Giro 16 Stage 14 ***Spoilers***

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Chaves and Kruijswijk have just over 20s on Nibali now. Nibali not looking too happy.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Half an hour ago I was thinking that this stage was turning out perfectly for Valverde. He could sit in legitimately refusing to work and a steep ramp at the end to maybe allow him to gain a few seconds.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Me and bob see different things... ;)

    though gap growing now
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Don't think the time check on Nibs is accurate. Think he's a bit further back than that.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    ddraver wrote:
    Me and bob see different things... ;)

    though gap growing now

    It's 25s now so not going up fast, to be fair

    Chaves and Kruijswijk look calm and collected but Nibali looks like he's burying himself - to me anyway!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    30 seconds by my reckoning. Should be an epic descent!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Argghhh, Come on feed!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    DK TV made it 30 to Nibz at the top.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Chaves and Kruijswijk up to the two chasers whose names I can't spell.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Looks like the sort of descent where being in a small group can help, not a steep freewheeling descent.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Nibz is buried, could be a tricky descent for him. He takes chances and he's seriously knacked.

    Chavez will blow them all away on the final wall anyway
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    (geology-tastic)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Atapuma's not a bad descender!
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    ddraver wrote:
    (geology-tastic)
    Yep.

    Think I want to do the Maratona...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Pross wrote:
    Atapuma's not a bad descender!

    Though they're pulling him back anyway.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Hatch just called Tenerife "Tenerif-ay", WTF?

    Gap from Chaves/Kruijswijk and Nibali holding at ~35s
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Hope Darwin can hold on here, he deserves it but can't see it happening.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Pross wrote:
    Hope Darwin can hold on here, he deserves it but can't see it happening.
    Nah I'm 100% Esteban...
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    edited May 2016
    At the start of the stage Nibali was at +0:41, Kruijswijk at +0:43, Chaves at +2:19.

    Don't know how Kruijswijk will be in a mountain TT.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    ...a cave bear eh?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I'm not sure the TT suits Nibali that much, too steep. That maybe why he originally looked to attack today. It'll be interesting to see how Chaves gets on, should be up his street.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Well people complain about defensive racing, and though today is exciting, you can see why saving it for the last climb might be sensible.
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    I've obviously been watching a different race.
    To me, the RCS have given us a route more typical of a TDF than a Giro.
    So what we are getting is a typical TDF, only well watered down.

    At least these here Dolomites have seldom looked better.

    Last few TDFs have been a procession for one dominant rider / team from about the halfway point.
    This is a closely fought unpredictable contest with a several riders in contention and the jersey changing hands regularly.
    Know which I'd rather watch.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    One thing this stage has done is reinforce my desire to have a holiday in northern Italy. Absolutely stunning scenery.
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    I've obviously been watching a different race.
    To me, the RCS have given us a route more typical of a TDF than a Giro.
    So what we are getting is a typical TDF, only well watered down.

    At least these here Dolomites have seldom looked better.

    Typical TDF recently has been a procession for one dominant rider / team from about the halfway point?
    This is a closely fought unpredictable contest with a several riders in contention and the jersey changing hands regularly.
    Know which I'd rather watch.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Runner dressed as a cat mown down by the moto
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    For once the moto takes out someone worth taking out...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    I've obviously been watching a different race.
    To me, the RCS have given us a route more typical of a TDF than a Giro.
    So what we are getting is a typical TDF, only well watered down.

    At least these here Dolomites have seldom looked better.

    Typical TDF recently has been a procession for one dominant rider / team from about the halfway point?
    This is a closely fought unpredictable contest with a several riders in contention and the jersey changing hands regularly.
    Know which I'd rather watch.

    It's been a turd until today.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Good stuff this.

    Loving the forum clairvoyants posts.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    edited May 2016
    ddraver wrote:
    For once the moto takes out someone worth taking out...
    That was unreasonably funny :D Something about the slow motion fall...

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