Giro 2019, Stage 14: Saint Vincent - Courmayeur 131 km *Spoilers*

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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    *** Simon Yates, Mikel Landa, Primoz Roglic
    ** Vincenzo Nibali, Miguel Ángel López, Rafal Majka
    * Ilnur Zakarin, Richard Carapaz, Pavel Sivakov
    Show your working for this one
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Favourites 14th stage 2019 Giro d’Italia (subject to change after stage 13)
    *** Simon Yates, Mikel Landa, Primoz Roglic
    ** Vincenzo Nibali, Miguel Ángel López, Rafal Majka
    * Ilnur Zakarin, Richard Carapaz, Pavel Sivakov

    My working for this one was there all along, cheeky monkey.
    My excuse is that I forgot when I came home, last night.
    Thanks for the reminder, I'll get on it.

    Anyone feel the need to backtrack? I was pleasantly surprised how much Yates could do in the space of single ad break.

    Are the race directors monitoring the whereabouts of Adam?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The worst case scenario re the Gavia has already been confirmed and that alternative profile up thread will be the one the riders tackle. So, a series of low gradient grinds all the way to the Mortirolo. Not the stuff that epic stages are made from.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The worst case scenario re the Gavia has already been confirmed and that alternative profile up thread will be the one the riders tackle. So, a series of low gradient grinds all the way to the Mortirolo. Not the stuff that epic stages are made from.
    .


    Well still a bit testy. Shame thou.
    "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
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Johan Bruyneel on The Move podcast is pretty much on it every day with the tactical analysis and the predictions, as in yesterday calling Carapaz as the one to watch. Impressive.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    mididoctors wrote:
    Roglic is in a good position. But he can't let carapaz do that a couple more times before the TT


    He's in a good position but a less good position than he was a few days ago. At some point he is going to have to distance the opposition in the mountains - he can't keep on riding defensively because without team support he can't cover every other rider attacking. I suppose that may be why the team "allowed" Movistar to take pink - they know they can't control the race so they prefer for Movistar to do it than Roglic to use all his energy trying to.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Last couple of KMs it looked like Nibali was trying to put him into pink and he was "reluctant".
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  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    Delighted to see Joe Dombrowski putting in a ride like that. Hopefully can bag a stage win before the end of this Giro.

    DD.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    EF Education shouldn't have been permitted to wear pink jerseys at the Giro.

    A stupid person would find that confusing.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Sam Oomen broke his hip yesterday. He will be off bike for sometime. And will obviously not be at TdF. TD's strongest mountain helper I'd say
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,314
    TailWindHome wrote:
    EF Education shouldn't have been permitted to wear pink jerseys at the Giro.

    A stupid person would find that confusing.
    Once were not allowed to wear their yellow kit at the TdF.
    That rule should be reapplied on all GTs. Stupid that it isn't.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    Sam Oomen broke his hip yesterday. He will be off bike for sometime. And will obviously not be at TdF. TD's strongest mountain helper I'd say

    Wasn’t supposed to ride Giro and was complaining he went in with sub par form, so tough for him all round.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TailWindHome wrote:
    EF Education shouldn't have been permitted to wear pink jerseys at the Giro.

    A stupid person would find that confusing.

    Tbf I’ve had enough of pandering to stupid people.
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Sam Oomen broke his hip yesterday. He will be off bike for sometime. And will obviously not be at TdF. TD's strongest mountain helper I'd say

    Wasn’t supposed to ride Giro and was complaining he went in with sub par form, so tough for him all round.

    That's Sunweb's number 2 and 3 Dutch rider who has coped a long term layoff while riding in support of Tom Dumoulin.
    Oomen's injury must be particularly galling for both team and rider.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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