Giro 2017: Stage 14: Castellania – Oropa 131 km *Spoilers*
blazing_saddles
Posts: 22,704
Stage 14: Castellania – Oropa 131 km
START TIME: 13.40 CEST
Map:-
Profile:-
Climb:-
Last Kms:-
START TIME: 13.40 CEST
This stage is very short and clearly divided into two parts: the route is fast-running and perfectly flat for 120 km, across the Po Valley; then comes an 11-km climb, with gradients over 7% and peaks topping out at 13% a few kilometres before the finish. Oropa will be this year's Montagna Pantani. After leaving Castellania (unprecedented stage town at the Giro), the route covers an 8 km transfer towards the actual start, then cuts across Vercelli and the surrounding plain. The final 11-km stretch, climbing all the way to the sanctuary (five times arrival and KOM), begins just past Biella. The final climb is 11-km long. The gradient is low in the first part, up to Favaro. The climb reaches its steepest gradient (around 13%) across the porphyry-paved center of Favaro, and then continues with several bends and a gradient around 9%, up to the 130-m long home stretch, on 6.5-m wide, porphyry-paved road.
Map:-
Profile:-
Climb:-
Last Kms:-
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
0
Comments
-
In case we needed a reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmClFQNwgY0
-
^enjoyed that, thanks.0
-
Me too, entertaining days.0
-
Was he not thrown out of that race for "doping" (high Hct result)?ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH0
-
meanredspider wrote:Was he not thrown out of that race for "doping" (high Hct result)?
The real story is that he the organisers asked him respectfully to leave as his delicate but savage beauty on the bike was making all the other riders look silly - and they were feeling silly: because they were dedicated athletes with very expensive doping programs overseen by very expensive doctors...0 -
In Cyclingnews, Dumoulin said "I will be hard for the last thirty minutes and very hard for twenty minutes on the steep part of the climb to Oropa but that's normally what suits me very well," he said with growing confidence.
Mind games of the highest order there with his predicted excitement...0 -
Crampeur wrote:In case we needed a reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmClFQNwgYHalf man, Half bike0
-
This is one of Rich's hockey stick stages, but from when he was a very young lad.
Just a 3 hour ride, better suited for sorting out a race in late February, rather than making any significant difference to a GT GC.
As it is, the only lump in what otherwise would have been over 600 uncatagorised kilometres on the road to Bergamo and the race's date with the Dolomites."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
A mad fight on the flat to get into a potentially fruitless break."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
-
Crampeur wrote:In case we needed a reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmClFQNwgY
I'd never seen that before. Absolutely ludicrous but despite everything we know I don't think I'll ever see a cyclist I enjoy watching race more than him. Seeing his rides always leaves be sad with how it all ended though.0 -
So just watch the last 25km or will the short stage result in teams looking to apply pressure early? At this length it could do with a few smaller hills to encourage attacking early.0
-
Pross wrote:Crampeur wrote:In case we needed a reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmClFQNwgY
I'd never seen that before. Absolutely ludicrous but despite everything we know I don't think I'll ever see a cyclist I enjoy watching race more than him. Seeing his rides always leaves be sad with how it all ended though.
That sums up my feelings as well Pross.... I find myself going back to this video fairly regularly.. breathtaking in spite of everything we know.“You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”
Wilier Cento Uno SR/Wilier Mortirolo/Specialized Roubaix Comp/Kona Hei Hei/Calibre Bossnut0 -
Dabber wrote:Pross wrote:Crampeur wrote:In case we needed a reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmClFQNwgY
I'd never seen that before. Absolutely ludicrous but despite everything we know I don't think I'll ever see a cyclist I enjoy watching race more than him. Seeing his rides always leaves be sad with how it all ended though.
That sums up my feelings as well Pross.... I find myself going back to this video fairly regularly.. breathtaking in spite of everything we know.
Yeppa0 -
But the roadside guy in the black cloak in the final couple of kms chills me every bloody time...0
-
HANSEN DOWN
Is it over for him? Let's hope not.0 -
10.4km to go! Adam Hansen crashed on the cobbles0
-
Yates, Quintana, Pinot, nibs all at the front0
-
Diego rosa off the front 200m up the road0
-
Zakarin has a little go. TJVG goes backwards.0
-
Yates attacks, but is caught, so Pozzovivo goes more successfully. Quintana then bridges0
-
Nairo and Zakarin out front.0
-
Dumoulin digging deep.
Pnot struggling0 -
Quintana goes again, drops Zakarin0
-
Now Quintana on his own. Dumoulin chasing0
-
Dumoulin doing brilliantly hereIt's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0
-
6" pink jersey catching0
-
Yates dropped by the Dumoulin train0
-
Dumoulin is looking very very good.
Pretty poor show from Quintana.0 -
Suspect someone is going to get accused of wheelsucking here...0
-
Brilliant ride from Dumoulin. 22 secs over Nairo0