Giro 2021:- Stage 5: Modena – Cattolica 175 km **Spoilers**

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    LANDA DOWN - not getting up (but moving) - looks in pain
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Not looking good for Landa. Still down and not moving.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Looks pretty bad, don't see him finishing.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Dombrowski is up and about
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Looks like they caught the signaller on the road furniture and went down.

    If Kirby was here he would be going on about road furniture and it would probably be fair enough...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Classic Giro stage. 150km of low speeds on wide straight roads then as the pace is picking up throw in lots of twists and turns with street furniture.

    Pennant man taken out too, was only thinking earlier that I wouldn't want that job.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Ewan from Nizzolo after Merlier uncliped.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Ewan from Nizzolo?

    I wasn't sure he had come round but Hatch was.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    edited May 2021
    Merlier with an issue, Ewan takes it with Nizzolo getting yet another Giro second place.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    One of the lead out riders drifted over to mess up Viviani's lead out.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    edited May 2021
    Oh yeah, Ewan very clear from the overhead.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Ewan did well as he took contact from Merlier when he had some kind of mechanical issue.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Think Merlier may have had his rear mech knocked and then struggling to pedal - dropped chain?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Landa looked bad
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Dombrowski finishing but looks like he may have done a collarbone. Bahrain finishing en bloc without Landa.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Dombrowski looking a bit in pain riding in.

    Most of the team waited for Landa but he doesn't look to be coming in with them (unsurprisingly)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    commuterlegs said:

    pblakeney said:



    So, which Ineos rider will it be this time?

    Sivakov, seems like the new Geraint.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Very messy finish after an incredibly dull stage.

    Have to say Cattolica isn't enticing me for a holiday.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Merlier's foot came off his pedal with nobody else involved. Almost took Ewan out.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    UAE's lead out is a liability. Why did Gaviria's lead out man drift across to the right while looking over his left shoulder when everyone else had gone right?
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    They're bigging up the excitement of that sprint finish beyond what it deserves - you can tell there hadn't been much actual racing beforehand and they've nothing to talk about.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited May 2021
    Who won the stage? Ewan?
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Rewatched the Landa / Dumbrowksi incident from the overhead again - looks to me like Dumbrowski changed his mind about which side of the traffic island to pass, clipped the marshal on the way through, hit the kerb of the island as a result, and finally took out the other two as he went down in the inevitable heap. Absolutely nothing Landa could do about it.

    All watched on supersquintyvision, so it's possible I've misidentified who did what, but the late decision to pass on the other side's definitely what seems to kick it off.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    rick_chasey said:

    Who won the stage? Ewan?

    Yes, very strong finish. Came from quite a way back to overtake Nizzolo in the last 70m.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Pross said:

    UAE's lead out is a liability. Why did Gaviria's lead out man drift across to the right while looking over his left shoulder when everyone else had gone right?

    Spoiling? The lead out before him had gone back on the left
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    De Marchi still pink, Nizzolo takes ciclamino, Dombrowski still blue (assuming he recovers)
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    rick_chasey said:

    Who won the stage? Ewan?

    It was posted at least twice a handful of posts upthread Rick.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    bobmcstuff said:

    Looks like they caught the signaller on the road furniture and went down.

    If Kirby was here he would be going on about road furniture and it would probably be fair enough...

    He would but fortunately he has been exiled to deepest, darkest Hungary.

    What an absolute shiite stage.
    I gave up on this total snorefest 25kms out and went out, only to come back to total carnage and find one of the most attacking riders in the GC, down and seemingly out.

    Not sure whether Sivakov is unlucky, a poor bike handler, or a combination of both.
    Landa clearly hit the marshal, but the real problem is town centre sprint finishes and all the street furniture.
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