Giro 2022 - Stage 17: Ponte di Legno – Lavarone 168 km ***Spoilers***

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    gear malfunction???
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,657
    What's Columbian for brutal..?
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932

    This is a really good stage.

    Great racing. One of the best stages, if not the best so far. They all look empty!
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932
    Week 3 wout coming back again
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    hindley needs to attack
    "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
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,376

    This is a really good stage.

    You can call me greedy, but I'd like to see Hindley have a proper go.
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932
    Landa attacks but can't stay with Poels
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162

    This is a really good stage.

    Yeah nice scenery
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,341
    Is MvdP ahead or behind the maglia rosa group?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    Buitrago was pretty canny theret tbh
    "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
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932

    Is MvdP ahead or behind the maglia rosa group?

    Still ahead, I think
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,341
    Good day for Bahrain Victorious
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    good smart riding
    "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
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932
    VdP exhausted. What a rider
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    MvdP was amazing
    "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
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 932
    Still 3 secs between Carapaz and Hindley
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,341
    Carapaz & Hindley take some seconds out of Landa in the final 400m.
    MvdP caught by that group at 300 to go.

    Almeida loses a chunk of time too.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    stage
    "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_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,676
    Almeida suddenly appears not that far behind but off the podium
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776
    Hugh does too much work...they all lean on him
    "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
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,214

    Wasn't there someone who had an irrational dislike of this guy?

    I do.
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    DeadCalm said:

    Wasn't there someone who had an irrational dislike of this guy?

    I do.
    Same.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,376
    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,874

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,376
    pblakeney said:

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
    He seems to cover moves fairly easily.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,776

    pblakeney said:

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
    He seems to cover moves fairly easily.
    It does look he has a tad more ..but it's hard to really know
    "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: 18,776

    MvdP was amazing

    I don't remember Tom boonen doing that
    "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
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,376

    pblakeney said:

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
    He seems to cover moves fairly easily.
    It does look he has a tad more ..but it's hard to really know
    My hope is that he is holding back for one of the mountain top finishes.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,874

    pblakeney said:

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
    He seems to cover moves fairly easily.
    It does look he has a tad more ..but it's hard to really know
    My hope is that he is holding back for one of the mountain top finishes.
    That is more hope than expectation from where I am sitting.
    It would be a race changer but a huge gamble to leave it till the penultimate stage.
    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.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,874
    pblakeney said:

    pblakeney said:

    I'm intrigued what Hindley's strategy is. His prologue was slower than Carapaz's and Landa's, so he can't really be expecting to win it on the TT.

    The strategy might well be "I'm giving 100% just to be where I am."
    He seems to cover moves fairly easily.
    It does look he has a tad more ..but it's hard to really know
    My hope is that he is holding back for one of the mountain top finishes.
    That is more hope than expectation from where I am sitting.
    It would be a race changer but a huge gamble to leave it till the penultimate stage.
    Well what do you know, he did. Ballsy, chapeau. 👏👏👏
    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.