Giro 2021:- Stage 17: Canazei – Sega di Ala 193 km **Spoilers**
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No, I'm from the actual North - Dunsop Bridge is still only the Upper Northern Midlands even if we're being charitable!amrushton said:
Depends. It's a northern hell for you soft southerners but go North 30 miles to Dunsop Bridge and that's the geographical centre of Britain apparently. The Queen owns it.jam1e said:He's from Bury, that's midlands at best!
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Evening all,
I've avoided the result, online and on this ere forum.
Would any kind soul be willing to tell me from what km remaining I should start watching?
I normally start from at least 45 out, but happy to extend if something interesting happened earlier.
Grazie.Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
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Thats probably ideal1
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Purely from memory you won't be too far off with 45 kms out.
The final climb is the main event but there are events on the build up.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Thanks both, will up to 50k to be safe
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He'd have gone home yesterday if his team put his welfare first.RichN95. said:Evenepoel won’t start tomorrow after the crash (official)
Watching it with hindsight, did the team know Bernal was struggling pretty early on? Moscon up the road and the slow pace on the climb could suggest they did."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0 -
He looked pretty good behind Yates... Until he wasn't."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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My thinking too . Very conservative ride .gsk82 said:
He'd have gone home yesterday if his team put his welfare first.RichN95. said:Evenepoel won’t start tomorrow after the crash (official)
Watching it with hindsight, did the team know Bernal was struggling pretty early on? Moscon up the road and the slow pace on the climb could suggest they did."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 pm0 -
Bernal should be attacked early on Friday Saturday .. won't be Caruso thou . ..."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 pm0
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From the highlights Bernal and the team were on the radio quite a lot early on the climb, maybe early conversation about knocking it back a little?2015 Canyon Nerve AL 6.0 (son #1's)
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In retrospect, Ineos not taking time back on Martin when they were on front looks like protection rather than just taking it easy.gsk82 said:
He'd have gone home yesterday if his team put his welfare first.RichN95. said:Evenepoel won’t start tomorrow after the crash (official)
Watching it with hindsight, did the team know Bernal was struggling pretty early on? Moscon up the road and the slow pace on the climb could suggest they did.Twitter: @RichN950 -
They weren't though were they? The preceding kilometres were, but the final two didn't look that hard.ddraver said:Say what Egan..? 🤔
Maybe he means he could have pushed on a bit more than he did on the final couple of k to limit his losses? Which sounds a bit optimistic given how he looked at the finish but maybe he's bluffing a bit.0 -
He's saying 'Weren't extremely hard' as in maybe he had assumed it was hard all the way to the finish, when the last 2km he did not need to save energy for.jam1e said:
They weren't though were they? The preceding kilometres were, but the final two didn't look that hard.ddraver said:Say what Egan..? 🤔
Maybe he means he could have pushed on a bit more than he did on the final couple of k to limit his losses? Which sounds a bit optimistic given how he looked at the finish but maybe he's bluffing a bit.
But yes agreed, he looked toasted - early on I thought he was going to really capitulate and shed minutes. Martinez was key I think.
Here we go:
"Bernal confessed he might not have tracked Yates' initial attack had he realised how much the gradient eased inside the final two kilometres.
"I tried to follow him and maybe I made a bit of a mistake. Maybe if I knew the last two kilometres were not so hard, I would have waited until then and I might have had more energy to go faster," he said. "It could have been important but you can't see all the stages, and overall I'm pleased with today."
That was very entertaining, did not expect to see Bernal having issues like that, would be gutting if it is his back
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Finding it hard to understand why the leader of the richest team who spends a lot of time on the radio back to the car wouldn’t have known about the gradients.
Happy for Dan as he worked for that win.0 -
Very much this.bm5 said:Finding it hard to understand why the leader of the richest team who spends a lot of time on the radio back to the car wouldn’t have known about the gradients.
Happy for Dan as he worked for that win.
Sound more like a bluff/cover up while he hopes to recover tomorrow.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Yes I don't doubt that for a minute, trying not to show weakness - if it's his back that was the cause however, tomorrow he can probably hide, but Friday and Saturday are going to be rough.pblakeney said:
Very much this.bm5 said:Finding it hard to understand why the leader of the richest team who spends a lot of time on the radio back to the car wouldn’t have known about the gradients.
Happy for Dan as he worked for that win.
Sound more like a bluff/cover up while he hopes to recover tomorrow.Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
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This slow pace that Ineos were setting as they rode defensively, shed most of the top ten on GC.0
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Especially as a big song and dance was made about Moscon being local to the area and therefore very familiar with the climb.bm5 said:Finding it hard to understand why the leader of the richest team who spends a lot of time on the radio back to the car wouldn’t have known about the gradients.
Happy for Dan as he worked for that win.0
