2016 Giro d'Italia - Stage 14: Farra d'Alpago–Corvara 210 km – Saturday 21st May

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The big one , the hardest stage yet and in the Dolomites …with some very high mountain passes not least the Passo Giau which is probably the hardest climb in this year’s Giro.



Not to mention the first 94 KM is pure climbing with four more climbs before the Passo Giau and then finally the Passo Valparola



What can we expect from the favourites and who will be in the breakaway..I feel if you can survive the first mega climb in the breakaway and with a good enough lead then can go all the way as GC men will be measuring their efforts given the difficulty of the stage and the mountain TT to come on Sunday

And if its like today many riders will be dropped and there will be riders all over the road as the breakaway fights to go clear


As for the favourites….seems still to be a fight between Nibali & Valverde for me…other top GC guys I think will fight for the last step on the podium unless one of these 2 have a nightmare day


Eurosport from 11.45am

Darkglasses

Domenico Pozzovivo

Poll added

Nico FTW

dastardly00

Andrey Amador

I'll be at a wedding, so unlikely I'll see any of this

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Nicolas Roche's Diary : http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roche-weve-reached-our-new-goal-but-therell-be-more-chances-to-come-34734236.html


So he eased up yesterday when peloton put hammer down as only staying in the peloton as grupetto too slow and wanted to get home quicker

Deignan & Boswell eased up completely when not in the break ..maybe he should have done the same ...both of these riders could be alot fresher today


Wondered if SKY with Nieve will be going for KOM jersey and Young riders jersey with Henao now ...means NIeve will have to eb in nearly every break and riders will have to protect Henao....Or maybe a few stage wins is more prestigious for SKY

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Here is where the race goes today ...beautiful Corvara

Was there on holidays in 2009

retalivity

Roche in a massive break early on

Break

Axel Domont, Hugo Houle (Ag2r La Mondiale), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Nicola Boem, Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani - CSF), Darwin Atapuma (BMC Racing), Moreno Moser, Nathan Brown (Cannondale), Kanstantsin Siutsou (Dimension Data), David De La Cruz, Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep), Sergey Firsanov (Gazprom-RusVelo), Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling), Diego Ulissi, Valerio Conti, Sacha Modolo, Manuele Mori (Lampre-Merida), Tim Wellens, Pim Ligthart, Maxime Monfort (Lot Soudal), Carlos Betancur, José Herrada (Movistar), Damiano Cunego, Giacomo Berlato (NIPPO-Vini Fantini), Ruben Plaza (Orica GreenEDGE), Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin), Egor Silin, Rein Taaramae (Katusha), Twan Castelijns, Primoz Roglic (Lotto NL-Jumbo), Christian Knees, Nicolas Roche (Sky), Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo), Matteo Busato, Daniel Martinez (Wilier-Southeast).

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Massive break of 33 riders including Nicolas Roche ...

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Kanstantsin Siutsou is the highest placed and a threat to the GC guys so break will not gett too far out and needs alot of time

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Cmon Betancur!

Brian?

Stupid downhill finishes. Am I the only one who hates them?

at1withmyself

Here's the complete composition of today's break:


Axel Domont, Hugo Houle (Ag2r La Mondiale),
Andrey Zeits (Astana),
Nicola Boem, Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani - CSF),
Darwin Atapuma (BMC Racing),
Moreno Moser, Nathan Brown (Cannondale),
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Dimension Data),
David De La Cruz, Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep),
Sergey Firsanov (Gazprom-RusVelo),
Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling),
Diego Ulissi, Valerio Conti, Sacha Modolo, Manuele Mori (Lampre-Merida),
Tim Wellens, Pim Ligthart, Maxime Monfort (Lot Soudal),
Carlos Betancu, José Herrada (Movistar),
Damiano Cunego, Giacomo Berlato (NIPPO-Vini Fantini),
Ruben Plaza (Orica GreenEDGE),
Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin),
Egor Silin, Rein Taaramae (Katusha),
Twan Castelijns, Primoz Roglic (Lotto NL-Jumbo),
Christian Knees, Nicolas Roche (Sky),
Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo),
Matteo Busato, Daniel Martinez (Wilier-Southeast).

at1withmyself

Moviestar have strong riders in the breakaway for a Valverde attack later on. Surprised Astana didn't get many more in although I think the GC riders might hold themselves for tomorrow.

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Brian? wrote: »

Stupid downhill finishes. Am I the only one who hates them?

Will benefit Roche though if in the final selection over last climb

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

MPFGLB wrote: »

Kanstantsin Siutsou is the highest placed and a threat to the GC guys so break will not gett too far out and needs alot of time

Ulissi.

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Andre 3000 wrote: »

Ulissi.

Ulissi is not a GC threat and will be probably dropped imo

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Break has ober 6 minutes so Movistar chasing as Ulissi in virtual pink

Good for Astana

RobertKK

Esteban Chaves

Is this the route they were clearing snow off a couple of days ago?


Remember a couple of years ago Nibali really excelled in the cold.

neris

Rafal Majka

RobertKK wrote: »

Is this the route they were clearing snow off a couple of days ago?


Remember a couple of years ago Nibali really excelled in the cold.

No thats stage 19 next friday or saturday

neris

Rafal Majka

The camera shot of cunego going for the points was desperate,

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Betancur is such a bloody waste of talent.

kilns

Looks like Roche is going to have a big go at it today. In the break it seems that Lopez is working for him too

at1withmyself

Plaza off the front and 8.35 gap back to the peleton so the break is starting to break up now...

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Get after Plaza or he will disappear into the horizon

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Sean Kelly advertising his sportifs

Selling it with sanwiches

Darkglasses

Domenico Pozzovivo

Ryder Hesjedal out of the race with stomach problems. Seems to be an unusually high amount of digestive issues this year?

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Kanstantsin Siutsou is virtual leader. As expected Ulissi dropped

Pudsy33

That Hotels.com advert genuinely had me laughing

neris

Rafal Majka

Pudsy33 wrote: »

That Hotels.com advert genuinely had me laughing

I knew some day we,d get a decent ad

neris

Rafal Majka

See on twitter theres rumours that contadors signed for lampre

godtabh

neris wrote: »

See on twitter theres rumours that contadors signed for lampre

Lampre? Wasn't expecting that

JK.BMC

'Strava is nice, it's grand, but it destroys a club run.'

Sean Kelly sums up one the great first world cycling problems of the day.
I couldn't agree more with him. Spot on.

DDC1990

Ugh Plaza has hit the wall 1 min gone in about 1 km

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Lampre will need to bring in a few more lads if Contador is to sign I'd say.

JK.BMC

DDC1990 wrote: »

Ugh Plaza has hit the wall 1 min gone in about 1 km

Well, there goes his strava record so!
Now it's time to see what Roche has in the bag. Priedler is a dark horse I think

DDC1990

Weird. lost lots of time in 1km, then opened up another 30 seconds to bring the gap back to 1min.

Tough climb.

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Movistar blown apart already.

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

DDC1990 wrote: »

Weird. lost lots of time in 1km, then opened up another 30 seconds to bring the gap back to 1min.

Tough climb.

ES's GPS is always wonky.

godtabh

Roche dropping the wheel

DDC1990

Roche dropped from the chasing group.

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Scarponi is setting a sick pace. They're almost pulling a minute back a KM if the GPS is accurate.

godtabh

Roche back in the peloton

godtabh

Amador out the back

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Jesus he's popped bad

DDC1990

Unreal chaseback from Amador!

And Priedler to make it to the front 2!

isitraining

I left the room for 5 minutes! He's some descender!

DDC1990 wrote: »

Unreal chaseback from Amador!

And Priedler to make it to the front 2!

neris

Rafal Majka

That blonde in the red jersey is quite perky

godtabh

Roche actually only caught now

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Valverde is f*cked

DDC1990

Andre 3000 wrote: »

Valverde is f*cked

I've seen him work his way back far too many times to believe this yet.

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Predileur is a fav of mine
If Attapuma wins this KIrby will never stop talking about him

Andre 3000

Andrey Amador

Kruijswijk looks brilliant.