Giro DItalia stage 5

neris

Stage 5 today again on the lumpy bumpy reads of Sicily. Froome lost time yesterday and the gaps at the top are still to close for comfort. Possibly the last day in pink for Ronan Dennis as Etna looms tomorrow.

Technical Overview:
Another nervous stage, on the same kind of roads as the previous one. Starting from Agrigento, the peloton will first travel through a long stretch of 60 km along the coast before heading back to the countryside for a lot of (easy) climbing and descending. The first climb of the day is S.Margherita di Belice (GPM4, 2.8 km at 4.3%), after which a longer descent will lead straight to a second climb, Partanna (GPM4, 9.2 km at 3.7%), still very easy. After its very fast descent and 7 km flat, the pack will hit the last categorized climb of the stage, Poggioreale Vecchia (GPM4, 4.7 km at 5.4%). The official numbers only refer to its second ramp, after Poggioreale, but also the ramp before is comparable and comes almost attached to it. Considering both ramps, it is kind of a serious climb. It is followed, after just a short descent, by another irregular ramp measuring 4.4 km at 3.8%. It tops at around 12 to go, most of which are descending towards the finishing town. The last 2.1 km are very interesting, featuring a 1.3 km at 6.1% climb that starts with around 800m at 8-9%, before flattening out. The last 800m are mostly false flat, descending and ascending up to the finishing line

Sam Bennet being talked up for today on Eurosport. Fingers crossed for him but not sure after the effort he put in yesterday.

neris

Saw that Brian Smith was tipping him or modulo. Be a tough one I think for him to hang in after yesterday and today's lumpy to

Ryan Mullen gone in the break.

MPFGLB

RYan Mullen has bounced back and is in the break

neris

3 minutes and he's s team mate with him.... but there's 140km to go

ED E

They're rebooting the mobile broadcast unit so commentators off the air for a few minutes :pac:

Ha heard that

Jonathan is easier on the ears than Kirby.

dastardly00

From Cyclingnews ticker:

Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of Wouter Weylandt. The Belgian tragically died on stage 3 of the 2011 Giro after crashing on the descent of the Passo del Bocco near Genoa.
Weylandt was dossard number 108, and the number has never been used since in the Giro. At the start this morning, the 108 space on the signature board was filled with the words Sempre con noi - 'Always with us'.

RIP WW

TheBlaaMan

dastardly00 wrote: »

From Cyclingnews ticker:



RIP WW

Watched the race live that day..........I'll never forget that afternoon.

RIP 108

ED E

Motomarshall seriously injured at the start caused the late start.

retalivity

Can mullen take the mountains jersey today if he stays ahead and mops up all the points?

neris

any one know what the story is with the eurosport channel online saying uninterputed coverage? they usually have 1 but no commentary but for the giro carlton seems to be prattling on

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Can mullen take the mountains jersey today if he stays ahead and mops up all the points?

No not enough points on offer today. Leader is on 11 I think they said and only a max of 9 on the stage today.

dastardly00

retalivity wrote: »

Can mullen take the mountains jersey today if he stays ahead and mops up all the points?

Not by my calculation.

3 points for Cat. 4, so 9 in total if he won all three climbs today.

Enrico Barbin, current KOM leader, has 11 points.

neris

neris wrote: »

any one know what the story is with the eurosport channel online saying uninterputed coverage? they usually have 1 but no commentary but for the giro carlton seems to be prattling on

Thats usually the case but you're right there is commentary on that feed. Now them coming back from ads today and the commentary being mid sentence makes sense.

RacoonQueen

Making his way back now?

godtabh

Back on. Fair play

godtabh

Gone now. Wonder will we see another exploded tweet?

ED E

Big crash at 13km.

dastardly00

Pozzovivo and Schachmann were both caught up in the crash but have made it back to the peloton

Lopez going off road there.

godtabh

How much time did Froome lose?

MPFGLB

Not sure any time lost by principasl except MAL

but not certain

Froome and Dennis went backwards on the climb so tomorrow should be interesting

godtabh

MPFGLB wrote: »

Not sure any time lost by principasl except MAL

but not certain

Froome and Dennis went backwards on the climb so tomorrow should be interesting

I thought ES were saying Froome was losing time that gaps had formed.

No split in the top 43 finishers they all got the same time, Lopez and Sanchez lost 43.

MPFGLB

Diary

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