Giro Stage 11 ***Spoilers***

dish_dash
dish_dash Posts: 5,647
edited May 2016 in Pro race
T11_Asolo_alt-PRE.jpg

Looks dull as anything... but apparently the descent down to the finish is windy and technical on narrow roads.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Good.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Pippo in the break - got to count for something...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    All back together.

    Most sources suggesting this isn't going to be a sprint stage.

    Come on Carlos!!!!!!!! (More in hope than expectation)
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    What sources?

    You mean people you follow on Twitter?
    _
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    "...can André Greipel hang on? I don’t think so...", Inrng.

    That's not to say their predictions are any better than anyone else's.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    The profile looks like a milano-sanremo lite, which leads me to believe it will be a sprint finish involving individual riders as opposed to full trains.

    Ergo sprinters who can climb

    Ergo Battaglin

    Ergo ptp points aplenty for me.
    Half man, Half bike
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    What sources?

    You mean people you follow on Twitter?

    No, several reviews that I have read or heard.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Ridgerider wrote:
    The profile looks like a milano-sanremo lite, which leads me to believe it will be a sprint finish involving individual riders as opposed to full trains.

    Ergo sprinters who can climb

    Ergo Battaglin

    Ergo ptp points aplenty for me.

    And me!

    Although without Landa my current decent placing isn't going to last anyway...
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    edited May 2016
    Dumoulin abandons
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    ^ with a sore bottom
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    kleinstroker wrote:
    ^ with a sore bottom

    Dumouln leaving #giro: there is no position less dignified than when examining your own saddle sore with a torch and magnifying glass.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    The climb at 20 kms to go is as tough as the one at the end of Stage 4, so it'll break up the race a fair bit. Whether any sprinters can hang on enough to get back on will be interesting.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Hope Dumoulin recovers for one of the other two GTs this year.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Joelsim wrote:
    kleinstroker wrote:
    ^ with a sore bottom

    Dumouln leaving #giro: there is no position less dignified than when examining your own saddle sore with a torch and magnifying glass.

    Magnifying glass???

    Any saddle sore requiring a magnifying glass to see it doesn't count, according to my 'hardman' reference book.
    Half man, Half bike
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    "Lightweight"
    Half man, Half bike
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sean Kelly: "Sky needs to bring Shane Sutton back."
    Woke me up. :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Flâneur
    Flâneur Posts: 3,081
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Sean Kelly: "Sky needs to bring Shane Sutton back."
    Woke me up. :lol:

    Missed that! not sure if it was due to actual work or that I had just let the giro go in one ear and out the other today
    Stevo 666 wrote: Come on you Scousers! 20/12/2014
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    CX
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Sean Kelly: "Sky needs to bring Shane Sutton back."
    Woke me up. :lol:
    Well he is an expert on bottoms. Maybe he could have sorted Landa's out.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Doesn't beat Boonen's saddle sore in the Vuelta. It was more a hole worn into his scrotum.
    _
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    My velogames team is ruined, i had Landa, Vivani and Big Tom D...shows what i know
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    big crash..missed it...eurosport adverts
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    FdJ Team Crash
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Just feck off with these stupid adverts all the time
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Topper harley wrote:
    My velogames team is ruined, i had Landa, Vivani and Big Tom D...shows what i know

    So far I have lost:

    Geniez, Peraud, Landa, Fraile.

    Sounds like I might be about to lose Demare too.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    ...almost some GC action
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Hard to watch a race through the trees and the helicopter is spinning around and making me feel sick
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Christ on a bike, what a time to take a break
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Nibbles, Chaves and Valverde off the front together with 15 to go and a bit of climbing

    gap about 8 secs by my count
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    3 ahead caught, Amadour attacks, Jungels follows, they get a gap

    Kruiswijk following in the gap

    12 to go
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    You can hear Matt White saying "Stick to Valverde's wheel!"

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