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Giro 2017, Stage 10: FOLIGNO - MONTEFALCO 39.8km ITT
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15-05-2017 1:52pm#1Coming after the second rest day, some riders will be feeling the effects of the first week more than others; depending on how well they used the rest day to recover, there will be large gaps starting to appear on the GC after this stage.
General Classification after Stage 9
Name ............Nationality ....... Team ..Result
1 Nairo QUINTANA Colombia .....MOV.....42:06:09
2 Thibaut PINOT .....France .......FDJ.....+28
3 Tom DUMOULIN Netherlands ..SUN....+30
4 Bauke MOLLEMA Netherlands ..TFS.....+51
5 Vincenzo NIBALI .....Italy .......TBM.....+1:10
6 Domenico POZZOVIVO Italy ....ALM.....+1:28
7 Ilnur ZAKARIN .....Russia .......KAT.....+2:28
8 Davide FORMOLO .....Italy ......CDT.....+2:45
9 Andrey AMADOR Costa Rica ....MOV....+2:53
10 Steven KRUIJSWIJK .....Ned ..TLJ......+3:06
The Giro's first (of 2) Individual Time Trial, despite being just shy of 40km, it is not one for the pure TT specialists with the latter 2/3 of the stage being decidedly lumpy (not much in this part of Italy is flat) and it will favour a rider with good climbing characteristics and GC aspirations. The stand-out candidate for victory is Tom Dumoulin, who climbed so well to Blockhaus and is expected to put a strong TT to take the Maglia Rosa off Quintana - for now anyway, but if Dumoulin slips up, can Pinot put in a better TT to snatch the jersey?
Geraint Thomas seems likely to continue in the race and would have been tipped do well too but having apparently dislocated his shoulder in the spill on Sunday (it popped back in ...:eek:), he perhaps wont be able to give it 100% in the longish TT stage. It sounds as if Landa may abandon before Stage 10 with a leg injury - he lost 27 minutes on stage 9.
Nibali might have favoured this TT as a stage to claw back some time on Quintana, but having shipped a full minute to him on Sunday, he is looking less than in top form and may continue to struggle.
Quintana will be ensuring that he does enough to stay in touch near the very top of the GC table. He has the advantage of going off last so will know what the others have been doing and will be able to pace his efforts. He sounds his usual confident self and doesn’t see any gaps occurring, “It’s a long, hard course. I don’t think it should play much against me, because it has some slopes that could help me limit my losses. I should defend myself well against the specialists. It could also be good for me that the GC contenders are not-so-strong time triallists, though Pinot and Nibali always go well against the clock. We hope we won’t concede big gaps so we can tackle the demanding final week in a good position.”
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ROUTE
After the start in Foligno the route leaves the old town centre and takes relatively wide and mainly straight roads for over 12 kilometres, until past Bevagna where the 1st intermediate time will be recorded. The route then starts to climb at an average 4-5% gradient, and reaches Madonna delle Grazie, where the road becomes a false flat up. A fast-running and technical descent twists and turns all the way to San Marco, where the road flattens and straightens out. The route takes a U-turn in Bastardo (second time recording), then a false-flat uphill drag leads to Montefalco. The slopes are never steep, yet the climb is unrelenting so should be well suited to Dumoulins characteristics. The road, narrowed at points, leads all the way to the walled city of Montefalco. The final kilometres are slightly uphill. In the last kilometre, the route descends and passes through a gateway, and then goes up again, on a short, steep ramp, leading into the 200-m long, uphill home straight. If the weather is good, the scenery in this part of Umbria is very, very nice……it's not been dubbed the "Wine Trial" for nothing.
The conditions are likely to be ideal, with light wind and temps up to mid 20s
The first riders are off at 11:50 with live TV commencing very shortly after and the top 15 or so riders will have 3 minute separation on the start with Quintana off at 3:24 and expected to finish around 4:15 (all Irish times)9
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[Deleted User] wrote: »OT a bit but watching tour of California here and no movistar , I thought the rule was pro teams were obliged to send a team to world tour events, which this is now
I don't know the answer but I'd guess that there may be a minimum requirement for the number of World Tour races that a World Tour team must enter.
If you look at the start list for Eschborn-Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz, which is now a WT race, only 11 WT teams took part.0 -
dastardly00 wrote: »I don't know the answer but I'd guess that there may be a minimum requirement for the number of World Tour races that a World Tour team must enter.
If you look at the start list for Eschborn-Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz, which is now a WT race, only 11 WT teams took part.
Yeah theres likely a minimum requirement now or something that they've added more events. Stage in Cali today looks like pure hell and I actually feel sorry for cannondale after that crash and abandon he could barely stand after that
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Time trial start times (CET) can be found here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2017-giro-ditalia-stage-10-time-trial-start-times/
Quintana is last off at 15:24 GMT.
It is also worth noting that Daniel Martin starts at 12:01 GMT according to the Cyclingnews start list
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