Giro 2017: Stage 14: Castellania – Oropa 131 km *Spoilers*

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,532
    Nope. Dumoulin wins and Quintana cracks.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Wonderful from Dumoulin. Absolutely great riding.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,095
    Wow!
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Brilliant ride from Dumoulin.

    Sad for my PTP though, I like Quintana even less now :)
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Fantastic ride by Dumoulin.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Stunning ride. The race is his to control now...
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    edited May 2017
    Seems Nairo needs to put on a dozen kilos. :lol:
    Landa: What might have been.

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    Awesome DUmoulin...

    that's my local climb in Italy... it's pretty tough in places, putting seconds into the climbers is quite a big achievement for Dumoulin...

    Is he the new Indurain/Ullrich?
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Proper hair standing on end moment there. Called brilliantly by Rob Hatch as well.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,391
    2.47 lead on GC
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Big psychological win for Tom there. Quintana certainly didn't take things easy, worked really hard to try to gain a few seconds and loses about 15 instead. Nice to see Landa back up there and Yates. Shame Pinot lost time.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Awesome DUmoulin...

    that's my local climb in Italy... it's pretty tough in places, putting seconds into the climbers is quite a big achievement for Dumoulin...

    Is he the new Indurain/Ullrich?

    He did say before the race that it was a good climb for him, due to the length (about 20 mins) it's a good length. And also not a multi-mountain stage where there would be more attrition.

    You could see the gap go out on the steeper sections and then when it levelled off he got into his TT position and closed it back down. His pacing was really good.
  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 397
    Punched the air when Dumoulin rode past Zakarin at the end there.

    What an absolute handsome hero of a boy. Top shagger! Chapeau.
  • bluemoon17
    bluemoon17 Posts: 718
    Really enjoyed that, great to watch. Absolutely rooting for Dumoulin for the rest of this Giro now.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    Think this'll get the Asylum into a bit of a frenzy, it's just picking up over there

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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Think this'll get the Asylum into a bit of a frenzy, it's just picking up over there

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    Hehe time for a Stephen Colbert meme :D
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Have they dubbed him Miguel Dumoulin yet?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Have they dubbed him Miguel Dumoulin yet?
    Surely Sir Bradley Dumoulin would fit in better with their obsessions.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    1 minute faster that Quintana on the Oropa back in 2014 blah blah. The asylum seems to forget that the profile for that one went like this ...

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Have they dubbed him Miguel Dumoulin yet?
    Surely Sir Bradley Dumoulin would fit in better with their obsessions.

    Wouldn't that require a TUE agreement?

    They are wheeling out climbing times now.
    Pan flat, short, tailwind need not apply.....

    Edit: Ah, I see that Ron has bested me once again.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Seems strange to say but I think that was too easy for Pinot. He seems to do better on the really hard mountain days.

    Of the mountain stages left that was probably the one most suited to Dumoulin but still, to actually put time into Quintana is a big psychological boost.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Another one is the "never seen Quintana caught after an attack on a climb before" but the "hockey stick" S10 of the 2105 Tour suggests otherwise (although Valverde might have been a contributing factor in his teammates demise that day).
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    RonB wrote:
    Another one is the "never seen Quintana caught after an attack on a climb before" but the "hockey stick" S10 of the 2105 Tour suggests otherwise (although Valverde might have been a contributing factor in his teammates demise that day).

    The 2105 Tour? Are you looking into the future now? Quintana would actually be the age he looks now by then!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,648
    Oh Mollema, what a shocker. Always at least one.

    Tom comes of age.

    Very impressive.

    Two stage wins, each in big GC days.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,648
    Loved that acceleration past Quintana - champion attack.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Loved that acceleration past Quintana - champion attack.

    Yeah, I thought he'd just be pleased to close the gap and sit in but he was obviously feeling good and Quintana had been working hard trying to make his break pay.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Just catching up with today's stage and well this...
    TheBigBean wrote:
    TJVG goes backwards.

    ...might as well be in every thread involving an incline really.

    Great ride by Tommy D. :D
    Correlation is not causation.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    I think the Dutch say Bauky he's done a Mollema
  • rollemynot
    rollemynot Posts: 436
    Been meaning to ask...

    What is this asylum we talk about?
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,197
    Rollemynot wrote:
    Been meaning to ask...

    What is this asylum we talk about?
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