Giro 2021:- Stage 16: Sacile – Cortina d’Ampezzo 212 km **Spoilers**

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    {whispers}this has been a bit uninteresting so far.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    mididoctors said:

    Racing is more intense on the downhill these days .

    Which is why retaining the final descent makes no sense if the changes have been made for safety reasons. That's the one where people are really going to take chances to win a stage or put time into rivals.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Trying hard not to fall asleep, post lunch, as I have to go out for my second dose.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Have a phone call 2-3 then should get out for a short ride.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Only watched bits so far but it looks like EF are doing a nice job in support of Bernal.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    just read evenepoel is down 2 minutes already. Certainly not his race and should think he's happy to be riding less distance today
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Saving Carthy in 5th, I think, but yes seems to be the case.

    Evenpoel down 2 mins
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Sean's pronunciation of Giau :#
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Brown short momement for the Movistar rider there.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    edited May 2021
    roads look dry in the valley (I know the summits might be different). Edit: perhaps drier but no less slippy having watched that corner
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Hatch a bit too much of the used car salesman approach to the day for my liking.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    It feels like I've watched (recent) races run in far worse conditions than these.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Vlasov mechanical apparently.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    Pross said:

    Vlasov mechanical apparently.

    rainjacket in gears apparently
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Can't believe Formolo is still in the big ring. I'm usually grovelling by this point already.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Formulo on 10% in big ring
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Tiny lead group. TV coverage spending far too much time concentrating on the seemingly doomed break so hard to know what is happening.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    edited May 2021
    Hugh Carthy looks like Les from Vic Reeves' Big NIght Out when someone shows him chives.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Pross said:

    Brown short momement for the Movistar rider there.

    Ridiculous save

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Bernal still has Martinez. Yates seems to be doing a Yates and dangling on the back.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    EF look to have absolutely ripped the peloton apart while the cameras were away
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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    Mad_Malx said:

    Formulo on 10% in big ring

    Tbf, they use 11-30 as standard now, might even be 32. So 52 or 53 is still hard but not like it use to be when a 26 sprocket might be your last one
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Yates dropping
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    I think Bernal just told Martinez to up the pace a bit when he can.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Yates going out the back now.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    edited May 2021
    Blimey, down to 10(?) in that leaders group. Gap opening on Yates
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Carthy has been drafting behind his team Carr for ages now
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Caruso is the dark.horse here
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Seems to be slowly coming back but I'll never understand why he insists on sitting last wheel meaning he's at risk to any increase in pace or another rider losing the wheel.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Vlasov doing a decent ride and looks like he's coming back.

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