Giro 2017 stage 12: Forlì to Reggio Emilia**Spoilers**

Mad_Malx
Mad_Malx Posts: 5,005
edited May 2017 in Pro race
Half way through and no more hills today.
Nothing to discuss until final 2km?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,737
    Reggio Emilia is the town you pass on your way between Bologna and Parma, but, unlike Modena, you don't ever bother stopping there....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,737
    Churches all very romanesque etc.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,005
    Those placenames are making me hungry
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,737
    Yeah, it's a decent holiday for food (staying in Bologna, that is).

    Modena, Parma, Ferrara, all within a 30 min train journey.

    Unsurprisingly, had the best lunch I've ever had in Parma, which also happens to be the home of the EU's European Food Safety Authority.
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Wake me up when there's 10k to go...
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,851
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yeah, it's a decent holiday for food (staying in Bologna, that is).

    Modena, Parma, Ferrara, all within a 30 min train journey.

    Unsurprisingly, had the best lunch I've ever had in Parma, which also happens to be the home of the EU's European Food Safety Authority.

    Are you auditioning for Eurosport?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,737
    Ha, think there are already too many commentators to make a decent living...

    I did however have a lovely holiday around there.

    Can recommend it - cheap (given it's north italy), wonderful food, and it's Italy, so there are always interesting and beautiful places to visit.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Montaguti is from Forli
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Today's PTP sprinter Opinion Poll sees Greipel maintain steady support after his 'I'm going home after tomorrow' manifesto pledge

    Greipel (Gorilla Party) 41.5%
    Gaviria (No Missile Party) 36.5%
    Ewan (Tyrelicker Party) 19.5%
    Battaglin (Ridgerider Party) 2.5%
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Love this

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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    Surprised there wasn't a barrier malfunction taking out half of the field. Still, Movistar would have carried on...

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  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,851
    So how is that not more dangerous than a parked motorbike at the side of the road....oh never mind!
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Orica's leadout train is a bit pants isn't it.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    As predictable as the plot of Alien Covenant
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Orica's leadout train is a bit pants isn't it.
    Extremely pants actually. They just evaporated.

    Don't think Orica can support this dual sprint/GC team thing.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    The Wilier Triestina guy did well.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    kleinstroker wrote:
    The Wilier Triestina guy did well.

    Jakub Mareczko is going well in his second Giro.
    So far all his wins have been far away and not of the highest quality.
    At least he's now proving not to be another Andrea Guardini.

    I think Thomas may have lost another 35 seconds today.
    Clearly suffering. May not make Milan.

    Caleb Ewan lost on course somewhere. He needs to be going around in circles.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    kleinstroker wrote:
    The Wilier Triestina guy did well.



    I think Thomas may have lost another 35 seconds today.
    Clearly suffering. May not make Milan.

    Cs.

    Yet rides an outstanding TT in a locked position hmm
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    TT is a chance to demonstrate what you could have done as a marker for future GC tours this year. Would be easy to imagine him getting a big old dose of CBA though on a stage like today's as there's no realistic chance of him troubling the top of the GC standings now.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    RichN95 wrote:
    Today's PTP sprinter Opinion Poll sees Greipel maintain steady support after his 'I'm going home after tomorrow' manifesto pledge

    Greipel (Gorilla Party) 41.5%
    Gaviria (No Missile Party) 36.5%
    Ewan (Tyrelicker Party) 19.5%
    Battaglin (Ridgerider Party) 2.5%

    No picks for Sam Bennett (The Third Party)?
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,005
    Gibbons finished ahead of Gorilla
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    larkim wrote:
    TT is a chance to demonstrate what you could have done as a marker for future GC tours this year. Would be easy to imagine him getting a big old dose of CBA though on a stage like today's as there's no realistic chance of him troubling the top of the GC standings now.

    I don't think that's logical. Easy TT and later stage is a better outcome
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    Depends if you think he's just cruising to the end from now on. Why not just show what you can do on stages where your skills are best demonstrated (e.g. for G it would be TT and climbing in a GC context?) and then just jolly along in the peloton on flat stages?
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,933
    Big difference between in the saddle for an hour against 5.5 hours.

    What happened to the Tyrelicker? Useless again. No more PTP picks for him (watch him win tomorrow now!)
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 8,744
    Only just watched the last 15k, how did Thomas lose time?

    Is it possible he's lost a bit of confidence fighting for position in the bunch and got caught behind a split?
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,005
    Decided to look for a stage instead?
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Or he was cream crackered? Overdid it on the ITT as an adrenaline rush type response to the crash, paid for it yesterday (with pain/stiffness etc from crash thrown in for good measure), a little bit of the same today perhaps? All just guesses really, but a realistic scenario maybe
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    G a non starter for today's stage
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,737
    Quote of the day from Brank Tankink.

    "A goodbye send off? I'm still waiting for the high point".
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 8,744
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    G a non starter for today's stage

    Shame, wonder where he goes from here, presumably it's a case of get fit to support Froome and then see who Sky have for the Vuelta.
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