Giro 2021:- Stage 14: Cittadella – Monte Zoncolan 204 km **Spoilers**

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Is Evenepoel's accident last year causing him head issues when descending? It was the downhill sections on gravel that worried him most too. Hopefully he can sort that if so.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Part the accident, part the fact he's still a very young rider that spent his youth playing football instead of sliding a bike round a muddy cross course.

    If I remember rightly, he'd left a big gap when he crashed last year and wasn't really following the lines of the riders ahead
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    blazing_saddles said:

    I don't fancy Evenepoel's chances on Monday, with all that wet descending and the charge down to Cortina.

    The descent from the Fedaia to Canazei isn't very technical. The Pordoi descent is more so as there's 20 odd switchbacks, but there's a pretty long false descent between Arabba and the foot of the Giau to get things back together. The question is whether teams try and shed the domestiques on the Fedaia and Pordoi or not.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Great work from Affini, 6.5 mins head start for Bennett and Mollema sounds enough for the win
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Loads of work from Astana, but never really got a grip
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Young Ponomar has done really well so far.
    Pictures starting to break up....
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    edited May 2021
    10 kms for MR group & Moscon ups the pace.
    Tratnik out front from Fortunato.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited May 2021
    #astanafail

    I am waiting patiently for the left hand turn and them passing under the ski lift.
    Then things take a massive turn for the worse.
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Looks like Bernal is feeling good today.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Moscon parks up.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Bernal drops an energy bar, hope a teammate has a spare
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Bernal had his own spare one.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    It seems that Eolo Kometa have brought Bertie Contador out of retirement for today's stage. :p
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    The Shark is harpooned
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    The Squid of Messina.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Thought it seemed fast - it’s not the steep side 🧐 did not know that.


    Meanwhile nibali is dropped at 5km to go
    _
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    The fish has had his chips.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    rick_chasey said:

    Thought it seemed fast - it’s not the steep side 🧐 did not know that.


    Meanwhile nibali is dropped at 5km to go

    Things are about to slow down....................a lot.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    blazing_saddles said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Thought it seemed fast - it’s not the steep side 🧐 did not know that.


    Meanwhile nibali is dropped at 5km to go

    Things are about to slow down....................a lot.
    I hope so. I have hyped this one up this morning. Bad idea
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Things just about to get real for the break
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    rick_chasey said:

    Thought it seemed fast - it’s not the steep side 🧐 did not know that.


    Meanwhile nibali is dropped at 5km to go

    I was a bit shocked to find out after all the hype.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Tratnik cracking
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Fortenato (yes no idea either) drops his break companion.
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Evenepoel at the back
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Not really the same is it, this
    _
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Tratnik hanging on in there.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Evenepoel struggling, 10m gap
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Yates attack
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yates finally awakes.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Bernal goes with him

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