Giro 2017: Stage 11: Ponte a Ema – Bagno di Romagna 161 km *Spoilers*

blazing_saddles
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edited May 2017 in Pro race
Stage 11: Ponte a Ema – Bagno di Romagna 161 km

START TIME: 12.20 CEST
This queen stage across the Apennines takes in 4 consecutive categorised climbs, with not even a single flat stretch in between: Passo della Consuma, Passo della Calla, Passo del Carnaio and Monte Fumaiolo. After clearing Passo del Carnaio, the route takes a first pass on the finish line in Bagno di Romagna (for the first time stage town at the Giro). Then comes a long ring (approx. 52 km) that takes the riders to clear the Monte Fumaiolo categorised summit. A long drop then leads all the way to the finish. The roadway is narrow on average, and the road surface is worn out at points. Starting from 3,500 m from the finish, the last kilometres either descend, or are a false flat up. The route drops down quickly on wide roads, with several curves and hairpins, and briefly touches the centre of San Piero in Bagno. The final kilometres are dotted with roundabouts. The last bend is 5,900 m from the finish line, followed by a long home straight, just bending slightly, on 6-m wide and perfectly level asphalt road.

Map:-
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Profile:-
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Climbs:-
T11_S03_Carnaio_web.jpg
T11_S04_Fumaiolo_web.jpg

Final Kms:-
T11_BagnoRomagna_ukm_web.jpg
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    This race is looking interesting now, hadn't really paid much attention to the stage guides until yesterday and hadn't clocked how TT heavy it is and by Giro standatds light on MTFs.

    THis looks like a stage tailor made for them to race from the gun, if someone wants to risk losing minutes to have a chance of getting back in the GC race or in Quintana's case to reassert his position as strong favourite this would be the one. If Contador were 3-4 minutes down here there would be fireworks so let's hope one or more of the teams decides to be bold.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cannondale need their A listers in the break today.
    _
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cannondale need their A listers in the break today.

    Cannondale have some A listers?? :?
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    Alistair who?
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    THis looks like a stage tailor made for them to race from the gun, if someone wants to risk losing minutes to have a chance of getting back in the GC race or in Quintana's case to reassert his position as strong favourite this would be the one. If Contador were 3-4 minutes down here there would be fireworks so let's hope one or more of the teams decides to be bold.

    I hope so too. Movistar have been looking really strong so hopefully they put the pressure on Sunweb.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Quintana's a little too flyweight for ambushes like this.

    He was really being blown around a lot y'day. Conditions flattered the bigger riders a little.
    _
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    looking good for the rest of the race though I cant see today being a place for the climbers to get too much back.

    The descent is too long to the finish, if they do get away from him, he can keep himself together, get over the top and belt back down the other side after them. I should be a DS :lol:
  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    CAV turned up today

    https://twitter.com/laura_meseguer/stat ... 5767763969
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Pretty much a block headwind (25kph) for the first 90 odd kms, but then it becomes mostly a crosswind.
    Bri Smith just said that he didn't think it would be a factor though.
    He also said Sunweb will be tested and is very upbeat about the prospect for some GC action.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    "Movistar is leading the group with a high pace"....
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rai now live. First climb.
    Landa is going up the road, to join the front group.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Landa off the front, Gaviria off the back.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Back together. Loads of riders going out the back already.
    Rui Costa and DD the most aggressive.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Half the peloton gone already.
    Sunweb slip a man into the next attack.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Riders up the road = riders in the bunch. :D
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    looking good for the rest of the race though I cant see today being a place for the climbers to get too much back.

    The descent is too long to the finish, if they do get away from him, he can keep himself together, get over the top and belt back down the other side after them. I should be a DS :lol:

    Normally yes but if the action is on all day and there are no Sunweb left to help him by then Dumoulin isn't coming back on his own.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    TJ was dropped very early into the first climb.
    May well be his abandon day..................again.

    3 Movistar riders and 2 Sky in the group chasing the break, with Movi driving that group hard.
    I think it's safe to say that it isn't going to be another dull day.
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    As an aside is anyone else using the Giro Android app? It's pretty good (albeit not working properly today), but somewhat annoyingly it is showing up as having a notification. But I can't find how to turn the notification off.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Amador is one of the three off the front.
    Interesting.
    GC action seems assured.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Visconti, Dupont, Montaguti, Cataldo, Kangert, Hermans, Carthy, Villella, Rovny, Marczinsky, Monfort, Amador, Herrada, Rojas, Rolland, Plaza, Fraile, Keizer, Landa, Deignan, Rui Costa, Petilli.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Some of them are quite high up on GC
    9. Amador +4.39
    12. Kangert +5.36
    15. Cataldo +6.36
    18. Costa +8.10
    19. Monfort +8.56
    20. Hermans +9.49
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Landa hammering the breakaway.
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Looks like Sky are setting it up to mug somebody. Landa off the front, Deignan in the bunch of chasers, G supported in the peloton.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    ooh, liking the way this stage has started....
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Can't see them being given too much leeway if Amador remains in the breakaway.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Looks like Sky are setting it up to mug somebody. Landa off the front, Deignan in the bunch of chasers, G supported in the peloton.

    Nice to see given their high profile status as people who get mugged recently.

    Might get Eurosport on the go...
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Landa and Fraile have 1'47" over the chase group and 4'24" over the gruppetto.

    Correction 1'33" to chasers

    As this is the Giro we really should be calling the peloton the gruppetto.
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Landa and Fraile have 1'47" over the chase group and 4'24" over the gruppetto.

    As this is the Giro we really should be calling the peloton the gruppetto.

    Surely grupetto = little group. Has the peloton thinned out that much already?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Dumoulin with a big mob of Sunweb riders around him, looking like a proper GC team for now.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited May 2017
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Dumoulin with a big mob of Sunweb riders around him, looking like a proper GC team for now.

    One that's towing it's sprinter, though.
    Most of them would disappear fast, if the pace was lifted.
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