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Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 15: Tolmezzo – Sappada 176 km

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    #32
    BowSideChamp
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    velo.2010 wrote: »
    Dumoulin getting done over here. Looks like its just a case of small climbers against a top time trialist. Yates, though, looks like he'll lose less than a minute in the TT.

    Don't know what to make of Froome.

    Yeah, you could explain Froomes non performance to his pre race crash. But he won yesterday.


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    #33
    dastardly00
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    Poor Pozzovivo looks like he is getting pneumonia during that interview


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    #34
    retalivity
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    Also, froome was gapped on the descent, right before the last categorised climb, which was weird. When they started the climb there was a group of 8/9 ahead of froome and no other sky people to be seen. He was doing the work on the front himself initially for a while, getting nowhere, before poels appeared.


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    #35
    godtabh
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    Roche DNF


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    godtabh wrote: »
    Roche DNF

    Didn't start today as far as I know.


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    #37
    DDC1990
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    Deleted User wrote:
    Didn't start today as far as I know.

    Eurosport said he didn't start but BMC say he made it to the feed zone and abandoned.


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    #38
    DDC1990
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    Deleted User wrote:
    Didn't start today as far as I know.

    Eurosport said he didn't start but BMC say he made it to the feed zone and abandoned.


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    #39
    Boscoirl
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    Has Aru made it yet?


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    #40
    godtabh
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    DDC1990 wrote: »
    Eurosport said he didn't start but BMC say he made it to the feed zone and abandoned.

    Roche’s tweet said DNF


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    #41
    Dr. Bre
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    Aru should of stayed with Astana


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    #42
    CrowdedHouse
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    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Aru should of stayed with Astana


    He might want to do the Tour now and possibly interfere with Dan's plans.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #43
    wirelessdude01
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    Remember that Nicos brother is very sick again. Wonder if this is part of the reason?


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    #44
    Brian?
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    dastardly00 wrote: »
    Yates now 2'11" ahead of Dumoulin...
    That might be enough to even keep him in pink after the ITT!! Yates definitely big favorite now to win overall

    Barring a crash, it's over IMO.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #45
    Brian?
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Also, froome was gapped on the descent, right before the last categorised climb, which was weird. When they started the climb there was a group of 8/9 ahead of froome and no other sky people to be seen. He was doing the work on the front himself initially for a while, getting nowhere, before poels appeared.

    I didn't think it was weird at all. The last rainy day Froome couldn't go uphill in the wet. Froome can descend well in the right circumstances, if he's at the front or alone in the dry. Throw a bit of rain in and he's like Bambi on ice.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #46
    godtabh
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    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Remember that Nicos brother is very sick again. Wonder if this is part of the reason?

    May explain some of the tweets in response to his. I didnt realise that.


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    #47
    WMP
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    SNIP


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    #48
    Lumen
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    I don't remember a grand tour in the last few years where a GC leader would just launch off the front long before the finish to gain big chunks of time.

    Maybe that's because they haven't needed to because they've been stronger TTers.

    This is the sort of performance some expected from Quintana before he turned out to be a bit crap and boring.


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    #49
    gmacww
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    Snip


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    #50
    Peterx
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    I don't even know what astrex is but this a great race to watch.

    He's a skinny climber, the Giro is full of skinny climber climbs, why wouldn't he he be gaining time? Especially when as a skinny climber he will lose shedloads of time tomorrow in the TT?

    Now if he doesn't lose shedloads of time tomorrow in the TT I will of course google astrex...

    In the meantime it is playing out as a super exciting race. Tom Dumoulin is some man to get back to that group and take bonus seconds. They are all pure racers. I love it.


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    #51
    Weepsie
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    Mod Note: Snipped some comments for doping speculation. Any more and there'll be some holidays for some. Seasonal reminder thread has been restickied too

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056898013


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    #52
    uphillonly
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    What was going on behind Yates to allow him to surge away:

    Dumoulin blasts squabbling rivals as Yates rides away
    Read more at http://www.velonews.com/2018/05/giro-ditalia/froome-dumoulin-bow-yates_466895#W11Kv2SmrJ0VPq4h.99

    The Mitchelton-Scott captain attacked late to drop a struggling Chris Froome (Sky) and then poured on the gas to further distance his most direct GC rivals. Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) was livid at the finish line after other riders in the chase group refused to contribute to his satisfaction.

    “I don’t give a damn at this point. I’m totally f**cked now,” Dumoulin stewed. “I had to dig so deep to stay with those other riders after Yates’ attack. And in the end it didn’t even matter, cause everybody there was just taking the piss. If I immediately started riding by myself, I would have lost a lot less time on Yates. Because of them taking the piss I lose a lot more.”


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    #53
    [Deleted User]
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    Dumoulin himself looked to have made a decent effort to get back on when he was distanced very late on.


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    #54
    dahat
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    Surely that's just bike racing? Why didn't he just ride to watts as he does to limit losses?


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    #55
    Lusk_Doyle
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    dahat wrote: »
    Surely that's just bike racing? Why didn't he just ride to watts as he does to limit losses?

    That's what he said and what he did. His gripe was that if the others had rode inna similar, more positive manner, then the gap would have been less.


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    #56
    flatty
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    Lumen wrote: »
    I don't remember a grand tour in the last few years where a GC leader would just launch off the front long before the finish to gain big chunks of time.

    Maybe that's because they haven't needed to because they've been stronger TTers.

    This is the sort of performance some expected from Quintana before he turned out to be a bit crap and boring.
    Or clean.


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    #57
    flatty
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    dahat wrote: »
    Surely that's just bike racing? Why didn't he just ride to watts as he does to limit losses?

    That's what he said and what he did. His gripe was that if the others had rode inna similar, more positive manner, then the gap would have been less.
    Why should they drag him back though. Imo he's behaving like a spoilt child. I hope Yates beats him.


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    #58
    Lumen
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    flatty wrote: »
    Or clean.
    That's pro cycling. The perception is you're either crap or doping. Or Sagan.


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    #59
    at1withmyself
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    Lumen wrote: »
    This is the sort of performance some expected from Quintana before he turned out to be a bit crap and boring.

    While I agree about him not jumping off the front ,I think the crap comment is in a bit harsh. He has won grand tours and runner up many times so deserves some kudos for that.


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    #60
    Lumen
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    at1withmyself wrote: »
    While I agree about him not jumping off the front ,I think the crap comment is in a bit harsh. He has won grand tours and runner up many times so deserves some kudos for that.
    Good point, he has won twice as many Grand Tours as 41 year old Chris Horner.

    I stand by the boring comment though. He's even more boring than Team Sky.


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    #61
    neris
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    Who's the Irish guy who's started popping up on the backstage pass videos on stage 14 &15?


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