a minute ago. Sky 4 riders, Astana 5.

    Not seen where Uran is.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Great work by Viviani. That was a right mess though!
  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,447
    Viviani timed that perfectly, he's usually too far back but was spot on that time.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Watch the overhead slow mo, Viviani followed all the right wheels and just waited patiently. Pretty impressive.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    At last Viviani gets the big win. Happy for him.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Matthews in pink.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    And Aru 12th in the sprint lol.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Pozzo ended up losing over 1 min on the main GC contenders after that.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    RonB wrote:
    Pozzo ended up losing over 1 min on the main GC contenders after that.

    On top of his 40" deficit from the TTT, too.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Great sprint by Viviani. SKY come with a whole team to support Porte and he still wins the sprint, good effort.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    LeePaton wrote:
    Would 150% be a better stage if people could stay on two wheels.

    Lots of spills on the final circuit. It seems that the big one with 10km to go was caused by a "fan" jumping into the group of riders on a fixie.

    https://www.facebook.com/alafaci.eugenio/posts/10204548955948539?pnref=story
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Sky failed to win a single GT stage last year, now take the first GT road stage of the season.
    2 posts more for today's stage. Progress. :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    RonB wrote:
    LeePaton wrote:
    Would 150% be a better stage if people could stay on two wheels.

    Lots of spills on the final circuit. It seems that the big one with 10km to go was caused by a "fan" jumping into the group of riders on a fixie.

    https://www.facebook.com/alafaci.eugenio/posts/10204548955948539?pnref=story

    Not sure if the translation is accurate but I enjoyed insult this from the comments on the facebook link

    "The Mother of idiots is always pregnant! "
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Good to see JAF so happy to see SDB on the post stage show (was riding all afternoon so all I caught was the last 500m and that)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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