Giro 2020 - Stage 3: Enna – Etna 150 km *Spoilers*

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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,006
    edited October 2020
    Thank fk that Caicero isn't wearing the EF kit

    Ah sorry Dish - beat me to it
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    That EF national champs kit looks great :smile:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Serious headwind here. They're not looking quite as fresh as Alberto did all those years ago.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Kelderman looking handy.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    Good ride by Nibs
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Tactics worked in Kruiswijk's favour there.
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    That felt like a stage at the end of the 3 weeks, not the start.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Still time for people to withdraw and do the traditional thing of trying to save their season with the vuelta, I suppose...
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    Old school racing there. No team tactics just every man for himself and only Stage 3. One of the strangest stages I've seen.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    Yates looks about 3.30 down on Nibali's group
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Has anyone attempted to work out the GC? :D
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    Not sure why Thomas hasn't got in the car to be honest.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    So, is pink the national colour of Ecuador?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    Pross said:

    Not sure why Thomas hasn't got in the car to be honest.

    Recover and stages?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    pblakeney said:

    Pross said:

    Not sure why Thomas hasn't got in the car to be honest.

    Recover and stages?
    I'd be amazed. It would be the biggest recovery since Bertie's magic healing leg
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Since, y'know.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQlVww0zKo
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    Almeida on count back or fractions by the sound of it.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    edited October 2020
    Pross said:

    Almeida on count back or fractions by the sound of it.

    Yes.
    I am surprised by that, given the time bonuses.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    Pross said:

    pblakeney said:

    Pross said:

    Not sure why Thomas hasn't got in the car to be honest.

    Recover and stages?
    I'd be amazed. It would be the biggest recovery since Bertie's magic healing leg
    Only possible answer, apart from being a stubborn bar steward.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    edited October 2020
    Thomas finishing more than 11 minutes down on Nibali
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    edited October 2020
    davidof said:

    Thomas finishing more than 11 minutes down on Nibali

    He can abandon the Giro and have a slot on the Vuelta team.
    I think Froome's is going free.

    Pello Bilbao owning the Haimar Zubeldia classification at the Giro once more.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    GC:

    1 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck-Quickstep 7:44:25
    2 Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Pro Cycling
    3 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren 0:00:37
    4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:42
    5 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:53
    6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:55
    7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:00:59
    8 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:11
    9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:13
    10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:15

    Kelderman...!
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,868
    Good stage ... started racing early.on that climb . Shame about Yates and g ...what happened to Yates?

    Not ineos year .
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    Bilbao Baggins going well after the Tour.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,470
    blazing_saddles said:

    davidof said:

    Thomas finishing more than 11 minutes down on Nibali

    He can abandon the Giro and have a slot on the Vuelta team.
    I think Froome's is going free.

    Pello Bilbao owning the Haimar Zubeldia classification at the Giro once more.
    Can he? The races overlap so he'd have needed special permission in the past?
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  • gregster04
    gregster04 Posts: 1,686
    This stage is going to take some serious digesting. Some very strange happenings indeed. PTP carnage.
  • Matti66
    Matti66 Posts: 190
    blazing_saddles said:

    davidof said:

    Thomas finishing more than 11 minutes down on Nibali

    He can abandon the Giro and have a slot on the Vuelta team.
    I think Froome's is going free.

    Pello Bilbao owning the Haimar Zubeldia classification at the Giro once more.
    Thats his best option assuming its a mild injury . Hit a stray bottle in the neutral.according to eisel. And to think Two days ago the journalists where saying the race was won! This puts Nibali in a strong position now .
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,868
    rick_chasey said:

    GC:

    1 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck-Quickstep 7:44:25
    2 Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Pro Cycling
    3 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren 0:00:37
    4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:42
    5 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:53
    6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:55
    7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:00:59
    8 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:11
    9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:13
    10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:15

    Kelderman...!

    Did he slip
    Off the front of the nibali group
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    He did. Quite early on in fact. Jumbo tried to chase him down without much success, then Fulgsang caused the selection behind.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    Who is Harm Vanhoucke Impressive. Only 23 apparently. I must confess that he'd passed me by until now. His best results according to PCS.

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