Giro D'Italia- Stage 16 ***Spoilers***

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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Crazy stage
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    And Konig limited his losses very well. Good to see Betancur right up there.
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  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    Ryder finishes in sixth and should be into the top 10 overall. A great ride.

    Konig did OK too.

    A good ride from Betancur. 10th on the stage and his form is slowly returning. Has huge class.

    DD.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I think that was Geniez who came in with the Caruso group. Nice.
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  • bluemoon17
    bluemoon17 Posts: 718
    Anybody else think Kruijswijk has shoulders like Mr. Strong? Great ride from him today. latest?cb=20090712071349
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    ShinyHelmut wrote:
    Aru mechanical.Just what he doesn't need.
    Karma....
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    frenchfighter wrote:
    With that last attack, Landa may well move into 2nd. Before he wasn't.
    Cunning Contador, can play divide-and-rule with Astana now.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,684
    Stage

    1 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 5:02:53
    2 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:38
    3 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo
    4 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:02:03
    5 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
    6 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:02:10
    7 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:02:51
    8 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:03:18
    9 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky 0:03:19
    10 Carlos Betancur (Col) AG2R La Mondiale

    GC

    1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 65:04:59
    2 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:04:02
    3 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:04:52
    4 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:05:48
    5 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:08:27
    6 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky 0:09:21
    7 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:09:52
    8 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:11:40
    9 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:12:48
    10 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:12:49
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Landa has never ridden this well before. Previous best position in 4 GTs is 28. Got a contract up for grabs. next year.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Will be interesting to hear Contador's comments today.
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Shouldn't Landa have waited for Aru?
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,273
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Shouldn't Landa have waited for Aru?

    NO.. you don't wait for a dead horse
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    That was a belter, mainly because it was Contador's mechancal they attacked. They won't do that again in a hurry.

    But imagine that with the GC at stake. The top 4 are consistently 4-5 mins ahead of the best of the rest in the big 2 tours. Big structural porblem.
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,804
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Landa has never ridden this well before. Previous best position in 4 GTs is 28. Got a contract up for grabs. next year.

    Depends when the p*sitive shows up.
  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Landa has never ridden this well before. Previous best position in 4 GTs is 28. Got a contract up for grabs. next year.

    Depends when the p*sitive shows up.

    if this had been Porte, FF would be making the same insinuations to much derision on here

    clean until proven dirty I say
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Oleg being interview. Wonder what he is saying now.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    What a wonderful stage that was, cycling at its finest. Got to love the fighter in Contador - that was a huge margin he clawed back on the Mortirolo. From that point onwards he looked a little laboured but then he did not need to press any harder.

    There are some beastly stages to come - I just hope he can win one of them as he deserves it. With his climbing performance, Quintana and Froome are going to have a great deal of trouble. His mental strength and racing tactics are just superb as well. What a total heavyweight champion.

    Aru could easily have given up but he rode his heart and guts out. I wonder how he is able to recover from that as he was dipping into the red zone there.

    Can't wait for the photos.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Ha check out Millar's tweets from today:
    https://twitter.com/millarmind

    --

    @ammattipyoraily · 1m 1 minute ago
    #Giro, Stage16. Mortirolo (11.85 km, 10.88 %, 1289 m)
    Alberto Contador ("62 kg"): 45:16, 15.71 Kph, VAM 1709 m/h
    5.70 - 5.80 W/kg [CPL]


    SLOW :wink:
    http://www.climbing-records.com/2015/05 ... es-on.html
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Shouldn't Landa have waited for Aru?
    Why? I don't understand. Because Aru was the designated leader? Landa has overtaken Aru in GC. Landa is better than Aru.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    frenchfighter wrote:
    What a wonderful stage that was, cycling at its finest.
    Absolutely. Shows that a GT with a boring GC can still be a great GT. We've had eventful stages pretty much every days for more than two weeks now.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FJS wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    What a wonderful stage that was, cycling at its finest.
    Absolutely. Shows that a GT with a boring GC can still be a great GT. We've had eventful stages pretty much every days for more than two weeks now.

    Eh?! :shock: :D
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Further to Froome's tweets about Federer, someone should send him these photos:
    209-PIC539676654.jpg
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Top 25, look at the time gap:

    Stage 16 Results
    ESP 1 LANDA MEANA, Mikel (ASTANA) 5:02:51
    NED 2 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven (LOTTO NL - JUMBO) + 38
    ESP 3 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF - SAXO)
    RUS 4 TROFIMOV, Yury (KATUSHA) + 2:03
    CRC 5 AMADOR BAKKAZAKOVA, Andrey (MOVISTAR)
    CAN 6 HESJEDAL, Ryder (CANNONDALE - GARMIN) + 2:10
    ITA 7 ARU, Fabio (ASTANA) + 2:51
    ITA 8 CARUSO, Damiano (BMC RACING) + 3:16
    CZE 9 KONIG, Leopold (SKY) + 3:19
    COL 10 BETANCUR GOMEZ, Carlos Alberto (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
    FRA 11 GENIEZ, Alexandre (FDJ)
    BEL 12 VAN DEN BROECK, Jurgen (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 6:18
    BEL 13 MONFORT, Maxime (LOTTO SOUDAL)
    ESP 14 ANTON HERNANDEZ, Igor (MOVISTAR)
    ITA 15 PIRAZZI, Stefano (BARDIANI CSF) + 8:10
    COL 16 ATAPUMA HURTADO, Darwin (BMC RACING)
    ITA 17 VISCONTI, Giovanni (MOVISTAR) + 10:31
    ESP 18 NIEVE ITURALDE, Mikel (SKY)
    SLO 19 BOLE, Grega (CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE)
    FRA 20 MOINARD, Amaël (BMC RACING)
    COL 21 URAN URAN, Rigoberto (ETIXX - QUICK STEP)
    EST 22 KANGERT, Tanel (ASTANA)
    ITA 23 MONTAGUTI, Matteo (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
    ITA 24 TIRALONGO, Paolo (ASTANA) + 14:38
    POR 25 CARDOSO, Andre Fernando S. Martins (CANNONDALE - GARMIN)
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    frenchfighter wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    What a wonderful stage that was, cycling at its finest.
    Absolutely. Shows that a GT with a boring GC can still be a great GT. We've had eventful stages pretty much every days for more than two weeks now.

    Eh?! :shock: :D
    OK, relatively less exciting all the way until the very end :) . The first week was great, but Contador got this wrapped up before the proper mountains started, didn't he? Even today was only exciting GC-wise for about 15 minutes. Just pointing out that great stages can make a great GT, not only a nailbiting GC until the end.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    “Today I really proved that I can be one for the strongest riders on the climbs, and we still have several uphill finishes left,” said Landa. “As a team, we will have to stick together and stay attentive.”

    “We saw that Alberto had a problem, and Katusha went full gas, so we worked with them,” Landa said. “On the Mortirolo, Fabio Aru wasn’t feeling good and he told me to go with Contador and Kruijswijk.”

    “It was a very hard day, an incredible stage,” Contador said. “Cycling isn’t mathematics. I had a puncture on the descent [before the Mortirolo]; Ivan Basso gave me a wheel, but ahead they were going at full speed, and it was impossible to close the gap immediately. It was hard for me, but I’m very happy with the time gaps now.”

    “To Mikel Landa, I can only say: chapeau. These are the stages that people remember,” Contador said.

    @_kas_per · 28m 28 minutes ago
    @friebos to danish journalist @Staghoj Landa said that they tried to take advantage of the mechanical. At least Landa is honest
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Short highlights:
    https://youtu.be/93tA6EvrioA

    Gruber
    tumblr_noyj6eXaY21qg4jy9o1_1280.jpg
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    frenchfighter wrote:
    With his climbing performance, Quintana and Froome are going to have a great deal of trouble.
    Well, if as a result of today's effort, Contador has a much harder than expected Giro over the next stages, can he recover in time for the Tour? It may be to the advantage of Froome & Quintana then.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Great stage and great rides from Landa, Contador and Kruijswijk. I think it could have been an even better stage had Landa been able to ride at his own tempo.

    You could see how much that chase had taken out of Contador by the end of the stage. Contador is clearly the strongest rider in the Giro but only time will tell how much these hard miles have taken out of him come the second and third week of the Tour.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,273
    bollox, he'll be fine for the Tour... he can get into form like flicking a switch... he's that good!
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Gutted to miss the stage today. Contador is a class act though, he's proved yet again how mentally as well as physically strong he is. What a ride.

    Landa is his only possible threat, but its difficult to tell whether Contador let him go or genuinely couldn't follow. Certainly Landa doesn't consider himself in contention, judging by how early he celebrated. Either way, he's almost certainly too far back.

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