Giro 2021:- Stage 19: Abbiategrasso – Alpe di Mera 166 km **Spoilers**

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Brambilla abandons.
    Slow speed uphill on a bend.
    Amazing really
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not sure Nieve counts as being a baller Rob.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    DQS and Bike Exchange hammering the GPM 3 to reduce the Ineos troops as much as possible.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Obviously, Ganna didn't get their memo. :D
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Ganna trying to capture the front for the downhill.
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Ganna looks very tired. He had towed the peloton round Italy for 2 weeks
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited May 2021
    Ineos all in defense now . ... DQS COMING PAST
    "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
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    I'd love to be able to do rock climbing but just the thought of standing on a ledge like that makes my legs wobbly
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Ineos still have everyone there.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    DeVlaeminck said:

    I'd love to be able to do rock climbing but just the thought of standing on a ledge like that makes my legs wobbly

    Think it was via ferrata - so fixed lines to clip onto and aids at the toughest points (it looked like a staircase was chiselled out at one point on that rock), but that won't do anything for the wobbly legs...

    Germany's lowest Alpine hut is in the Landscahftspark at Duisberg, and the via ferrata there reaches the giddy height of something like 4m above the ground if you ever fancy trying something a little lower
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Well bernal will have it or not I guess 😁
    "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
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    For the sake of the race I'm hoping Bernal loses a bit and maybe someone from outside the top 3 gets a couple of minutes .
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    To think, the organisers thought they might average 35kph for this stage.
    Currently over 40.
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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    edited May 2021
    Alameida trying to go but yates going now
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Almedia hits it hard from low down, Yates has now closed, taking Caruso with him.
    Bernal 7 or 8 seconds back with his team.
    5.8 kms to go.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Yates, Almedia, Caruso, G Bennett, Vlassov in G1.
    Yates just attacked off the front.

    Bernal & Carthy 20 secs back from Yates.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Yates going solo very early
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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    edited May 2021
    yates looking good atm and he's off the front
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Bernal doesn't look great. It's seldom a good sign when you look down at your gears.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    yates at 22" with 4km to go
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Carthy pushing on from the Bernal group and bridged to G2.
    G Bennett back with Bernal.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Yates not ripping out huge amounts of time - if the timings are correct...
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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    carthy bridging to the front group
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Ineos domestiques pull Benral back so Vlasov pushes on.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    Vlasov going to get caught
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Martinez reels Vlasov back in.
    30 secs to Yates. All other top GCers together.
    Carthy struggling.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Steady as he goes: Ineos
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Martinez finished and Bernal pushing on away from his closest.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Bernal seems to have recovered a bit.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Bernal drops Caruso
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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