Giro 2018, Stage 19: Turin - Monte Jafferau - 184 kilometres. *Spoilers*

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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Froome now virtual GC
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,117
    Hebrew channel does first ad break since the started coverage about 1hr into the stage.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    there just can't seem to respond.
    "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
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    What's the record page count for a GT stage?

    Froome virtual pink
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    CHase group looking rough, Dumoulin owes Reichenbach a pint
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Chasers not chasing - 3 minutes to Tom
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  • Dumoulin looking less good than he did a while back.
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    Was that Aru’s mate on the deck in the tunnel?
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Idiots should make Tom do all the work
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Eurosport break the tension with some melodic music and Juan Arrow. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    Brailsford will have his smug face on tonight
  • Dumoulin to crack on the final climb?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Lopez is Sky’s best domestique at the moment
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Chasers going so slowly that Reichenbach is back.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Idiots should make Tom do all the work

    If Pinot thinks he needs to gain time on Pozzo then he is right to help out - if, however, he ends up losing time to Lopez and Carapaz then it's not such a good move
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Lopez and Carapaz having a nice rest...
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  • amrushton wrote:
    Brailsford will have his smug face on tonight
    Marginal gains. Lol.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The gap should come down in the next 15km
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  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    amrushton wrote:
    Brailsford will have his smug face on tonight
    if this works out he should have a smug face, this has been obviously planned
  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    The whole Reichenbach thing has looked counter-productive for 40 km now. I guess the insistence on hanging around for his feeble help shows that Dum is properly wrecked.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    RichN95 wrote:
    The gap should come down in the next 15km

    I'm not sure today's stage is paying any attention to 'should'...
  • Dumoulin and Reichenback taking turns. Looks tangibly slower when Reichenback is on the front.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    One thing to plan it, another to execute it.
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    Dumoulin not happy with his crew of wheel suckers
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Froome pink by 3 seconds with 29km to go. More feckin' ads...

    Mind you, Marcel does have nice hair...
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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    Just who is that rider coming up behind - because that looks like Roche! That looks like Stephen Roche... it's Stephen Roche!

    Can Dumoulin do a La Plagne?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    JTUK wrote:
    Dumoulin not happy with his crew of wheel suckers

    The biter, bit, so to speak.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    JTUK wrote:
    Dumoulin not happy with his crew of wheel suckers

    He's getting more help than he could be so he should count himself lucky. The final climb however I think he'll be on his tod
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I've gone down this descent faster than Tommy D's crew right now.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Dumoulin's been a bit whiny in groups recently.

    Needs to sh*t or get off the pot - it's do or die time for him.