Giro 2017: Stage 20: Pordenone – Asiago 190 km *Spoilers*

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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    This is great stuff from Katusha.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Just started watching and there are hardly any riders in the pink jersey group. Dumoulin hanging on.

    Katusha pushed on/attacked and those were all that could follow.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,204
    Everyone isolated now apart from Zakarin with two team mates. Mano a mano with 73km still to ride!
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    10 left in the GC group - soon to be 9 with a Katusha dom falling away.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited May 2017
    Not looking good for Yates in terms of the white jersey. Around 20s behind Jungels
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Posted too soon - Katusha dom made it back. Zakarin + 2, Nibali, Quintana, Tom D, Landa, Pozzo, Pinot and Jungels.
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Yates, MOllema + abput 10 others some 20 seconds back from GC group
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Mollema is on a bad day
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,204
    Yates group had now joined up with the GC group
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    2 groups back together.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Stuffed animal alert!
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Man with stuffed Fox alert !
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,204
    Every bike race needs a bit of taxidermy
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Stuffed animal alert!

    All limbs intact. Nice plinth
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Ha, ha! Stuffed fox! A mere amateur compared to boar man however!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,867
    The breakaway was out foxed there.
    I wonder if that is the end of the attacking until very late.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    We've had the stuffed fox before at the Giro haven't we? I seem to remember a plinth.

    I'm thinking it was on the Mortirolo.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    About 20 in the GC group as they start the descent.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Ha, ha! Stuffed fox! A mere amateur compared to boar man however!

    He's no stuffed boar man, but it's a nice Brucie bonus
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Based on how he looked on Monte Grappa you'd have to think Dumoulin will get dropped on the final climb.
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    thegibdog wrote:
    Based on how he looked on Monte Grappa you'd have to think Dumoulin will get dropped on the final climb.

    I'm not sure. They're all farked, and Dumoulin has looked fine so far today, I reckon
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,204
    thegibdog wrote:
    Based on how he looked on Monte Grappa you'd have to think Dumoulin will get dropped on the final climb.

    Really? He looked OK I thought.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 8,746
    Who's your money on for the stage from here - think I'll go Pinot.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    Who's your money on for the stage from here - think I'll go Pinot.
    I hope so as he's my PTP!

    I'm not sure they're going to be able to drop Dumoulin on the last climb. And even if they do I think if he can manage the gap (which he's proven himself to be extremely good at) he'll be able to recover a lot of time on the flat at the top.
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    On the climb now, GC group has about 25/30 riders in it.
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Nibali attacks
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Movistar shut it down but Nibs tries to go again
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,952
    VINCENZO!VINCENZO!VINCENZO!
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Tom D under pressure, these violent accelerations not for him
  • cedar404
    cedar404 Posts: 176
    Tom D makes it back to the leading 5

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