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

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    The grupetto is the group of sprinters who just want to get in before the time limit, surely?
  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    Bahrain to help Sunweb ?

    Good viewing though.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    The grupetto is the group of sprinters who just want to get in before the time limit, surely?
    Yep. It's the Italian equivalent to Autobus, not Peloton
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    edited May 2017
    RichN95 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    The grupetto is the group of sprinters who just want to get in before the time limit, surely?
    Yep. It's the Italian equivalent to Autobus, not Peloton

    Ah, my bad. So what is Italian for peloton? (Refuses to ask Italian sister-in-law as she'd just laugh at me)

    The chasers are inseguitori I believe?
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    peleton
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    edited May 2017
    Chute! Pelizotti and a BMC rider. 2 Movistar riders too. Confusing pictures

    Edit not a BMC rider - Trek
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Movi arguing. Dolphin down. Trek over the barrier. It's all happening
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Leaders have 2'10" advantage to chasers, 5'11" to peloton

    Can't believe the Italians have adopted the French(!) phrase 'peloton'
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    L Didier believed to be the Trekkie.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    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.

    That's why I added "for now" ;)
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,570
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Movi arguing. Dolphin down. Trek over the barrier. It's all happening

    what a gwaan?

    why is there a dolphin in a bike race? and why did anyone expect him or her to not go down?
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    gorge-ous scenery

    Ahh Tuscan-Romagna, how I love thee
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    Impressive riding from the leaders to pull out almost 3 minutes. No flat road for the group to catch them back up before the next climb either.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Nun on a bike alert!
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Nun on a bike alert!


    Cycling habit?
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Nun on a bike alert!


    Cycling habit?

    Chapeau.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Peloton - Giant Sunweb, Movistar, Bahrain Merida, AG2R, Sky GC trains in that order
    60km to go time gaps 2'16"/4'53"
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    23 km of gradual climbing YUCH
    would kill me off
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Ref peloton in Italian. Wonder if I'm wrong (or more to the point, Google Translate is wrong). Latest tweet from giroditalia is "> 2'20" Chasers (20 riders)
    > 5'08" Gruppo
    - 3 km GPM Passo del Carnaio
    61 km
    #Giro100"

    So perhaps "Gruppo" is the right word.
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    is that pinarello F8 considered an aero frame?
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    lolol quote from Smith commentating "this could be a big day for Cannondale"

    Im not holding my breath
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Trek and FDJ now working to keep their men ahead of Quintana's hare, Amador.
    Always amazes me when teams do this with 10 stages to come.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    larkim wrote:
    Ref peloton in Italian. Wonder if I'm wrong (or more to the point, Google Translate is wrong). Latest tweet from giroditalia is "> 2'20" Chasers (20 riders)
    > 5'08" Gruppo
    - 3 km GPM Passo del Carnaio
    61 km
    #Giro100"

    So perhaps "Gruppo" is the right word.

    I thought "gruppo" was just "group", as in "gruppo maglia rosa" or "gruppo Dumoulin"
  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 397
    TeeJay blows... again.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Trek and FDJ now working to keep their men ahead of Quintana's hare, Amador.
    Always amazes me when teams do this with 10 stages to come.
    There's no point giving away three minutes for free. Especially as there isn't another hard stage (for domestiques) until Tuesday.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Landa and Fraile about to be caught by the chasing group. 40.5km to go.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Landa pushed on and is just off the front - seems a bit futile.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Landa finally caught.
    Trek and FDJ now doing all the work.
    What a waste.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Trek and FDJ now working to keep their men ahead of Quintana's hare, Amador.
    Always amazes me when teams do this with 10 stages to come.
    There's no point giving away three minutes for free. Especially as there isn't another hard stage (for domestiques) until Tuesday.

    Depends who you give it to, surely?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Landa dropped.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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