Giro 16 - Stage 19 ***Spoilers***

Pinerolo → Risoul, 162 km
One of the key mountain stages of this years Giro, and almost the last chance for the likes of Valverde to make an attack on the pink jersey.

The Colle Dell'Agnello as of yesterday.. looks ace!
One of the key mountain stages of this years Giro, and almost the last chance for the likes of Valverde to make an attack on the pink jersey.

The Colle Dell'Agnello as of yesterday.. looks ace!

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Nibali will have a go at taking the stage and whatever time he can take (or lose), hopefully Valverde will attack too... so far we have seen people losing time, but not much in the way of people gaining time, which is the more exciting bit
Bring back Pantani, this would be his day!
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2016/5/26/117 ... ellagnello
That's surprising for someone with a big freezer full of red bags as he had...
Waitrose frozen summer fruits?
Not Waitrose no, they were branded Fuentes, must be the Spanish equivalent of Lidl...
On the Gazzetta he seems very positive, not sure what this is based on, but he says he has big plans for the next couple of stages, so let's see...
Presumably he won't be worried about losing his 4th place if it all goes pear-shaped.
Hopefully... Valverde and Nibali could really do with helping each other, but they need the Dutch to have a bad moment or it's all pointless. I am not quite sure how he managed to become that good that quickly, but so be it...
You're starting to sound an awful lot like someone else who used to post on here.
Following by a gutted look. It happened on the first summit stage and on every one since.
^This
You are probably right, it's just testament of how mediocre the field is this year... same as the Russian guy wininng the mountain time trial...
What do you mean? In relation to Kruiskijk?
Oh I don't know about that, that Russian guy was probably an entirely different story!
Glad to see someone else thinks Valverde is a successful wheelsucker
- @ddraver
Those that look at the palmares will say that he is a great champion... after all he won bags of classics... those that don't can't forget how he lost the Worlds in 2013 due to a lack of wheels to suck
Pretend I never said anything
Much of this GC is made up of wheelsuckers far less successful than Valverde.
If it's so easy for Valverde to win sucking wheels, why does everyone let him?
The two of them are near identical riders..
- @ddraver
Just the grand tour win and multiple GT podiums to separate them, really...
Not a Valverde fan, but his palmares speaks for itself - as others have said, if it was so easy to just follow wheels then others would be doing it and getting those results. Both him and Gerrans ride to their strengths and get results, fair play to them (I'll leave the Puerto thing to one side for the purposes of this discussion...)
Because thankfully there are some riders who have the balls to try and take the race on otherwise none of us would watch the sh!t that would otherwise prevail