Giro 2018: Stage 4, CATANIA - CALTAGIRONE 8 May 2018 / Tuesday / 198 km *Spoilers*

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    The ad-free Eurosport feed is great, but they aren't doing a commentary free one as far as I can tell.

    Except it's only available in English and I've got to choose between ads and no nonsense Dutch comms or no ads and Kirby... :?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Can anyone help me out with the status of the race?
    _
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    http://live.cyclingnews.com/
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Can anyone help me out with the status of the race?

    28km to go, break of 3 with a 1m 42s lead, peloton winding it up...
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Brambilla puncture while JAF gives us the finish recon...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Are all these Trek and Wilier Triestina riders coming back?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Are all these Trek and Wilier Triestina riders coming back?


    not sure probably not.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    its a bt pacy with a lot of badly transferred riders stuck to the road.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    UAE tried to mix it it up mid-stage and had an attritional effect on the legs
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Above The Cows wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    The ad-free Eurosport feed is great, but they aren't doing a commentary free one as far as I can tell.

    Except it's only available in English and I've got to choose between ads and no nonsense Dutch comms or no ads and Kirby... :?

    I have no ads, Swiss Italian commentary on LA2
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    henao puncture out the back... UAE back on the front
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    I do like Henao's bike/jersey combo
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    UAE driving for Ulissi presumably?
    _
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Ulissi better be on a good day.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    UAE driving for Ulissi presumably?

    looks like it

    they tested the bunch mid stage and a lot of riders slide backwards fast but hung on.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ah, cheers.
    _
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Gonçalves punctures, gets teammates bike.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    That was a quick chase, but stops again to get his bike back
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Break 22s ahead but already shaking hands with each other...

    Goncalves not happy with his bike...
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Now is bars are loose. not a happy bunny
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    It's all calm with 12km to go. Kirby gibbering away...
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    I have to say, i was for hoping for more from this stage.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Conti off with a Willier rider...
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,119
    inseine wrote:
    I have to say, i was for hoping for more from this stage.

    But it has been very pretty.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    No stage for Viviani today (no surprise)
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    I have to say, i was for hoping for more from this stage.

    But it has been very pretty.

    Yeah, but it's no Yorkshire :D
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Conti goes solo...
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    You could eat your dinner of these road surfaces.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    And Kirby's mouth becomes a verbal waterfall.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    inseine wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    I have to say, i was for hoping for more from this stage.

    But it has been very pretty.

    Yeah, but it's no Yorkshire :D

    yeah... I mean where are the crowds. It's ridiculous that they hold races anywhere apart from Yorkshire given the obvious lack of support... :wink:

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