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Giro 2021:- Stage 8: Foggia – Guardia Sanframondi 170 km **Spoilers**

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  • lettingthedaysgobylettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,731
    Think we might finally have a break.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    Looks like we might finally have our break and it’s not one packed with potential stage winners.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • lettingthedaysgobylettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,731
    Peloton still strung out though, this is brutal.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    ....... or not
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_RogueLanterne_Rogue Posts: 3,762
    Reminds me of a stage in Tour (last year or the one before?) where it took something like two thirds of the stage for things to settle down, at which point everyone was cooked.
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  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 593
    blazing_saddles said:

    It was due to the crash apparently.
    Wondering about Nibali now

    My feed tells me Ewan was struggling to hang on, and had already indicated he was going to give up sometime today, and then came the crash, so his retiring came a couple of hours earlier.
  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 593
    edited May 2021
    PS. Ewan apparently got a 'knock on his right knee'.
    But unclear if that happened before the crash or in the crash. But supposedly he was in pain, and didn't want to carry on.
  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 593
    Evidently Ewan had been dropped, was held up by the crash in the tunnel which had happened ahead of him, and although not involved, having lost so much time due to the hold-up, and already not in the best condition, decided to call it a day.
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,895
    Good that he started in the jersey.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    Just in . What's the story so far? this break going to make it?
    "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
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    Electric gears 🤔😉
    "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
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    jimmyjams said:

    Evidently Ewan had been dropped, was held up by the crash in the tunnel which had happened ahead of him, and although not involved, having lost so much time due to the hold-up, and already not in the best condition, decided to call it a day.

    Hang over?
    "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
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,498 Lives Here
    Ok I’m up on this for a bit.

    40km to go, break at 5”50, long descent into the final rise
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,498 Lives Here
    Gouvesrd, Lafayette, ardnt, campanaerts, olivera, gavaira, and a few others

    Gavaria attacks out of the group on a flat section at 37km to go
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,498 Lives Here
    edited May 2021
    And he crashes
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  • lettingthedaysgobylettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,731
    Gaviria puts a dig in then instantly stacks it on a corner.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    Gaviria attacks the breakaway and ends up going into a concrete wall.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    edited May 2021

    Completely irrelevant but my nephew just messaged me that he had a bottle of this for his birthday.



    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    He has lost his bottle
    "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
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    Better safe than sorry
    "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
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    Groupama rider cornering like a 1970s American saloon.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    Good use of the medical car
    "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
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,498 Lives Here
    Finally a bit of fun in the comms box
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  • lettingthedaysgobylettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,731
    Breakaway starting to test each other
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    So it is going to come down to who is the least worse climber, wins....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,498 Lives Here
    Soz dealing with toddler stuff. At 9km to go the break is still together with 6 minutes but had spent the last 15 or so attacking each other
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  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,895
    Pace picking up in the peloton
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,895
    "He's going to leave him behind. He's going to leave him behind!"

    Thanks to whoever pointed this out, now I can't stop noticing.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,652
    I wonder what odds were available on a Cofidis, Kometa, Bardiani stage podium?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,603
    Cut back to the GC guys FFS
    "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
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