Giro 2018, Stage 18: Abbiategrasso - Prato Nervoso - 196 km, *Spoilers*

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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    #nowthatmakesthingsinteresting
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    DeadCalm wrote:
    27 seconds?

    Yates has 28 seconds on TD overall.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    i make it 24secs
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Lols at Poels doing some Froome style stem gazing and going the wrong way!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Blimey, everyone was saying it was a climb for froome and Dumoulin, but that was quite a loss to Yates.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    well it was on the cards.... the slow ride kinda signaled something.
    "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
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Lead exactly halfed.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Gap is exactly halved - must have been 28s.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    3 weeks is a long time
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Things are getting interesting folks. Tomorrow is going to be immense!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,029
    I think Yates is just making it entertaining.
  • MishMash95
    MishMash95 Posts: 104
    Oh man that was intense! Don't even know who i'm rooting for anymore, wanted Yates to win, but now I want Dumoulin to make that comeback :D
  • MishMash95
    MishMash95 Posts: 104
    Oh man that was intense! Don't even know who i'm rooting for anymore, wanted Yates to win, but now I want Dumoulin to make that comeback :D
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    9,000m of climbing to come? Ouch.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    well hopefully thats his bad 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
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    And that was the easy stage of the three
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    RonB wrote:
    Lols at Poels doing some Froome style stem gazing and going the wrong way!

    I assume he was pretty cooked.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Crazy, but even Lopez could still win this.
    Pinot on the other hand......
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  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,448
    MishMash95 wrote:
    Oh man that was intense! Don't even know who i'm rooting for anymore, wanted Yates to win, but now I want Dumoulin to make that comeback :D

    No way, it would be the most boring GT win of all time. He didn’t even win the TT ffs.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    This is turning into the race all the cycling snobs will try to tell you it is every year. I suppose the only positive for Yates is that was probably the climb most suited to TD. Hopefully he can sort himself out for the next couple of days.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    its almost criminal the thought that yates cracks and loses the giro given the repeated efforts he had to make to get in a winning position.
    "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: 18,912
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Crazy, but even Lopez could still win this.
    Pinot on the other hand......

    pinot looks completely pinned
    "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
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Crazy, but even Lopez could still win this.
    Pinot on the other hand......

    Very disappointing isn't he?
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Whoops
  • timothyw
    timothyw Posts: 2,482
    edited May 2018
    mididoctors wrote:
    its almost criminal the thought that yates cracks and loses the giro given the repeated efforts he had to make to get in a winning position.
    Well, Tommy never cracked would be the counterpoint to that thought - and he's been through that experience himself in 2016.

    And he did win the opening TT stage.....

    Honestly though, if Yates was due a bad day, today was definitely the day to do it - rather than tomorrow.

    I'm one of several that has been banging on since the start of the Giro about being a stage for Froome/Dumoulin to take time, although bad luck for Froome that Pozzovivo was perfectly happy to follow.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Big Dumoulin fan. Would really like him to win the tdf someday soon. Will be massively disappointed if he wins this one though.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Above The Cows wrote:
    9,000m of climbing to come? Ouch.

    totally bonkers isn't it
    "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
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Riders looking at being in the breakaway in the next couple of stages aren't going to be happy. Doubt MS are going to let a that happen again.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    I really hope Yates can hold on, it would be good for the attacking rider to hold off the boring diesel for a change.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    mididoctors wrote:
    its almost criminal the thought that yates cracks and loses the giro given the repeated efforts he had to make to get in a winning position.

    That's racing though isn't it.

    Perhaps he didn't need to make such big efforts, and would still have been able to stick with TD today. Who knows?

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