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

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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    Reminded me of Floyd in 2006 8)
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Pross wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    did yates put too much into the TT and never recovered?

    Has to be illness surely? Either that or he just sat up once he knew he was out of it. Not sure how you come back from something like that, it will be a real test of character. I’m gutted for him.
    Murdoch gave him a big bag of cash and a contract for 2019
  • AndrewCowley
    AndrewCowley Posts: 51
    Two days in the mountains? Just one isn't it?
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    ShutupJens wrote:
    JTUK wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Good job he had that crash or the whole race wouldn't have been a contest.

    Not over yet, still two tough days in the mountains

    One and a day in rome no?

    Yup, got a bit excited
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    did yates put too much into the TT and never recovered?
    just the 3rd week is brutal and you can't start a grand tour the way yates did and hope to hold on
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    is yates still KOM
  • cygnet
    cygnet Posts: 92
    Is it Froome's first time in Pink?
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Given Froome only needed his team for a short spell, presumably the Sky train will be well rested (apart from him!) ready for tomorrow.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Pink jersey awarded while pink jersey on road (I am guessing here). Bleak.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Marc Reef completely writing off his own man after the stage.
    Some fine Dutch DSing right there.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Bloody hell Lopez where did that come from.

    Not taking a turn and putting his nose in the wind for 80km. That's where that came from.

    it was the sound move tbh :)
    "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
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 337
    Sunweb DS saying it's pretty much over for TD.
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/442763
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    cygnet wrote:
    Is it Froome's first time in Pink?
    ask his missus
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    is yates still KOM

    Nope, Froome took it atop the Sestriere

    Painfully honest interview from Sunweb DS, he does have a point though - 40 seconds isn't nothing on a day when you get pumped for 3 and a half minutes
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Marc Reef completely writing off his own man after the stage.
    Some fine Dutch DSing right there.

    looked destroyed!
    "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
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    JTUK wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Good job he had that crash or the whole race wouldn't have been a contest.

    Not over yet, still tough day tomorrow in the mountains

    Point stands.

    Had he not crashed he'd be minutes up without today's heroics.
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    cygnet wrote:
    Is it Froome's first time in Pink?
    the pink jersey yes... :evil:
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    is yates still KOM
    According to official site: 
    1	GBR	FROOME Chris	TEAM SKY	123
2	GBR	YATES Simon Philip	MITCHELTON - SCOTT	91
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    edited May 2018
    ...
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    pretty old school stage that.
    "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
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    ShutupJens wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    is yates still KOM

    Nope, Froome took it atop the Sestriere

    Painfully honest interview from Sunweb DS, he does have a point though - 40 seconds isn't nothing on a day when you get pumped for 3 and a half minutes

    Can you elaborate please?
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    The Giro organisers must be wetting themselves with happiness.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • AndrewCowley
    AndrewCowley Posts: 51
    edited May 2018
    Well maybe for once you could say that wasn't so much about the Sky train but rather the individual rider (Froome).
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    larkim wrote:
    Given Froome only needed his team for a short spell, presumably the Sky train will be well rested (apart from him!) ready for tomorrow.

    Poels and Henao both finished top 15 today (albeit at 11 minutes) so Sky looking the strongest team at the moment.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    royal-mail-postman-on-a-bicycle-with-a-basket-and-side-pannier-carrying-E0XYB6.jpg

    ee, he done y' proud son
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Nobody but TD within 4 mins of Froome on GC
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    AndrewCowley wrote:
    Well maybe for once you could say that wasn't so much about the Sky train but rather the individual rider (Froome).

    Sky train set it up
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    edited May 2018
    JTUK wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Good job he had that crash or the whole race wouldn't have been a contest.

    Not over yet, still tough day tomorrow in the mountains

    Even if he does loose the jersey tomorrow, it will still go down in history as one of the all-time great solo attacks, especially in this day and age. Maybe the audaciousness of the attack had such a pshycological affect on Dumolin that he simply couldn't believe what he was seeing! A disbelieving Mark Reef is not impressed!

    DD.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,653
    Pross wrote:
    Waiting anxiously for Iain stage rating. I reckon he might stretch to a 7 for this one!

    :lol:

    11/10 from me. As good as I've ever seen.

    Even had Froome swerving a fallen moto in a tunnel on a descent.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Waiting anxiously for Iain stage rating. I reckon he might stretch to a 7 for this one!

    :lol:

    11/10 from me. As good as I've ever seen.

    Even had Froome swerving a fallen moto in a tunnel on a descent.
    Pff should have bunny hopped it

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