Giro 2024:- Stage 17: Selva di Val Gardena – Passo Brocon, 159.0k​m ***Spoilers***

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Let's be honest if pog attacked at the bottom he could have won

    "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
    "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

    When you cycle the high passes of cycling the spirits of the mountain rock whisper his coming .....a quite voice on the wind from far off yet paradoxically feels close


    Nairo

    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164

    Every team seemed to have a go at reducing the gap then knocking it off and letting him/them go again.

  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,981

    Managed to avoid the result - what distance is worthwhile watching from please forumites?

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Pog looked like he was warming down

    "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: 43,463

    Really hard to say to be honest. A highlights package might be a better option.

  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 911
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164

    O'connor lost 42 seconds, stays 4th

  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293

    Do we know how the sprinters (aka fat lads at the back) are getting on? PCS still has only has 70 odd finishers

  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 781

    One of the things I like about him is that, definitely on stage 15 and I believe on other days too, he rode with neither a powermeter nor a pulsemeter, so was 'old school', relying on 'feeling'. I imagine without meters is true for at best only 20% of the other riders.

    Apparently he said before the Giro he would focus on stages 8 and 15 and in both cases he was then in the break but caught late on, so he must have decided to also give stage 17 a go.

    His trainer is old-profi Michele Bartoli, and his training ground in Winter is the east end of Lake Constance.